Twelve late 19th/early 20th Century books on China, Japan et...

Hammer

£180

Twelve late 19th/early 20th Century books on China, Japan etc., including G. Eug. Simon: 'China: Its Social, Political, and Religious Life', London, Sampson Low, 1887, 1st UK edition, [4],342pp + 32pp adverts at end, original pictorial cloth gilt, scarce; Arthur May Knapp: 'Feudal and Modern Japan', Boston, Joseph Knight, 1897, 2 volumes, small 8vo (14 x 10cm), original pictorial buckram gilt; Jermyn Chi-Hung Lynn: 'Social Life of the Chinese (In Peking)', Peking-Tientsin, China Booksellers Limited, 1928, 10 b/w plates complete, original cloth; K. Tomita & G. A. Lee: 'Japanese Treasure Tales', London & Osaka, Yamanaka & Co, [1906], 1st edition, frontis + 34 ills. complete, original cloth gilt; Basil Hall Chamberlain: 'A Handbook of Colloquial Japanese', 1888, 1st edition, "From the Author" printed slip mounted on front pastedown, orig. cloth gilt worn, plus an 1889 second edition of the same work, orig. cloth gilt, plus 'Things Japanese', 1905, 5th edition, plus 3 others Japan/China, and Swettenham: 'British Malaya', 1907, plates, original cloth gilt (12)