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79 BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS, PHOTOGRAPHS &OTHER CURIOSITIES ON VOYAGES &TRAVEL
723. CARVALHO (S.N.) Incidents of Travel and
Adventure in the Far West: with Col. Fremont’s Last
Expedition Across the Rocky Mountains: Including
Three Months’ Residence in Utah, and a Perilous
Trip Across the Great American Desert, to the
Pacific, FIRST EDITION, spine sunned and small
tear at head of spine, NewYork, 1856 [4026] £225
724. CHAMBERLAIN (Basil Hall) Things Japanese
being notes on various subjects connected with
Japan, FIRST EDITION, large folding map, frontis,
pictorial cover a little spotted, 1890 [11426] £100
SHANGHAI PRINTING.
725. CHINA. [The New Testament], thk. small 8vo,
printed wrapper, stitched as issued, Mei Wai
Bookshop, Shanghai, 1889 [CF4296] £65
726. CHINA. Addresses & Papers Dedication
Ceremonies and Medical Conference Peking Union
Medical College September 15-22, 1921, numerous
plates, title and a few other pages lightly foxed,
roy.8vo, boards, canvas spine, printed label laid
down, Peking, 1922 [11166] £85
The College was founded with the aid ofthe Rockefeller
Foundation in China.
CHINESE BLOCK BOOK
727. CHINA. “Sheng-chi-t’ u” (Sage-footprints-picture)
Life of Confucius, Chinese Philosopher 551-479
B.C. large illustrated Block Book with 105 plates,
12 x 16¼ ins. with descriptions of between 24 and
120 characters, [iv] + 106 pp. yellow paper covers,
front with title within border, small tears repaired in
front and back cover, preserved in a box, 13th year
of the T’ung-chih Emperor, 1874 [11330] £1,450
The pictures descend at least from the Ming period, and
are very likely much older in design, though adapted by
successive artists to their view of Chinese scenery.
The anecdotes are chiefly from the Life of Confucius in
the Shi-chi, (Records of the Great Historian) by Ssu-ma
Ch’ien (145-86 B.C.) Book 47, supplemented by the Lunyü
(Analects of Confucius) and the Tso-Chüan
(Commentary of Tso on the Lü-shih chun-ch’iu, Spring
and Autumn Annals).
Page 1 bears portraits of Confucius and his disciple Yen-
Hui, page 2 shows his mother sacrificing to the hill Ni
before his birth, and on pages 4 and 6 the appearance of
the Ch’i-lin, a mythological creature, and other good
auspices. It then follows the young Confucius playing at
ritual and studying, his early employment as an overseer,
and learning to play music. Many illustrations show him
on his travels. On page 96 the Ch’i-lin appears to have
been killed by hunters, to Confucius’ great distress.
Finally on page 102 his disciples are pictured mouring at
his burial mound, and then the first Han Emperor and the
first North Sung Emperor paying homage at his shrine.
For the pictures, compare the much smaller edition of
1830, with different text and scenery but similar figures,
BL 15201.b.8 vol 1. For the text, compare the Life from
the Shi-Chi by Lin Yutang (in The Wisdom of Confuscius)
or by Richard Wilhelm (in Confucius and Confucianism,
English Edition 1931.
728. CARTER (James) In the Wake of the Setting Sun,
numerous plates, thk.8vo, spine sunned, c.1908
[CF4023] £55
Although a trip around the world, the majority of the book
is on China and Japan
729. CARTER (Rev. T.T.) A Memoir of John
Armstrong, D.D., Late Lord Bishop of
Grahamstown... with an introduction by Samuel,
Lord Bishop of Oxford, engraved frontis portrait, ink
inscription and number at head of title, thk.sm.8vo,
Oxford, 1857 [CF6607] £45
Not inMendelssohn.
730. CARTER (T.F.) & L.C. Goodrich. The Invention
of Printing in China and its spread Westward,
Second Edition, numerous illusts, dw, 1955
[11396] £140
731. CARTERET’S Voyage Round the World 1766-
1769, edited by Helen Wallis, folding maps and
plates, 2 vols, spines a little faded Hakluyt Society
Second Series CXXIV & CXXV, 1965 [CF4024] £45
732. CHINA. The Annals of the Bamboo Books an
anonymous manuscript translation of a Chinese text,
57 pp. verso & 52 pp. recto of accompanying notes
explaining words in Chinese and their
pronounciation in roman, sm.4to, boards cloth spine
notebook, contained in cloth box, leather lable,
c.1915 [11394] £350
The Bamboo Records were tablets that were said to have
been discovered in the tomb of King Siang, of Wei, which
had been plundered by robbers in AD 279. They
contained about 100,000 characters, and were deposited
in the Imperial Library by Wu Ti, the founder of the
Western Tsin Dynasty. There were 20 different works
with between 70 and 80 chapters.
“The Yellow Emperor whose dynastic title was Hsuan
Yuan. His mother’s name was Fu Pao.” These are the
opening words of this manuscript relating to the
“Legendary Period” of Chinese History, and appear to
relate to the period just before the Shang Dynasty,
commenced 1766 BC.
For peaceful emperors Phoenix would fly into their
palaces to stay, and dragons would fly. A part
mythological part factual collection of anecdotes about
the Shang Emperor’s.
MacGowan.
733. CHINA. G. Burges. A Presentation Portrait
Photograph of the Two Chinese High
Commissioners to the Exposition in Milan, 8½ x 6¼
ins. on a blind embossed card mount, inscribed in
ink with their titles and names on either side, 14 x 11
ins. glazed with passepartout, the inscription on the
reverse reads “A Monsieur le Senateur Mangili,
Président du Comité de l’Exposition International de
Milan, Tai Hungtse, Tuan Fang, Hauts
Commissaires de Sa Majesté l’ Empereur de Chine
Milan, le 13 Juin 1906.” small tear to inscription
with loss of a few letters, 1906 [11398] £575