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>Henri Dore, S.J.
>Recherches sur Les Superstitions  en Chine
>Chang-Hai: Imprimerie de la Mission Catholique 1911-1914. First Ed.  Part I in
>5 parts complete. Color plates. Generally good and clean internally with
>occasional minor soiling or small margin tears.  Original stitched boards,
>some backstrips removed, moderate  soiling or wear outside. Stamps
>of owner on worn endpapers
>$  300.00
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>[Han Tomb at Changsha] Hunan Sheng bo wu guan/Hunan Provincial Museum
>The Han Tomb No. 1 at Mawangtui, Changsha
>Peking: Wenwu Press 1973. 2 vols. Folio. Many b/w and some color plates of
>textiles, ceramics, objects. Chinese text with English abstract inserted. 
>Cloth
>$ 150.00
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>Hartmut Walravens
>China Illustrata. Das Europaeische Chinaverstaendnis im Spiegel des 16. 
>bis 18. Jahrhunderts
>Weinheim 1987. Quarto. Illust. Author signature and inscription on title. 
>Wrappers bound into
>later cloth. [bibliography with detailed historical descriptions of the 
>early books]
>$ 75.00
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>Stewart Culin
>Games of the Orient Korea China Japan
>Rutland/Tokyo: Tuttle  1958 printing [1895]. Illust. Cloth. d/j
>$ 30.00
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>Wilson V.Z. Faung
>Chin Shih Huang The First Emperor of the Chin Dynasty
>Taiwan 1971. Few penned notes, minor soiling at endpapers.
>Cloth. D/j tears and soiling. Internally good
>$ 22.50
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>David M. Keightley (Ed.)
>The Origins of Chinese Civilization
>Berkeley: University of California Press 1983.  Illust. Owner stamp on 
>title. Cloth. D/j
>$ 75.00
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>David M. Farquhar
>The Government of China Under Mongol Rule A Reference Guide
>Stuttgart: Franz Steiner 1990.  Small owner stamp on title and date stamp at
>endpaper. Boards
>$ 150.00
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>Frances Markley Roberts
>Western Travellers to China
>Shanghai/Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh 1932.  Text maps. Clean ex-lib. 
>internally good
>in somewhat rubbed boards  spine partly chipped away
>$ 75.00
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>Archie Bell
>The Spell of China
>Boston: Page 1917. First Ed. Plates(some color). Fold map. Some very minor 
>corner
>creases, few occasional light soiling spots. Generally very good and clean
>in decorated cloth and endpapers
>$ 80.00
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>William E. Geil
>The Great Wall of China
>London: John Murray 1909.  Text map. Many b/w plates. Pastedown on inside 
>front cover.
>Several other pastedowns  present (including on title) or removed. Minor 
>scattered light foxing or creasing.
>Pencilled  notes on endpaper and half-title. Cloth some wear. Withal a 
>good copy
>$ 95.00
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>Archibald J. Little
>Through the Yang-tse Gorges or Trade and Travel in Western China
>London: Sampson Low 1898 Third and revised Ed. Fold. color map. 
>Plates.  Some minor
>evidence of old dampness. Front inner hinge some cracking but withal good 
>and clean
>in somewhat darkened and slightly rubbed decorated cloth with stain and 
>bubbling of cloth at rear
>$ 125.00
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>[Matteo Ricci] Louis J. Gallagher, S.J. (Tr.)
>China in the Sixteenth Century: The Journals of Matthew Ricci: 1583-1610
>New York: Random House  1953.  Frontispiece.  Small piece clipped from corner
>of half-title. Minor soiling but withal good and clean in somewhat worn 
>soiled cloth
>faded at spine
>$ 47.50
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>William White
>Chinese Jews. A Compilation of Matters Relating to the Jews of K'aifeng Fu
>Toronto: University of Toronto Press 1942. First Ed.  Quarto. 3 
>vols.  Illustrated. Bookplates of owner inside front
>covers and small private library label on each spine. Good set, with some 
>rough margin edges.
>Signed author dedication on half-title of first volume "To Dr. David A. 
>Brown..with pleasant memories
>of his visit to Kaifeng"  Cloth some rubbing
>$ 1250.00
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>Daniel S. Levy
>Two-Gun Cohen A Biography
>New York 1997. Illust. Cloth. D/j
>$ 17.50
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>Nicholas Poppe et al
>Catalogue of the Manchu-Mongol Section of the Toyo Bunko
>Tokyo/Seattle 1964.  Cloth
>$ 40.00
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>[Chinese region of  Urianghai, now Tuva in Russia] Otto Maenchen-Helfen
>Journey to Tuva An Eye-Witness account of Tannu-Tuva in 1929.
>Los Angeles: Ethnographics Press  1992 [German original 1931]. Tr. A.
