Porcelaine chinoise

Meditationes sinicae, in quibus I . Consideratur Linguae Philosophicae atque Universalis Natura quails esse, aut debeat, aut possit. II . Lingua Sinarum Mandarinica, tum in Hieroglyphis, tum in Monosyllabis suis, eâ mente inventa ac talis esse ostenditur. III . Datur eorumdem Hieroglyphorum, ac Monosyllaborum, atque inde, Characterum Linguae Sinicae omnium, quamvis innumerabilium, & lectio, & intellectio, seu Ars legendi & intelligendi tota, qualis Pekimi ab ipsis Doctoribus Sinis traditur. IV . Idque omne, progressu à Libris mere Europaeis (de Sinâ tamen) ad Libros mere Sinicos, facto.

In-folio, pp. [8], xxvi, [4], 152, con numerosi caratteri cinesi xilografati nel testo, e una grande tavola pieghevole; con l’aggiunta di una seconda carta T1 (pagg. 71-72) con una coppia di caratteri cinesi corretti al recto, rilegata dopo l'errata a p. 140; due vecchi timbri al titolo; leggermente imbrunito, leggermente più imbrunito alle ultime carte; ottimo esemplare in vitello screziato francese coevo, dorso dorato; lievi abrasioni ai piatti; parte inferiore del dorso un po' usurata. RARA PRIMA EDIZIONE DI UNA DELLE PRINCIPALI OPERE SULLA LINGUA CINESE DEL PIONIERE STUDIOSO ORIENTALE FRANCESE E SECONDA GRAMMATICA SULLA LINGUA DA PUBBLICARE IN EUROPA. 'Fourmont è stato uno dei primi studiosi occidentali a tentare di comprendere il più accuratamente possibile il sistema dei dizionari cinesi e il pensiero che una volta che uno studioso avesse compreso i vari sistemi, sarebbe stato in grado di lavorare da solo. In effetti, a quel tempo gli europei non avevano altro modo per imparare il cinese se non consultare i dizionari e lavorare dal noto all'ignoto. Sfortunatamente, i dizionari di Fourmont non furono mai stampati, e non si trovano nemmeno in forma manoscritta, ad eccezione di un dizionario storico e geografico... 'Le Meditationes possono essere considerate un manuale da usare insieme ai dizionari che Fourmont intendeva pubblicare, ed è solo nella prospettiva di questo progetto più ampio che si può giudicare la sua parola. L'assenza dei dizionari spiega perché è difficile usare il libro di testo. Abel Rémusat, nel diciannovesimo secolo, avrebbe qualificato questo lavoro come accademico ma oscuro, e i suoi avversari sostenevano che Fourmont avesse scritto qualcosa di non veramente utile.' Fourmont attribuiva così tanta importanza alla lettura dei dizionari da criticare la grammatica cinese di Prémare, la Notitia Linguae Sinicae, ricevuta alla Bibliothèque du Roi il 12 maggio 1730, perché non insegnava al lettore come identificare i caratteri o come usare i dizionari cinesi. Era sbalordito dal fatto che un'autorità in cinese come Prémare non prestasse attenzione alle radici cinesi nella sua grammatica e non poté perdonare l'omissione. D'altra parte, secondo Lundbaek, la Notitia Linguae Sinicae di padre de Prémare era troppo avanzata per essere compresa da uno studioso relativamente inesperto. In effetti, padre de Prémare aveva una conoscenza della pedagogia della lingua cinese migliore di Fourmont. La sua opera è composta da frasi scelte dai Classici, che lo studente doveva imparare per familiarizzare con i personaggi e il loro uso. Inoltre, Prémare, per quanto riguarda l'ideologia, era molto più attratto dal metodo di classificazione radicale esposto da Mei Yingzuo. Ogni studioso proiettava la propria preoccupazione nella lingua straniera, e ognuno aveva la sua mistica. “Tuttavia, la familiarità con le radici aiuta a comprendere il significato dei caratteri, e un metodo di classificazione per l'enorme numero di caratteri è considerato di grande utilità. In tal senso Fourmont promuoveva un mezzo pratico di accesso al cinese per il lettore europeo» (Cécile Leung, Etienne Fourmont. (1683-1745), Oriental and Chinese Languages in Eighteenth Century France, pp. 203-204). Fourmont divenne professore di arabo al Collège de France nel 1715. Nel 1713 fu eletto membro dell'Accademia delle iscrizioni, nel 1738 membro della Royal Society di Londra e nel 1742 membro di quella di Berlino. Morì a Parigi l'8 dicembre 1745. In-folio, pp. [8], xxvi, [4], 152, with numerous Chinese characters in woodcut in the text, and one large folding table; an additional cancel of leaf T1 (pages 71-72) with a couple of Chinese characters corrected on recto, bound in after the errata on p. 140; two old stamps to title; a little light browning, slightly heavier to the last leaves; a very good copy in contemporary French mottled calf, spine gilt; minor abrasions to covers; tail of spine a little worn. SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE MAJOR WORKS ON THE CHINESE LANGUAGE BY THE PIONEERING FRENCH ORIENTAL SCHOLAR, AND THE SECOND GRAMMAR ON THE LANGUAGE TO BE PUBLISHED IN EUROPE. ‘Fourmont was one of the first Western scholars to attempt to understand as accurately as possible the system of Chinese dictionaries, and the thought that once a scholar understood the various systems, he would be able to work by himself. In fact, there was no other way for Europeans to learn Chinese at this time besides consulting the dictionaries and working from the known to the unknown. Unfortunately, Fourmont’s dictionaries were never printed, and are not even to be found in manuscript form, except of a historical and geographical dictionary … ‘The Meditationes can be considered a handbook to be used in conjunction with the dictionaries that Fourmont intended to publish, and it is only in the perspective of this larger project that his word can be judged. The absence of the dictionaries explains why it is difficult to use the text-book. Abel Rémusat would, in the nineteenth century, qualify this work as scholarly but obscure, and his adversaries contended that Fourmont wrote something not really useful. ‘ Fourmont placed so much importance on reading dictionaries that he criticized Prémare’s Chinese grammar, the Notitia Linguae Sinicae, which was received at the Bibliothèque du Roi on May 12, 1730, on the ground that it did not teach the reader how to identify characters or how to use Chinese dictionaries. He was shocked that such an authority on Chinese as Prémare did not pay attention to Chinese radicals in his grammar, and could not forgive the omission. On the other hand, according to Lundbaek, Father de Prémare’s Notitia Linguae Sinicae was far too advanced for the relatively young scholar to understand. As a matter of fact, Father de Prémare had a better grasp of Chinese language pedagogy than Fourmont. His work is made up of sentences chosen from the Classics, which the student was supposed to learn in order to familiarize himself with the characters and their usage. Moreover, Prémare, as far as ideology was concerned, was much more attracted to the method of radical classification as set out by Mei Yingzuo. Each scholar was projecting his own preoccupation into the foreign language, and each had his own mystique. ‘Nevertheless, familiarity with the radicals helps to understand the meaning of the characters, and a method of classification for the enormous number of characters is considered to be of greatest utility. To that extent Fourmont was promoting a practical means of access to Chinese for the European reader’ (Cécile Leung, Etienne Fourmont. (1683-1745), Oriental and Chinese Languages in Eighteenth Century France, pp. 203-204). Fourmont became professor of Arabic in the Collège de France in 1715. In 1713 he was elected a member of the Academy of Inscriptions, in 1738 a member of the Royal Society of London, and in 1742 a member of that of Berlin. He died at Paris on 8 December 1745.

