[CHINA] - Lot 491

[CHINA] Reunion of 3 volumes: - NYE (Gideon): The memorable year: of the war in China; the mutiny in India; the opening-up of the resources of Siam; the projected movement upon Cochin-China; and the monetary crisis in Europe and America By a Corresponding Member of the American Geographical and Statistical Society - Authore of "The Rationale of the China Question". Macao, se., 1858. In-8. Small marginal worm gallery at beginning of volume on first few leaves. Copy with wide margins. Handwritten note "To the Venerable Arch" dated March 1870. ½ long-grain blue-black morocco with corners, ornate spine, rubbing to edges. First edition. - FERRIÈRE LE VAYER (Jean Théophile Anne de): A French embassy in China. Journal de voyage. Paris, Lib. d'Amyot, 1854. In-8. Red morocco signed GRUEL, gilt title on spine, rubbing, double gilt fillet on edges, inner gilt garland, gilt edges. - DAVIS (J. F. ) : La Chine ou Description générale des moeurs et des coutumes (...) Work translated from English by A. Pichard, revised and augmented with an appendix by Bazin aîné. Paris, Lib. de Paulin, 1837. In-8. ½ black chagrin gilt title and fillets on spine.