>Leighton  Illust. Map. Wrappers
>$ 37.50
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>Berthold Laufer
>The Domestication of the Cormorant in China and Japan
>Chicago: Field Museum 1931.  Illust. Minor creasing. Clean booklet in wrappers
>$ 35.00
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>Nakamura Hiroshi
>East Asia in Old Maps
>Tokyo 1962.  82pp. Illust. Minor creasing, few stamps of donor, Wrappers
>some wear TOGETHER WITH Images of Asia Maps by European Travelers..a 1987
>exhibition pamphlet in wrappers
>$ 20.00
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>Edwin Joshua Dukes
>Along River and Road in Fuh-Kien, China
>New York: American Tract Society  [1886]. First American Ed. Illust.  Tear 
>along inner margin
>of title else a generally good, clean copy. Plates and some pages have 
>stains along edges. Original
>decorated cloth some wear
>$ 95.00
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>H.G.C. Perry-Ayscough and R. Otter-Barry
>With the Russians in Mongolia
>London/New York: John Lane 1914.  Fold. map (minor tear repair), plates. 
>Bit of
>light foxing but a good clean copy. Pastedown rear endpaper and inner cover.
>Decorated cloth
>$ 250.00
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>Raphael Pumpelly
>Across America and Asia Notes of a Five Years' Journey Around the World 
>and of Residence in
>Arizona, Japan and China
>New York: Henry Holt 1871.  Maps, illust. Minor foxing, one corner has a small
>piece chipped away. Front inner hinge cracking.  Light cloth wear
>[with an essay by John La Farge on Japanese art]
>$  75.00
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>Bernhard Karlgren
>New Studies on Chinese Bronzes
>Stockholm 1937. Reprint from BMFEA No. 9. Plates. Owner stamp. Minor creasing
>but quite good in worn wrappers
>$ 30.00
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>Thomas Witlam Atkinson
>Oriental and Western Siberia: A Narrative of Seven Years' Explorations and 
>Adventures in
>Siberia, Mongolia,  The Kirghis Steppes, Chinese Tartary, and Part of 
>Central Asia
>New York: Harper & Brothers 1858. Fold. map tears. Illust. Scattered 
>generally light foxing,
>and a veryu ffew stains. Generally clean . Front endpaper loose and with 
>an inscription.
>Cloth  wear with new spine
>$ 75.00
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>Joseph Rock
>Konka Risumgongba, Holy Mountain  of the Outlaws TOGETHER WITH  With the 
>Devil Dancers of China and Tibet
>= The National Geographic Magazine July 1931, pp. 1 -65  B/w and color 
>illust. Wrappers some wear and
>partly stained but article is clean
>$ 30.00
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>Joseph Rock
>Seeking the Mountains of Mystery. An Expedition on the China-Tibet 
>Frontier to the Unexplored Amnyi Range..
>= The National Geographic Magazine February 1930, pp. 131-185. B/w illust. 
>Wrappers wear
>$ 25.00
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>Joseph Rock
>The Glories of the Minya Konka Magnificent Snow Peaks of the China-Tibetan 
>Border are Photographed
>at Close Range..
>= The National Geographic Magazine October 1930, pp. 385-437. B/w and 
>color illust. Wrappers wear
>$  27.50
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>Joseph Rock
>Banishing the Devil of Disease Among the Nashi of Yunnan Province, China
>= The National Geographic Magazine November 1924, pp. 473-499.  B/w 
>illust. Minor creasing.
>Wrappers torn, internally clean
>$ 20.00
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>R. &. G. D. Hook
>Through Dust and Foam: or Travels, Sight-seeing, and Adventure by Land and 
>Sea in the
>Far West and Far East
>Hartford, Connecticut: Columbian Book Co. 1876. Many illust.  Few 
>spottings but largely good
>and clean.  Inner hinges some cracking.  Rubbed half-leather and cloth. 
>(Several chapters
>on Hong Kong, the Chinese and China by two loutish American college 
>graduates.)
>$ 95.00
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>[Japan in China] Toa-Keizai Chosakyoku/East Asiatic Economic Investigation 
>Bureau:
>The Manchuria Year Book 1931
>Tokyo 1931 Third Ed.  Maps, plates, diagrams. Minor foxing, few minor 
>marginal tears or chippings.
>Withal good in slightly spotted worn cloth
>$ 60.00
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>South Manchuria Railway
>Report on Progress in Manchuria 1907-1928
>Dairen 1929. Quarto.  Plates. Fold. map, plan. Minor creasing, some rough 
>edges.
>Inscription on blank front endpaper. Wrappers worn [Japan in China]
>$ 150.00
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>Charles Beresford
>The Break-Up of China With an Account of Its Present Commerce, Currency, 
>Waterways, Armies..
