Chinese book, Hu Zhengyan, Ten Bamboo Studio catalogue, 'Shi...

Hammer

£2,200

Chinese book, Hu Zhengyan, Ten Bamboo Studio catalogue, 'Shizhuzhai Jianpu', Publisher Rong Bao Zhai Studio, Beijing 1952, four volumes contained in original silk brocade folding case Provenance - A. T. Arber-Cooke

CONDITION: Some light browning to the papers lining the folding case and the edges of the four volumes. Top volume with slight creasing to the cover and a few pages otherwise good condition.

Provenance - Alfred Theodore Arber-Cooke (c.1905-1993); thence by family descent. Arber-Cooke was an antiquarian and avid collector of Asian works of art, and antiquities principally collecting from the 1930s to the 1970s. He amassed a good reference library on Chinese & Asian coins and wrote on several occasions (1969-70) to to the academic F.A. Turk regarding the study of coin amulets and other non-currency coinages of China. A number of the Asian numismatic reference books will be offered in our 29th March sale.



Arber-Cooke initially lived in Wimbledon, Greater London and was involved with the Surrey Archaeological Society. He wrote the book 'Old Wimbledon', with a foreword the MP Sir Arthur Fell, published in 1927. He later moved to Llandovery in Carmarthenshire, Wales, again involved with local archaeology and wrote the History of Llandovery, published in 1975.

This book acquired before 1969 as Alfred mentions owning the four volumes in a letter dated 1969.