Firsts Hong Kong 2025
Hong Kong Maritime Museum
Stand 19
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1Pre-paper writing in ChinaBamboo manuscript slips.Shashi, Hubei, ca. 300 BCE.
€ 45,000.00An early collection of bamboo slips from the Warring States Period (c. 475-221 BCE), written in Chu State. Bamboo and wooden slips (jiandu) could be bound together to make longer documents, and were the main media for writing in China before the widespread introduction of paper during the first two centuries CE.
Finds such as this have allowed …
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2A Khotanese Brahmi amulet from Southern XinjiangAmulet Scroll.Khotan, 700-799 CE.
€ 48,000.00A scroll in a Brahmi script typical of the Taklamakan Desert region in the late first millennium CE, when the Tarim Basin was a crossroads of linguistic, religious and cultural influences along the Silk Road. This type of scroll was typically used in amulets, with other such examples being known from Khotan, and probably served a protective purpose.
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3Printing before Gutenberg: the earliest obtainable edition of Liu Wenshu’s cosmological medical classic, with pioneering hand mnemonicsSuwen rushi yunqi lun’ao.No place, 1279-1339 Yuan dynasty printing.
InquireFoundational Song-era treatise on the five circulatory phases (wu yun) and six climatic influences (liu qi), here in a Yuan-period imprint - likely the earliest edition still surviving in private hands. It records the first published use of Chinese medical hand mnemonics, a distinct contribution to the Art of Memory and to clinical pedagogy in acupuncture …
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4Pre-Gutenberg Chinese printing and silk weaving: two sets of consecutive volumes of the Garland Sutra in original brocade bindingsTripitaka - Dafangguang Fo Huayan Jing.Beijing, Yongle 17 1419 CE Early Ming Dynasty.
InquireTwo extremely early Chinese block-printed suites of the Garland Sutra, beautifully preserved in their original, museum-quality medieval brocade bindings: an outstanding and near-unique example of Buddhist culture and the Chinese art of silk weaving as well as printing in the earliest decades of the 15th century.
A major Buddhist scripture, …
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5A landmark of Renaissance illustration, "the first illustrated architectural book to be published"Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, ubi humana omnia non nisisomnium esse docet …Venice, Dec. 1499.
€ 350,000.00First edition of this typographic masterpiece, the apogee of Venetian xylography in the quattrocento. The most celebrated illustrated printed book of the Italian Renaissance (and the only illustrated book published by Aldus), the "Hypnerotomachia" is generally considered the magnum opus of Aldine craft and a veritable design encyclopedia. William …
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6Illustrated and hand-coloured Terence with fine provenanceComico carmine.Strasbourg, 18 Mar 1503.
InquireThe third Grüninger edition, the first to include the numerous specially made smaller woodcuts that adorn the text, hand-coloured throughout in this copy. The full-page illustrations are repeated from the 1496 and 1499 incunabular editions. The woodcuts showcase Grüninger's method of using a large number of separate blocks in ever-changing combinations …
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![Xin ke jing ben quan xiang cha zeng tian hu wang qing zhongyi shuihu quan chuan [Newly printed complete version of the 'Water Margin' with illustrations and additional material on Tian Hu and Wang Qing's loyal and righteous stories].](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/img-bn68082-324x324.jpg)
7Noble outlaws resisting corrupt authority: a lost volume of one of the earliest woodblock printings of the "Water Margin"Xin ke jing ben quan xiang cha zeng tian hu wang qing zhongyi shuihu quan …Jianyang, 1589-1594.
€ 350,000.00A hitherto lost, richly illustrated volume of one of the classic Chinese vernacular novels in one of its earliest surviving printings. The "Water Margin" first appeared in print in the sixteenth century, from which period, however, only four other editions are known in institutional holdings, mostly in a single copy. This volume, from a famous set …
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![Xinke Zhang Tianru taishi pingshi Kongsheng jiayu [Newly Cut 'School Sayings of Sage Confucius', with Commentaries by Hanlin Scholar Zhang Tianru].](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/img-bn68098-324x324.jpg)
8Illustrated Late Ming Woodblock Edition of the "School Sayings of Confucius"Xinke Zhang Tianru taishi pingshi Kongsheng jiayu [Newly Cut 'School Sayings …Hangzhou, 1631-1641.
