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Hello people.

Just received the latest list. This one has some old real jewels.

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Books subject to prior sale please!

CHINA Booklist (Part I) July 2004
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Derk Bodde (Tr.)
Statesman, Patriot, and General in Ancient China. Three Shih Chi
Biographies of the Ch'in Dynasty(255-206 B.C.)
New Haven: American Oriental Society 1930. Cloth
$ 39.50

Tung-Li Yuan (Comp.)
China in Western Literature. A Continuation of Cordier's Bibliotheca
Sinica New Haven: Yale 1958. Cloth $ 125.00

A. Herrmann
Historical and Commercial Atlas of China
Cambridge: Harvard 1935. Minor foxing, some creasing at corners. Browned
endpapers.Internally good within soiled cloth. $ 38.50

Jean Escarra
Le Droit Chinois Conception et evolution Institutions Legislatives et
Judiciaires Science et enseignement Pekin: Henri Vetch 1936. Generally
good and clean but several small tears or punctures starting at front
cover extend onto several pages of the book but with little affect to the
text. Minor creasing. Wrappers some soiling $ 75.00

[Pan Ku] Homer H. Dubs (Tr.)
The History of the Former Han Dynasty
Baltimore 1938-1944. 2 vols. only(I, II) (of three, the third appearing
years later). Cloth $ 95.00

E.T.C. Werner
A Dictionary of Chinese Mythology
Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh 1932. First Ed. Some very minor foxing, one
blank corner torn away, else very good in original cloth, sunned $ 90.00

Leo Wieger, S.J. (Tr.)
A History of the Religious Beliefs and Philosophical Opinions in China
from the Beginning to the Present Time. Transl. by E.C. Werner Sienhsien:
Hsien-hsien Press 1927. Illust. Original wrappers bound into later boards
$ 95.00

John Steele (Tr.)
The I-Li or Book of Etiquette and Ceremonial
London: Probsthain 1917. 2 vols. Illust. Plan in pocket. Cloth
$ 95.00

Henry Dore
Researches into Chinese Superstitions
Shanghai 1914-1938. First English-language edition Tr. & Annotated by M.
Kennelly, S.J. This is the complete 11 vols. as translated from the French
original 18 vols. Parts 11 & 12 never translated. Many color and b/w
plates. So it runs 1-10 & 13 complete as issued and is a solidly good
clean set with some modest wear to the string-tied boards and some quite
minor tears at spines. Signatures and some stamps of early owner $ 1250.00

J.J.M. De Groot
The Religious System of China
Reprint Peping ca. 1940. 6 vols. Quarto. Illust. Wrappers some marginal
tears, $ 375.00

J.J.M. De Groot
Sectarianism and Religious Persecution in China
Reprint Taipei: Literature House 1963. 2 vols. in one. Frontispiece, fold.
plate. Generally good and clean internally, with one leaf with a tear
repair and crease.Stichbound wrappers. Within cloth folder with some wear
& slight discolor $ 100.00

Paul Wheatley
The Pivot of the Four Quarters. A Preliminary Enquiry into the Origins and
Character of the Ancient Chinese City Chicago: Aldine 1971. Line illust.
Internally good, clean. Cloth. D/j $ 90.00

Earl Swisher
China's Management of the American Barbarians. A Study of Sino-American
Relations 1841-1861, with Documents New Haven: Yale 1951. Cloth $ 90.00

C.H. Brewitt-Taylor (Tr.)
San Kuo, or Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh 1929 Popular Edition. Two-vols.-bound-in-one.
Paper some age darkening. Later cloth $ 50.00

J. Macgowan, D.D.
Chinese-Folk-Lore Tales
London: Macmillan 1910. Duodecimo. 197pp. Some minor creasing. Some
wear to flexible boards
$ 27.50

Sverre Holth
Micius. A Brief Outline of His Life and Ideas
Shanghai: Commercial Press 1935. Duodecimo. Some marginal tears. Cloth $
20.00

J.O.P. Bland
Li Hung-Chang
London: Constable 1917. First Ed. Frontispiece portrait. Owner signatures
on title. Endpaper creased. Some light foxing. Cloth some discolor and
wear $ 37.50

Sun Yat-Sen
The International Development of China
New York/London: Putnam 1922. Fold. map in pocket. Text maps. Cloth
$ 25.00

