1) FAVIER (Mgr Alphonse) Péking, Histoire et Description 26000 HK

1)
FAVIER (Mgr Alphonse)
Péking, Histoire et Description
Peking, Imprimerie des Lazaristes du Pé-t-ang, 1897 (première édition). 1 large
folio, 562 p., enrichi de 36 illustrations, 660 gravures, 157 phototypies et 24
collographies. Plats de soie, dos restauré plein cuir, très bel état.
Ouvrage réalisé par l'Evêque de Pékin, Monseigneur Favier. Etude très riche et
très illustrée sur Pékin et la Chine. La première partie est une partie historique qui
couvre les différentes dynasties chinoises. La deuxième partie, dite descriptive,
couvre les monuments de Pékin, les moeurs de la cour impériale et les arts chinois.
26000 HK$
2) CONSTANT (Samuel)
Calls, Sounds and Merchandise of the Peking
Street Peddlers
Peking, The Camel Bell, 1936. 1 volume oblong octavo
(19,5*26,5 cm), original embroidered chinese silk brocade sewn
with orange silk cord in oriental style, printed orange label atop
slightly larger blank white label mounted on front cover, free
endpapers of patterned paper, XIV-185 pp., all on outer faces
of accordion-fold leaves. With 62 color-printed and 31 mounted
half-tone photographs of peddlers and their wares. A fine copy.
First edition of this very rare document on Peking street-vendors, their instruments and their calls. We got this
useful information from Mr Quoching Li about the author and his work: "Samuel Victor Constant was born in 1894,
a son of a lawyer who once was a student of Oriental languages at the Columbia University and then a member of
the Oriental Society. Today we can only find that he was a U. S. Army Captain, came to Beijing in 1923 as an
Assistant Military Attaché of the American Legation. In 1924, he went to the front line of the Zhi-Feng War as an
observer. The year later, he joined as a representative of the Legation the rescue effort of Harvey James Howard, an
American doctor of Union Hospital kidnapped by bandits in Northeast China for about ten weeks. While working for
the American Legation, he also attended College of Chinese Studies (known as California College in China in the
U.S.). He received his Master Degree in 1936 with a thesis titled Calls, sounds and merchandise of the Peking street
peddler. The typewritten copy of this thesis is 103 pages long, with color illustrations and photos, 20 by 27 cm in
size, currently hold by Occidental College Library, California. In the same year, a revised and typeset edition was
published by Camel Bell in Beijing. The University of California at Berkeley owns one copy of this edition. It is
under the same title but 187 pages long, has photos, black/white and color illustrations. Constant signed his name in
Chinese as Kang Shidan, and thanked in the Preface his teacher and friend Chin Yue-p’o, the College Dean William
B. Pettus, for their guide and help on producing this work.
30000 HK$
3) CHINA PICTURIAL ALBUM]
Living CHINA - A Pictorial Record 1930
Shanghai, Published by The Liang You Printing & Publishing Co Ltd,
1930. 1 volume in-folio, cloth-covered hard boards, 256 pp., with black
and white and colour illustrations, plus 20 pp. of advertisements, a
very good copy.
A scarce album on China, richly illustrated, a very collectible item.
11000 HK$
4) [CANTON] [CHINE] [SUPPLICES] [ANONYME]
Supplices infligés aux Coolies Chinois
par les Etrangers - Supplices inflicted
to Chinese Coolies by Foreigners
Sans lieu, ni date, [Canton?], (1876). 1 volume in-8,
47 pp., pleine basane tabac, croisillon de lacet de cuir
sur le dos, décor de supplice à froid estampé sur le
premier plat (reliure chinoise de l'époque). Ouvrage
illustré de 46 scènes hors texte (surtout scènes de
supplices) avec légendes en regard. Le premier
possesseur de cet ouvrage a eu le bon goût de
traduire au crayon le titre de chaque gravure. Une
ancienne note manuscrite précise: "distribué en ville
pendant notre séjour dans le but d'exciter le peuple
contre les étrangers". Bon exemplaire, en bon état.
Très rare exemplaire de propagande anti-occidentale destinée à limiter l'exode des populations chinoises en les
effrayant par des récits populaires et des images épouvantables. Le candidat à l'émigration se fera ainsi déféquer
dessus, on lui coupera les oreilles, on le pendra par les pieds, il sera éventré, fouetté, dévoré par les chiens, jeté
dans un chaudron de sucre brûlant, fusillé au canon et autres supplices "à la mode chinoise"...
18000 HK$
5) SEGALEN (Victor)
Stèles
Péking, Presses du Pei-T'ang, Collection Coréenne composée sous la Direction de
Victor Segalen à Péking pour Georges Crès& Cie, à Paris, MCMXIV. Edition limitée
à 640 exemplaires. Celui-ci, No 110 sur Vergé feutré (1/570 ex.). 1 volume,
broché à la chinoise, comportant 64 feuilles disposées en accordéon, sous dais de
bois, fermé par des rubans de soie. Les couvertures de papier présentent des
rousseurs habituelles, l'intérieur est propre et frais, bon exemplaire.
