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1024.PARKER (E.H.) The Philosopher Sün-Tsz, 33 pp.
Offprint New China Review, 1922 [CF5006] £15
1025.PARKER (E.H.) Philological Essay on the Chinese
Language, original manuscript in ink, 162 pp.
apparently unpublished, together with notes 50 pp.
approx, onaspects of the language and brief essays
on “The Eighteen Provinces”, “The Treaty Ports”,
“Chinese Love Songs”, “Ancient China”, 4to,
preserved in cloth portfolio, c.1915 [11387] £750
Edward Harper Parker, 1849-1926, first contact with
China was whilst he was working in the Tea and Cotton
businesses at Liverpool. He later worked as a Student
Interpreter in the Consular Service, from 1869-1871, later
becoming a Consul. He retired from the service in 1895,
a year later he was appointed Reader in Chinese at
University College, Liverpool, and later Professor of
Chinese at Victoria University Manchester. His
knowledge of the Chinese and their language was
extensive, he wrote extensively, producing books, and
articles for the Asiatic and China Reviews.
1026.PATON (Mrs [J.G.] Maggie Whitecross) Letters
and Sketches from the New Hebrides, Second
Edition, map, potrait frontis. slightly spotted,
numerous illusts. pictorial cloth, gilt, 1894
[CF5018] £40
1027.PEMBROKE (George Robert Charles Herbert,
Earl of) & George H. Kingsley. South Sea
Bubbles. By the Earl and the Doctor, names on title,
spine dust soiled and a little worn, 1872
[10830]£165
George Kingsley, brother of Charles “Waterbabies”
Kingsley, and father of the redoubtable Mary Kingsley,
was a compulsive traveller. As a doctor his advice or
treatment to his rich clients was “a change of air and
foreign travel” accompanied by their doctor. Kingsley
had married his housekeeper one month before their first
child, Mary, was born. His constant travelling kept him
from home for years on end, sending home epistles which,
far from quelling his wife and daughters anxieties about
his safety, added to them. This work is of his travels and
shipwreck with Lord Pembroke in the Pacific, Tahiti,
Bora-Bora, Raritonga, & Samoa.
1028.PENNINGTON (A. Stuart) The Argentine
Republic Its Physical Features, History, Fauna,
Flora, Geology, Literature & Commerce, large
folding map, plates, some slight spotting at the
begining, bright in original cloth, 1910
[CF6620]£75
1029.PENNINK (J.J.) Gedachten en Wenken over de
Kolonisatie en ter Bevordering van de Cultuur in de
Nederlandsche West-Indian, 24 pp. original printed
wrappers, Arnhem, 1845 [CF3879] £45
Guiana, Surinam.
1030.PEREIRA (Duarte Pacheco) Esmeraldo De Situ
Orbis, Translated and Edited by George H.T.
Kimble, 6 folding maps, 3 other plates, some
occasional spotting, spine a little soiled, Hakluyt
Society Second Series, LXXIX, 1937 [10977] £125
1031.PETERS (Wilhelm C.H.) Naturwissenschaftliche
Reise Nach Mossambique auf befehl Seiner Majestät
des Königs Freidrich Wilhelm IV in den jahren 1842
bis 1848 ausgeführt, volume VI Botanik, 61 plates,
marginal stain affecting 3, title + xxii + 1 - 304 pp.
title + 305- 584 pp. 2 vols 4to. boards buckram
spine, together with all the plates from the other 5
volumes, lacking the text, (that of vol 2 which was
never issued), comprising Vol I Saugetiere, 47 plates
including 35 handcoloured, Vol II Vogel, 15
handcoloured plates, Vol III Amphibien, 33 plates
including 4 handcoloured, Vol IV Flusfische, 20
plates including 1 handcoloured, Vol V Insekten, 35
plates, including 4 handcoloured, in total 211 plates,
folio, loose, contained in 5 hf. cloth portfolios,
Berlin, 1852-82 [11075] £6,500
Because of the length of time taken to issue this work, it is
rarely found complete.
1032.PETO (Sir S.Morton) The Resources and Prospects
of America ascertained during a visit to the States in
the Autumn of 1865, 2 tinted lithograph plates
showing Chicago in 1831, and San Francisco in
1848, hf. calf gilt spine, upper joint weak, 1866
[CF4460] £75
1033.PIERRE-ALEXANDRE (Bishop of Babylon) A
Fine Long ALS in French, to Hyacinthe Guelem,
Archbishop of Paris, congratulating him on his
recent elevation, and giving news of the situation he
found on arrival in Babylon, 4 pp. folio, some
creases strengthened, a little soiled, Bagdad, 13th
August, 1823 [10732] £250
The Bishop on arrival to take up office in Babylon found
his see usurped by “A Carmelite friar, as a vicar
apostolic, caused me a lot of trouble as a result of his
constant quibbling. The good man said he did not
recognise any kind of authority over his community, that
he was not called to obey his Superior as a matter of
course, and that he could stay on in Bagdad if he wanted
to...” The matter was resolved when the Pasha of Mosul
invited the turbulent priest to practise medecine there.
Concerning the war he writes “The unrest which has
afflicted the Ottoman Empire, and which indeed continues
to do so, has not reached us. The city of Bagdad is still
enjoying peace and prosperity. There is a war against
Persia, but this is going on in the frontier regions some 50
leagues away from us. Until now the Turks have had the
advantage.” On spiritual matters he reports that the
Turks “steal some Christian souls who were so poor that
they were forced to abjure their faith in order to eat, and
this is a great source of sorrow to me. As I have hardly
enough for my self, I am in no position to help them or
save them from such an appalling fate.” It is interesting
to note that the Ottomans tolerated a Christian
Community in their midst
1034.PINNEY (Roy) Vanishing Tribes, numerous plates,
dw, 1968 [10890] £25
The author details 33 fast disappearing tribes, from the
Ainu of Japan, and the Navaho, to the Watusi and the
Jivaros.