South East Asia

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China in Miniature; containing illustrations...
Boston, Clapp and Broaders, 1834.

Duodecimo, 15 plates (14 hand-coloured); fine in contemporary calf-backed boards.

A delightful study of nineteenth-century Chinese life. Issued with 16 plates one of which is missing. The plates depict...

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BOARD GAME.
Toekoe Oemar Spel.
Amsterdam, Jos. Vas Dias & Co., circa, 1900.

Colour printed folding board game mounted on stiff card, 345 x 500 mm., colour paper titling label on verso; with 1 pp....

Dutch geographical board game played on a map stretching from the Indian Ocean to the Strait of Malacca.

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BOULANGIER, M. Edgar.
Un Hiver au Cambodge. Chasses au Tigre a l'Eléphant et au Buffle Sauvage...
Tours, A. Mame, 1888.

Quarto, illustrations and maps; a fine copy in the original ornate gilt decorated red cloth, neatly rebacked, original...

Second edition of this detailed travel account; corrected and augmented. A typically glamorous publication from the...

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CASTONNET DES FOSSES, H.
L'Annam au Moyen Age.
Angers, Lachese et Dolbeau, 1889.

Octavo, 60 pp.; neatly bound in old quarter cloth, leather label.

Scarce offprint from the Revue libérale: a discussion of the early history of Vietnam, and in particular China's...

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COLQUHOUN, Archibald R.
China in Transformation.
London, Harper & Brothers, 1898.

Octavo, frontispiece, four folding maps and other illustrations; some foxing, very good, in contemporary half vellum,...

Second edition of this treatise on China at the turn of the century. Colquhoun, who spent several years in China as a...

Not in Cordier.

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COOKE, George.
Scenery of China, Turkey, Etc. A Series of Views of the Most Remarkable Localities…...
London, Longmans, 1811.

Oblong quarto, with 25 copper-engraved plates; original buff wrappers, lettered on the front cover within a decorative...

First edition: a selection of engravings including views of Nankin, Pekin, the Great Wall of China, the Plain of Troy,...

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FORTUNE, Robert.
Yedo and Peking...
London, 1863.

Octavo, folding map, folding frontispiece and illustrations; a very good copy bound in contemporary half blue calf.

Robert Fortune (1813-1880) was sent to China in 1842 to collect botanical specimens for the Royal Horticultural...

Cordier, 2115.

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GENIBREL, J.F.M.
Vocabulaire Annamite-Francais. Nam Ngu Thich Tay Tong U'oc.
Saigon, 1893.

Octavo; in modern buckram with original wrappers bound in; pages browned throughout.

The French conquered Vietnam in 1884 with the capture of Hanoi. The colonial administration encouraged both the...

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GOLOVNIN, Vasilii Mikhailovich.
Japan and the Japanese...
London, Colburn, 1853.

Two volumes, octavo; a very good, largely uncut and partly unopened copy in original green blind-stamped cloth, spines...

The Russian explorer's classic account of Japan, first published in 1817 and still a fascinating primary resource in...

Cordier, 'Japonica', p. 466.

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HUC, Evariste Regis.
Christianity in China, Tartary, and Thibet.
London, Longman, 1857- 1858.

Three volumes, octavo; a fine set in the original blue cloth, decorated in blind and lettered in gilt.

The first English edition, not often found complete with the third volume which was published a year after the first...

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