MORRISON, R [REVEREND ROBERT].Biblio.com
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1865219705Shanghae sic & London.: London Mission Press and Trubner & Co. 1865. Two volumes in one: <br>Volume I. ii Title i-x Advertisement Preface 762 pp including Index of Chinese characters pp 1-99 pagination duplicated for pp 224 & 239. <br>Volume II. ii Title 724pp iv List of the Radicals of the Chinese Language. <br> <br>22 x 15 cms contemporary half calf spine gilt between raised bands expertly rebacked mounting the original spine numerous annotations and underlinings in pencil a handful in ink at the head the final blanks with notes and translation age-toned and worn boards rubbed but a good complete copy of the scarce reprint. <br> <br>Provenance: <br>With the early inked signature of "Hugh Wadell Newchwang 1869" the pioneering missionary whose work laid the foundation for the Irish Presbyterian Church's long-term presence in East Asia. In 1869 Waddell 1839–1901 landed at Newchwang now Yingkou where he established a mission station that included a church school and dispensary. His daughter was Helen Waddell poet scholar and theological novelist. <br> <br>Recent signature of A. Allan Shearer Wellington. Scarce reprint of the second part of Morrison's Dictionary first published between 1815 and 1823 with a notable provenance. The 1865 reprint was issued as a single volume combining the second part of the dictionary with an index of characters arranged according to the Kangxi radicals. <br> <br>"The Second Part of Morrison's Dictionary has been generally commended by experienced Sinologues as the most perfect and useful of the whole. The present is merely a reprint of it with such slight modifications as are mentioned at the close of the original preface." Preface <br>Löwendahl 1334 . London Mission Press [and] Trubner & Co. hardcover
1900159678London.: Church of England Zenana Missionary Society. No date. circa1900. Nine printed sheets each printed with people or items and showing the cut lines. Original chromolithograph card box archivally repaired along seams. Some occasional light foxing on sheets card covers browned and worn in places a few other minor signs of wear but generally very good. 43 x 24cm. Rare. We have found no other copies of this game. The first two sheets show Chinese people in clothes appropriate to their age occupation etc. Those illustrated include The Opium Smoker School-master The General Shopkeeper Native Biblewoman etc. Other sheets show furniture and fittings a coloured illustration of the street a black and white image of the city gate and a much larger sheet 50 x 87.5cm which is an illustration of the street and onto which the other cut-outs when coloured and cut out are placed. . Church of England Zenana Missionary Society. hardcover
1873206134London.: The Illustrated London News. April1873. Two full page black and white wood-engravings on sequential newspaper leaves with related text on the verso of one leaf 23.8 x 34 cms images; 27.7 x 39.8 cms sheets slightly age-toned but in very good condition. Engraving in six panels of a ceremonial Chinese Imperial wedding procession. The text on the verso notes: <br>"The long procession attending a Chinese bride in her sedan chair to the hymeneal altar followed by her parents or closest relatives on horseback and escorted by several bands of musicians standard-bearers and liveried servants carrying the pieces of ornamental furniture presented to her as marriage gifts is copied from a pretty book of pictures drawn in colours on reice-paper by a Chinese artist". . The Illustrated London News. unknown
1900176895Shanghai: Brewer & Co. c.1900. From the Chefoo Bluff to Lamtong Head Sole edition untraced institutionally the copy of Vice-Admiral Seymour's chief of staff in Tianjin during the Boxer Uprising. This photographic guide is designed for "the navigator of this changeable and frequently foggy locality" preface. We have traced only one other copy which appeared in commerce in 2017. Navigators in the late Qing period could rely on only a small network of lighthouses and fixed navigational aids when sailing the Chinese coast. "In thick weather even a person familiar with the coast is at a loss to identify a well-known Islands with its summit" preface. The thirty views include the Chefoo Bluff in the Pechili Gulf the waters near the Hieshans Light House Zhejiang and Hong Kong's Lamtong Head. A concerted period of lighthouse-building in the 1910s and 1920s obviated the need for further publications of this kind. Provenance: though unmarked as such this copy was owned by Captain Edward Henry Bayly C.B. 1849-1904 Commander of the International Forces at Tianjin in June 1900. Bayly had a lifelong career in the Royal Navy. He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant in September 1873 commander in June 1887 and captain in January 1894 having served overseas in numerous ships. Bayly captained HMS Pelorus during the fleet review for Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee in 1897 and in 1899 became captain of the armoured cruiser HMS Aurora on the China station. During the Boxer Uprising he replaced the wounded John Jellicoe as chief of staff to Seymour was mentioned by Seymour in dispatches and remained at Tianjin until the withdrawal of naval forces. He retired at his own request in February 1904. Landscape octavo. With 30 mounted collotypes within red frames. Original red cloth front cover lettered in gilt white coated endpapers leaves hinged with white linen as issued. A little shaken binding sunned and stained contents well preserved a little toning at fore edges: a very good copy. hardcover
