Current List 205A

Abaya, Consuela:
- THE VILLANUEVA COLLECTION OF ORIENTAL POTTERY

Aczel, Amir D:
- THE JESUIT & THE SKULL

Addis, J. M:
- UNDERGLAZE RED DISCOVERED IN THE PHILIPPINES

Aitchison, Margaret:
- THE DOCTOR AND THE DRAGON

Akiyama Shingo:
- ANCIENT CHINESE POTTERY

Albrecht, Fritz:
- ERGEBNISSE

Almqvist, Kurt ed:
- THE SAMPANS FROM CANTON

Ambary, Hasan Muarif ed:
- EXCAVATION REPORT AT PASAR IKAN, JAKARTA

ANYANG WENWU JINGHUA
Gems of Anyang's Cultural Relics 安陽文物精華.

Arce, Dr. Jose; drawings by Schiff:
- DE BUENOS AIRES A SHANGHAI

ARS ORIENTALIS VOLUME I

ARS ORIENTALIS VOLUME 2

ARS ORIENTALIS VOLUME 3

Freer Gallery of Art:
- ARS ORIENTALIS VOLUME 8
- ARS ORIENTALIS VOLUME 9
- ARS ORIENTALIS VOLUME 10

ARS ORIENTALIS VOLUME 12

ARS ORIENTALIS VOLUME 20

Ashton, Leigh:
- AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF CHINESE SCULPTURE

Asia-Pacific Exposition Fukuoka '89:
- ROADS TO KYUSHU COMMUNICATION IN KYUSHU

DENQQ1
Deng Yuhan (Johannes Schreck); Wang Zheng trans. and illus: YUANXI QIQI TUSHUO LUZUI XINZHI ZHUQI TUSHUO. (Illustrations and Descriptions of Marvellous Machines from the Far West & Illustrations and Explanations of Various Machines). 遠西奇器圖說錄最 & 新制諸器圖說 。 鄧玉函 著 王征 譯繪. Beijing, 2018. 12, 44; 40; 60; 4, 21, 6 folded leaves. 54 pp. b/w woodcut illustrations, many full page, some double page. Explanatory loose paper insert. 4 vols. 33x22 cm. Stitched, cloth case.
GBP 350.00
A fascinating and influential work on the importation of western scientific ideas and technology into China in the late Ming dynasty. The work was printed in Beijing by the Jesuit missionary, Johannes Schreck, aided and assisted by the artist, Wang Zheng, who produced the illustrations.
 Johannes Schreck (1576-1630) was a German Jesuit missionary, polymath and polyglot who came to China in 1619 and died in Beijing in 1630. The founder of the Jesuit mission in China, Matteo Ricci, had sent Nicolas Trigault to Europe for new missionaries who could share western science and technology with the Chinese. Schreck was one such recruit. Prior to the publication of this work, Schreck had produced other scientific and medical books in Chinese and is credited with developing scientific and technical terminology in Chinese. Apparently, he was responsible for the designs of the famous astronomical instruments in the Observatory in Peking.
  Many of the illustrations in this work were based on Agostino Ramelli's 'Diverse et Artificiose Machine' published 1588 and Fausto Veranzio's 'Machinae Novae' of 1616.
  Three of the volumes comprise the 'Yuanxi Qiqi Tushuo Lu Zui'; the fourth volume is 'Xinzhi Zhuqi Tushuo'.
 First printed in 1627. Richly illustrated. This finely-produced facsimile to the original size and done from the copy owned by the famous bibliophile, Zheng Zhenduo. Now in the National Library of China.
  All very interesting, particularly from the standpoint of the little-studied area of the early introduction of western ideas and technology into China. Text in Chinese.
  Published in an edition of just 200 copies. Out-of-print.
Subjects: Foreigners in Asia Foreigners in
Item 446 in List 205.
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