‎The four books of the Chinese Classics‎

‎HongKong, printed by Kwong Ngai, Printer and Stationer, 94 Hollywood Road, 1910 (2e édition). 1 volume 8 vo, 617 pp., rebound in modern brown leather, a very good copy‎

‎Works of Confucius - Works of Mencius. Text in Chinese and translation in English . This book was firstly printed and published in 1898 at the same address where the present bookshop Indosiam stays now. Hollywood Road was popular for printers, publishers and stationers.‎

‎Chinese Costume and Accessories 17th-20th Century - Costumes Chinois et accessoires XVIIe-XXe Siècles‎

‎Paris, Collection A.E.D.T.A., 1999 1 volume in portfolio, XII (text) with 33 loose illustrated color plates and description on back pages. En français et en anglais. Portefeuille un peu froissé, sinon bel état.‎

‎A rare publication by Association pour l'Etude et la Documentation des Textiles Asiatiques, limitéd to 1200 copies (this one number 120).‎

‎Chinese Costume and Accessories 17th-20th Century - Costumes Chinois et accessoires XVIIe-XXe Siècles‎

‎Paris, Collection A.E.D.T.A., 1999 1 volume in portfolio, XII (text) with 33 loose illustrated color plates and description on back pages. En français et en anglais. Portefeuille un peu froissé, sinon bel état.‎

‎A rare publication by Association pour l'Etude et la Documentation des Textiles Asiatiques, limitéd to 1200 copies (this one number 120).‎

‎Recueil de Documents d'Art Décoratif - Série Décoration Chinoise - 3 Séries‎

‎Paris, Librairie Industrielle Ch. Moreau, Publié par Armand Guérinet, Librairie d'Art Décoratif, sans date (ca 1920). 1 volume de planches d'Art Décoratif Chinois et Japonais, sous portefeuille à lacets, format in folio, contenant 3 recueils de documents: 1) Recueil de Décorations Chinoises et de Goût Chinois au Musée des Arts Décoratifs, au Musée Guimet, Collections particulières (93 documents sur 40 planches) - 2) Décorations Chinoises et de Goût Chinois (2e série) (64 documents présentés sur 32 planches) - 3) Décorations Japonaises, Chinoises et de Goût chinois (3e série) (32 planches), très bon état de l'ensemble.‎

‎Belle collection de 104 planches en couleurs et noir et blanc réunies sous un même portefeuille.‎

‎Catalogue of the Peking Fine Arts and Handicrafts - Sole Agent: Metropolitan Commercial Co Ltd, Printing House, Hong Kong. ‎

‎Shanghai, printed in 1951. 1 volume in-8, 48 pp., original silk covers, illustrated with hundreds of small photographs, a very good copy. An other copy, rebound in modern full leather, is available at same price.‎

‎ This commercial House in Hong Kong shows the articles for sale: Enamel, Wooden Carving & Inlaid, Bone Carving, Palace Lantern and Wall Paper, Glazed Silver ware, Silk and Paper Flower, Soap Stone, Carved Lacquer Ware, Embroidery, Framed Iron Pictures, Glass and Jade Trees, Glass Animals, Ivory, Jade, Fancy Candle, Toys, Brass Ware, Silver Filigree, Peking Cloisonne. A good example of products sold in Hong Kong in the fifties in the curious shops. ‎

‎BAF - The First 1990S Biennal Art Fair Guangzhou Oil Painting Section‎

‎Sichuan Fine Art Publishing House, 1992. 1 large volume in-4, cloth binding with dust-jacket, 331 pages of photographic reproductions, captions in chinese, a very good copy.‎

‎[Likuchan huaji] (An Album of of Li Kuchan's Paintings)‎

‎Shanghai, Shanghai Renmin Meishu Chuban She, 1980. 1 volume in folio, 97 pp., gold hardback with a black illustrated dust jacket, enriched with 97 colour illustrations, very good condition. ‎