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DE ROUGEMONT, Franciscus deMareMagnum

Historia Tartaro Sinica Nova

In-8°, 16 cc, pp. 327, più errata, c. di tav. ripiegata (Situs provinciarum imperii Sinici), occhietto, vignetta calcografica sul frontespizio, illustrazioni calcografiche. Rilegatura in pergamena con nervi e titolo al dorso. ROUGEMONT (Franciscus de), b. a Maastricht il 2 aprile 1624, d. a Chang-chu (Cina) il 4 novembre 1676. Nelle scuole dei gesuiti a Bruxelles e Anversa fece i suoi studi inferiori con risultati brillanti e nel1641entrò nella Compagnia di Gesù. All'assedio di Kortrijk nel 1646 si distinse, sebbene non fosse ancora un sacerdote, per il suo zelo nella cura dei soldati feriti. Nel 1654 ricevette la consacrazione del sacerdote e, quando padre Martino Martini, procuratore della missione cinese in Europa, venne a cercare missionari per questo lavoro, riuscì a convincere i suoi genitori a richiedere quella missione a favore del figlio dal Generale dell'Ordine. L'anno seguente partì da Amsterdam per Lisbona con il gesuita di Amsterdam Ignazio Hartoghvelt. Dopo un ritardo a Coimbra, lasciarono Lisbona il 30 marzo 1656 e arrivarono il 6 novembre a Coa. A piedi, continuò il suo viaggio lungo la costa di Malabar, Visschersen Transvancore, e poi attraversò il Siam, dove il suo compagno Hartoghvelt morì a Yoethia nel 1658. Nello stesso anno, de Rougemont raggiunse Macao, e nel 1659, raggiunse la corte imperiale, in Cina. I cristiani da lui formati sono stati riconosciuti per il loro zelo e conoscenza della religione. In seguito a una violenta persecuzione dei cristiani durante la minore età dell'imperatore Kang-hi i missionari furono portati prigionieri a Pechino, poi esiliati nel Canton e imprigionati nella chiesa per 6 anni. R. capì che questa persecuzione aveva la sua ragione principale nella nazionalità straniera dei missionari. Per togliere quest'arma dalle mani degli avversari, pensò di addestrare un clero nativo e pensò che consentire una liturgia della chiesa in lingua cinese avrebbe promosso questo piano. Nel 1667 inviò un dettagliato memorandum al generale dell'ordine Oliva (stampato in Analecta Bollandiana XXXIII (1914), 279-93). Solo nel 1671, quando l'imperatore Kang-hi fu convinto dell'innocenza dei missionari, questi tornarono alle loro congregazioni cristiane. Il Rougemont ha continuò il lavoro interrotto per altri 5 anni. Durante un viaggio verso l'isola di Tsong-ming, si ammalò a Tsang-chu e morì tra le braccia di Padre Couplet. I suoi fedeli cristiani vennero per raccogliere il corpo del loro padre spirituale e dopo due giorni di cammino lo seppellirono solennemente sul Monte Voxan fuori dalla città di Changsho. Egli aveva usato il tempo della sua disoccupazione forzata per compilare la sua Historia Tartaro-Sinica nova (Lovanii 1673), in cui racconta ampiamente la persecuzione subita. Il Rougemont ha dato un ottimo contributo alla conoscenza della letteratura cinese. Con i padri Intorcetta, Herdrich e Couplet, intraprese l'importante lavoro: Confucius Sinarum philosophus, messo in stampa nel 1687 per ordine di Luigi XIV a Parigi. In-8 °, 16 cc, pp. 327, plus errata, folded table (Situs provinciarum imperii Sinici), half-title, woodcut on the title page. ROUGEMONT (Franciscus de), b. in Maastricht on April 2, 1624, d. in Changchu (China) on November 4, 1676. In Jesuit schools in Brussels and Antwerp he made his lower studies with brilliant results and in 1641 he entered the Society of Jesus. At the siege of Kortrijk in 1646 he distinguished himself, even if he was not yet a priest, for his zeal in caring for wounded soldiers. In 1654 he received the priest's consecration and, when Father Martino Martini, procurator of the Chinese mission in Europe, came to look for missionaries for this job, he managed to convince his parents to carry out that mission in favor of his son by the General of the Order. The following year he left Amsterdam for Lisbon with the Jesuit of Amsterdam Ignazio Hartoghvelt. After a delay in Coimbra, they left Lisbon on 30 March 1656 and arrived on 6 November in Coa. On foot, he continued his journey along the coast of Malabar, Visschersen Transvancore, and then he crossed Siam, where his companion Hartoghvelt died in Yoethia in 1658. In the same year, Rougemont reached Macau, and in 1659, he reached the imperial court , in China. The Christians he trained were listed for their zeal and knowledge of religion. Following a violent persecution of Christians during the minor age of Emperor Kang-hi, the missionaries were taken prisoner to Beijing, then exiled to the Canton and imprisoned in the church