Chinese Arts

1978. 1978 Lion-Goldschmidt, Daisy MING PORCELAIN Translated by Katherine Watson NY: Rizzoli, c1978 291pp index, illus color, b/w photos Sm folio As new copy in d/w with publisher's protective cardboard slipcase.

Stockholm: Tryckeri Aktiebolaget Thule , 1941. This is a near fine hardcover copy of the first edition, not the later reprint, with almost no wear. Completely clean inside and out, no previous owner markings. Bound in plain green polished cloth boards with the title in gilt on the spine. This title was issued as Publication 15, Volume VII Archaeology 2, of the Reports from the Scientific Expedition to the North-Western Provinces of China under the Leadership of Dr. Sven Hedin. Introduction by Folke Bergman. Appendix on 'Spinning tools' by G. Montell. Text in English. Glossary. Concordance (list of objects). 15 plates accompany the text, including 1 color plate with 20 pieces on it. Also 3 plates with the appendix. 2 maps. 34 drawings in the text. Bibliography. 12" high X 9" wide, 127 pages. This is a beautiful copy of the superior first edition. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.. Hard Cover. Near Fine.

London: John Bill and Christopher Barker, 1662. First edition. Half leather. Very Good. 7 1/2 x 11 3/8 inches. b3 - b8 + c (8 leaf quire) + d (2 leaf quire) + B - Gg (6 leaf quires) + Hh (7 of 8 leaves). Lacks initial 8 leaves, G3, R5, and Hh8. Begins with part of the Act of Uniformity. Kalendar in red and black. Soiled and dampstained. Several pages with contemporary ink notes. Several pages with closed tears that have been repaired with no loss. A few pages with marginal losses affecting text, mostly minimally, and a few other marginal losses not affecting text. ESTCR211954. Griffiths 1662/2. Bound with: Sternhold, Thomas and John Hopkins. The Whole Booke of Psalmes Collected into English Meeter. London: Printed by S.G. for the Company of Stationers, 1661. [19], 153, [16] pages, lacking pages after 139. ESTCR31616. Bound in modern tan half leather with brown buckram boards and new endpapers. True First Edition of the corrected 1662 edition of the English BCP. Very rare.

London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1923. First Edition . Original Cloth, Gilt. Very Good. 11 1/4" Tall. B/W and Color Plates Throughout. 21 Pp + 152 Plates, Each With Text On Tissue Guards. #169 Of 1500 Copies. Slight Wear, Spine Gilt Brilliant, Hinges Tight, No Names Or Marks, Small Areas Of Minor Discoloring Neatly And Professionally Refreshed On Front Cover, Also Minor Professional Repairs To Lower Tip Of Rear Cover.

London: Country Life Limited, 1950. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published London: Country Life Limited, 1950. 4to., 8 3/4" x 11 1/4", 152pp. color frontis and 144 black and white illustrations. Light foxing to endpapers, else very good in very good minus dust jacket with old internal tape repairs. . 1st. Hard. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

London: G. Nicol, 1797. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Quarter Morocco Over Boards. Very Good +. 11 1/8" Tall. Frontispieces, Plates And Illustrations. (Ii), Xxxiv,518; (Ii), Xx, 626. The Two Complete Text Volumes In Full Size, Text Blocks 10 5/8" Tall; The Plates Were Issued 1796 In A Separate Volume, Not Present Here; But The Plate Of The Camellia Sesanqua Is Present Between Pp 466 And 467. Original Quarter Morocco Binding, Five Bands, Morocco Spine Labels, Over Boards Covered With Marbled Paper, Original Off-White Endpapers, Preliminary And Final Blank In Each Volume. Bindings With Old Wear But Nicely Furbished, Morocco Labels Clean With Brilliant Gilt, A Little Loss Of Leather At Tops Of Spines And At Top Right Front Spine Edge, Paper Frayed Along All Edges Of Boards, Hinges Tight, Contents Clean, Just A Few Tiny Foxing Spots. Small Very Old Booksellers' Label Of The China Times, Bookseller, 94 Consular Road, Tientsin. And Another From Sydney. Former Owner's Signature Dated 1894,… Read More

Manchuria Research Society: Harbin, 1928 Oblong 4to, 72, 19 pp, 19 ff plates (10 in color). Publisher's wrappers (covers slightly stained, soiled, and rubbed, corners of a few leaves at the beginning soiled). In Russian, English, and Chinese. A rare book published in Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang, China’s northernmost province. After the revolution and the civil war, the city was a center of Russian emigration.