€ 75,000.00The second known copy: a rare and handsomely illustrated late-Ming woodblock printing of the "School Sayings of Confucius", a collection of conversations that the philosopher supposedly had during his lifetime. At least partly apocryphal, they cover such topics as Confucius's life and character, his discussions on governance, ritual, and ethics, …
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![De statu religionis Christianae in regno sinensi, ob cultum confutii perturbato relatio, qua rum de controversia circa cultum confutii inter Jesuitas et Dominicanos exorta, tum de legatione Cardinalis Tournonii, in regnum illud ad eamdem sopiendam a Clemente XI [...].](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/img-bn65501-324x324.jpg)
9On the State of the Christian Religion in the Kingdom of ChinaDe statu religionis Christianae in regno sinensi, ob cultum confutii perturbato …Greifswald, Leipzig & Hamburg, 1709.
€ 2,800.00First edition. A speech given by the Lutheran theologian J. G. Pritius (1662-1732) in July 1709, discussing the then-current situation of Christianity, the Christian mission, and Christian converts in China in the context of the so-called Rites Controversy. Pritius cites the major Jesuit publications and theological texts, as well as Tournon's ill-fated …
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10Unpublished account of a Papal Legation to the Yonghzeng EmperorAutograph letter signed.Beijing, 23 Nov 1725.
€ 25,000.00Previously unpublished, historically important letter to Pope Benedict XIII, reporting on the official audience that the Yongzheng Emperor had granted to the Papal Legates Gotthard a Santa Maria (1700-57) and Ildefonso a Nativitate (1699-1742) in Beijing on 18 November 1725. The almost-forgotten mission of these two otherwise little-known Discalced …
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11Renouncing the practice of the Chinese ritesAutograph document signed.No place, 7 Apr 1750.
€ 3,500.00An oath renouncing the practice of the Chinese rites as required by the Papal Bull "Ex Quo Singulari" (1742), taken by Simone Paolo Zhao upon his return from Italy to China. The oath was sworn on the Bible, and a signed autograph copy of the formula had to be produced as evidence. While most of these documents are co-signed by church officials or …
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12The Dutch East India Company in the South China SeaManuscript sea chart of the coasts of China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Vietnam, …Jakarta, 1759.
€ 350,000.00Drawn by hand, and highlighting historical Hong Kong and Guangzhou: the earliest known surviving chart of the region in the hand of Gerrit de Haan, chief mapmaker of the Dutch East India Company. Most likely tailor-made for a Company trading voyage to Canton (today Guangzhou), the map, bearing De Haan's trademark compass rose, would have been copied …
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13The life of Confucius illustratedAbrégé historique des principaux traits de la vie de Confucius.Paris, 1788.
€ 3,500.00First edition. Comprises engravings illustrating the life of Confucius, from a set of drawings sent from China to Paris by Jean-Joseph-Pierre Amiot (1718-93), Minister of Beijing, and kept in the Cabinet du Roi. The accompanying text is an abridged version of the philosopher's life.
Provenance: Thomas Philip Earl de Grey, Wrest Park (armorial …
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14Manuscript account of the sufferings of Gleyo in ChinaVisions et revelations de Mr. Gleyo missionnaire en Chine. Pendant les …Probably France, ca. 1800.
€ 18,500.00A manuscript written in a single, unidentified hand during the last years of the 18th century, describing Gleyo's imprisonment in Ching-Tou, then Yuin-Tchang.
J.-F. Gleyo was born in Saint-Brieuc, the son of master mariner François Gleyo, and became a Priest of St. Sulpice. He sailed from Lorient to China in 1764, first arriving in Macao, …
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15The beginning of Sinology in FranceDictionnaire chinois, français et latin.Paris, 1813.
€ 12,500.00First edition of this rare and monumental work which marked the beginnings of Sinology in France. A dictionary without parallel, it was composed between 1694 and 1699 by Basilio de Gemona (1648-1704), a Franciscan missionary in China, and originally circulated in handwritten form. The technical complexity of printing such a work delayed publication …
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![A Retrospect of the First Ten Years of the Protestant Mission to China [...].](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/img-bn66742-324x324.jpg)
16The beginnings of the Protestant China missionA Retrospect of the First Ten Years of the Protestant Mission to China …Malacca, 1820.
€ 18,500.00First edition. "Detailed account of Christian beginnings in the China mission and of Christian Influence upon Taiping ideology" (Boardman). A thorough report prepared by the Scottish Protestant missionaries Robert Morrison (1782-1834), who arrived in Macau in 1807, and William Milne (1785-1822), who joined him there in 1813, describing missionary …
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17Gold on midnight blueGold paintings.China, ca. 1825-1850.
