[Rarebooks] FOR SALE: ORIENTALIA PAMPHLETS

[Norman Kane]

ALL IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS AND VERY GOOD UNLESS OTHERWISE DESCRIBED:

MR. [JAS. SILK] BUCKINGHAM’S LECTURES:  EXTENSION OF COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE WITH INDIA, & OPENING OF THE TRADE TO CHINA.  (London: Jas. Whiting, n.d., ca. 1830.)  4to, 3 pages, double-columns, nice copy.  Rare; not in OCLC.  (Lecturer, traveller, M.P., &c.)   $90.00

JAPANESE SCRAPBOOK, some wear, approx. 10 X 7 inches, 22 pages, partly bound accordion style, using the reverse sides of an early Dutch/Japanese manuscript.  Tipped in are woodblock prints taken from early Ukio-ye books (some worn), &c. Various subjects, many of women. Unique.  $300.00

EDMONDS, JAS. E. WHAT WILL A JAPANESE VICTORY MEAN TO AMERICAN COTTON ? “SUBSTANTIALLY REPRINTED FROM  ... ARTICLES IN THE COTTON TRADE JOURNAL”, ca. 1938, self-wraps, 31 pages, illus. $50.00

REPORT OF THE AMERICAN BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS FOR FOREIGN MISSIONS ...  Boston: Crocker & Brewster, 1828.  131, [1] pages. (Bombay, Ceylon, Sandwich Islands, Cherokee, Choctaw, Seneca, &c.)  $75.00

[GYORGY, ANDREW.]  CHINA YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW ? PREPARED FOR THE INFORMATION-EDUCATION DEPT., THE INFANTRY SCHOOL .Fort Benning, Ga., July, 1945. Cover-title, 54 pages, maps. SCARCE.  $75.00

CHINESE TREATY. MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT [JOHN TYLER] ... AN ABSTRACT OF THE TREATY BETWEEN THE U.S. & THE CHINESE EMPIRE. [Wash., 1845.] 28th Congress, 2nd Sess., House doc. 69.
Disbound, 15 pages.  $ 50.00

JAMES, HUBERTY.  CHINESE LITERATURE. READ BEFORE THE CHINA BRANCH OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY, SHANGHAI.  Shanghai: “Shanghai Mercury Office”, 1899.  Wraps  chipped, worn. 49, [4] pages.  OCLC locates 4 copies in the U.S., 2 in China.  $75.00

THE PRINCE PRO-TEM ... THE 11th ANNUAL ARCHITECTURAL PLAY PRESENTED ... UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE ARCHITECTURAL SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. AT THE GRUB ST. THEATRE ... PHILADELPHIA. BOOK BY LAWRENCE WOLFE & G.EDWIN BRUMBAUGH. MUSIC BY VICTOR FRID [ET AL.]  Phila., 1913.  Printed program  bound Oriental style, words only. (The music was separately published.) A rare survival of this delightful jeu d’esprit of Chinoiserie.   $150.00

DEUTSCHE GESELLSCHAFT FUER NATUR-UND VOELKERKUNDE OSTASIENS. JAHRESBERICHT FUER 1930.   Tokyo, 1931.  12 pages.  $45.00

MEMORIAL OF THE BOMBAY ASSOCIATION TO THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA ON THE SUBJECT OF PUBLIC WORKS IN THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY ...   Bombay: Bombay Education Society’s Press, 1856. 
Disbound, 39 pages. Some corner chipping, no loss. Only the BL copy in OCLC.  $90.00

THE CHINESE REPOSITORY. VOLUME XIX: ISSUES OF  JAN., FEB., MAR., APRIL, 1850. Canton, 1850. (Scholarly articles, latest news, comings and goings, &c, &c. Partly in Chinese. Fascinating, and uncommon in wraps.)   $200.00  

THAT’S ALL FOR NOW.  15 % DISCOUNT TO THE TRADE.


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