for 6 years. R. understood that this persecution had its main reason in the foreign nationality of the missionaries. To remove this weapon from the hands of opponents, he thought of training a native clergy and thought that allowing a Chinese-language church liturgy would promote this plan. In 1667 he sent a detailed memorandum to the general of the order Oliva (printed in Analecta Bollandiana XXXIII (1914), 279-93). Only in 1671, when Emperor Kang-hi was convinced of the innocence of the missionaries, did they return to their Christian congregations. Rougemont continued the interrupted work for another 5 years. During a trip to Tsong-ming Island, a Tsang-chu fell ill and died in the arms of Father Couplet. His faithful Christians came to collect the body of their spiritual father and after two days of walking they saw him solemnly on Mount Voxan outside the city of Changsho. He had used the time of his forced unemployment to compile his Historia Tartaro-Sinica nova (Lovanii 1673), in which he widely recounts the persecution he endured. Rougemont made an excellent contribution to the knowledge of Chinese literature. With his fathers Intorcetta, Herdrich and Couplet, he undertook the important work: Confucius Sinarum philosophus, printed in 1687 by order of Louis XIV in Paris.

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DIEGO DI PANTOGIA / DE PANTOJA / DIDACO PANTOIAMareMagnum

Relatione dell'entrata d'alcuni padri della Compagnia di Giesu nella China, et de' particolari successi, che loro occorsero, et delle cose notabili, che videro nel medesimo regno

In -8°, pp, 88, cartonato, tagli rossi. Sul verso del frontespizio altro titolo: “Lettera del padre Diego di Pantogia della Compagnia di Giesù al Padre Luigi di Guzman Provinciale nella Provincia di Toledo. Scritta in Pachino corte del Rè della Chiana a di 9 di Marzo, dell’anno 1602. Pubblicata originariamente in spagnolo nel 1605 questa lunga lettera, qui nella sua prima versione italiana, si distingue per la chiarezza argomentativa del testo, quasi giornalistica nel riportare dettagli della vita politica, economica, sociale e religiosa cinese. Il libro è valutato nodale anche come testimonianza circa i rapporti fra religione cattolica e Islam: “This is a very early source written by Christian on Muslims in China proper. The almost non-judgmental treatment of Islam is particularly interesting, although it must be noted that the text was written befor the Jesuit-Muslim conflicts fo the later part of the 16th century, so it must be possible to assume that relations at this time were fairly amicable. [...] The descriptions of Muslim life in China are fairly extensive in comparison with other texts of the early 17th century although, like its counterparts, the text focuses more on other religions such as Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism and Judaism”. (Thomas Davies, John Chesworth, “Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History”, 2012, vol. 11, p. 294. Diego de Pantoja o Diego Pantoja (Valdemoro 1571 – Macao 1618) era un gesuita e missionario portoghese in Cina, noto per aver accompagnato Matteo Ricci a Pechino, dove Diego avrebbe lavorato come astronomo, geografo e musicista. Nel 1617 fu processato come nemico degli astronomi cinesi (aveva apportato alcune correzioni al calendario) ed espulso dalla Cina. Published before in Spanish, this long letter, here in its first Italian edition, is valued as remarkable not only about early contacts between Christian Europe and China, but also about the relationship between Catholic religion and Muslim one: “This is a very early source written by Christian on Muslims in China proper. The almost non-judgmental treatment of Islam is particularly interesting, although it must be noted that the text was written befor the Jesuit-Muslim conflicts fo the later part of the 16th century, so it must be possible to assume that relations at this time were fairly amicable. [...] The descriptions of Muslim life in China are fairly extensive in comparison with other texts of the early 17th century although, like its counterparts, the text focuses more on other religions such as Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism and Judaism”. (Thomas Davies, John Chesworth, “Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History”, 2012, vol. 11, p. 294. Diego De Pantoja (1571-1618) was a portuguese jesuit and missionary in China, known for getting along Matteo Ricci to Beijing, where Diego was an astronomer, a geographer and a musician. He purpoused some changes to Chinese calendar, and in 1617 was prosecuted and banished from China.

