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1900174874Xi'an China: c.1900. China's "Christian Rosetta Stone" A rubbing of the most famous document of Chinese Christianity. When rediscovered the Nestorian Stele transformed understanding of the cross-cultural history of Tang dynasty China. "The discovery of this monument is what made Westerners aware of the presence of Christianity in China prior to the mission of the Franciscans in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and those of the Jesuits" Nicolini-Zani p. 117. The Nestorian stele was carved in 781 and stands at almost three metres tall. The Chinese inscription in the calligraphy of a local official Lu Xiuyan describes how Christians arrived at the Tang capital of Xi'an in 635 and with official permission founded churches. The stele also introduces in Chinese and Syriac some of the community's senior clergy and the present state of the Nestorian church. "Erecting a stone monument to describe commend and propagate its teachings was no small undertaking for the Tang Christian community. Putting up stone monuments was an expensive exercise because of the price of the stone and the fee of the expert artisan who engraved the text. The monument itself makes an important statement about the place of Christianity within Tang society" Nicolini-Zani pp. 120-1. In 845 Christianity was banned by Emperor Wuzong and the stele was buried. Rediscovered by Chinese antiquarians around 1625 it brought to light a lost dimension to China's history and translations soon appeared in Jesuit sinological writings including Kircher's China Monumentis 1667 which includes the first printed reproduction of the text. The stone now stands at the Beilin Museum in Xi'an and is listed among the small number of protected antiquities that will never be exhibited abroad. Rubbings from the original are no longer permitted. Provenance: the theologian and sociologist Y. Y. Tsu 1886-1986 also known as Chu Yu-Yu. Born in Shanghai Tsu studied at St John's College Shanghai and at Columbia where he was one of the first Chinese students of sociology to study abroad. In 1912 he became Professor of Sociology at St John's and later served as religious director of the Peking Union Medical College. "In 1940 he was consecrated an Episcopal bishop in Shanghai and was named Assistant Bishop of Hong Kong and Bishop of Kunming where he began his Burma Road work. Bishop Tsu was known. as the 'Bishop of the Burma Road' because of his efforts to befriend Allied troops traveling the international highway that ran through his district" obituary in New York Times. In 1931 Tsu held a visiting lectureship at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley California. This rubbing was gifted to the institution by Tsu and displayed there during the 1930s. It is regularly mentioned as a point of interest in contemporary tourist guides to the state. Rubbing from stone on multiple paper sheets arranged soon after execution to form 120 x 320 mm curved headpiece 100 x 588 mm title and 1825 x 870 text body mounted on four long pieces of paper joined to form area of 2338 x 958 mm edges of mount reinforced with old decorative white paper. Rubbing generally sharp and legible a few surface blemishes sectional joins expertly reinforced in places on verso: a very good example of an imposing piece. Matteo Nicolini-Zani The Luminous Way to the East: Texts and History of the First Encounter of Christianity with China 2022. unknown
1880183225China: c.1880. China on Thomas Hardy's doorstep Labels on both faces indicate that this artefact of missionary printing was owned by Henry Joseph Moule 1825-1904 a close friend of Thomas Hardy and the brother of two prominent China missionaries. Moule was the first curator of the Dorset County Museum where this woodblock was perhaps displayed to a curious public. Moule's seven brothers included George Evans Moule 1828-1912 consecrated the first Bishop of Mid-China in 1880 and Arthur Evans Moule 1838-1916 who was active in Ningbo and Shanghai and who also wrote prolifically on Chinese history and current affairs. The primary face has the text of the fourth to tenth commandments as given in