‎Murals in the Tomb of Li Hsien of the Tang Dynasty - Les Peintures Murales du Tombeau de Li Hisien de la Dynastie des Tang‎

‎Pékin, Editions Wenwu, 1974 1 volume in-folio, sous chemise cartonnée illustrée, 11 pp. (texte et titres des planches en anglais et en français, 8 pp. (texte en chinois), enrichi de 50 planches cartonnées en couleurs, très bon état, a perfect copy‎

‎Everlasting Verdure of The Immortal Calix - An Album of Flower Studies‎

‎Taibei Shi: Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan, Minguo 60 [1971]. 1 large in-plano (50*36 cm) portfolio, silk-covered hard boards, [2] folded leaves, [16] folded leaves of mounted plates, illustrated by sixteen large size flower paitings by Castiglione, a very good copy. Very heavy, extra-postage required.‎

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‎Lang Shih-ning (Giuseppe Castiglione 1688-1766) was a native of Milan, Iyaly. At the age of 19, he entered the Society of Jesus as a novitiate. Trained as a painter and architect, he was sent to China at the age of 27 to serve as a missionary. He arrived in Peking during the 54th year of the K'ang Hsi reign in 17125, and made the Church of St. Joseph his living quarters. He was summoned to the Palace to serve as a Court painter in the Imperial Academy. As Lang Shih-ning's works were collected by the Imperial Palace, the number of paintings attibuted to him now extant outside the Palace collection are very few.‎

‎Chinese Paintings from the Chiang Er-Shih Collection‎

‎Parke-Bernet Galleries [Affiliated with Sotheby & Co London], New York, 1971. 1 volume in-4, illustrated hard boards, XVI-88 pp., with many black & white and colour illustrations (38 paintings), a very good copy.‎

‎This is a Catalogue of Public Auction (March 5th 1971) for Chiang Er-Shih Collection. Paintings by Kao K'o-Kung, Yen Hui, T'ang Ti, Ni Tsan, Wang Meng, Chang Fu, Fang Ts'Ung-I, Wang Fu, Shen Mou, Wen Cheng-Ming, Ch'iu Ying, Mo Shih-Lung, Wu Pin, Lan Ying, Ni Yuan-Lu, Yang Weng-Ts'Ung, Wang CHien, Wu Li, K'un-Ts'an, Cha Shih-Piao, Mei Ch'Ing, Chu Ta, Wang Hui, Yun Shou-P'Ing, Tao-Chi, Lo Huan, Hua Yen, Cheng Hsieh, Min Chen.‎

‎The Selected Paintings and Calligraphy of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangchow (Vol VI)‎

‎Hong Kong, Cafa Company Limited, 1970. 1 volume, elephant folio, soft printed blue covers, 8 pp. (in english) - 8 pp. (in chinese), illustrated with 50 plates of paintings by different chinese painters, a very good copy.‎

‎Contents: paintings by Wang Shih-shên - Li Shan - Huang Shên - Chin Nung - Kao Hsiang - Cheng Hsieh - Li fang-Ying- Lo P'ing‎

‎Chinese Shadow Puppets‎

‎Beijing, Peoples Art Publishing House, 1953. 1 large in-plano (50*36 cm) portfolio, silk-covered hard boards spine damaged with small tears, [6] folded leaves, [15] folded leaves of mounted plates, illustrated by fifteen large size shadow puppets color reproduction, a very good copy.‎

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‎Catalogue - Chinese Postage Stamps‎

‎Hong Kong, Chen Kee Stamp Service, 1951. 1 volume in-8, 268 pp., rebound in modern full blue leather, cover pages kept, with many stamps illustrations, a good copy.‎

‎Rare catalogue of chinese stamps covering China, Formosa, Manchukuo, Mongolia, Tibet, Menkiang‎

