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188069554Shanghai Hongkong Yokohama Singapore: Kelly and Walsh Limited 1880. Early Kelly and Walsh edition. Hardcover. Good. ix xxxviii 425pp. Octavo 21.5 cm Bound by the publisher in red cloth over boards. Floral endpapers. Cloth binding frayed at the extremities particularly along the joints. Rear free endpaper detached but present. Front free endsheet and final page of text partially detached. Intermittent underlining markings and brief notations in pencil more so to the first half of the text. Closed tears to top margins of pp. 379-382. Bookplate of Wilson S. Howell on the front pastedown. Scarce. Frederic Henry Balfour 1806-1909 was a British expatriot editor essayist author and avid sinologist who lived in Shanghai. He served as editor of the "North-China Herald" and was the author of "Waifs and Strays from the Far East" and "Idiomatic Dialogues in the Peking Colloquial. Kelly and Walsh Limited hardcover
1800185456China: c.1800. Core practices of Taoist medicine A Qing dynasty anonymously brushed manuscript demonstrating famous Taoist meditation and qigong techniques for regulating the practitioner's life force qi strengthening the body and achieving higher states of mindfulness. Devised in the first millennium CE these healing practices became popular from the 16th century and remain widely used today. The manuscript is divided into two sections. The first describes and illustrates the eight exercises from the Baduanjin Eight Brocades tradition believed to have been created by the Taoist wizard Zhongli Quan during the Tang dynasty. The second is devoted to the teachings of Chen Tuan d. 989 a Taoist priest who devised a 24-position series of meditation practices known as the Ershisi qi daoyin zuogong Twenty-Four Nodes Daoyin. For both sets of exercises each position is accompanied by a description of its meaning and benefits. The scribe is given as one Guiling Shanren "Recluse of Guiling" and likely lived in either Hunan or Guangdong provinces. Provenance: Ekky Chung collection Indonesia and Beverly Hills California - acquired by the London bookseller Sam Fogg in May 1998 - Martin Schøyen b. 1940 the Norwegian collector of rare books and manuscripts with his pressmark on the title label and his annotated book label on the first blank verso. Octavo 245 x 147 mm. With 42 leaves neat manuscript text and 32 illustrations hand-drawn blue borders final leaf with near-contemporary manuscript note laid down. Contemporary blue paper wrappers renewed white thread xianzhuang stitching manuscript title label on front cover. Contemporary red seal at head of first page of text; couple of later manuscript additions in contents. Front cover sunned leaves sometime backed with paper closed tears and chips affecting some content general fragility from brittle paper: a good example. unknown