Deuteronomy and the carving employs a songti character style with serifs. The largest of the labels reads "Block from which a page of a book has been printed; viz. part of the Ten Commandments. Printing is a much older art in China than in Europe but always was and is performed as by the pre-Gutenberg European printers viz. from wood-cut blocks. A rough block with wood-engraving tools accompanies this block; and also an inking brush and a printing pad. The press is used China." Moule is named on a small label on the reverse. Single wooden block 165 x 210 mm engraved in 8-columns on primary face one column of characters and page subdivisions on secondary face 3 manuscript labels the largest covering upper-left quadrant of primary face. Contemporary blue pencil note on secondary face. General signs of handling carved character distinct: very good. unknown
186771145Michel Lévy frères | Paris 1867 | 15 x 23 cm | relié
189634497Traduction française de H. Piazza, dessins et lithographies de A. Lunois, un des 25 exemplaires (numérotés de 36 à 60), sur papier de chine, avec un double état en noir de toutes les planches, bois et lithographies (exemplaire n°48 signé par les auteurs, un des exemplaires imprimés spécialement pour L. Conquet), 1 vol. in-4 reliure plein maroquin mosaïqué sous étui bordé, plat sup. orné d'un beau décor floral mosaïqué (palme du martyre, rameaux d'olivier, couronne d'épines), dos à 5 nerfs, non rogné, toutes tranches dorées, chasses ornées, gardes doublées de soie, couvertures et dos conservés, reliure signé Canape R. D. et datée de 1903, Librairie Artistique, G. Boudet, 1896, 156 pp., avec 76 lithographies en couleurs et 77 encadrements gravés sur bois
1850c2206270149xbvkLondon, William Pickering (Chiswick, C. Wittingham), 1850. 1 blank sheet; xii pages (incl. foretitle-sheet, title-sheet, printed dedication-sheet, 'Contents' and 'Introduction to Eidolon'), 240 pages; 1 blank sheet. - Richly gilt handbound green chagrin-leather binding over 5 raised bands with gilt title at spine (stamp-signed ''Bound by Hayday'' at inner frontpanel), all edges gilt, silken marker-ribbon; 8vo.(ca. 18 x 11,5 cm).
1896184604Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press 1896. China in your hand First edition rare in commerce commercial records showing only one other copy in the last two decades. The publication was effusively welcomed by the Chinese and religious periodical press for it satisfied long-standing demand for a comprehensive and easily accessible survey. The contents offer textual and statistical descriptions of the state of missionary work in different Chinese provinces and cities alongside articles by Timothy Richard and other missionaries on secret societies and on Buddhism Taoism and Islam. Part II the survey of recent progress is subdivided into the dozens of Western groups proselytizing in the country by century's end. Emphasis is placed on educational and medical work and where applicable the operations of printing presses. Octavo 245 x 160 mm. With 2 large colour folding maps 12 full-page maps printed in black and red 3 folding tables tables in text errata slipped tipped in facing p. 335. Contemporary dark red half roan raised bands spine tooled and lettered in gilt black cloth sides marbled sides. Ex-Central Baptist Theological Seminary Kansas City with bookplates title-page ink stamp and traces of removed record card holders. Binding worn and recently repaired folding map at page 56 now detached from stub and repaired with tissue a few ink marks in printed area other maps well preserved: very good. hardcover
182190593chez les principaux libraires | Genève 1821 | 14 x 22 cm | Relié
18656712716 vol. in-4 reliure demi-percaline bordeaux, Excudebatur et Venit Apud J.P. Migne, Petit-Montrouge, 1865, Tome1, 2, 3-I, 3-II, 4-I, 4-II, 5-I, 5-II, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10-I, 10-II, 11, Supplément
18216440421 vol. in-8 reliures de l'époque demi-veau à coins blond, dos à 5 nerfs guillochés estampé à froid et orné, toutes tranches marbrées, reliure signée de Purgold, Chez Delestre-Boulage, Paris, 1821-1823
