° Chinese book, Jiguang Qi, Military Training: Authentic Re...

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° Chinese book, Jiguang Qi, Military Training: Authentic Records 'Lien ping shih chi', undated but probably Qing dynasty,
15 parts in 4 volumes
Provenance - A. T. Arber-Cooke

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Slight browning to internal pages, and some dog-eared corners, volumes 2 and 3 have some minor worm damage to the edge 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. 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.