Segalen, Victor (1878-1919). Stèles. Paris: Georges Crès & Cie: 'Collection
Coréenne' (printed in Pei-T'ang, China), 1914. Number 110 from an edition of 640
copies. 1 volume (288 x 140mm), pages folded 'en portefeuille', title (recto and
verso) and one other leaf decorated with red seals, additional title and six section
titles in large Chinese characters. Paper wrappers with printed labels on upper
cover and spine, under wooden boards with the title engraved in French (Stèles)
and Chinese characters ('Record of Ancient Steles'), silk ties (wrappers spotted), A
very good copy.
Segalen's collection of French prose poems in the style of the inscriptions on
Chinese 'steles' or stone monuments was first published by the author in Beijing in
1912. He described the revised and expanded Paris edition as "an adaptation to the Western Book of the bibliophilic
principles established five or six hundred years ago by the Calligraphers and Master-Printers of the Middle
Kingdom. A printed spine label was incorporated into the book "out of friendship for the Western Bibliophile, who
loves to place upright in his library the books that here are laid flat".
15000 HK$
6) [CHINESE FURNITURE] - ROCHE (Odilon)
Les Meubles de la Chine (Deuxième série) Cinquante-Quatre Planches accompagnées d'une
Préface et d'une Table descriptive
Paris, Librairie des Arts Décoratifs, A. Calavas, Editeur, sans date
(192.?). 1 volume sous portefeuille grand format, avec lacets,
contenant 6 pages de texte, 2 pages de table des planches et 54
planches libres. 1 portfolio, with 6 text pages, 2 prnts table pages and
54 full page prints. A very rare and collectible document on Classical
Chinese Furniture owned by great collectors (Michel Calmann - M.
Michon - Mme Langweil - M. Larcade - M. Blondeau - M. Berthelot Compagnie de la Chine et des Indes…)
20000 HK$
7) [SHANGHAI] [SAPAJOU]
Five months of war: the hostilities between
Japan and China in narrative and picture:
cartoons by , photographs by the North-China
Daily News studio and many other sources.
Shanghai, North-China Daily News & Herald Limited, 1938. 1
volume, oblong in-quarto (23*29 cm), 163 pp., fully illustrated
with photographs and cartoons by Sapajou, hard illustrated
covers, a few stamps of Asiatic Costume Co., a very good and
clean copy.
A revised edition of 4 months at war with new photographs and cartoons, maps on lining papers. Scarce.
12000 HK$
8) [TIENTSIN]
The Scenes of Tientsin Floods, 1917
Tientsin, Printed by the Ting Chang Photographer co., Tientsin, China,
1917. 1 volume oblong, hard covers with gilt title, back respined with
leather, 2 pages of introduction text, in chinese and english, illustrated
by 103 photographic plates with captions in english and chinese. The
last plate is a bit torn, overall a very good copy of this very scarce
album.
A rare and precious document on Tientsin Floods in 1917.
12000 HK$
9) [INDOCHINA] [MAPS]
Administrative and Road Maps – Cambodia –
Laos – Viet-Nam
Vietnam, no date (1960?). Established and Published by the
National Geographic Service of Viet-Nam. 1 album oblong
(30*38 cm) with 12 large maps (60*96 cm), in perfect condition.
A set of 12 maps from different areas: Son Tay - Ha Noi - Vinh Hai Phong - Vientiane - Hué - Pak se - Qui Nhon - Phnom Penh - Dalat - Can Tho - Sai Gon
5000 HK$
10) HAYTER (H.W.G.)
Folk Songs of China
Shanghai, China Printing Company, Ltd, Publishers, 1909. A large
album (30*45 cm), 50 pages with illustrations. Contains
illustrated frontispiece, title page vignette and 33 vignettes of
black and white caricatures and decorative boards with a roundel
of a singing Chinaman clad in a blue gown playing an instrument.
A very good copy of this rare album.
12000 HK$
11) [CHINESE DRAMA] - JOHNSTON (R.F.)
The Chinese Drama
Kelly and Walsh, Limited, Shanghai - Hongkong - Singapore, 1921. 1
volume 4to, 36 pp., with six illustrations reproduced from the original
paintings by C.F. Winzer, original orange silk wrappers, with silk thread
binding sewing. The original silk covers are not present. A very good
and clean copy.
This short study on Chinese Drama presents: The Village Theatre, the
City Theatre, Historical Development, the Manchu Dynasty, Some
Characteristics and Weaknesses of the Chinese Drama and The Drama
under the Republic. Illustrations show: Chao Yun, Wu Sung, Maid
Servant, Female Character in Ming Costume, Female Character in
Manchu Costume, Prime Minister in Ming Costume.
4500 HK$
12) PELLIOT (Paul)
[TOUEN HOUANG]
Mission Pelliot en Asie Centrale – Les Grottes de
Touen-Houang
Peintures et Sculptures Bouddhiques des époques
des Wei, des T’ang et des Song
Paris, librairie Paul Geuthner, 1920-1924. Ensemble complet de 6
portefeuilles rassemblant CCCLXXVI planches en noir et blanc. A
complete and full set of six portfolios with 376 black and white prints.
