Rare photographic album, Shanghai ( 上海 ), around 1860

    Album Chinois. No place, no name, [Shanghai ?, around 1860]. Album in-4° (279 x 210 mm). A lithographed introductory leaf, 41 albumin photographs, cardboard indexed. Editor’s black bookbinder’s cloth, gilt title on the front cover, gilt slices. Rare original […]

The Meng-Tseu annotated by Stanislas Julien

  Meng Tseu [Mencius in western language, by Stanislas Julien]. 道光四年(1824年),石板鐫刻 西講孟子,梁茹蓮校訂. [The Fourth Canonical Book]. No place, no name, no date [Paris, Dondrey-Dupré fils, Société Asiatique, 1824]. 2 parts in 1 vol. in-8°. 1 large title page, 122 pp.; […]

Nice Atlas by Brué in its elegant slipcase by Boutigny

Brué atlas

Adrien-Hubert Brué. Atlas. Paris, J. Goujon and J. Andriveau, 1827 [for the map France]-1829. World map –  Europa –  Asia – Oceania – Africa – North America [,] – South America [,] – France, Suisse et Italie septentrionale. There is […]