Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1993. First Thus. Octavo. 250 pp. Burnt umber boards with gilt lettering to spine. Lacks dust jacket. Boards are sturdy and square. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. More

New York: Russell & Russell, 1964. Facsimile reprint of the 1909 edition. Octavo; publisher's blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine; [8],206pp. Minor shelf wear, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good and sound. More

Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1982. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in blue dust jacket lettered in white and yellow; 339pp. Minimal shelf wear, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good or better. Quite uncommon, especially in dust jacket. More

London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1956. Second Edition. Octavo; publisher's grey cloth, black and gilt spine titling; li,[1],635pp. Cloth unevenly toned at extremities and spine, spine titling starting to flake, partly redacted contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper and occasional erudite pencil marginalia throughout, else a Very Good copy..... More

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. First Edition. Octavo (25.5x20x6.5cm); xlix + 918pp, including three bibliographies; index; romanization table; and chronology. Illustrated with 172 photographs (largely in color), maps, and reproductions of scroll- and line-drawings; 158 scientific charts and tables. Very Good. Dust jacket reproduces Taoist genii from a painted temple..... More

Paris: Barbou, 1770. First Thus. 12mo (17cm.); contemporary sheep, gilt spine in six compartments, marbled endpapers; xii,455pp.; engraved folding view, woodcut head- and tail-pieces. Binding quite worn with long shallow exposure at extremities, joints cracked leaving front cover nearly separated, lacking front free endpaper; a Good only, albeit internally sound..... More

Annapolis: St. John's Bookstore, 1938-1949. Five volumes bound in one; slightly later grey cloth, typescript spine label. Faint dampstain to front cover not bleeding into textblock, ownership signatures at head of each title page as well as front free endpaper, fairly extensive note to front free endpaper verso. A Very..... More

New York: Atheneum, 1968. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's cloth in magenta dust jacket lettered in white and orange; [12],174pp. Some chipping at jacket extremities, most notably long shallow vertical loss at spine foot touching imprint, spine slightly cocked with a faint curve to front board at fore-edge..... More

Paris: P. Cainteau, 1802. Nouvelle Édition. Four volumes; octavo (20cm.); full contemporary tree calf, gilt spine with red and black inlays, marbled endpapers; double frontispiece in Vol. I, fourteen leaves of plates throughout, text adorned with woodcut head-pieces. Leather quite dried and scuffed at extremities, half-inch loss at spine crown..... More

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973. First Thus. Octavo; publisher's cloth in brown pictorial dust jacket; xxiii,[1],417pp.; frontispiece, full-page illus. throughout, lavender pictorial endpapers. Jacket extremities a bit chipped and rubbed, most notably at spine crown, cloth a shade sunned along margins, corners softened, else Very Good and sound overall..... More