>New York/London: Harper & Brothers 1899 First American Ed. Frontis.  Two 
>fold. maps some wear.
>Generally good and clean, some very minor soiling. Owner signature. 
>Decorated cloth
>some soiling
>$ 60.00
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>ANOTHER COPY OF ABOVE Lacking only the two maps.  Cloth soiled
>$ 30.00
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>Arthur de Carle Sowerby
>Nature in Chinese Art
>New York: John Day 1940. Illust. Some browning at blank endpapers and 
>inside covers
>else good and clean. Cloth
>$ 27.50
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>Peng-Chun Chang
>China at the Crossroads The Chinese Situation in Perspective
>London: Evans Brothers [1936]. Little browning at endpapers. Cloth. d/j 
>soiling
>$ 17.50
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>John K. Fairbank
>Trade and Diplomacy on the China Coast. The Opening of the Treaty Ports 
>1842-1854
>Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard 1953.  Frontis. Cloth. vol. I only [the 
>absent  vol. II  is a volume
>of notes to this  first vol. which can stand alone]
>$ 25.00
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>David G. Johnson
>The Medieval Chinese Oligarchy
>Boulder, Colorado 1977. Cloth
>$ 38.50
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>Julia Ching
>To Acquire Wisdom The Way of Wang Yang-Ming
>New York/London: Columbia University Press 1976. Frontis.  Few pencillings.
>Cloth. D/j torn
>$ 37.50
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>Tu Wei-Ming
>Neo-Confucian Thought in Action Wang Yang-Ming's Youth (1472-1509)
>Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California Press 1976. Cloth. D/j torn
>$ 35.00
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>John Meskill
>Academies in Ming China  A Historical Essay
>Tucson, Arizona 1982. Cloth
>$ 30.00
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>Robert des Rotours (Tr.)
>Le Traite des Examens Traduit de la Nouvelle Histoire des T'ang(Chap. 
>XLIV, XLV)
>Paris: Leroux 1932. Chop and signed author dedication on endpaper. Wrappers
>torn. Internally good
>$ 75.00
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>T.C.  Lai (Tr.)
>Chinese Couplets
>Hong Kong 1969.  Bilingual Chinese/English text. Cloth. D/j tears
>$ 27.50
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>Hugh Trevor-Roper
>A Hidden Life The Enigma of Sir Edmund Backhouse
>London 1977. Illust. Cloth. D/j some wear
>$ 12.50
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>Abraham N. Franzblau
>Erotic Art of China A Unique Collection of Chinese Prints and Poems ..
>New York: Crown 1977.  Quarto. Color illust. Cloth. D/j [from a Ming 
>collection in France]
>$ 20.00
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>Howard Wechsler
>Offerings of Jade and Silk Ritual and Symbol in the Legitimation of
>the T'ang Dynasty
>New Haven/London: Yale University Press 1985.  Cloth. D/j
>$ 38.50
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>Jean Mulligan (Tr.)
>The Lute Kao Ming's P'i-p'a chi
>New York: Columbia 1980. Minor creasing.Cloth. D/j
>$ 17.50
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>William Dolby (Tr.)
>The Perfect Lady By Mistake and Other Stories by Feng Menglong (1574-1646)
>London: Elek 1976.  Cloth. D/j
>$ 20.00
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>Hans Frankel
>The Flowering Plum and the Palace Lady Interpretations of Chinese Poetry
>New Haven/London: Yale 1976.  Few pencillinsg. Cloth. D/j  small tears
>$ 20.00
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>Jerry Dennerline
>The Chia-Ting Loyalists: Confucian Leadership and Social Change in 
>Seventeenth-Century China
>New Haven/London: Yale 1981. Frontis. map. Cloth
>$ 35.00
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>Arthur Waley
>The Opium War Through Chinese Eyes
>London: Allen & Unwin 1958. First Ed. Cloth. D/j
>$ 30.00
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>Derk Bodde
>Festivals in Classical China New Year and Other Annual Observances During 
>the Han
>Dynasty 206 B.C.-A.D. 220
>Princeton 1975. Cloth. D/j
>$  80.00
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>George Kin Leung
>Mei Lan-Fang Foremost Actor of China
>Shanghai: Commercial Press 1929.  B/w and color plates (some fold.)
>Internally good, some thumbed corners and paper darkening a bit.  Original
>decorated torn wrappers loose
>$  75.00
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>[Jesuit Missionaries to China]
>Lettres Edifiantes et Curieuses Ecrites Des Missions Etrangeres.
>Nouvelle Edition.  Memoires de La Chine vol. 20
>Paris: Merigot  1781. Duodecimo.  Early bookstore stamp on title. Few small
>light spots at foredge or margins. Original worn  leather
>$ 250.00
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