‎Papers on China (Vol. 17) - From Seminars at Harvard University - 1963-1964‎

‎Published and distributed by the East Asian Research Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, December 1963. 1 volume in-quarto, 252 pp., hard covers with cloth binding, typed text, a very good copy. Stamp of Irwin Hyatt Jr from the Harvard-Yenching Institute.‎

‎This volume (No 17) includes papers by: A. B. Woodside: Early Ming Expansionism (1406-1427): China's abortive Conquest of Vietnam - Edward L. Farmer: James Flint versus the Canton Interest (1755-1760) - Irwin T. Hyatt: Protestant Missions in China (1877-1890): The Institutionalzation og Good Works - Leong Sow-Theng: WAng T'ao and the Movement for self-strengthening and reform in the Late Ch'ing Period - Mark Elwin: THe Mixed Court of the International Settlement at Shanghai (until 1911) - A.B. Woodside: T'ang Ching-sung and the Rise of the 1895 Taiwan REpublic - Vincent S.R. Brandt: Landlord-Tenant RElations in the Republican China - R. Randle Edwards: The Attitude of the People's Republic of China toward International Law and The United Nations.‎

‎Gravures sur Bois de la Chine Nouvelle (Woodcuts of New China) ‎

‎Peking, Editions en Langues Etrangères - Foreign Languages Press, 1956. 1 large folio album, 4 pp., illustrated with 37 full page plates of woodcuts by modern Chinese artists (3 plates missing). The loose plates are protected by a hardbound portfolio attached with strings, a very good copy of this rare work but incomplete‎

‎A large collection of works by famous artists: Li Chun - Niu Wen - Ku Yuan - Shih Lu - Chiang Ping - Chu Ming-Kang - Li Shao-Yen - Li Pang-Fan - Li Hua - Ku Hung - Wo Cha - Lin Chun - Huang Yen - Liang Yung-Tai - Chi-Tan - Chen Wang - Chang Chien-Wen - Chang Yang-Hsi, Huang Yung-Fu - Huang Chao-Chang - Tseng Ching-Chu - Yang Na-Wei - Chao Yen-Nien - Chao Tsung-Tsao - Liu Kuang. ‎

‎L'Ancre de Chine - Les Insignes des Troupes Françaises en Chine - Infanterie Coloniale de Marine.‎

‎C.F.A. 2004. 1 volume in-4, 88 pp., broché,couvertures souples illustrées, illustré sur 18 pages de dizaines de reproductions photographiques des insignes des Troupes Françaises basées en Chine depuis 1900. En parfait état.‎

‎Conception, création, photographies , mise en page par Jean-Yves et Florence Segalen.‎

‎Preuves des Antiquités de Chine par Paul Houo-Ming-Tse, propriétaire de la Galerie Ta-Kou-Tchai, à Pékin (studio où l'on arrive à l'intelligence de l'antiquité).‎

‎Pékin, 1930. 1 volume in folio (40 * 28 cm), reliure moderne plein cuir, full leather modern binding, 676 pp.+ 35 pp., couvertures imprimées en bichromie, illustré de centaines de photos d'obets d'art des magasins d'antiquités de Houo-Ming-Tse, très bon état, a very good copy. Very heavy volume, extra-postage required.‎

‎Houo Ming Tse, orphelin élevé et éduqué par les prêtres de Tien-Tsing, devint le riche propriétaire des galeries de curios les plus renommées de Pékin, où il rassemblait tous ses trésors. Ce volume fut composé par l'antiquaire à 51 ans. Il présente ainsi ses fabuleuses collections de livres, d'armes, de jades, d'instruments de musique...‎

‎Sino-Foreign Treaties 1928‎

‎Published by the Intelligence and Publicity Department - Ministry of Foreign Affairs - National Government - Republic of China, 1929. 1 volume in-8, VII-90 pp., reliure moderne plein cuir, couvertures illustrées conservées mais restaurées, texte en chinois et en anglais.‎

