The Art of Chinese Wooden Stands: The Songde Tang Collection PRICE $ 500.00 PURCHASE / MORE INFO View Member Profile A groundbreaking monograph and catalogue of an area of Chinese connoisseurship long neglected, this book details the development and diversity of decorative stands for Chinese art objects. Some incredibly ornate, while others elegantly simple, the art of Chinese stands draws upon a rich tradition of symbolism, rebuses and regional stylistic preferences. While the majority of stands illustrated date from the Ming and Qing, examples are also included from as early as Tang and Song. In addition to the wooden stands, which were miniature examples of fine Chinese wood carving and joinery, there are also metal, ceramic, lacquer and ivory examples included in the collection. The only English language book on the subject to date; essential reading for all with interest in the arts of the Chinese scholar. A highly sought-after reference, now very difficult to find. Text in bilingual English/Chinese. 347 pp., 230 colour plates and 20 b&w figures & drawings, chronology, references. Size: 31 x 23 cm. PURCHASE / MORE INFO More items from The Art of Chinese Wooden Stands: The Songde Tang Collection See Item Mayuyama, Seventy Years See Item The China Coaster's Tide Book and Nautical Pocket Manual for the Year 1931 See Item

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Ernest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises – 1930 Modern Library First Edition PRICE $ 400 PURCHASE / MORE INFO View Member Profile First Modern Library Edition • Original Jacket Panels • Hemingway Classic PURCHASE / MORE INFO More items from About Those Books Spirit of Borneo Martin & Osa Johnson Journey – 2012 1st Ed HCDJ in Slipcase See Item Ernest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises – 1930 Modern Library First Edition See Item Signed: The American Commonwealth by James Bryce – 1913 Revision 2-Volume Set See Item Sigmund Freud 1893 First Edition Cerebral Diplegia Neurology See Item See Hear Yoko – Signed by Yoko Ono, Bob Gruen & Jody Denberg 2015 Lennon Legacy See Item The Complete Works of Laurence Sterne - 1779 Armitage Edition Rebound in Leather See Item Whispers from Eternity – Swami Yogananda – 1929 2nd Ed Signed 1933 Inscription See Item

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A religious tract on the Great Comet of 1811, printed in Boston PRICE € 500 PURCHASE / MORE INFO View Member Profile [Caption title:] Series of Evangelical Tracts, no. 30. The comet explained and improved in a conversation between a minister and one of his parishioners . Boston, Lincoln and Edmands, 1812. Ca. 19,4 x 12,2 cm. 12 pp. With a small woodcut showing the Great Comet of 1811. Side-stitched self wrappers. Untrimmed. Browned and foxed, the first two leaves with marginal defects, owner’s inscription of “Eliza Temple”. A very rare religious tract prompted by the Great Comet of 1811, which was visible to the naked eye for nine months, a record that would not be broken until the Hale–Bopp comet of 1997. Ref. Shaw, American bibliography 25126 & 26717; for the comet: Kronk, Cometography, volume 2, p. 19 ff. PURCHASE / MORE INFO More items from Black Dog Rare Books "Go and enjoy yourself!": Sex tourism in Paris See Item Collected poems by Jo Corsen, including poems in Papiamento See Item Marriage of Ludwig Gutmann and Rosette Pinkus: manuscript with 8 watercolours See Item First Russian translation of the first major theoretical treatise on cubism See Item A young girl's adventures in decadent Paris, illustrated with photographs See Item A Yiddish children's book by a shining star of Russian Jewish literature See Item A Chinese physician accidentally ending up in Amsterdam in 1861 See Item Book of Common Prayer, from the library of Liverpool slave trader Moses Benson See Item A religious tract on the Great Comet of 1811, printed in Boston See Item

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DAMPSTAIN < Back to Terminology List DAMPSTAIN Defect A stain left on a cover or pages after having been exposed to water or other liquids. The pictured page shows a rather pronounced dampstain along the right edge. Previous Next