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AN HISTORICAL ESSAY ENDEAVORING A PROBABILITY THAT THE LANGUAGE OF THE EMPIRE OF CHINA IS THE PRIMITIVE LANGUAGE. By John Webb of Butleigh in the county of Somerset Esquire. by WEBB, John, 1611-1672.: - 1669

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AN HISTORICAL ESSAY ENDEAVORING A PROBABILITY THAT THE LANGUAGE OF THE EMPIRE OF CHINA IS THE PRIMITIVE LANGUAGE. By John Webb of Butleigh in the county of Somerset Esquire. by WEBB, John, 1611-1672.: - 1669

AN HISTORICAL ESSAY ENDEAVORING A PROBABILITY THAT THE LANGUAGE OF THE EMPIRE OF CHINA IS THE PRIMITIVE LANGUAGE. By John Webb of Butleigh in the county of Somerset Esquire.

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London, Nath. Brook, at the Angel in Gresham Colledge, 1669.. FIRST EDITION 1669. Small 8vo, approximately 165 x 105 mm, 6½ x 4 inches, title page printed red and black, pages: [8], 1-212, plus 2 pages with (errata), LACKS FOLDING MAP as often, now supplied with a facsimile on old paper, bound in full contemporary mottled calf, raised bands to spine, gilt decoration in compartments, recent gilt lettered morocco label, gilt ruled border to edges of covers, marbled endpapers. Hinges rubbed, upper hinge has a 3 inch crack, cover still firmly attached, and top of lower hinge just begining to crack but still firmly attached, tiny chip of leather missing at top of upper hinges, original front endpaper and title page slightly browned, most pages lightly age-browned, occasional light spotting to margins, small ink marks to 4 margins, ink spot on 2 text pages, no loss, small brown stain to fore-edge margin of last 4 leaves, not affecting text, slightly trimmed copy, no loss, lacking final blank endpaper which is counted in the collation(P4). A good copy (lacking the original map as noted). John Webb (1611-1672) was an architect and amateur scholar born in Somerset. He married the niece of Inigo Jones and became his personal assistant from 1628. On Jones' death in 1652, Webb inherited both a substantial fortune and his library of drawings and designs. In 1654 Webb designed the first classical portico on an English country house, at The Vyne in Hampshire. This book is the first extensive treatise on the Chinese language in any European language. In it Webb proposes that the Chinese language was the language that was spoken throughout the world before Noahs flood. He also discusses Chinese culture and the ancient origins of the Chinese empire. See: The Catalogue of the Lowendahl von der Burg collection, Volume 1, page 74; John Lust, Western Books on China Published up to 1850, page 234 No.1005; ESTC 24606. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
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  • Keywords Asia far east Adamic languages china chinese language culture chinese empire