‎Contents: Tariff Treaties between China and the following countries: United States Of America - Kingdom of Norway - Kingdom of Netherlands - Kingdom of Sweden - Great Britain - France. - Preliminary Treaties of Amity and Commerce with The Union of Belgium and Luxumburg - Kingdom of Italy - Kingdom of Denmark - Republic of Portugal - Kingdom of Spain - - Treaty between China and Germany.‎

‎Livre Blanc sur le Travail Forcé dans la République Populaire de Chine. I) Les Débats - II) Le Dossier. ‎

‎Paris, Centre International d'Edition et de Documentation, 1957. 2 volumes in-8, brochés, couvertures souples imprimées, 317 pp. (volume I) - 476 pp. (Volume II), feuillets jaunis en marges, bon état d'ensemble.‎

‎ Livre Blanc sur le Travail Forcé dans la République Populaire de Chine publié par la Commission Internationale contre le Régime Concentrationnaire. Tome I: Les Débats - Tome II (Le Dossier) - Session de la Commission Spéciale d'Enquête sur le Travail Forcé dans la République Populaire de Chine, tenue à Bruxelles du 20 au 30 avril 1956. Rapporteur de l'Instruction Me Théo Bernard.‎

‎Problèmes chinois et leurs solutions. Traduit de l’anglais par J.EM. Lemière. Biographie de l’auteur par Tang leang-Li.‎

‎Shanghai, China United Press, 1935, gr. in-8vo, 1 portrait + 238 p., non rogné, brochure originale, rel. détachée.‎

‎L'Enseignement agricole et rural en Chine‎

‎Paris, Editions Pierre Bossuet, 1937. 1 volume in-8, broché, non coupé, 232 pp., très bon état. Bel envoi de l'auteur au Professeur Des Retours.‎

‎Préface de M. H. Hitier, Secrétaire Perpétuel de l'Académie d'Agriculture de France, Professeur Honorairer à l'Institut National Agronomique. Table des Matières: L'Agriculture chinoise - Aperçu sur l'Enseignement agricole et rural en Chine, à travers les âges -L'enseignement agricole et rural en France - L'Enseignement agricole actuel en Chine - L'enseignement rural actuel en Chine - Possibilités de réforme de l'Enseignement agricole et rural en Chine - Conclusion.‎

‎Bambushalm und Pfirsichblute - Farbholzschnitte as der Pekinger Werkstatte‎

‎Buchheim Verlag, Germany, 1961. 1 volume in-4, illustrated hard covers, 20 colour prints by Chi Pai Shi and 6 pp. of text by Eugen Skasa-Weis, without the slip case. A very good copy.‎

‎A nice copy of this rare publication, with good quality prints of Chi Pai Shih water colors.‎

‎Ch'i Pai-shih - Pinselzeichnungen‎

‎Leipzig, In Insel, no date. 1 volume in-12, 34 pp., paper covered hard boards, with 22 full page colour plates (ink drawings), text in german language, a very good copy. Bel ex-libris de M. Helmuth Krick.‎

‎L'Univers de Chi Pai Shih - Bois et Aquarelles de l'Atelier de Pékin.‎

‎Buchheim Editeur, Allemagne, 1961. 1 volume in-4, illustrated hard covers, 20 colour prints by Chi Pai Shi and 6 pp. of text by E. Skasa. A very good copy.‎

‎A nice copy of this rare publication, with good quality prints of Chi Pai Shih water colors.‎

‎En Chine - Choses Vues‎

‎Paris, Librairie Vuibert, 1910. 1 volume in-8, 214 pp., reliure percaline de l'éditeur, tranches dorées, illustré de nombreuses photographies, très bon état général.‎

‎Vaste panorama sur la Chine, avec de multiples illustrations photographiques à pleine page de Canton, Shanghai et Pékin. Table des Matières: Premières impressions - La Vie de Famille - La Vie Sociale - La Vie Commerciale - La Chine Artistique, Littéraire, Agricole - La Vie Religieuse‎