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Sailing the waters of China: a maritime series of Chinese junks

[WATERCOLOURS - CHINESE - MARITIME]. [Four fine gouache paintings on board of Chinese junks].
[China, ca. 1840]. With 4 watercolours (2 ca. 20 x 23 cm and the other 2 ca. 15 x 22 cm). Framed behind glass in 19th-century dark brown wooden frame, with a gilt inner frame, and a top-mounted hanging eye on the back. Full description

€ 3,500

China Drawings & Watercolours Ships & Shipbuilding

The first Chinese-English dictionary written by an American missionary

WILLIAMS, Samuel Wells. A tonic dictionary of the Chinese language in the Canton dialect.
Canton, Printed at the Office of the Chinese Repository, 1856. 8vo. With a lithographic Chinese title page, and a letterpress English title page. The text is printed in two columns. Contemporary half brown calf. XXXVI, 832 pp. Full description

€ 2,500

China Dictionaries & Encyclopedias Education & Pedagogy Language & Linguistics

A milestone of American sinology

WILLIAMS, Samuel Wells. A syllabic dictionary of the Chinese language, arranged according to the Wu-fang yuen yin, with the pronunciation of the characters as heard in Peking, Canton, Amoy and Shanghai.
Shanghai, American Presbyterian Mission Press, 1874. 4to. With a lithographic title page in Chinese, and a letterpress title page in English. The introduction is printed in 2 columns, and the dictionary in 3. Contemporary gold-tooled red morocco. LXXXIV-1252 pp. Full description

€ 1,250

China Dictionaries & Encyclopedias Education & Pedagogy Language & Linguistics

Rare missionary reports from Africa, India and the East Indies,
including letters from the grand-nephew of Saint Francis Xavier

[XAVIER, Jerome, and others]. Raguagli d'alcune missioni fatte dalli padri della Compagnia di Giesu nell'Indie Orientali, cioè nelle provincie di Goa, e Coccinno, e nell'Africa in Capo Verde.
Rome, Bartolomeo Zannetti, 1615. Small 8vo (14 x 9 cm).18th-century(?) sheepskin parchment. 165, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 9,500

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Asia / China

Sailing the waters of China: a maritime series of Chinese junks

The first Chinese-English dictionary written by an American missionary

A milestone of American sinology

Rare missionary reports from Africa, India and the East Indies, including letters from the grand-nephew of Saint Francis Xavier

Rare missionary reports from Africa, India and the East Indies,
including letters from the grand-nephew of Saint Francis Xavier