Libreria Antonio Pettini · Roma, IT4 500,00 €

Orazio Torsellino Tursellino TorselliniMareMagnum

De vita Francisci Xaverii … libri sex. Quibus accesserunt eiusdem Xaverii Epistolarum libri quatuor

In-4°; pp. (10), 318, (2),; (8), 161, (3), con un bel ritratto di Francesco Saverio finemente inciso su rame da Theodor Galle; vari esemplari, tra cui quello alla Biblioteca Casanatense di Roma e quella dell’Università di Granada, come il nostro sono prive della carta *6; le Epistole hanno un proprio frontespizio, entrambi con monogramma della Società di Gesù inciso su legno. Nota di possesso manoscritta all’ultima sguardia. Legatura in piena pergamena coeva. Bellissimo esemplare. The third edition of De Vita Francisci Xaverii (the first in Rome 1594, another issues in Antwerp in the same 1596 containing only De vita) and the first of the Epistolae. This 1596 edition of the saint’s biography is better then the one of 1594 because revised by the author and complete. St Francis Xavier (1506-52), a companion of Ignatius of Loyola and co-founder od the Jesuit order, was a leader of the first Jesuit missions to India, southeast Asia and Japan. Orazio Torsellino was an italian Jesuit; he achieved great popularity with this work, which had numerous editions and translations, and with his first and principal early printed collection of Xavier’s letter, including many from Japan, available at the end of the 16th century. This first edition remained standard for many years and also for 17th cent. editions. This is the first collection of writings by St. Francisco Xavier. In 1540, he set off as a missionary to Asia. From there in the midst of ten years of incessant labor, 1542 - 1554, he produced 137 letters and instructions. The translator and editor of this volume, Orazio Torsellini in this place presented 52 letters. This collection of Xavier letters is very important in the story of China and Japan. Streit Iv, p. 290; Cordier col. 128; Sommervogel VIII, col. 140.

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Fabio Ambrogio SpinolaMareMagnum

Vita del padre Carlo Spinola della Compagnia di Giesù morto per la santa fede nel Giappone

In-8° (cm 15,3x9,3), pp. (8),mezza 336; 1 folding plate representing the plan do the prison where Spinola was imprisoned in Japan. On title page a woodcut with the monogram of Compagnia di Gesù and the “motto” “pulcra ut –luna- electa ut –sol-”. The binding is contemporary half vellum with gilty title on spine, and yellow edges. The dedication is dated Roma 1628 and it refers to the first edition. This bioghrapy of father Spinola is an account of the missionary voyage he made through Portugal, Brasil, Portorico, England, Lisboa, China and eventually Japan, where he wished to die (from page 97 to the end). He died in Nagasaki in 1622, afer being persecuted and imprisoned. Two ink stamps on title page, few restoration on blank margins.

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ELLIS (Henry)MareMagnum

Journal of the Proceedings of the Late Embassy to China; Comprising a correct narrative of the public transactions of the embassy, of the voyage to and from China, and of the journey from the mouth of the Pei-Ho to the return to Canton. Interspersed with observations upon the face of the country, the polity, moral character, and manners of the Chinese nation.

First edition, 4to (275 x 215 mm), vii, [1], 526, [2]pp., with the final errata leaf, portrait frontispiece of Lord Amherst, 7 hand-coloured plates, 3 engraved maps (one folding, two lightly spotted), nineteenth-century full blue calf, the covers with wide gilt borders of fillets and floral rolls with corner tools, heavy gilt panel spine with a interlaced pattern in five panels and lettered in gilt on other, marbled endpapers with matching marbled page edges, some minor rubbing, a most attractive copy. "The Amherst embassy in 1816 was the third in a series of unsuccessful British attempts to establish trade relations with the Chinese government... The embassy, which was sent out by George III 'to protest at the ill-treatment of British subjects' was a failure, since Lord Amherst refused to kow-tow to the emperor. Ellis, who published this authorised narrative of the journey and transactions of the embassy, had accompanied Earl Amherst in the capacity of third commissioner."?L?wendahl. Provenance: With the green oval gilt morocco label of Granville Hastings Wheler with his faint signature in ink to head of title. Abbey Travel 536; Cordier Sinica III, 2393; L?wendahl 791; Lust 509.

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Fisher, Lt.-Colonel. [Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur A'Court Fisher, C.B., Royal Engineers]; [George Battye Fisher].MareMagnum

Personal Narrative of Three Years' Service in China.

