Chinese book, Qi Jiguang, 'Ji xiao xin shu' or New Treatise ...

Hammer

£2,200

Chinese book, Qi Jiguang, 'Ji xiao xin shu' or New Treatise on Military Efficiency, possibly the Daoguang (1821-50) edition, with illustrations, 18 parts in 10 volumes, 29cm, undated, Provenance - A. T. Arber-Cooke

CONDITION: All volumes have browning and water staining to various pages. The first two volumes have some worm damage. Two further volumes are missing the back paper wrapper. Later pen and pencil annotations. Fair 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.