€ 9,500.00Eight paintings executed in gold ink on midnight blue paper, attributed in the title to Hua Ziyou, a painter active in the second quarter of the nineteenth century, during the late Qing period. The striking contrast of the colours, with gold on a dark background, was more typical for paintings on religious subjects in China, whereas this collection …
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18Pioneering handbook on the Canton tradeA Chinese Commercial Guide Consisting of a Collection of Details Respecting …Canton, 1834.
€ 19,500.00First edition. Foundational English-language manual for foreign trade in China, containing a wealth of "valuable information respecting British commerce in Canton" (Löwendahl). Compiled for practical use by British merchants, the work sets out regulations and forms, commercial tables and sailing directions, and closes with five folding tables along …
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![Quan ren ju yue [The Perfect Man's Model].](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/img-bn66661-324x324.jpg)
19One of the earliest Chinese books printed in SingaporeQuan ren ju yue [The Perfect Man's Model].Xinjiapo Singapore, 1836 CE = Dõkõ 16.
€ 4,500.00First edition of a religious tract by the Lutheran missionary Karl Gützlaff (1803-51), who wrote under the Christian pen-name of Aihanze: one of the earliest Chinese books to be printed in Singapore. It comprises five parts dealing respectively with morality in Holy Scripture, Christian ethics, the Saviour, theory of prayer and explanations of the …
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20The most important Engels correspondence in private hands, tracing his formative years41 letters to Marie Engels and family, with ink and pencil sketches, poems, …Barmen, Berlin, Bremen, Brussels, Paris, Cologne, and Manchester, 1838-1869.
InquireBy far the most substantial trove of Engels letters ever to have come to market: Engels's complete surviving correspondence with his sister Marie and the Blank family. Dating from his apprentice years in Bremen through his Berlin military service and into the revolutionary decade, the letters are written chiefly to his favourite sister Marie, illuminating …
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![Systema phoneticum scripturae sinicae. Pars prima [& secunda].](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/img-bn68362-324x324.jpg)
21Extremely rare Macao folio printed at Callery’s pressSystema phoneticum scripturae sinicae. Pars prima [& secunda].Macao, 1841.
€ 10,000.00First edition, folio issue, of Callery’s most important sinological work, produced at his own press in Macao.
In the preface Callery explains how, with limited funds and materials, he established a small printing office, acquired a set of used types, and with six local assistants inexperienced in Western languages set the work himself.
The …
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22Keju cheat sheet: a cribbing handkerchief for the imperial examinationDouble sided cheat's handkerchief.China, ca. 1850.
€ 9,500.00This so-called "cheat's handkerchief" was used as an aid by students undertaking civil service examinations under the keju system in imperial China. These examinations, conducted from as early as the seventh century until 1905, were designed to select candidates for admittance into the state bureaucracy. In an effort to promote cultural unity under …
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23Revolutionary mission strategy for Taiping era ChinaChina. Grand Plan for Missionary Increase in China.Shanghai, June 1854.
€ 12,500.00Exceptionally rare lithograph copy of the revolutionary circular seeking to accelerate evangelization in China at the height of the Taiping Rebellion. Prepared by the American missionary Issachar Jacox Roberts (1802-71), preserving his delicate handwriting.
Calling for a non-denominational, multinational mission council to work with the Taiping …
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![Xin Yue Quanshu [The New Testament].](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img-bn68103-324x324.jpg)
24The “Delegates’ version” of the Chinese New Testament in High Wenli, with Crystal Palace provenanceXin Yue Quanshu [The New Testament].Shanghai, 1861.
€ 8,500.00Early edition of the influential "'Delegates' version" of the New Testament, presenting the Chinese text in elevated wenli style, printed at the London Missionary Society’s Shanghai press (Mohai Shuguan).
The Delegates' Version was a translation of the Bible into Chinese produced by a committee of senior Protestant missionaries (Medhurst, …
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![Menggu youmu ji [Record of Nomad Life in Mongolia].](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/img-bn66660-324x324.jpg)
25Nomad Life in MongoliaMenggu youmu ji [Record of Nomad Life in Mongolia].Qi shi, 1867.