Octavo. Pp. vi, (ii), 420. Plus wood-engraved frontispiece with facing tissue-guard; 2 full page wood-engraved plates; one full-page plan, and 6 wood-engraved vignette illustrations. Plus 3 folding engraved maps, bound at end. Hardcover, beautifully bound in recent three-quarter smooth black calf extra, attractive marbled paper over boards, sides decorated with blind rolls, spine in compartments between gilt-ruled raised bands, large gilt fleuron in five of six compartments, red morocco lettering-piece gilt in remainder, all edges polished smooth and dyed red. In exceptionally fine condition. An immaculate copy. ~ First edition. Authorship attributed by some to Arthur A'Court Fisher; by others to George Battye Fisher. For that matter, see British Union Catalog and OCLC 9004104.

Librarium · Alphen aan den Rijn, NL2 200,00 €

Pierre Joseph d’OrleansMareMagnum

Histoire des deux conquerans tartares qui ont subjugué la Chine

Edizione originale, In-4°; pp. (30), 319, 37; un monogramma inciso su legno al frontespizio; legatura in pelle con tassello e titolo in oro al dorso, tagli spruzzati. Le ultime pagine contangono “l’Historie du Sevagi et de son successeur, nouveaux conquerans dans les Indes”. Edizione originale di una delle principali descrizioni della conquista Manchu, basata sulle opere di Martini e Schall, segna il passaggio tra le dinastie Ming e Qing. E’ il tempo dei lunghi regni di Luigi XIV (1643-1715) e dell’imperatore cinese Kangxi (1662-1722) e i missionari gesuiti impiegati presso la corte Qing di Pechino costituiscono tra l’Oriente e l’Europa un canale di informazioni privilegiato, specialmente per quanto riguarda le influenze sull’immagine imperiale che il re francese volle dare di sé. I paragoni e i punti di contatto tra i due reali sono molti, dall’attenzione per le arti e per le scienze, alla volontà di imporsi come arbitri del gusto, non solo entro i prorpi confini; molti gli scambi intrapresi tra Francia e Cina: Luigi XIV fondava nel 1644 la Compagnia delle Indie Orientali, con il supporto di Colbert, iniziava una collezione di libri cinesi e promuoveva ricerche di cartografia proprio in Cina per consolidare laggiù la sua posizione. l’opera di Joseph d’Orleans offre due esempi di imperatori cinesi, con le loro vite e le loro imprese, che certamente servirono a Luigi XIV come esempio di un modo di regnare, ma anche di produrre commercio e tecnologia, di intendere la democrazia, e di tradurre in arte il senso di potere dello stato. Cordier p. 629, Laura Hostetler, A Mirror for the Monarch: A Literary Portrait of China in Eighteenth-Century France. Leggere marginali fioriture. Buon esemplare marginoso.

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MINTONS TILES TRADE CATALOGUE.MareMagnum

Mintons Tiles. Selected Patterns of Enamelled Tiles for Walls, Hearths, Fire Places, Furniture, Flower Boxes, &c., Reduced to a scale of 1? inch to a foot.

Folio (325 x 250 mm), [8]pp., followed 30 numbered chromolithographed plates and one further "extra sheet" with 10 mounted albumen photographs, a couple of sheets with slight fraying to blank fore-edge, loose in publisher's printed boards, worn, re-backed with tape. Minton's Ltd, was a major ceramics manufacturing company, originated with Thomas Minton (1765-1836) the founder of "Thomas Minton and Sons", who established his pottery factory in Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, England, in 1793, producing earthenware. Herbert Minton began experimenting making encaustic tiles in 1828 in addition to the established Mintons pottery and china business, and produced their first catalogue of 62 designs in 1835. "The Tiles in this book are, with the exception of those shown on Sheet 16, which are printed patterns, and on the extra Sheet of Photographs, all Enamelled by a Patent process, know as "Reynold's process," which was adapted in 1848 by the late Mr. Herbert Minton, and has ever since been carried on at Mintons (Limited) China Works... The process for the decoration of Tiles was early favoured by the late Mr. A. Welby Pugin, "the great restorer of Gothic Arts," in the Houses of Parliament and in many other places, and the patterns in that style of ornament in this book are all from his hand. Since the days of Pugin the use of these enamelled Tiles for decorative purposes has greatly increased, and there are now few houses without some examples...".

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British AdmiraltyMareMagnum

China Sea Northern Portion and Southern Portion

Set of four unjoined nautical maps representing China Sea. Two sheets for the Southern Portion and other two for the Northern Portion:1- China Sea Southern Portion compiled from various authorities to 1923, published at the Admiralty 1 November 1881 under the Superintendence of Captain Sir Frederick J. Evans, with small corrections to 19312- China Sea Northern Portion compiled from the latest surveys to 1884, published at the Admiralty 18 September 1882 under the Superintendence of Captain Sir Frederick J. Evans, with small corrections to 1931

Libreria Trippini Sergio · Gavirate, IT1 700,00 €

Smith, Rev. George.MareMagnum

A Narrative of an Exploratory Visit to Each of the Consular Cities of China, and to the Islands of Hong Kong and Chusan, in Behalf of the Church Missionary Society, in the Years 1844, 1845, 1846, I-II. [TWO VOLUMES. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL INSTALLMENTS].

