Asian Antiques

Six works about Mandarin and Shanghainese. ARTHUR H. SMITH. 'Proverbs and Common Sayings from the Chinese, Together with Much Related and Unrelate...

LIN-LE (Augustus F. Lindley). 'Ti-Ping Tien-Kwhoh; The History of The Ti-Ping Revolution....' 'Including A Narrative of the Author's Personal Jour...

Twelve works about Japan and Asia. T. PHILIP TERRY. 'Terry's Japanese Empire Including Korea and Formosa....A Guidebook for Travellers,' original ...

Fifteen books about the history and culture of China. J. O. P. BLAND and E. BACKHOUSE. 'China Under the Empress Dowager Being the History of the L...

Two works by Robert Fortune. 'Three Years' Wanderings in The Northern Provinces of China, Including a Visit to the Tea, Silk, and Cotton Countries...

'Researches into Chinese Superstitions by Henry Dore, S. J.' First edition in the English language, seven volumes, translated by M. Kennelly, orig...

Five books on Thibet, Tartary, and Korea. EDMUND CANDLER. 'The Unveiling of Lhasa,' Original cloth with gilt tooled embossing to front board, rubb...

An Early 20th century folding map. 'Country between Kiangyin & Hangchow'. Backed onto woven linen, original cloth boards rubbed with delicate spin...

'The East of Asia Magazine: A Non-Political Illustrated Quarterly,' Bound in five volumes, half red leather with yellow boards decorated with yin-...

ISSAC TAYLOR HEADLAND. 'Chinese Boy and Girl'. Pictorial original boards, sun bleaching to spine, nibbles to extremities, photogravure illustratio...

Fourteen works on China. JAY DENBY. 'Letters from China,' Shanghai Edition, illustrated by H. Hayter, original publishers card wraps, cracking to ...

New Testament, Shanghai Colloquial, American Bible Society, 1897. Original pebbeld cloth, cracked joints, rubbed and bumped, vg textblock.Provenan...

Four works published in Shanghai. GEORGE LANNING. 'Wild Life in China or Chats on Chinese Birds and Beasts,' original cloth, toning to leaves, The...

LAURENCE OLIPHANT. 'Narrative of The Earl of Elgin's Mission....'. 'To China and Japan in the Years 1857, 58, 59,' two volumes, half green leather...

Six books about Japan. JAMES MURDOCH and ISOH YAMAGATA. 'A History of Japan During the Century of Early Foreign Intercourse (1542-1651),' original...

Four works on China. ALEXANDER HOSIE. 'three Years in Western China; A Narrative of Three Journeys in Ssu-Ch'uan, Kuei-Chow, and Yun-nan,' rubbed ...

Seven works about China. CHARLES GUTZLAFF. 'Journal of Three Voyages Along the Coast of China in 1831, 1832, & 1833 with Notices of Siam, Corea, a...

Thirteen works on the culture and history of China. STEPHEN W. BUSHELL. 'Chinese Art,' two volumes, large paper edition, 104 illustrations, printe...

Burma interest. A collection of early 20th century photographs. Over one hundred b+w photos taken in Burma, showing monks, many portraits, village...

China interest. 'A Souvenir of...' 'Macao, Shanghai and Hong Kong,' three poscard booklets, thin card wraps, numerous images of early 20th century...

J.C. CARTER. 'Familiar Chinese Faces.' 'A Selection of Figure Studies of Everyday Life from Photographs,' McTavish & Co. Ltd., Shanghai, circa 192...

R. H. BLYTH. Japanese Life and Character in Senryu Published by Hokuseido Press, Tokyo,1960; First edition. Hardcover, octavo; beige cloth boards ...

GEORGE LAZARNICK. 'The Signature Book of Netsuke, Inro and Ojime Artists in Photographs 1976. 29 x 22cm. ...[more]

MARY LOUISE O'BRIEN. Netsuke A Guide for Collectors. RAYMOND BUSHELL. The Netsuke Handbook of Ueda Reikichi. MIRIAM KINSEY. Contemporary Netsuke. ...