€ 14,000.00First edition. Arguably the most important history of the Mongols to appear in the 19th century, and the best-known work of the scholar and historian Mu Zhang (1805-49), who devoted most of his life to the study of northwestern frontier geography and Mongolian history. The original 1867 woodblock edition comprising 16 juan.
The book, left incomplete …
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26Chinese imperial edicts in Manchu and ChineseSilk scrolls with bilingual imperial edicts.Taiyuan, 4 Dec 1871.
€ 18,000.00Two elegantly written edicts on silk scrolls in the official languages of the Qing dynasty, Manchu, from left to right, and Chinese, from right to left. These examples date from the Tongzhi Restoration, when imperial power and traditional structures of authority were being reasserted following the setbacks of the Opium Wars. The background as well …
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27Presentation copy of the first editionStrange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.London, 1886.
€ 48,000.00A literary touchstone of Faustian horror for the industrial age: presentation copy of the first English edition, inscribed on both the cover and the title-page, to "William Slafford, with the Author's Compliments".
"The date upon the front cover was originally 1885, but the last figure was altered by the pen into 6. It had been intended to …
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28Klimt and Schiele, as seen by a fellow artistCollection of 23 portrait drawings and caricatures, all drawn "from life" …Vienna, 1897-1935.
€ 45,000.00The earliest portrait dates from 1897, the year in which the Vienna Secession and the artistic periodical "Ver Sacrum" were founded. According to his inscription, it was for the latter that Geyling drew the present portrait of the Secessionist sculptor Rudolf Bacher. Many of the pictures collected in these two portfolios were created several years …
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![[Watercolours of Miao people].](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/img-bn67923-324x324.jpg)
29The ethnic minorities of Guizhou[Watercolours of Miao people].China, late 18th or early 19th century.
€ 18,000.00An excellent example of Qing ethnographic art devoted to the ethnic minorities of Guizhou, each watercolour paired with a facing description in Chinese calligraphy. An exceptionally comprehensive "Miao album", a primarily visual genre that emerged in 18th-century imperial China, using prose, poetry, and detailed illustrations to brief Qing officials …
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30Inscribed by the authorDer Kaiser und die Hexe.Berlin, May colophon: August 1900.
€ 15,000.00First book edition of this verse play in which Hofmannsthal attempted to allegorize the profession of the poet. Number 73 of 200 numbered de luxe copies printed on Van Gelder handmade laid paper with the lnsel watermark. Inscribed by the author to the Göttingen historian of literature, Otto Deneke (1875-1956): "Hugo von Hofmannsthal. / Göttingen, …
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31The first dictionary of the Iban languageA Sea Dyak Dictionary, in Alphabetical Parts, with Examples and Quotations …Singapore, 1900.
€ 2,800.00First edition. The first substantial Sea Dyak (Iban) dictionary ever published. An important work at the time, it also reflects social forces then at play in Sarawak. With dedication to Charles Brooke, second Rajah of Sarawak. Includes an appendix comprising information about money, fines, units of measurements, and a vocabulary specific to the home, …
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![Chin Me Terah Mas [Thirteen Months in China].](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/img-bn67967-324x324.jpg)
32The first comprehensive eyewitness account of China in any South Asian languageChin Me Terah Mas [Thirteen Months in China].Lucknow, 1902.
€ 4,500.00First edition, one of 1,000 copies: one of the first book-length accounts of overseas travel written in Hindi, described by the author of the first translation into English as "the first comprehensive eyewitness account-cum-history of China in any South Asian language" (Yang, Thirteen Months in China: A Subaltern Indian and the Colonial World, Oxford, …
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33"All of my inventions are turning out to be a splendid success"Typed letter signed ("N. Tesla").New York City, 27 Feb 1909.
€ 65,000.00A rare glimpse into the mind of Nikola Tesla in early 1909, hard at work on his inventions and his investors alike. Communicating with Anita Drysdale Hawkins (1874-1957), a friend and employee at his Wardenclyffe plant, he discusses the recent departure of a troublesome guest, chastising himself: "I am glad that he is gone [...] Time and time again …
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34A solo woman traveller in China: bombs, opium, and the end of an empireAu long des Mers de Chine: De Yokohama à Manille, Shanghaï, Hongkong, …Manila, Macau, and Kobe, 1911-1912.
