3 works on Chinese society and sexuality.

8vo or 4to, publ. pictorial cloth.

1. Little, Alicia - Intimate China. The Chinese as I have seen them. London, Hutchson; Philadelphia, Lippincott comp., 1899. (Binding loosening and rubbed). First edition. The author and her husband moved to China in 1886 where she continued to campaign for women's rights as she did in England. She fought for the abolition of the Chinese practice of binding women and young girls' feet; chapter VII is devoted to that matter. Other chapters concern the vegetation, arrangement of a house, wedding reception, "marrying English girls", Chinese sentiment i.a. for a dear friend, etc. Numerous illustrations in-text (incl. full-pages and front.) Prov. Ms. entry. - 2. Smith, Arthur H. - Chinese characteristics. Enlarged and revised edition with marginal and new illustrations. Edinburgh & London, Oliphant, Anderson & Ferier, [c. 1900]. (Marg. foxing in begin., pp. 135-138 loose, cloth very sl. rubbed). Chapters on economy, politeness, the absence of public spirit, patience and perseverance, the absence of sympathy, mutual suspicion, etc. Ill. with 19 plates (incl. front). - 3. Van Gulik, Robert - Sexual life in Ancient China. A preliminary survey of Chinese sex and society from ca. 1500 B.C. till 1644 A.D. Leiden, Brill, 1961. (Fold. corners). First edition. Ill. with a front. in colour, 14 pl. (mostly recto/verso), full-pp. and in-text ill.