Lot 157 , Chinese book, Liu, Kunyi (1830-1902), 'Wen miao shang ding li yue bei kao' [Preparing for Ding Liyue in the Confucian Temple], Provenance - A. T. Arber-Cooke

Chinese book, Liu, Kunyi (1830-1902), 'Wen miao shang ding li yue bei kao' [Preparing for Ding Liyue in the Confucian Temple],
four volumes, published by Xianggang : Yi li zhai, 9th year of Tongzhi, 1870, with illustrations, 29.5cm
Provenance - A. T. Arber-Cooke
£800-1,200

Condition:
Volume 1 is later inscribed to the outer wrapper which has some chipping and losses. Some browning to the top edge of all pages and some occasional brown patches to the internal pages. Slight chip losses to the back wrapper. Volume 2 has loose stitching, and some worm holes upper left working through most of the pages. There is some browning to the top edge of all pages and some occasional brown patches to the internal pages. Slight chip losses to the back wrapper. Volume 3 has loose stitching and losses to the front label. There is some browning to the top edge of all pages and some occasional brown patches to the internal pages. Slight chip losses to the back wrapper. Volume 4 has loose stitching and slight losses to the label and front wrapper. There is some browning to the top edge of all pages and some occasional brown patches to the internal pages. Large chip losses to the back wrapper. Provenance - Alfred Theodore Arber-Cooke (c.1905-1993); thence by family descent. Arber-Cooke was an antiquarian and avid collector of Asian works of art, and antiquities principally collecting from the 1930s to the 1970s. He amassed a good reference library on Chinese & Asian coins and wrote on several occasions (1969-70) to to the academic F.A. Turk regarding the study of coin amulets and other non-currency coinages of China. A number of the Asian numismatic reference books will be offered in our 29th March sale. Arber-Cooke initially lived in Wimbledon, Greater London and was involved with the Surrey Archaeological Society. He wrote the book 'Old Wimbledon', with a foreword the MP Sir Arthur Fell, published in 1927. He later moved to Llandovery in Carmarthenshire, Wales, again involved with local archaeology and wrote the History of Llandovery, published in 1975.

Sold for £850