Broderies Chinoises

By: N/A

Price: $385.00

Publisher: Paris, Henri Ernst: c. 1922

Edition: First

Seller ID: 1542

Condition: Very Good

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Paris: Henri Ernst. Very Good. c. 1922. First. Thirty-six plates representing 96 motifs in an interesting and effective combination of printed image together with pochoir and hand coloring. All of which lends a three-dimensional effect to the images. Three leaves (six pages) of text: Title, Introduction & Table of Plates. This portfolio includes a loose September 1923 folio article entitled "Colorful Embroideries from China are Now in the Mode." String ties.; Folio ; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. . First Edition. View more info

Special Exhibition of Ch'ing dynasty enamelled porcelains of the imperial ateliers

By: N/A

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Taiwan, National Palace Museum: 1992

Seller ID: 4194

Condition: Very Good

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Taiwan: National Palace Museum. Very Good. 1992. Cornflower blue cloth with title to cover. Particulars to spine. Richly, illustrated with full-color photographs. A bright, clean copy of a first printing. ; 4to ; 281 pages . View more info

Christie's Fine Chinese Ceramics, Works of Art and Furniture. New York Friday, June 1, 1990.

By: N/A

Price: $90.00

Publisher: New York, 1990

Seller ID: 4206

Condition: Very Good

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New York. Very Good. 1990. Christie's catalogue; 431 lots. Extensively illustrated with full-color photographs. With loose price list.; royal octavo; 247 pages . View more info

Snuff Bottles in the Collection of the National Palace Museum

By: N/A

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Tai Pei, National Palace Museum: 1991

Seller ID: 4227

Condition: Very Good

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Tai Pei: National Palace Museum. Very Good. 1991. Pictorial cover with title to spine. Richly, illustrated with full-color photographs. Please expect extra postage for overseas orders.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 379 pages . View more info

Sotheby's Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art. New York Tuesday, May 28, 1991

By: N/A

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, 1991

Seller ID: 4211

Condition: Very Good

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377 lots. Extensively illustrated with color photographs.; royal octavo . View more info

Sotheby's Fine Chinese Ceramics. Hong Kong Tuesday, 29th October, 1991.

By: N/A

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Hogn Kong, 1991

Seller ID: 4212

Condition: Very Good

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Hogn Kong. Very Good. 1991. Sotheby's catalogue; 307 lots. Extensively illustrated with full-color photographs.; royal octavo . View more info

Christie's Swire Fine Jade Carvings, Jadeite Jewellery and Works of Art. Hong Kong Tuesday, 9 and Wednesday, 10 October 1990.

By: N/A

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Hong Kong, 1990

Seller ID: 4203

Condition: Very Good

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Hong Kong. Very Good. 1990. Christie's Swire catalogue; 2021 lots. Extensively illustrated with full-color photographs.; Large 8vo ; 229 pages . View more info

Sotheby's Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art. New York Tuesday, November 27, 1990.

By: N/A

Price: $80.00

Publisher: New York, 1990

Seller ID: 4209

Condition: Very Good

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New York. Very Good. 1990. Sotheby's catalogue; 211 lots. Extensively illustrated with full-color photographs.; royal octavo . View more info

Sotheby's Fine Chinese Ceramics, Works of Art, Jade Carvings and Jadeite Jewellery. Tuesday, 28th and Wednesday, 29th April 1992.

By: N/A

Price: $90.00

Publisher: Hong Kong, 1992

Seller ID: 4210

Condition: Very Good

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Hong Kong. Very Good. 1992. Sotheby's catalogue; 775 lots. Extensively illustrated with full-color photographs.; royal octavo . View more info

Christie's Swire The Jarras Collection, Part II: Fine Ming and Qing Ceramics. Hong Kong Monday, 8 October 1990.

By: N/A

Price: $90.00

Publisher: Hong Kong, 1990

Seller ID: 4207

Condition: Very Good

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Hong Kong. Very Good. 1990. Christie's Swire catalogue; 366 lots. Extensively illustrated with full-color photographs.; royal octavo; 77 pages . View more info

Sotheby's Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art. London Tuesday 11th December 1990.

By: N/A

Price: $80.00

Publisher: London, 1990

Seller ID: 4208

Condition: Very Good

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London. Very Good. 1990. Sotheby's catalogue; 463 lots. Extensively illustrated with full-color photographs.; Large 8vo; 265 pages . View more info

Christie's Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art. New York Wednesday, November 27,1991.

By: N/A

Price: $85.00

Publisher: New York, 1991

Seller ID: 4204

Condition: Very Good

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New York. Very Good. 1991. Christie's catalogue; 438 lots. Extensively illustrated with full-color photographs.; royal octavo; 275 pages . View more info

Christie's Swire Fine Chinese Ceramics. Hong Kong Monday, 8 October 1990.