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London, printed by B. Allsop and T. Favvcet for Michael Young, and are to be sold at his shop in Bedford-street in Coven-garden neere the New Exchange, 1640.. TITLE CONTINUED: Declaring divers waies of Planting, and Graffing, and the best times of the year, with divers commodities and secrets herein, how to set or Plant with the Root, and without the Root; to sow or set Pepins or Curnels, with the ordering thereof, also to cleanse your Grafts and Cions, to help barren and sick Trees, to kill Worms and Vermin, and to preserve and keep Fruit; how to plant and proyne your Vines, and to gather and presse your Grape; how to cleanse and mosse your Trees, how to make your Cider and Perry, with many other secret Practises which shall appear in the Table following, 1640, first published in1569. FIRST PART ONLY. LACKS THE FOLLOWING 2 BOOKS: THE HOP GARDEN and THE EXPERT GARDENER. Small 4to, approximately 170 x 120 mm, 6½ x 4 ½ inches, 5 text illustrations, pages: [16], 1-88, text padded out with blank paper… Read More
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Printed at London, by I[ohn]. B[eale]., for R. Iackson, and are to be sold at his shop neere Fleet-streete Conduit, 1623.. Title continued: As her skill in Physicke, Surgerie, Extraction of Oyles, Banqueting-stuffe, Ordering of great Feasts, Preserving of all sorts of Wines, Conceited Secrets, Distillations, Perfumes, ordering of Wooll, Hempe, Flax, making Cloth, Dying, the knowledge of Dayries, office of Malting, Oats, their excellent vses in a Family, Brewing, Baking, and all other things belonging to an Houshold. A Worke generally approued, and now much augmented, purged and made most profitable and necessarie for all men, and dedicated to the Honour of the Noble House of Exeter, and the generall good of this Kingdome. By G.M. SECOND EDITION 1623. Dedication signed: Geruase Markham, also issued as part 3 of his: A way to get wealth,1623. Small 4to, approximatley 195 x 140 mm, 7½ x 5 ½ inches, woodcut marks for gageing on page 150, a few pictorial initials and headpieces, pages: [8], 1-80, 79-174,… Read More
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London, printed for Thomas Dring, over against the Inner-Temple-gate; and Thomas Burrel, at the Golden-ball under St. Dunstans Church in Fleet-street, 1678.. TITLE CONTINUED: And also the right way of making METHEGLIN and BIRCH-WINE. SECOND EDITION MUCH ENLARGED 1678. LACKS THE SECOND PART ON BEES. 8vo, approximately 175 x 115 mm, 7 x 4½ inches, engraved frontispiece, plus 3 full page illustrations,1 being an engraved plate, headpiece and decorated initial to first page, pages: [24], 1-238, lacks final advert leaf and Contents which followed the part on bees . Bound in full modern speckled calf, 2 gilt lettered green morocco labels to spine, gilt date at foot, blind rules to edges of covers, new endpapers. Pale staining to frontispiece, old ink notes and bookplate to the blank side of frontispiece, narrow repair with old paper to inner margin of title page on verso, 6 small marginal repairs not affecting text, pale ink stain to top of 1 margin, pale age-browning throughout, mostly affecting margins,… Read More
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London, printed by B. Allsop and T. Favvcet for Michael Young, and are to be sold at his shop in Bedford-street in Coven-garden neere the New Exchange, 1640.. TITLE CONTINUED: Declaring divers waies of Planting, and Graffing, and the best times of the year, with divers commodities and secrets herein, how to set or Plant with the Root, and without the Root; to sow or set Pepins or Curnels, with the ordering thereof, also to cleanse your Grafts and Cions, to help barren and sick Trees, to kill Worms and Vermin, and to preserve and keep Fruit; how to plant and proyne your Vines, and to gather and presse your Grape; how to cleanse and mosse your Trees, how to make your Cider and Perry, with many other secret Practises which shall appear in the Table following, 1640, first published in1569. FIRST PART ONLY. LACKS THE FOLLOWING 2 BOOKS: THE HOP GARDEN and THE EXPERT GARDENER. Small 4to, approximately 170 x 120 mm, 6½ x 4 ½ inches, 5 text illustrations, pages: [16], 1-88, text padded out with blank paper… Read More
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Printed at London, by I[ohn]. B[eale]., for R. Iackson, and are to be sold at his shop neere Fleet-streete Conduit, 1623.. Title continued: As her skill in Physicke, Surgerie, Extraction of Oyles, Banqueting-stuffe, Ordering of great Feasts, Preserving of all sorts of Wines, Conceited Secrets, Distillations, Perfumes, ordering of Wooll, Hempe, Flax, making Cloth, Dying, the knowledge of Dayries, office of Malting, Oats, their excellent vses in a Family, Brewing, Baking, and all other things belonging to an Houshold. A Worke generally approued, and now much augmented, purged and made most profitable and necessarie for all men, and dedicated to the Honour of the Noble House of Exeter, and the generall good of this Kingdome. By G.M. SECOND EDITION 1623. Dedication signed: Geruase Markham, also issued as part 3 of his: A way to get wealth,1623. Small 4to, approximatley 195 x 140 mm, 7½ x 5 ½ inches, woodcut marks for gageing on page 150, a few pictorial initials and headpieces, pages: [8], 1-80, 79-174,… Read More
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This book is in good condition. There is a lot of wear on the front, back, spine and edges of the cover boards. There is also a substantial amount of staining on the cover boards. The pages are yellowed and tanned. There are also markings throughout the book. "The roots of this book reach back to the early 1950s in Paris, where I began my professional career as a journalist. France, supported by the United States, was then fighting to retain its hold in Indochina against the Vietminh, the Communist-led nationalist movement there. As I reported on the French end of the war, I soon became acquainted with the names and places in Vietnam from a distance, But I scarcely imagined that they were to be part of my own experience. Then, in 1959, I was assigned to cover eastern Asia; the region that included Vietnam became my beat for more than two decades. I visited Vietnam most recently in 1981 for seven weeks, the longest permitted an American correspondent since the Communists gained control of the entire… Read More
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Samurai and Silk: A Japanese and American Heritage by Haru M. Reischauer -9780674788015 Samurai and Silk - penetrating insight into the Japanese character and the forging of modern Japan from the feudal Tokugawa shoguns to present day economic titans. Only Haru Reischauer could have written this extraordinary family account, beginning with her two illustrious grandfathers: one, a provincial samurai who became a founding father of the Meiji government; the other, a scion of a wealthy enterprising peasant family who almost single-handedly developed the silk trade with America. Remarkable stories, those of their notable descendants, demonstrate the unbounded vision - determination that explain so much about Japan's legendary success.... history Japan bibliography Samurai and Silk: A Japanese and American Heritage by Haru M. Reischauer 9780674788015 Uncorrected page proof ARC Harvard University press - March 1986 357 pages, with many black and white family photographs in rear.. light blue paper covers not… Read More
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Kipling, Rudyard: The Elephant's Child, Just So Stories Series. 1942 First Edition Thus, Garden City Publishing. Beautifully illustrated by R.F. Rojankovsky. CHILDREN'S BOOK. Story Summary: "Because of his 'satiable curiosity' about what the crocodile has for dinner, the elephant's child and all elephants thereafter have long trunks." Used. VG condition/ No DJ included. Unpaged. 7 X 9 1/2
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A HISTORY OF THE CHINESE SECRET SERVICE

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Foundations and Limits of State Power in China
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Blood Brothers .The Criminal Underworld of Asia

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New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. First edition thus. Hardcover. As New/as new. Lifts the lid on organised crime in Asia. Scarce. 470pp. Fine in fine d/w. Stated First Edition in this edition - March 2003. Size 16.5 x 24cms. Please note: Due to International mail delivery problems, we currently ship items only to Australian addresses.
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The Bengali Intellectual Tradition: From Rammohun Ray to Dhirendranath Sen

The Bengali Intellectual Tradition: From Rammohun Ray to Dhirendranath Sen

by Mukhopadhyay, Amal Kumar (editor)

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Calcutta, K.P. Bagchi & Company, 1979, hardcover, viii-289 pp, First edition, Good in Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean, name to front endpaper, spine-end and corner bumps, spine faded. Dustjacket, edge chips, rubs, a few spots to spine, in new Brodart sleeve. The result of a collective study by the Council for Political Studies, Calcutta, includes 12 essays on the great Bengali intellectuals of the past 150 years, by the author and others. Each essay concludes with notes and references. Index appended.
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In a Mule Litter to the Tomb of Confucius

In a Mule Litter to the Tomb of Confucius

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Attractive Nouveau Prize PLATE 1906 on first end paper. V Good copy. 147pp plus ads, 240 grms, 19 x 13 cms.
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