China: History, manners – Huc (M.) A Journey Through the Chi...

Hammer

£400

China: History, manners – Huc (M.) A Journey Through the Chinese Empire, 2 vols., New York, Harper & Bros., 1856, 12mo, bound embossed brown boards, Vol. I: xxi + 421pp,, slight tear to top of spine, folding map; Vol. II: 422pp; Maclay (Revd. R. S., MA), Life Among the Chinese with Characteristic Sketches and Incidents of Missionary Operations and Prospects in China, New York, Carlton & Porter, 1861, 12mo,, old rebound in embossed brown boards; Mackie (J. Milton), Life of Tai-Ping-Wang Chief of the Chinese Insurrection, New York, Dix, Edwards, 1857, 12mo, 371pp, engr. frontis and other engraved illus., green endpapers, some staining to title pages, bound embossed green boards, gilt Chinese titles, lacking spine, rear board and postscript pages detached; Anon., China Fights for Freedom, London, Communist Party of Great Britain, 1937, 12mo paper-bound pamphlet, 16pp, with retailer’s stamp A J Statham/The Progressive Book Shop/24, North Sherwood Street, Nottingham, some two colour vignettes, black and orange printed cover; A British Resident (J. S.), Twelve Years in China, Edinburgh, Thomas Constable, 1860, 12mo, xviii + 328pp, lithographic title page, 12 other lithographic illus., bkplt. Junior United Services Club, marbled edges, and endpapers, bound full calf, gilt lines and spine titles, top of spine coming away, top of front board, splitting; J. L. K., China and the Chinese, Containing a general Description of China Proper with an outline of the History of the People from the Earliest Times to the Present Day….for the young, London, W. H. Broom, 1872, 16mop, 147pp, some woodcuts in text, bound embossed green boards, gilt titles; Mao Tse-Tung, Selected Military Writings, Peking, Foreign Language Press, 1968, 18mo, 410pp, frontis. photographic portrait of author with tissue guard, red page marker, bkplt. B. C. Levett-Yeats/Chine/Kwangchow/1974, maroon boards, gilt titles and to spine, d. w. in cardboard slipcase of issue; Goldsmith (Oliver), The Citizen of the World or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher Residing in London to his Friends in the East, Vol. 2 or 2, London, J. Parsons 1794, 32mop, 194pp, bkplt. John H. Clarke/Farnworth, bound full calf, gilt bands to titles gilt titles to spine (8)