€ 25,000.00An unpublished first-hand account in French of a lone woman traveller in China during the revolution of 1911, which resulted in the deposition of the last emperor, Puyi, in the following year. On a long letter on a roll of rice-paper, the French traveller Mary Baron describes the difficulties of journeying as a single woman through a region gripped …
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![Jinshan ge ji: Zhu mingjia xiansheng pingding [and] Jinshan ge er ji: Mingjia xi mo.](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/img-bn68066-324x324.jpg)
35Foundational Chinese-American folk anthology documenting immigrant lifeJinshan ge ji: Zhu mingjia xiansheng pingding [and] Jinshan ge er ji: Mingjia …San Francisco, 1911-1915.
InquireComplete first edition of one of the earliest and most important literary testimonies of Chinese-American life. The two anthologies preserve more than 1600 vernacular Cantonese rhymes composed by immigrants and their descendants in the United States. Following a traditional 46-syllable format, the poems were created within poetry clubs across the …
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36One of the last photos of Klimt, inscribed to his sitter Johanna StaudePortrait photograph signed and inscribed.Vienna, 1917.
€ 85,000.00The half-length portrait shows the 55-year-old artist outside his studio in Vienna's Feldmühlgasse. The photograph is inscribed and signed by Klimt on the backing card: "Wien 1917 / Frau Johanna Staude zur freundlichen Erinnerung an Gustav Klimt" ("Vienna 1917 / For Mrs. Johanna Staude in fond memory of Gustav Klimt"). The photograph by Moritz Nähr …
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![Meng Han he bi wu fang yuan yin. Monggol Kitad bicig-iyer qabsurugsan tabun jug-un aquu ayalgu bicig [Mongolian Han Bilingual Original Sounds of the Five Regions].](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/img-bn66976-324x324.jpg)
37By a leading figure of the Outer Mongolian revolution of 1911Meng Han he bi wu fang yuan yin. Monggol Kitad bicig-iyer qabsurugsan tabun …Beijing, 1917.
€ 12,500.00First edition of the second-earliest Chinese-Mongolian dictionary. In this dictionary, Qayisan used traditional Mongolian scripts to transcribe the Mandarin pronunciation.
This work is based on the Wufang Yuanyin (The Original Sounds of the Five Regions, or Proto-sounds of Speech in All Regions), a popular rhyming dictionary compiled in the …
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38InscribedDiary of a Journey from Srinagar to Kashgar via Gilgit.Kashgar, 1922.
InquireFirst edition. Scarce account of the author's travels in Central Asia to take up his post in Kashgar as Vice Consul. Printed in a limited edition "for private circulation only", the present copy remaining unnumbered.
Harding had spent 20 years in the Chinese administration before being appointed Vice Consul at Kashgar under C. P. Skrine. The …
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![Altan ulus-un eki adag-un kereg-I temtegsen sastir [Record of Events of Jin History from the Beginning to the End].](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/img-bn66977-324x324.jpg)
39Exceptionally rare Mongolian imprintAltan ulus-un eki adag-un kereg-I temtegsen sastir [Record of Events of …China, 1926.
€ 9,500.00First edition in Mongolian of the "Jin-shi ji-shi ben-mo" of Youtang Li (1837-1905), which was first published in 1893 and went through a number of later editions in the original Chinese. The 52-juan-long "Jinshi jishi benmo", a historical work on the Jurchen Jin dynasty (1115-1234 CE), is written in the thematic style of jishi benmo ("historical …
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![[Red Army / 8th Route Army - Photographs].](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/img-bn62740-324x324.jpg)
40Communist Military High Command in 1937-1940[Red Army / 8th Route Army - Photographs].China Yan'an?, ca. 1937-1940.
€ 35,000.00Generals of the Second Sino-Japanese War, from Zhu De to Nie Rongzhen: the Communist Eighth Route Army poses for the camera in this historic collection, which showcases the future leaders of the People's Republic of China as they were during the Japanese invasion of WWII.
Zhu De (1886-1976) - Commander of the Eighth Route Army and along with …
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![Kang-Ri you-ji zhan-zheng di yi-ban wen-ti [Common Problems in the Anti-Japanese Guerrilla War]. Signed.](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/img-bn65623-324x324.jpg)
41Mao Zedong's fundamental text on guerrilla warfare - an enormously rare signed exampleKang-Ri you-ji zhan-zheng di yi-ban wen-ti [Common Problems in the Anti-Japanese …Yan'an, 1938.
€ 350,000.00The first appearance in book form of this fundamental text on the use of unconventional warfare in modern conflict, with a rare early signature of Mao and compelling provenance.