Two volumes. Crown quarto. Paginated consecutively. Pp. xvi, 3-240; 241-467. Plus a folding map engraved on steel, engraved frontispiece and 11 other plates. Title-page printed in red and black. Uniformly in the original illustrated wrappers, these edge worn and chipped, back wrapper of one volume loose, some dog-eared corners. Both volumes placed in a handsome custom made box, full green cloth over boards, facsimile title-page laid-down on cover. An unsophisticated set, untrimmed, preserved entirely in the original state, bright interiors, thoroughly free of foxing. ~ First American edition in the extremely rare original, two paperbound installments. Sold separately, each volume's cover bears the header: "50 Cents. Complete in Two Parts"; and "Part 1" and "Part 2", respectively. A pioneering work by the Anglican missionary George Smith (1815-1871) who, after the Treaty of Nanking, explored the newly opened cities of China, recording his findings and observations. The work is particularly appealing for its description and portrayal of everyday life in nineteenth-century China and the impact of the new British Rule. It includes an account of Hong Kong. Cordier BS, 2115; Lust, 385.

Librarium · Alphen aan den Rijn, NL1 600,00 €

Richthofen, Ferdinand Freiherr Von; Tiessen, E. (Editor)MareMagnum

Ferdinand Von Richthofen's Tagebucher Aus China: Volumes I and II (One and Two)

588 + 375 pages. Index. Colour fold-out map at back of volume I. All plates present. Text in German. Contents unmarked and moderately age-toned. Foxing to plates and some pages. Average overall wear. Narrow openings along both hinges of volume I. Documents von Richthofen's important travel and research in China. Book

RareNonFiction.com · Ladysmith, CA1 495,00 €

MareMagnum

PLANO de la Ciudad de Victoria. Hong Kong.

Manila, Imp. y Lit. Chofré y Comp., 1897, plano original litografiado en colores, 21 x 70,5 cm. con dobleces de haber estado plegado. (Muy raro plano que aparece en la Guía Oficial de las Islas Filipinas del año 1897. Algunas restauraciones en los pliegues a la vuelta).

Mateos · Malaga, ES1 392,00 €

CollectifMareMagnum

Revue illustrée des missions en Chine et au Congo (& aux Philippines), administrées par la Congrégation du Coeur Immaculé de Marie établie à Scheut-lez-Bruxelles. Volumes 1 à 36 (Série complète de 1889 à et inclus 1928)

Série complète des années 1 à 36 (1889-1928) reliées en 14 volumes, ensemble plus de 10.000 pages avec illustrations en n/bl dans et hors texte et plusieurs plans et cartes dépliantes hors-texte, reliures cart. (plats marbrés, dos en cuir rouge avec titre doré au dos), feuilles de garde marbrées, 29cm. (à partir de 1901: 25cm.), quelques rousseurs dans le texte, quelques vagues taches aux tranches (inférieures) de peu de volumes (pas dans le texte), bon ensemble de cette revue illustrée bien rare sur les missions de Scheut en Congo et en Chine (et aux Philippines, à partir de l'année 20, 1908), poids total de 21kg., R85962

Antiquariaat Pieter Judo (De Lezenaar) · Hasselt, BE1 300,00 €

Pierre Joseph d'OrlÈansMareMagnum

Histoire des deux conquerans tartares qui ont subjuguÈ la Chine [with] Histoire du Sevagi et de son successeur, nouveaux conquerans dans les Indes

First edition, first issue of this important account of the the Manchu conquest of China. 30, 319, 37 pp. Complete with "Histoire du Sevagi et de son successeur, nouveaux conquerans dans les Indes" at end. Printed on very fine laid paper with wide margins. Old signature of former owner ("Courval"). 8vo. Bound in contemporary calf, spine richly gilt in six compartments with raised band. Extremities of binding somewhat worn, but still solid and attractive. Internally FINE AND BRIGHT. Cordier Sinica I, 629; Lˆwendahl 190; Streit (1929) 2596; Sommervogel V, p. 1940, no. 14.

William Cole · Sitges, ES1 250,00 €

Author UnknownMareMagnum

MAAMARIM ME-SIHOTAV SHEL RABEINU YERUCHOM HA-LEVI LEVOVITZ [VOL. 1-3, 5 & 7/8]

Original paper wrappers. 8vo. 36 pages each volume, 22 cm. In Hebrew. Title translates to Essays from Conversations with Rav Yerucham Halevi Levovitz. Levovitz was the Mashgiach Ruchani of the Mirrer Yeshiva in Poland. One of the great exponents of Mussar. He was a talmid or Rav Simcha Zissel Broida one of the foremost disciples of Rabbi Yisroel Salanter. Below are eight fascicles printed in Shanghai. The first three fascicles were first published before the Holocaust in Baranovitch, the fourth was published in Kaiden due to the war. For a period during 1940, the town served as home to about 300 students and teachers from the Mir Yeshiva. After WWII, much of orthodox Jewry in Europe was wiped out, along with their many yeshivas (Jewish schools of higher learning) . One of the only yeshivas to survive as a whole body was the Mir Yeshiva, which managed to escape miraculously to Shanghai, China, and then on to America. Many of the new leaders of the American and Israeli yeshivas in the post-war period were students of the Mir, and thus followers of Rabbi Leibovitz. SUBJECTS: Litvak Holocaust Displaced Persons. There are no copies listed on OCLC. Wear and soiling to outer wrappers, along with small chip missing from bottom left corner. Internally Good. Overall Good Condition. Rare. (RAB-60-12-13-14)