Very scarce complete
54000 HK$
13) [CHI PAI SHI] [QI BAISHI]
Peintures par Chi Pai Shih - Peintures by Chi Pai Shi
Peking, Rong Bao Xhai Studio [1952]. 1 volume, concertina-style album of
woodblock paintings, 1 page of introduction and 22 colr prints, boards
covered with chinese motives silk, despite some light foxing, a very good
copy. A very rare and collectible item.
This album shows 22 works of art by Chi Pai Shih, consisting mostly of fruit,
flowers and animals.
20000 HK$
14) DABRY DE THIERSANT (P.)
La Pisciculture et la Pêche en Chine
Paris, Librairie de G. Masson, 1872. 1 fort volume in-folio, IX- 173 pp., accompagné de 51
planches à pleine page, représentant les principaux instruments de pisciculture et engins
de pêche employés par les Chinois et quelques nouvelles espèces de poissons recueillies
en Chine par P.D. de Thiersant, précédé d'une Introduction sur la Pisciculture chez les
divers peuples par le Dr J.L. Soubeiran.
Bel exemplaire dans une reliure demi-chagrin brun, plats cartonnés marbré. Très rare
exemplaire de cette magistrale étude sur la Pisciculture en Chine.
25000 HK$
15) [HONG KONG] [MAP]
Map of Hong Kong
Hong Kong, 1898. 1 large map of Hong Kong and of the
Territory leased to Great Britain under the Convention
between Britain and China, signed at Peking on the 9th
of June 1898,scale 1/84480 (one inch=I mile), size 90*75
cm, in good condition.
This map has been compiled from existing Intelligence
Division maps of Hong Kong, Admiralty Charts and a
map of the Sun-On District compiled in 1866 from the
observations of an Italian Missionary. Boundary of
British Territory: The Boundary along the Shores of Mirs
Bay and Deep Bay is the High Water Mark. It has not yet
been surveyed and is only shown provisionally.
23000 HK$
16) [PEKING] [PEIPING] DORN (Frank)
A Map and History of Peiping - Explanatory Booklet
Lithographed & Published by The Peiyang Press, Tientsin-Peiping, 1936. 1 booklet, 23 pp., and 1 folding map
(30*34 inches), in very good condition.
"A very decorative and detailed pictorial map of what is
currently known as Beijing, China. This is considered one of
the great maps of the golden era of pictorial mapmaking. It
was originally issued in a folder that held the map folded and
inserted in the pocket of a 22-page booklet (with the same title
as the map). The booklet provides the history of the city to
guide the reader through the districts and landmarks. The
border of the map illustrates the history of the city from
ancient times to 1936. Dorn was a friend and admirer of the
pictorial mapmaker Jo Mora (1876-1847), and was clearly
influenced by Mora’s style of combining accurate pictorial
details, bright colors and a bit of whimsy, along with vignettes
providing an illustrated history of the place." American
Brigadier Frank Dorn was an artist, writer and adviser to
General Jones Stilwell.
20000 HK$
17) [CHAN-SI]
Map
Carte de la Ligne du Chansi - Map of Chansi
Railways (1921)
1 grande carte (92 * 140 cm), au 1/1000000, imprimée sur les Presses
Lithographiques du Ministère des Finances à Pei Che Fan, publiée par le
Chemin de Fer de Peking-Hangkow en 1921, sous la Direction de M. Yu
Jen Fong et la Sous-Direction de M. Ho Jouei Tchang, très bon état.
25000 HK$
18) SCHIFF (Friedrich)
Maskee, A Shanghai Sketchbook
[Shanghai, circa 1938]. 1 album (20 * 27 cm) , showing 21 plates of hand-coloured cartoons in a concertina style,
chinese patterns pink silk on covers. A nice collection of cartoons inspired by Shanghai life in the thirties. This
album is Number A548 of a limited edition hand-coloured and signed by the artist. Very rare and humorous.
20000 HK$
19) [FAR EAST] [HONG KONG] [CHINA]
Present Days Impressions of the Far East and Prominent
and Progressive Chinese at home and abroad - History,
People, Commerce, Industries and Resources of China,
Hong Kong, Indo-China, Malaya and Netherlands India
The Globe Encyclopedia Company, London, Shanghai, Hongkong, Saigon,
Singapore and Batavia, 1917. Printed and Bound by Unwin Brothers, London,
England. 1 huge volume in-4, bound in full red morocco, illustrated by more
than 2000 photographic plates, a unique and very rare book on Far East.
35000 HK$
20) [CHINESE COSTUMES] - JOWETT (Hardy) (Editor)
Chinese Costumes
Peking, (1932), folio, 24 hand-colored plates, under silkcovered boards, published by the Chinese Painting
Association of Peiping. In perfect condition.
Foreword by Hardy Jowett: “The 24 illustrations in this
book are invaluable hand painted, every picture,
authentic in detail and colour, and wonderfully executed,
the collection is a marvel of accuracy and a miracle of
cheapness. The actual artists are members of a famous
family of Court Paintings under the late Manchu
Dynasty”.
28000 HK$
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