Literature

Lot 3860    SESSION 12 - 11.30AM Thursday 31 July    Literature

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LOCKHART, James Haldane Stewart, Sir, The Stewart Lockhart collection of Chinese copper coins, Shanghai, Kelly & Walsh, Limited, 1915, Royal Asiatic Society, North China Branch. Extra Volume no. 1, 2 + l + xv + 36 pp., 174 plates of illustrations, 31 1/2 cm, soft cover; Burger, Werner, Ch'ing Cash Until 1735, Mei Ya Publications, Taipei, Taiwan, 1976, 126pp., illustrated throughout plus numerous large fold out plates and other illustrations, quarto, hardbound; Ting Fu-Pao, Dr., A Catlogue of Ancient Chinese Coins; Rose, F.M., Chopmarks, Dallas, 1987; Bowker, Howard Franklin., A Numismatic Bibliography of the Far East, NN&M No.101, 1943, 144pp.; Wieger, Dr.L., Chinese Characters, Their origin, etmology, history, classification and signification, reprint of 1927 edn. in 1965, 820pp. Mostly fine, several scarce. (6)

Ex Ken O'Brien Library. Burger's book is now out of print, being a most extensive and important study on this period of Ch'ing dynasty cash, originally a doctoral dissertation to the University of Munich. The author has observed minute variations in the general cash issues and from the original Chinese sources was able to establish a chronology on a yearly basis for all the mints for the Chinese rulers from 1616-1735. The second study completing the issues of cash to 1910 was never published.