18261247121826 30 Volumes - A Paris, Ladvocat Libraires - 1826-1828 - Demi basane rouge du temps, 4 nerfs sautés, ornementation à froid mais bandeaux dorés sur les coiffes, titre et auteur sur fond rouge uni. 350 à 400 pages par volume - Très bel ex-libris sur chacun des volumes
181888744Adrien Le Clère | Paris 1818-1823 | 10.3 x 17.3 cm | 8 volumes reliés
184789244??? ???????? [Imprimerie grecque du Phénix] | Venise 1847 | 16.2 x 25 cm | Relié
18632898713 vol. (avec anciennes cotes de bibliothèques et parfois d'anciens cachets) ainsi composés : 1 vol. in-8 relié demi-toile mauve (Circulaires du Père Chaminade (extrait) et Circulaires du Père Caillet jusqu'en 1863, Gauthier Frères, Lons-Le-Saunier, 1863) ; 1 vol. in-4 relié demi-percaline verte, (Circulaires du Père Caillet jusqu'en 1868 et 3 premières circulaires du Père Chevaux, avec divers tableaux très complets du personnel des établissement en 1860) ; 1 vol. in-8 relié demi-toile noire, (Circulaires du Père Chevaux 1868-1875 - du Père Demangeon Vicaire Général (1875-1876) et premières circulaires du Père Simler (1876 - 1879) ; 2 vol. in-8 dont 1 vol. relié demi-basane noire et 1 vol. relié demi-toile noire (Circulaires du Père Simler 1876-1904 sauf 2 circulaires) ; 1 vol. in-8 relié demi-toile noire (Circulaire du Père Hiss (1905 - 1922)) ; 1 vol. in-8 relié demi-toile noire (Circulaires du Père Sorret (1923 - 1933)) ; 1 vol. in-8 relié demi-percaline bleue (Circulaires du Père Kieffer (1934-1940)) ; 1 vol. in-8 relié demi-percaline bleue (Circulaires du Frère Jung Vicaire Général (1940 - 1946)) ; 1 vol. in-8 relié demi-toile noire (Circulaires du Père Juergens (1946-1956)) ; 3 vol. in-8 relié demi-percaline verte (Circulaires du Père Hoffer (1956-1971))
1891184661London: British and Foreign Bible Society 1891. Used on missionary service in Penang A scarce missionary imprint: an early edition of the first New Testament in the Hokkien dialect of Xiamen and southern Fujian province. This was the copy of Daniel Davies Moore among the first Methodist missionaries in Penang which had an established community of Hokkien speakers. The translation was the work of four members of the English Presbyterian Mission: William Macgregor William S. Swanson Hugh Cowie and James L. Maxwell. The first edition was printed in Scotland for private circulation in 1873 and the same plates were used to produce editions in 1880s and 1890s. Moore 1856-1946 "left Canada for Singapore in April 1891 as a foreign missionary. There he was commissioned by the newly established Methodist Church in Singapore to start work in Penang for the English-speaking community. In July 1891 he started the first English service at the Penang Town Hall. The following month the first sacramental service for eight people was conducted at the rented residence of the missionaries at Carnavon Street" Dictionary of Christian Biography in Asia. His ownership inscription "Davies Moore Penang Dec. 7th 1892" is on the first blank verso. Octavo. Original green pebble-grain cloth spine lettered in gilt and ruled in black boards blocked in black yellow coated endpapers edges sprinkled red. Twentieth-century bookseller's ink stamp on front free endpaper. Binding worn especially at spine ends and joints spine repaired with adhesive a few stains internally: just about very good. Darlow & Moule 2771. hardcover
1804139780Paris, Defer de Maisonneuve [t. I-IV] ; Bastien, Ponce [tome V] ; Gay, Ponce, Belin [tomes VI-VIII, 1804 12 volumes in-8, basane fauve racinée, guirlandes, roulette dorée, dos richement orné, titre et tomaison de maroquin cerise Reliure de l'époque. Célèbre édition de la Bible, donnée par Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy, dans une version qui devint la référence officielle à la fin du XVIIIe siècle. Le dernier tome contient la table, une Chronologie sainte, un Dictionnaire de la géographie sacrée et la liste des souscripteurs. Monumentale par son illustration, elle est ornée de 300 figures hors texte gravées d'après Marillier et Monsiau par divers artistes et comprend une carte dépliante de la Terre Sainte gravée par Tardieu d'après Chanlaire. Interversions des pièces de tomaison des volumes 7, 8 et 9. Quelques restaurations aux plats. Très bon exemplaire frais & agréablement relié.
