Lot 169
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HOAMCHI-VAM (pseudonym). The Bonze or Chinese Anchorite, an oriental epic novel. Translated from the Mandarine language of Hoamchi-vam ... by Monsr. d'Alenzon. London: sold by Dodsley, I. Water, Messrs. Becket & Hondt, and F. Newbery, 1769. 2 volumes, 8° (171 x 105mm). Engraved frontispieces and titles. (Ee2r of vol. I with printing fault.) Contemporary calf gilt, morocco title labels, vol. numbers directly lettered (rubbed, chips to spines, vol. numbers transposed).
HOAMCHI-VAM (pseudonym). The Bonze or Chinese Anchorite, an oriental epic novel. Translated from the Mandarine language of Hoamchi-vam ... by Monsr. d'Alenzon. London: sold by Dodsley, I. Water, Messrs. Becket & Hondt, and F. Newbery, 1769. 2 volumes, 8° (171 x 105mm). Engraved frontispieces and titles. (Ee2r of vol. I with printing fault.) Contemporary calf gilt, morocco title labels, vol. numbers directly lettered (rubbed, chips to spines, vol. numbers transposed).

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HOAMCHI-VAM (pseudonym). The Bonze or Chinese Anchorite, an oriental epic novel. Translated from the Mandarine language of Hoamchi-vam ... by Monsr. d'Alenzon. London: sold by Dodsley, I. Water, Messrs. Becket & Hondt, and F. Newbery, 1769. 2 volumes, 8° (171 x 105mm). Engraved frontispieces and titles. (Ee2r of vol. I with printing fault.) Contemporary calf gilt, morocco title labels, vol. numbers directly lettered (rubbed, chips to spines, vol. numbers transposed).

FIRST EDITION of this early novel with a Chinese setting. ESTC records only two holdings in the British Isles, though more in the USA. Roscoe A235.

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