HENRI L. JOLY. Legend in Japanese Art. With over 700 illustrations of tsubas, netsuke and inro, cardboard slipcase. ...[more]

F.M. JONAS. Netsuke. Charles E. Tuttle Company. RICHARD BARKER & LAWRENCE SMITH. Netsuke. The Miniature Sculpture of Japan. (2) ...[more]

RAYMOND BUSHELL. Collectors' Netsuke. Netsuke Familiar and Unfamiliar and The Wonderful World of Netsuke. (3) ...[more]

Six books on Japanese Netsuke. Including Sydney L. Moss Ltd, Eccentrics in Netsuke and one other book. (7) ...[more]

MITSUOKA TADANARI. Complete Works of Japanese Art. Arika Furuoka. Gakken, 1978, Printed in Japan. 38.5 x 28cm. ...[more]

Seven works on Chinese arts and crafts. MARIA PENKALA. 'Magic Blanc De Chine,' original cloth, tears to unclipped dj, ex libris blind stamp, illus...

'The Edward T. Chow Collection' Part One Catalogue, original cloth, unclipped dj, illustrated throughout, Sotheby, Hong Kong & London, 1980. ...[...

Four works on Chinese art and culture. MARY and GEORGE BLOCH. 'Chinese Snuff Bottles: A Miniture Art from the Collection of....,' original cloth, ...

Fifteen works on Japanese arts and culture. 'The Beauty of Edo and Meiji. Aesthetic of Doctor Baelz,' exhibition catalogue, pictorial thin card wr...

Ten works on Chinese arts and crafts. Including 'Chinese Traditionl Painting 1886-1966', 'Chinese Laquer', 'Chinese Porzellan', 'Eastern Ceramics'...

Hokusai interest. Seven works. 'Hokusai,' exhibition catalogue, Tokto National Museum, October 25- December 4, 2005; 'Hokusai. Beyond Mt. Fuji,' e...

Twelve works on Japanese arts and crafts. 'Keisuke Serizawa....The works,' thin card wraps, xcolour illustations throughout, Tohoku Fukushi Unvers...

'Japan The Place and the People,' By G. Waldo Browne, original red cloth rubbed and bumped, cracked inner joint, colour frontis, colour plates, so...

JAPANESE PRINTS. 'Hokusai: Master of the Colour Print'. Original card boards, spine paper loosening, pated in colour plates complete, some spottin...

ROBERT F. FITCH. 'Hangchow Itineraries'. Cloth backed pictorial boards, owner signature W. A. B. Leach to free endpaper, light spotting to edge of...

Marquis D'Argens 'Chinese Letters. Being A Philosophical, Historical, and Critical Correspondence Between A Chinese Traveller at Paris,' contempor...

The only surviving diary of W. A. B. Leach. Vol II, 1927, p1-186, handwritten diary, containing Leach's (partial) description of his travels back ...

'The Calamitous Typhoon At Hong Kong 18th September, 1906. 'The Calamitous Typhoon At Hong Kong 18th September, 1906. Being a Full Account of the...

'The Sino-Japanese War in Shanghai' Original cloth backed pictorial boards a little rubbed, photographic illustrations, 2 maps to front pastedown ...

China interest. Two early 20th century maps and an atlas. 'Map of China prepared for The China Inland Mission,' fold out engraved map backed onto ...

Six early 20th century travel guides used by W. A. B. Leach. 'Guide to Tientsin,' thin card wraps, string bound, fold out map, advertisements, som...

Twenty-one works about Asia formerly owned by W. A. B. Leach. TUNG CHIA. 'Lays and Relays,' original boards missing back strip and silk ribbon, de...

China interest. A map of Huangpu district. 'Whangpoo and Surrounding Disctricts,' large folded map, some tears, prepared by Y. Utne, Whangpoo Cons...