Dan Wyman Books LLC · Brooklyn, NY 11211, US1 200,00 €

Norberto - Pierre Parisot - PlatelMareMagnum

Memorie storiche sopra le missioni dell’indie orientale nelle quali si da a dividere che i PP missionari Cappuccini ragionevolmente si sono di comunione separati da Padri Missionari Gesuiti perche ricusaron questi di sottomettersi al Decreto contra i Riti malabarici del cardinale di Tournon legato della santa sede al sommo pontefice Benedetto XIV cina china

In-8° 4 volumi. 1) pp. (4), 34, 721 piccola lacuna a p. 75. 2) pp. (2), 392. 3) pp. (2), 270, 1 cb., una piccola gora di inchiostro alle prime due carte. 4)pp. (2), XVIII, 748, LXXXV, 86-116, Queste ultime carte contengono le Costituzioni di Benedetto XIV del 1744. legature con tracce d’uso. L’opera affronta la annosa questione dei riti malabarici, cosiddetti dalla regione indiana di Malabar: i Gesuiti, missionari nelle Indie orientali, avevano autorizzato una pericolosa e non ortodossa commistione di cerimonie cristiane e riti pagani. Il cappuccino Norberto, (1697-1770), pseudonimo dell’abate Platel, offre una descrizione storica molto dettagliata e critica delle missioni gesuite in Malabar, arricchita da molte notizie circa la cultura e costumi degli indiani. Il legato pontificio de Tournon promulgò nel 1704 la prima condanna dei riti malabarici, e con Benedetto XIV si ebbe la normativa in 16 punti che definiva il comprtamento dei missionari cattolici. missioni mission viaggi India malabar riti rites customs indians jesuits gesuiti cappuccini

Libreria Antonio Pettini · Roma, IT1 200,00 €

Knollys, Major Henry.MareMagnum

English Life in China.

Octavo. Pp. ix, 333, (6) publisher's catalogue. Half-title present. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher's full brown cloth, upper cover and spine lettered and decorated in gilt and black, some stray spots on back cover, floral endpapers, trimmed rough, spine ends very lightly bumped, inner hinges about starting. In fine condition. Excellent copy, bright and fresh, beautifully preserved interior. ~ First edition. Sir Henry Knollys (1840-1930) served as a major in the Royal Artillery, later became private secretary to King Edward's daughter Maud, queen of Norway. He was a descendant to a distinguished British family. Sir Francis Knollys (1514-1596) was an English statesman, became a member of parliament in 1542 and was knighted in 1547. His father, Robert Knollys, a courtier in the service of both Henry VII and Henry VIII. Sir Francis's three sons were all courtiers and served Queen Mary in parliament or in the field. Henry Knollys published extensively; on "English Life in China" he said: "The statements contained in this book have, at all events, the advantage of having been recorded on the spot, and at the time when they were originally deduced. Taken down day by day in shorthand, I venture to hope that the opinions may possess the freshness, sometimes so conductive to accuracy, of first impressions; while the authenticity of the facts has been safe-guarded by subsequent careful revision." See further: Peter J. Kitson (General Editor): "Nineteenth-Century Travels, Explorations and Empires: Writings from the Era of Imperial Consolidation, 1835-1910." 8 volumes. (London, Pickering & Chatto, 2003-2004). Also: Albert Smith: "To China and Back: Being a Diary Kept Out and Home." (Hong Kong, 1859).

Librarium · Alphen aan den Rijn, NL1 180,00 €

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Il Nuovo Ramusio. Completo in 13 Volumi. Tutto Il Pubblicato

IL NUOVO RAMUSIO. RACCOLTA DI VIAGGI, TESTI E DOCUMENTI RELATIVI AI RAPPORTI FRA L'EUROPA E L'ORIENTE. 4to, 13 voll., bross. prima edizione, tutto il pubblicato. piccola mancanza da sfregamento da scaffale al margine inferiore della sovracoperta del volume VII, piega alla sovracoperta del volume V, macchia appena percettibile alla sovracoperta del peimo tomo del volume II, altrimenti tutti i volumi in perfetto stato, con rispettive spvracoperte in pergamino (ad eccezione del volume I che ha la sovracoperta ma non il pergamino). L'opera, che comprende le relazioni ed i diari dei piu' noti viaggiatori italiani in Oriente, presentati in un testo definitivo e corredati di un commentario storico e geografico, e' cosi' composta: Vol. I - 'Liber Peregrinationis di Jacopo da Verona (1335), a cura di U. Monneret de Villard, pp. XXXII,240; Vol. II - 'I Missionari italiani nel Tibet e nel Nepal (XVIII secolo)' suddiviso in 7 parti: Parti I-II-III-IV: 'I Capuccini Marchigiani', a cura di L. Petech, pp. CXX,224; VIII,274; VIII,366; X,284; con tavv. Parti V-VI-VII: 'Ippolito Desideri S.I.', a cura di L. Petech, pp. XXXVI,252; X,354; VIII,318. Vol. III - 'Il libro dei conti di Giacomo Badoer (Costantinopoli 1436-40)', testo a cura di U. Dorini e T. Bertele', pp. XVI,858, con 5 tavv. di facsimili. Vol. IV - 'Viaggi di C. Federici e G. Balbi alle Indie Orientali (XVI secolo)', a cura di O. Pinto, pp. XLIV,438, con 5 tavv. Vol. V - 'Le navigazioni atlantiche del veneziano Alvise da Mosto (1455-56) - La navigazione del portoghese Pedro de Cintra (1462)', a cura di R. Gasparrini Leporace, pp. XXIV,356, con 4 tavv. Vol. VI - 'I viaggi di Pietro della Valle. Lettere dalla Persia.' Vol. VII - 'I viaggi in Persia degli ambasciatori veneti Barbaro e Contarini.' Bella ediz. su carta a mano di Pescia in tirat. di 900 esempl. num. Il ns., intonso, e' in ottimo stato, come nuovo. Come nell'opera del grande Ramusio, trovano posto nell'attuale collezione scritti di alcuni fra i maggiori viaggiatori europei. Ogni volume e' preceduto da un'introduzione critica sulla vita e le opere dell'autore; l'edizione critica del testo e' seguita da ampi commenti, nella quale sono utilizzate le fonti occidentali e specialmente orientali che completano le notizie fornite dalle relazioni-La Libreria dello Stato. Roma. 1950-1956 . 1st edition. 13 volumes in 4to, all ever published. A very crisp as new set. international customers please inquire on shipping.