Shanghai: The Commercial Press, Limited, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. SIGNED by author to flyleaf. Chinese dust jacket. Facing translations of Chinese and English. [8 prelim leaves], iii, iii, 22-323, [1], ii, ii, 74, [1]. Supplement Illustrating a Few Interesting Pieces of Bronze, Ceramics and Jade. Many colour and b/w illustrations on plates with tissue guards. Covers Chinese paintings, bronzes, ceramic art and jade. Bound in the original publisher's turquoise silk-covered boards with floral pattern, upper board richly illustrated in gilt, and with gilt lettering. Cord tassel decoration to front at joint. Some discolouration to silk, wear to spine ends and edges, foxing to edges and some interior pages. Green dust jacket with black lettering and decoration matching boards. Chips to spine ends (with loss) and foot of front cover and corners, a few perforations and small damp stains. A rare and beautiful find.

Taipei: National Museum of History, 2000. Book. Fine. Soft cover. First Printing of the First Edition. Fine, apparently unread copy. Text in English and Chinese..

Uitgeversmaatschappij De Tijdstroom b.v., Lochem, The Netherlands, 1977 Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 17 x 25 cm; 0.542 Kg; 198 pages with black-and-white and colour illustrations.; The dust jacket has minor chips, tears and scuffs. The dust jacket is now protected with a clearcover. The interior is in very good condition.; Between the reign of Chia-Ch'ing and the Japanese invasion in 1937 much porcelain was made in China, albeit of very diverse quality. It is, in fact, a strange phenomenon that, up to now, most experts have neglected this span of approximately 150 years during which so many interesting pieces were made. In this book the author makes an attempt, for the first time, to bring order into the porcelains of the various periods concerned and to show their interrelationships as well as their relationships to earlier periods. Some of the porcelain is undoubtedly rather poor, but many pieces, especially those produced during the second and… Read More

Mai Foundation, 2002. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Printing of the First Edition. Fine, unread copy, in a fine jacket. As new. Weighs over 2.5 kilos, so extra postage will be required..

New York: Privately Printed for A. W. Bahr, 1927. Printed by R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co. at the Lakeside Press, Chicago. Fine in original green cloth with black label at spine printed and ruled in gilt, in unprinted brown paper jacket, Near Fine, chip at bottom edge of spine. Prior owner's name label front flap and his small bookplate front paste down, hidden by front flap. 51 pp. text followed by 36 plates, 3 of which are colored. SCARCE. . First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1884. First Edition. First English book on Oriental rugs. Octavo, 11 lithographic plates including frontispiece, one in colour, folding map, four pages of publishers' advertisements; bound in olive green cloth, gilt-decorated pictorial boards with black lettering, an excellent copy of the first edition.

Jorge Welsh Research & Publishing, Lisbon/London,, 2022 Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text; Hardcover in slipcase; 392 pages; 312 colour illustrations; 26 x 35.5 cm; 4.1 kg; Limited Edition of 400 numbered copies from I to XX and from 21 to 400.; Following in the tradition of the previous volumes of The RA Collection of Chinese Ceramics. A Collector's Vision, the exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 2016, Global by Design Chinese Ceramics from the R. Albuquerque Collection, loans to other temporary exhibitions and conferences based on the collection, this volume is the result of Renato de Albuquerque's quest to continue to share his collection and the research undertaken on it with the wider public. The sixth volume of the RA Collection concludes a series of publications, the first five of which are dedicated to Chinese ceramics and enamelled copper, reflecting the extraordinary collection of works of art assembled by the collector Renato de Albuquerque.… Read More

Co-published by Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art and School of Oriental & African Studies, 1992 Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text; Hardover (with dust jacket); 24.2 x 31.4 cm; 1.253 Kg; 176 pages with various colour illustrations; Used book with sign of wear on the dust jacket and interior. Previous owner sticker glued to the front free endpaper, that also show a wear mark at the middle of the page. The dust jacket is now protected with a clearcover. ; Joint exhibition from the Collections of the Percival David Foundation and CP Lin; “The year 1992 is very significant for the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art. Not only does it mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Sir Percival David, but it was also 40 years ago on 10th June 1952 that the Foundation opened to the public. We are celebrating these anniversaries in two ways. In view of all recent archaeological discoveries made at the site of the Imperial kiln at Jingdezhen, we are holding a colloquy on the… Read More