Author: Collis, Maurice, 1889-1973

Foreign Mud : The Opium Imbroglio at Canton in the 1830's & the Anglo-Chinese War
Date1968, c1946
Publish_locationNew York
PublisherNorton
CollectionRicci Institute Library [JV]
EditionReprint
LanguageEnglish
Record_typeBook
SeriesNorton library ; N462
ShelfReading Room
Call NumberDS757.5.C655 1968
Descriptionx, 300, v p., [17] ℓ of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
NoteForeign Mud : The Opium Imbroglio at Canton in the 1830's & the Anglo-Chinese War / by Maurice Collis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-300) and index (i-v).
SubjectChina--History--1795-1861 China--History--Opium War, 1840-1842
Seriesfoo 89
grand peregrination : being the life and adventures of Fernão Mendes Pinto
Date[1949]
Publish_locationLondon
PublisherFaber & Faber
CollectionBibl. Sinensis Soc. Iesu
Edition
LanguageEnglish
Record_typeBook
Series
ShelfReading Room
Call NumberDS506.P373 C766 1949
Description313 p., [14] ℓ of plates : ill., maps / 23 cm.
NoteThe grand peregrination : Being the life and adventures of Fernão Mendes Pinto.
Bibliography: p. 303-308.
Includes index.
SubjectPinto, Fernão Mendes, d. 1583 Asia--Description and travel Travelers--Asia--Biography Portuguese--Asia--Biography
LCCN50-233
Land of the great image
Date1985
Publish_locationNew York
PublisherNew Directions
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition
LanguageEnglish
Record_typeBook
SeriesA New Directions paperbook ; NDP612
ShelfReading Room
Call NumberDS530.8.C64 1985
Description317 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
NoteThe land of the great image / Maurice Collis.
"A New Directions book."
"Originally published ... in 1943; first published as New Directions paperbook 76 in 1959 and reissued with additional illustrations as New Directions paperbook 612 in 1985" --T.p. verso.
Includes index.
SubjectArakan (Burma : Division)--Description and travel Manrique, Sebastião, d. 1669 Missions--Burma Augustinians--Missions--Burma
Seriesfoo 103
ISBN0811209725
Land of the great image : being experiences of Friar Manrique in Arakan
Date1943
Publish_locationNew York
PublisherA.A. Knopf
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition
LanguageEnglish
Record_typeBook
Series
ShelfReading Room
Call NumberDS527.C7 1943
Description264 p.: ill.; 22 cm.
NoteThe land of the great image : being experiences of Friar Manrique in Arakan / by Maurice Collis.
" ... The authentic story of the seventeenth-century Augustinian friar, Manrique, and of his journey to the independent kingdom of Arakan on the Bay of Bengal ... Manrique's diary tells of his adventures in Arakan, of his wanderings through its mysterious capital, Mrauk-U, and of his association with its Buddhist king, who dreamed of being lord of Asia and savior of the world."--cover leaf.
SubjectArakan (Burma : Division)--Description and travel Manrique, Sebastião, d. 1669 Missions--Burma Augustinians--Missions--Burma
LCCN43-11284
motherly and auspicious, being the life of the Empress Dowager Tzu Hsi in the form of a drama...
Date1943
Publish_locationLondon
PublisherFaber & Faber
CollectionBibl. Sinensis Soc. Iesu
Edition
LanguageEnglish
Record_typeBook
Series
ShelfStacks
Call NumberDS763.63.C58 C655 1943
Description179 p. : ill., geneal. tables ; 23 cm.
NoteThe motherly and auspicious, being the life of the Empress Dowager Tzu Hsi in the form of a drama, with an introduction and notes / Maurice Collis.
"First published in Mcmxliii"
"List of authorities": p. 30.
Flyleaf device 慈禧.
SubjectCixi 慈禧, Empress dowager of China, 1835-1908--Drama Empresses--China--Drama
LCCN44002036
traveller's eye
Date1947
Publish_locationNew York
PublisherPilot Press
CollectionBibl. Sinensis Soc. Iesu
Edition
LanguageEnglish
Record_typeBook
Series
ShelfStacks
Call NumberG242.T718 C277 1947
Descriptionxiii, 381 p., [31] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 22 cm.
NoteThe traveller's eye / by Dorothy Carrington.
“Includes excerpts from the writings of English travellers from Tudor times to the present day”--Foreword.
Includes index.
SubjectVoyages and travels
LCCN47-3500