One of the most consequential modern books, the ideas in Mao's 1937 pamphlet On Guerrilla Warfare have been a constant influence in a post-colonial world. Tactics that …
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42Picasso's wartime Buffon: a very fine copy, embellished with two original drawings for a friend2 full-page pen and brush drawings in Indian ink. In: Eaux-fortes originales …Paris, 1942.
€ 450,000.00Two unique and wholly original brush drawings, adorning a signed and inscribed first edition of this famous suite by Picasso, in perfect condition.
Limited edition of 226 copies: this is number 155, one of 135 on Vidalon vélin. This copy was presented by Picasso to his friend, the painter André Marchand (1907-98), with an autograph inscription …
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43"It is comprehensible that the relief work in combat regions is hazardous"Typed letter signed (in Chinese characters).Nanking, China, Communist Delegation Office, 8 Aug 1946.
€ 85,000.00To the U.S. diplomat J. Franklin Ray, director of the Far East Office of the UN Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), acknowledging the dangers encountered by convoys delivering aid, and suggesting the establishment of liaison offices in both Communist and Nationalist areas: "I am very appreciative of your thoughtfulness in sending me …
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![[Chairman Mao].](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/img-bn66837-324x324.jpg)
44Early portrait of Mao[Chairman Mao].Fenyang, Shanxi Province, ca. 1948.
€ 25,000.00Exceedingly rare, early portrait of Mao by the celebrated Chinese artist Li Qun, one of the pioneers and founders of the burgeoning Chinese printmaking industry in the 20th century, aimed at propagating Mao's image in the liberated areas in the 1940s. Qun Li prepared two sketches of this portrait, the second one ultimately remaining a pencil sketch.
After …
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45In search of a Unified Field Theory: Einstein in mathematical contemplationAutograph manuscript of scientific calculations.No place, March 1950 - early April 1951.
€ 38,000.00The manuscript comprises approximately 31 lines of mathematical workings. Einstein devoted the last thirty years of his life to the quest to combine general relativity and Maxwell’s theory of electromagnetism into a single physical and mathematical framework which would account for all of the then-known fundamental forces of nature - a "unified …
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46Foundational programming textbook developed around EDSAC, signed by Alan TuringThe Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer.Cambridge, MA, 1951.
€ 45,000.00First edition of the earliest textbook devoted to computer programming, setting out systematic program design and the use of subroutines as developed at the Cambridge Mathematical Laboratory with the copy signed in pencil by Alan Turing on the back free endpaper, the signature entered upside down.
Based on work with the EDSAC, one of the first …
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47"With much affection always"Portrait signed and inscribed.Havana, 1953.
€ 18,000.00"For Beatie / with much / affection / always / Ernest Hemingway/ Havana 1953". Hemingway, who began visiting Cuba frequently from 1932 onward, eventually bought a house in Havana, La Vigía, and lived there from 1943 to 1960.
The recipient, Beatie Guck, was a friend of Hemingway’s fourth wife, Mary. The year this photo was signed was a high …
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48A surrealist still lifeAutograph drawing signed and inscribed.No place, 28 Jan 1965.
€ 65,000.00Crayon drawing, inscribed with graphite pencil: "pour Nana et Eddy Novarro / amicalement - / René Magritte / 28 janvier 1965".
From the collection of the Romanian photographer and collector Eddy Novarro (ca. 1926-2003), who travelled the world from the 1950s to 1970s portraying many renowned artists who frequently gifted him specimens of their …
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!["Dazibao" [Big-character poster].](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/img-bn67657-324x324.jpg)
49"Open fire on Li""Dazibao" [Big-character poster].Prob. Shanghai, July 1966.
€ 6,500.00Singular big-character poster from the early wave of Cultural Revolution political writing.
Big-character posters (dazibao) were a central medium of mass mobilisation, protest, and propaganda, covering schools, factories, and city walls with slogans, accusations, and rebuttals, launching personal attacks against colleagues, classmates, friends, …
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50Signed "Dali 1967"Poèmes illustrés par Salvador Dali.Paris, 1967.
€ 15,000.00First edition in French, signed twice by Salvador Dalí. Number 23 from a limited edition of 229 copies: one of 20 copies on Japon nacré (numbered 9-28), with the artist's signature next to the number of the copy. The poems, translated from Chinese by Ho Ju, are accompanied by a suite of engravings in black and another suite in sanguine; one of …