Pali s.r.l. · Roma, IT1 100,00 €

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Illustrated life of Confucius woodblock Kong zi sheng ji N. D. [1934?] Confucio

An Illustrated life of Confucius Late Qing woodblock Edition Kong zi sheng ji Tu

Pali s.r.l. · Roma, IT1 100,00 €

Sino-Judaic InstituteMareMagnum

POINTS EAST: A PUBLICATION OF THE SINO-JUDAIC INSTITUTE. [COMPLETE RUN: VOLUMES 1-22, LACKING ONLY 1 ISSUE, VOL 22 NR 3]

Original Wraps. 4to. [6, 20, 24] pages per issue. 28 cm. Three numbers per year. Complete run for volumes 1-22, lacking volume 22 nr 3. Early issue typically 6 pages in length, later issues typically 20 or 24 pages in length. 65 issues total. Four issues are stapled photocopies: vol 1. Nr 1, vol. 3 nr. 2, vol. 5, nr 1, vol. 5 nr 2. Letterhead varies. Points East; Newsletter on the Jewish experience in China and elsewhere in Asia as well as on the activities of Institute members. Articles on the history of Jews in Kaifeng, Baghdadi Jews in Shanghai and Hong Kong, Jews of Russia in China, Jewish Refugees in China during the Nazi Period, the Contemporary Period; reports on events and conferences, interviews, etc. Some issues contain illustrations. Subjects: Jews - China - Periodicals. Jews - Study and teaching - China - Periodicals. Jews. Jews - Study and teaching. Periodicals. OCLC lists 26 holdings, but many are incomplete. Three hole punch at left edge of all issues; otherwise very clean and fresh. Very good + condition. (SEF-53-23)

Dan Wyman Books LLC · Brooklyn, NY 11211, US1 000,00 €

Stanton, Edwin F. (Signed)MareMagnum

Brief Authority: Excursions of a Common Man in an Uncommon World / Recollections of China and Thailand

290 pages. Index. Signed and inscribed by author upon half-title page. First printed in the US by Harper & Brothers in 1956. "Author was born in 1901 and in 1921 was appointed to the American Legation in Peiping - although his actual diplomatic career began in 1923 when he was named Vice-Consul at Mukden. For the next eighteen years he held various posts in many parts of China, until December 1941 - while he was American Counsul at Shanghai - when the Japanese captured the city and he was interned for several months. Named Consul General at Vancouver in 1945, he left the next year to become Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, later American Ambassador to Thailand, a post he held until his retirement in 1953.... He saw China and Manchuria in chaos under the warlords. He witnessed the growth of Chinese nationalism, and China's suffering as first the Japanese and then the Communists struggled for ascendency." - from dust jacket. Average wear. Tanning to endpapers. Binding intact. Above-average wear to dust jacket now preserved in mylar. An important account of these pivotal years in China, as witnessed by an American diplomat. Book

RareNonFiction.com · Ladysmith, CA995,00 €

STEIN AurelMareMagnum

On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks. Brief Narrative of Three Expeditions in Innermost Asia and North-Western China. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY

Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, 16 fine coloured plates (complete with captioned guards) on 15, 123 monochrome plates on 78, 8 large folding monochrome panoramas and a large folding coloured map, some very light occasional marginal spotting as often; original sienna cloth, gilt back, upper cover blocked in gilt, gilt top, uncut, one or two leaves unopened, joints a trifle rubbed else a very good, bright, crisp copy. VERY SCARCE

Antiquarian Bookshop Island Books · Thakeham, GB983,79 €

CARTER (J. C.)MareMagnum

Familiar Chinese Faces: A Selection of Figure Studies of Everyday Life from Photographs.

Slim 4to (280 x 220 mm), 18ff. 24 sepia photogravures of working class people ( mostly tradesmen), all tipped onto rectos with letterpress beneath, images 150 x 100 mm and where two images to the page (110 x 80 mm), original decorative wrappers with spine tie. The trades people depicted include: Cottager weaving bamboo; Native sportsman; Woman shelling pea nuts; Harvesting rice; Blind fortune teller; Street Juggler; Open-air shave; Shoe mender; Taoist mendicant; Beggar; Wood engraver, etc. JISC locating a single copy at the SOAS Library.

Forest Books William Laywood · Grantham, GB916,97 €