18531959# AUTEUR: Viel - Castel Comte Horace de # ÉDITEUR: Engelmann et Graf - imprimeurs-lithographes - Paris # ANNÉE ÉDITION: 1853 # COUVERTURE: Plein veau avane - filets à froid autour des plats - fleur de lys à froid dans les angles - dos orné de fleurs de lys # DÉTAILS: In folio relié plein veau havane 2ff + 17 planches chromolithographiées à pleine page + 43pp. + 3ff. Manuscrit du XIVème siècle conservé au Louvres dans le musée des souverains français avec une notice sur la peinture des miniatures et la description du manuscrit. Procédés chromolithographiques de Mr Engelmann et Graf, d'après les dessins fac-similé de Mr Schultz et Racinet fils, exécutés sur pierre par Mr Moulin, avec la coopération typographique de Mr Jules Claye pour le texte, et pour la direction scientifique par Horace de Viel-Castel. Reliure signée Gruel ( Léon, 1840-1923) dans le liseré intérieur du 1er plat. # PHOTOS visibles sur www.latourinfernal.com
1889100074309Paris. 26 cm x 33 cm. 1889. Reliés. 4 volume(s). 2863 pages. Paris Delalain 1889-1897 édition originale. 4 volumes reliures toilage moderne couvertures parcheminées conservées 26 cm x 33 cm XXXVI+ 713+ XXIII+ 808+ XXXVII+ 777+ XXXVI+ 835 pages. Transcription et annotations de Friedrich Heinrich Suso Denifle avec le concours de Emile Chapelain tabula index generalis index personarum index rerum. Très bon état
182924466Oxford: Oxford University Press. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1829. Fifth Edition. First Printing. Leather. Publisher's full brown calf spines in six compartments separated by raised bands gilt lettering and borders on burgundy labels in two compartments floral gilt tooling in remainder gilt and blind-stamped borders on covers all edges red marbled endpapers gilt dentelles. Gilbert Burnet 1643 1715 was a Scottish theologian and historian and Bishop of Salisbury Sarum. He was fluent in Dutch French Latin Greek and Hebrew. Burnet was respected as a cleric a preacher and an academic as well as a writer and historian. He was associated with the Whig party. In the mid-1670s a French translation of Nicholas Sanders' De origine et progressu schismatio Anglicani libri tres 1585 appeared. Sanders attacked the English Reformation as a political act carried on by a corrupt king. Several of Burnet's friends wished him to publish a rebuttal of the work so in 1679 his first volume of The History of the Reformation of the Church of England was published. This covered the reign of Henry VIII; the second volume 1681 covered the reign of Elizabeth and the Elizabethan Religious Settlement; the third volume 1714 consisted of corrections and additional material.1 His literary reputation was greatly enhanced by this publication. The Parliament of England voted thanks for Burnet after the publication of the first volume and in 1680 the University of Oxford awarded Burnet the degree of Doctor of Divinity on the advice of William Sancroft Archbishop of Canterbury. For over a century this was the standard reference work in the field although Catholics disputed some of its content. Thomas Babington Macaulay describes Burnet in relation to the king he served William of Orange: "When the doctor took liberties which was not seldom the case his patron became more than usually cold and sullen and sometimes uttered a short dry sarcasm which would have struck dumb any person of ordinary assurance. In spite of such occurrences however the amity between this singular pair continued with some temporary interruptions till it was dissolved by death. Indeed it was not easy to wound Burnet's feelings. His self-complacency his animal spirits and his want of tact were such that though he frequently gave offence he never took it." - History of England Vol. 2 Ch 7. . Armorial bookplates of Walter Hamilton Moberly on feps prize inscription in Latin on ffep of Volume One otherwise unmarked tight square and clean. All six volumes of the text but laking the seventh Index volume. VERY GOOD. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Oxford University Press hardcover
182871665Par M. Grégoire, ancien évêque de Blois, Nouvelle édition, corrigée et considérablement augmentée, 5 vol. in-8 reliure postérieure demi-basane brune, dos à 4 nerfs, Baudoin Frères, Paris, 1828 - 1829, 2 ff., 463 pp. ; 2 ff., 512 pp. ; 2 ff., 431 pp. ; 2 ff., 512 pp. ; 2 ff., 520 pp.
