[China] Correspondence respecting the Affairs of China. China. No.1 (1899). Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty. London His Majesty's Stationery Office 1899
First edition, pp.xxiii, 357. [C.-9131] A very good copy bound in later buckram. Lightly frayed original wrappers bound in. Some pencil annotation.

Drake, F.S. The History of Chinese Geographical Discovery. Part One: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Han Dynasty. Part Two: From the Six Dynasties to the Present Time. Part Three: Notes. [Hong Kong] 1962
Three volumes, folio typescript, pp.(114), (119), 45 maps, 16 folding. Bound by Sam Ying Company of Hong Kong. A very good set in contemporary cloth, spines gilt.

[Jesuit] Ricci, Matteo; Nicolas Trigault, editor De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas suscepta... Libri V. Augsburg Christoph Mang 1615
First edition. Small 4to (20.5 x 16 cm), pp.[xii], 111, (110)-646 [but 648 as p.111-2 numbered twice], [8, index], [2, errata, colophon], with the engraved title by Wolfgang Kilian, incorporating Ricci's map of China flanked by portraits of the author and St Francis Xavier. A very good copy bound in modern quarter calf, marbled boards. All edges blue. But lacking the folding plan and the final blank leaf; faint blue stain to fore-edge of initial leaves. Contents otherwise clean and fresh.
Auvermann & Payne 184; Cordier BS 809; Gallagher, China in the Sixteenth Century: the journals of Matthew Ricci: 1583-1610, pp.xvii-xix; Lach & Van Kley, Asia in the making of Europe, Volume III, Book One, pp.512-3; Löwendahl 54

Mosheim, Johann Lorenz von Authentic memoirs of the Christian Church in China. Edited, with an introduction and notes, by Richard Gibbing. Dublin printed at the University Press 1862
Second English edition, the first with Gibbing's introduction and notes, 8vo (23 x 14.5 cm), pp.[iv], 111, [1, advertisements]. A very good copy in contemporary embossed cloth, gilt title on spine. Largely unopened. Light rubbing to boards, corners slightly bumped. Scattered foxing.
Cordier BS 766-7; Morrison I, p.542. COPAC records only 5 copies: Trinity, Cambridge, Oxford, Lambeth Palace, National Library of Scotland. Not in BL.

Navarrete, Domingo Fernández de An Account of the Empire of China, Historical, Political, Moral and Religious. A short Description of that Empire, and Notable Examples of its Emperors and Ministers. Also an ample Relation of many remarkable Passages, and Things worth observing in other Kingdoms, and several Voyages. London Printed for Awnsham and John Churchill [1732]
Second edition in English, extracted from Churchill's Voyages, folio, pp. [iv, title and preface], 380. Lacking the two plates. A very good copy in old polished calf boards, recently rebacked, end-papers and page edges comb marbled. Boards a little rubbed and scuffed, text block tight and clean. Armourial bookplate of John Waldie on rear paste-down, discreet bookbinders ticket of Robert Seton.
Morrison I, p. 551; see Cordier BS 1945; Lust 20

[Qianlong, Emperor of China, 1711-9]; Amiot, Jean Joseph Marie Éloge de la Ville de Moukden et de ses Environs; Poeme composé par Kien-Long, Empereur de la Chine & de la Tartarie, actuellement régnant. Accompagné de Notes curieuses sur la Géographie, sur l'Histoire naturelle de la Tartarie Orientale, & sur les anciens usages des Chinois; composées par les Editeurs Chinois & Tartares. On y a joint une Piece de Vers sur le Thé, composé par le même Empereur. Paris N.M. Tilliard; M. Deguignes 1770
First edition, pp.xxiv, xxxviii, 381, [3, errata; approbation; privilege du Roi]. Text in French. A very good copy bound in contemporary calf, neatly re-backed, all edges red. Boards slightly rubbed and scuffed, end-papers toned, small label fixed to lower board. Rare early 20th century bookplate of Dr. O. Fischer, designed by Friedrich H. Schiff (1908-1968), one of the great cartoonists of Shanghai between 1929 and 1947.
Lowendahl 552

Raffles, Stamford, Sir Report on Japan to the Secret Committee of the English East India Company. With preface by M. Paske-Smith. Kobe J.L. Thompson & Co 1929
First edition, pp.xv, 252, frontispiece, 9 plates & maps including a large folding map of Nagasaki in colour. A near fine copy in original cloth, some faint rubbing to edges. Preserved in cloth solander case. Some offsetting to last page of text from map. Small ex-libris sticker from the library of R.A. Scoales, and small label of a Tokyo bookseller, both on front paste-down.

Stein, Marc Aurel The Thousand Buddhas. Ancient Buddhist Paintings from the Cave-Temples of Tun-Huang on the western frontier of China. Recovered and described by Aurel Stein, K.C.I.E. With an introductory essay by Laurence Binyon. Published under the Orders of H.M. Secretary of State for India and with the co-operation of the Trustees of the British Museum. London Bernard Quaritch; plates by Henry Stone & Son of Banbury. 1921
First edition, two volumes, text in folio, 40 x 31 cm., pp.xii, 65; title-page and 48 plates, thirty-three in large folio, 64 x 51 cm., twelve in three colour, twenty-one in halftone, and fifteen smaller plates, 40 x 31 cm, of which ten in three colour, 5 in halftone. Plates have discretely stamped on reverse, "Printed in England". Overall a very good copy, but showing minor use and wear. Title page lightly spotted. Large plates slightly dog-eared at corners, a few with a small area of lower margin lightly water stained, but images unaffected. The text volume is in original wrappers, with small tears to cover, otherwise pristine. The smaller plates are in fine condition, preserved in their original envelope. The whole is contained in the original half-cloth portfolio. Rear cover of portfolio somewhat spotted, and minor tears to cloth spine.
Erdelyi 1.095.

Thoms, Peter Perring A Dissertation on the ancient Chinese vases of the Shang Dynasty, from 1743 to 1496, B.C. Illustrated with forty-two Chinese wood engravings. London published and printed by the author at 12 Warwick Square and sold by James Gilbert, bookseller. 1851
First edition. 8vo (24.5 x 16 cm), pp.63, [1, blank], [2, imprint], with 42 wood engravings in text, title with printed frame in red. Folio broadsheet (40 x 44 cm), folded and tipped-in at rear. A very good copy in original cloth by Josiah Westley. Slight wear to head and tail of spine. Broadsheet lightly age-toned, and torn on folds. Henry Bohn's copy, with his signed note of Thoms' presentation of the broadsheet at the Crystal Palace exhibition. Armorial bookplate of Edward Jackson Barron.
Cordier BS 695; Löwendahl 1122. We locate a single copy of the broadside at Kent State University.