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Rare Books and Special Collections
Asian Rare Books
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The Puban Collection, formerly owned by Yao Junshi of Macao was acquired by the
University of British Columbia for its Asian Library in 1959 with funds from
the Friends of the Library and Dr. Walter Koerner. The collection contains some
3,200 Chinese titles in about 45,000 volumes in thread-stitched binding, the
majority from the well-known Nanzhou Studio of Guangdong Province. The
collection includes gazetteers of Guangdong Province of China, records
concerning 50 famous mountains throughout China, 27 multi-volume encyclopedias,
1,500 literary works including multicoloured works of the Ming and Qing
periods. It is especially strong in many subject fields with numerous rare
editions, thus making it one of the most distinguished Chinese collections in
North America.
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Publication:
PDF http://www.library.ubc.ca/asian/Main_page/Puban0302.pdf
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The Swann collection contains roughly 1000 unique titles from the 17th to the 20th century, approximately
half of which are in Asian languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. The collection of over 3,000
items and 4,000 slides concentrates on the arts, history, culture, literature, politics and philosophies
of China, Japan, and Korea, with particular emphasis on art and archaeology, sculpture, furniture, and other
decorative art forms. There are also some books on East Indian art. The Japanese collection is strong in painting,
sculpture, architecture, and colour prints. The Korean collection contains many rare works published in Japan prior
to World War II as well as more recent publications from Korea.
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Information: http://toby.library.ubc.ca/subjects/subjpage2.cfm?id=510
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