By: N/A

Price: $80.00

Publisher: Hong Kong, 1990

Seller ID: 4205

Condition: Very Good

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Hong Kong. Very Good. 1990. Christie's Swire catalogue; 873 lots. Extensively illustrated with full-color photographs.; royal octavo; 281 pages . View more info

Sotheby's Fine Chinese Ceramics, Furniture and Works of Art. New York November 29 and 30, 1993

By: N/A

Price: $70.00

Publisher: New York, 1993

Seller ID: 4214

Condition: Very Good

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New York. Very Good. 1993. Sotheby's catalogue; 501 lots. Extensively illustrated with full-color photographs. With loose price list. ; royal octavo . View more info

Sotheby's Fine Chinese Ceramics, Works of Art, Jadeite Jewellery, Jade Carvings, Pendants and Snuff Bottles. Hong Kong Tuesday 30th April to 2nd May, 1991.

By: N/A

Price: $70.00

Publisher: Hogn Kong, 1991

Seller ID: 4213

Condition: Very Good

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Hogn Kong. Very Good. 1991. Sotheby's catalogue; 359 lots. Extensively illustrated with full-color photographs.; royal octavo . View more info

Chinese Pottery of the Hang Dynasty

By: Berthold Laufer

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Leiden, E. J. Brill Ltd.: 1909

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 4398

Condition: Very Good

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Full oxblood cloth. Irregular discoloration on boards [see image]. Gutters slightly cracked. An internally clean and serviceable copy. First Edition. View more info

Historic Macao

By: Carlos A. [Augusto] Montalto de Jesus

Price: $3,300.00

Publisher: Hongkong, Hong Kong, Cassell and Company, Ltd.: 1902

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 4229

Condition: Very Good

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Hongkong, Hong Kong: Cassell and Company, Ltd.. Very Good. 1902. First Edition. Twelve plates together with a map. Genuinely scarce, none having reached auction in recent decades: a victim of guilt-by-association with its second edition (which was tossed to the flames by local Macau authorities). Top edge trimmed, others deckled; some as yet uncut. Half blue morocco; marbled boards. Bookplate removed; p. 278 left intentionally blank. A surprisingly fine, handsome copy. Henri Cordier, Bibliotheca Sinica, 2326. ; 8vo ; vi, 358 pages . First Edition. View more info

San Min Chu I; The Three Principles of the People (in scarce jacket)

By: Dr. Sun Yat-Sen (Translated by Frank Price)

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Shanghai, Commercial Press: 1928

Seller ID: 4283

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Losses to dust jacket. Stamp to recto of front fly, publisher's sticker to verso. Bookplate to front pastedown; still a nice attractive copy. xx,514pp. Dust jacket present. View more info

The History of That Great and Renowned Monarchy of China. . all the Particular Provinces are Accurately Described the Dispositions, Manners, Learning, Lawes, Militia, Government, and Religion of the People. Together with the Traffick and Commodities of that Countrey. Lately written in Italian....To which is added the History of the Late Invasion and Conquest ... by The Tartars (Bellum Tartaricum or the History of the Warrs of the Tartars in China & c.)

By: F. Alvarez Semedo with a supplement by Martin Martinius

Price: $6,660.00

Publisher: London, E. Tyler for John Crook: 1655

Edition: First English

Seller ID: 1482

Condition: Good

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London: E. Tyler for John Crook. Good. 1655. First English. Hardcover. Two parts in one, continuously paginated. With three copper-engraved plates: Frontis to first work: " Alvarez Semedo" after Thomas Cross, "Mandarin… & his Wife" p. 29 & second frontis ( to Martinius' Tarter Conquest): "Thein Mingus, Emperor of the Western Tartars." Two copper-engraved maps: "Situs Provinciarum Imperii Sinici MDCLIV" facing p. 255, & "An Exact Mapp of China, being faithfully Copied from one brought from Peking by a Father Lately resident in that Citty 1655," ... View more info

Portfolio Chinensis: or a Collection of Authentic Chinese State Papers Illustrative of the History of the Present Position of Affairs in China. With a Translation, Notes and Introduction.

By: J. Lewis Shuck

Price: $7,000.00

Publisher: Macao, China, Printed for the Translator at the New Washington Press by F.F. de Cruz: 1840

Edition: First

Seller ID: 1520

Condition: Very Good

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Macao, China: Printed for the Translator at the New Washington Press by F.F. de Cruz. Very Good. 1840. First. Half morocco. Woodblock Chinese texts above English translation with exception of Appendix printed in July 1840 for which woodblocks could not be cut in time & where the Chinese characters were printed with the East India Company's movable Chinese type. Both types (though especially English) firmly bitten in to native stock. Shuck presents an unbiased (almost satirical) account of the futile Chinese attempts to rid themselves of British opium imports in printing their edicts, man... View more info