F.W. Baller (Tr.)
The Sacred Edict [Kan'g Hsi's maxims]
Shanghai: China Inland Mission and Presbyterian Mission Press 1917 Fourth
Ed. revised. Some slightly thumbed corners. Later worn half-leather and
boards $ 38.50

L.C. Arlington and Harold Acton
Famous Chinese Plays Translated and Edited
Peiping: Vetch 1937. First Ed. Illust. Cloth
$ 75.00

Willem A. Grootaers et al
Rural Temples Around Hsuan-Hua(South Chahar) Their Iconography and their
History Offprint from Folklore Studies vol. X/1 1951. 116pp. Plates.
Plans. Few minor margin tears. Good in torn darkened wrappers $ 47.50

Dwight Condo Baker
T'ai Shan. An Account of the Sacred Eastern Peak of China
Shanghai: Commercial Press 1925. Illust. Endpaper map. Some minor
rippling of paper. Cloth waterstained with minor wear
$ 50.00

Friedrich Hirth and W.W. Rockhill
Chau Ju-Kua: His Work on the Chinese and Arab Trade in the twelfth
and thirteenth Centuries, entitled Chu-fan-chi
Reprint Peiping ca. 1940 [original St. Petersburg 1911]. Fold.
map. Very minor creasing. Cloth bit bumped
$ 85.00

Shu Chiung
Chao Chun. Beauty in Exile
Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh 1934. Illust. Cloth
$ 37.50

Samuel Cooling
The Encyclopedia Sinica
Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh 1917. First Ed. Quarto. Cloth
$ 125.00

Karl A. Wittfogel and Feng Chia-Sheng
History of Chinese Society Liao (907-1125)
Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society 1949. Quarto.
Illust. Maps. Some minor creasing or faint darkening of paper.
Cloth. Torn d/j
$ 125.00

E.A. Strehlneek
Chinese Pictorial Art
Shanghai: Commercial Press 1914. Quarto. Illust. Decorated
stitchbound cloth. Torn d/j
$ 80.00

Soame Jenyns
Chinese Archaic Jades in the British Museum
London: British Museum 1951. Illust. Green boards. D/j
$ 30.00

Alfred Salmony
Archaic Chinese Jades from the Edward and Louise B. Sonnenschein
Collection Chicago: Art Institute 1952. Quarto. Plates. Cloth. D/j some
tears $ 275.00

Cheng Te-K'un
Archaeology in China
Cambridge: Heffer 1959-1966. Quarto. 3 vols. and Supplement. Cloth. D/j. $
175.00

Ching Te-K'un
Archaeological Studies in Szechwan
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1957. Plates. Minor creasing.
Cloth. D/j some minor wear and tear
$ 50.00

G.D. Wu
Prehistoric Pottery in China
London: Kegan Paul 1938. Illust. Cloth. D/j tears
$ 80.00

William E. Soothill and L. Hodous (Comp.)
A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms with Sanskrit and English
Equivalents.. London:Krgal Paul 1937. Quarto. Cloth $ 150.00

W.A.C.H. Dobson
Late Archaic Chinese. A Grammatical Study.
Toronto 1959. Cloth. D/j
$ 50.00

W.A.C.H. Dobson
Early Archaic Chinese. A Descriptive Grammar
Toronto 1962. Cloth. D/j
$ 50.00

Henri Maspero
Taoism and Chinese Religion
Amherst: University of Massachusetts 1981. A few pencilled
notes of Maimai Sze. Cloth. D/j repairs
$ 75.00

Li Ch'iao-p'ing
The Chemical Arts of Old China
Easton, Pennsylvania 1948. Illust. Cloth some soiling
$ 40.00

Nathan Sivin
Chinese Alchemy: Preliminary Studies
Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1968. Cloth. D/j wear
$ 45.00

A.C. Graham
Two Chinese Philosophers Ch'eng Ming-tao and Ch'eng Yi-ch'uan
London: Lund Humphries 1958. First Ed. Pencilled notes of Maimai Sze.
Cloth $ 38.50

Clifford H. Plopper
Chinese Religion Seen Through The Proverb
Shanghai 1935. First Ed. Few light stains on title but a good, clean
copy. Cloth. D/j torn away at spine.
$ 85.00

Roswell S. Britton (Ed.)
The Hopkins Collection of Inscribed Oracle Bone
New York: Chalfant Publication Fund 1939. Quarto.
66 plts. of drawings. Some minor creasing. WErappers
$ 35.00