18342992316 vol. et recueils de brochures (avec anciennes cotes de bibliothèques et parfois d'anciens cachets) ainsi composés : 1 vol. in-8 relié demi-skyvertex marron, Circulaires du Bon Père Chaminade, Fribourg 1961, 1 vol. in-8 relié demi-basane mauve (Circulaires du Père Chaminade (extrait) et Circulaires du Père Caillet jusqu'en 1863, Gauthier Frères, Lons-Le-Saunier, 1863) ; 1 vol. in-4 relié demi-percaline verte, (Circulaires du Père Caillet jusqu'en 1868) ; 1 vol. in-8 relié demi-toile noire, Circulaires du Père Chevaux ; 1 vol. in-8 relié demi-basane bleue, (Circulaires du Père Chevaux 1868-1875 - du Père Demangeon Vicaire Général (1875-1876) et premières circulaires du Père Simler (1876 - 1879) ; 1 vol. relié demi-basane verte (Suite des circulaires du Père Simler 1876-1904 sauf 2 circulaires) ; 1 vol. in-8 relié demi-toile noire (Circulaire du Père Hiss (1905 - 1922)) ; 1 vol. in-8 relié demi-toile noire (Circulaires du Père Sorret (1923 - 1933) sans la circulaire n°3) ;1 recueil de brochures (Circulaires) du Père Kieffer (1934-1940) sans les circulaires 18 ni 25-26 ; 1 recueil de brochures (Circulaires) du Frère Jung Vicaire Général (1940 - 1946)) ; 1 recueil de brochures (Circulaires) du Père Juergens (1946-1956)) ; 3 recueils de brochures (Circulaires) du Père Hoffer (1956-1971), sans les circulaires n° 2 - 18 - 19 - 38 - 44 - 45 ; groupe de 24 brochures Du Père Salaverri (1981-1991) - groupe de 7 brochures du Père Hakenewerth (1991-1996) - groupe de 14 brochures du Père Fleming (1996 - 2005)
1873187497Iang-Ceo "Yangzhou": Ie-Su Tang In-Tih 1873. First edition of this scarce Protestant missionary imprint of which we have traced only one other copy issued for the use of Westerners proselytizing in Yangzhou and across Jiangsu province. The text includes a corresponding English-language index of first lines. This volume was owned by James Markwick a missionary with the China Inland Mission in Yangzhou and has his Christmas Day 1878 ownership inscription on the front pastedown and title page. Markwick has made several annotations and marks internally including a table of "corresponding numbers of hymns in this and the Ning-po hymn book." The China Inland Mission established a station in the region in the 1860s. Copies were issued bound in cloth or in the case of the other known example our stock number 187498 in the Chinese style with wrappers. Small octavo. Original blue cloth yellow coated endpapers. Binding worn but sturdy light foxing internally: very good. hardcover
1876714471 vol. grand in-8 reliure de l'époque demi-basane noire, Versio Arabica, Typis Fratrum Praedicatorum, Mausili [ Mossoul ], 1876
180153873Ouvrage traduit de l'Italien de Henri Gazzera, 5 vol. in-12 reliure de l'époque demi-basane marron, Aux Bords du Rhône [ Avignon ], An IX (1801), An X (1802) portrait en frontispice, 662 pp. et 3 ff., n. ch. ; 935 pp. et 2 ff.
181614062Lugduni, Theodorum Pitrat 1816 In-folio Plein veau, dos à nerfs, 596- CXXIV pp. Partitions gravées dans le texte. Reliure frottée mais bon & solide exemplaire.
1853X77330paris, Vve. Comon 1853 Toute première édition complet en 2 tomes, reliés en 1 volume: xvi,308,24 + 393,10 pp.+ 9 planches hors-texte dont 1 plan dépliant de l'église du Saint-Sépulcre, quelques taches vagues sur les planches, reliure cart.rouge (dos en cuir avec titre et décorations dorés, coins peu touchés), feuilles de garde marbrées, 22cm., peu de rousseurs, cfr.OCLC 457843668, petit manque aux pages 1-10 du 2e tome (pièce de papier détaché en ahut des pages, sans perte de texte sauf pour un mot du titre sur la page de titre), sinon en bon état, [l'auteur faisait son voyage en 1850-début 1851, extrait du préface: "Ce livre n'est pas un simple voyage; c'est un compte-rendu de travaux sur l'état religieux de l'Orient "], X77330