Won Kenn
Origin et Evolution de l'Ecriture Hieroglyphique et de l'Ecriture Chinois
Paris: Geuthner 1939. Nouvelle Ed. 95pp. Disbound in torn loose wrappers $
17.50

Alan Priest and Pauline Simmons
Chinese Textiles. An Introduction to the Study of their History,
Sources, Technique, Symbolism and Use
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art 1934 New and Revised Ed.
Illust. Creasing at corner of title. Good, clean within in soiled boards
$ 30.00

Wing-tsit Chan (Tr.)
The Platform Scripture The Basic Classic of Zen Buddhism
New York: St. John's University Press 1963. Few pencil
notes on title page else clean. Cloth. D/j wear
$ 30.00

William E. Soothill
The Hall of Light A Study of Early Chinese Kinship
London: Lutterworth Press 1951. First Ed. Illust. Pastedown
inside front cover with owner name. Cloth
$ 37.50

David Hawkes
A Little Primer of Tu Fu
Oxford: Clarendon Press 1967. First Ed. Minor creasing. Pastedown inside
front cover. Cloth. D/j $ 30.00

K.C. Chang (Ed.)
Food in Chinese Culture Anthropological and Historical Perspectives
New Haven: Yale 1977. Illust. Cloth. D/j some tears, soiling. Internally
very good $ 40.00

Edward H. Hume
The Chinese Way in Medicine
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins 1940. Illust. Cloth
$ 38.50

Li Ung Bing
Outlines of Chinese History. Ed. by J. Whiteside
Shanghai: Commercial Press 1914. Illust. Maps. Few private ex-lib.
stamps. Cloth soiled, light wear
$ 50.00

Berthold Laufer
Insect-Musicians and Cricket Champions of China
Chicago: Field Museum 1927. Illust. Booklet. Wrappers
$ 25.00

Berthold Laufer
Sino-Iranica Chinese Contributions to the History of Civilization in
Ancient Iran Chicago: Field Museum 1919. First Ed. Wrappers some tears $
95.00

H.T. Chang
Lapidarium Sinicum. A Study of the Rocks, Minerals, Fossils and Metals as
Known in Chinese Literature Peking: Geological Survey of China 1921.
Illust. Chinese text. Two leaves with tears but no loss of text. Staples
loose, rusted. Wrappers torn, repairs. rare $ 90.00

Holmes Welch
The Practice of Chinese Buddhism 1900-1950
Cambridge: Harvard 1967. Illust. Endpaper maps. Cloth. D/j tears
$ 50.00

Earl H. Pritchard
The Crucial Years of Early Anglo-Chinese Relations 1750-1800
Pullman, Washington: State College of Washington 1936. Weappers, taped at
spine $ 48.50

Francis L.K. Hsu
Religion, Science and Human Crises. A Study of China in Transition and its
Implications for the West London: Routledge 1952. Cloth $ 20.00

Laurence G. Thompson
Ta T'ung Shu The One-World Philosophy of K'ang Yu-wei
London: Allen & Unwin 1958. First ed. Pencilled notes of Maimai Sze. Cloth
$ 25.00

Hu Shih
The Chinese Renaissance. YThe Haskell Lectures-1933
Chicago: University of Chicago {ress 1934. 110pp. Cloth. D/j dusty
$ 20.00

R.H. van Gulik (Tr.)
Mi-Fu on Ink-stones
Peking: Vetch 1938. Illust. 70pp. Map. Cloth. Lettering on spine
abraided. Good copy of rarity
$ 375.00

Herbert A. Giles
A Chinese Biographical Dictionary
Reprint Peiping 1939. 1018pp. Quite good in somewhat faded
and slightly rubbed cloth
$ 95.00

Min-Ch'ien T.Z. Tyau
Two Years of Nationalist China
Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh 1930. Signed author dedication on title. Cloth
discolored $ 75.00

Henri Bernard, S.J.
Matteo Ricci's Scientific Contribution to China
Peiping: Vetch 1935. Illust. Cloth. Scarce
$ 60.00

Jerome Ch'en and N. Tarling (Eds.)
Studies in The Social History of China & South-East Asia. Essays in Memory
of Victor Purcell Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1970.
several"withdrawn": stamps but no other ex-libris markings. Cloth. D/j $
27.50

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