‎Porcelaine chinoise‎

‎[China] Aux Ecossais H. Bouts clothing trade card‎

‎Aux Ecossais‎

‎Paris 1890. French clothing company trading card with an illustration of two Chinese children playing with birds; with the title in French "Aux Ecossais" With the Scots in black in the lower right. Paris not dated ca. 1890. 4 1/4 x 2 3/4" with advertising copy on the back. Colors bright and fresh; one small number noted in pen on verso o/w very good. HKD350. hardcover‎

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‎[China] Bellin, Nicolas‎

‎Carte De l'Isle de Cheu-Chan ou Isle de Chusan de la Province de Che-kiang Avec les Cotes et Isles Voisines‎

‎Paris 1750. Ca. 1750. Eighteenth century map of the eastern Chinese province of Chekiang with the island of Chusan and the islands of the Chusan archipelago. From Tome VI of Abbe Prevost's Historie Generale des Voyages. Includes 'Kimp-tong' island with the following note "Isles ou les Mandarins disgracies se retirent" island where disgraced Mandarins withdraw and the 'Ning-po' River. With north oriented to the right. Uncolored with compass rose. Size: 13 x 9". Very good. HK1300. unknown‎

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‎[China] Celluloid shirt collar trade card‎

‎Celluloid waterproof collars cuffs & shirt bosoms‎

‎Celluloid collar advertising card with illustration of a small Chinese boy in Chinese attire but also wearing the advertised celluloid collar and cuffs and wearing a fanciful hat made of collar and cuffs and smoking a pipe. Without advertising text at verso not dated. 3 x 4 1/4 in slt marked at edges of verso o/w very good. HKD350. unknown‎

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‎[China] Chambers, William and Robert‎

‎Chambers's Information for the People Number 25 China and the Tea Trade‎

‎Edinburgh: William and Robert Chambers 1841. Paperback. Very good overall. Monthly issue with much tea content; with subheadings: Geographical Position - Boundaries and Divisions; Internal Appearance and Climate; History; Government; Laws; Revenues; Royal Family; Classes of Population - Occupations; Production - Agriculture - Tea Crop; Arts and Sciences; Language and Literature; Religion; and Intercourse with Foreign Nations - British Tea-Trade. Disbound article pp 385 - 400 with in text illustration of Buddha statue "The Chinese Boodh" William and Robert Chambers paperback‎

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‎[China] Cheong, Hung‎

‎Studio Portrait of Naval Officers‎

‎Hong Kong 1890. A studio portrait by the Chinese photographer artist & portrait painter Hung Cheong noted for his large format hand colored albumen prints who operated a studio in Yokohama 1875-1885 and then in Hong Kong. Photographer imprint at base of card reads Hung Cheong No. 2 & 4 D'Aquila Street Hong Kong'. The card is slt chipped at lower right corner so that "Kong" is clipped. A studio portrait of three naval officers full length with white caps dark blazers and white trousers. One period hand-written inscription in pencil on the verso "From J. Barnetson". 4 x 5 1/2" photograph on 4 1/4 x 6 1/2" card. Crack on upper right and chipping at lower card edge o/w vgc. unknown‎

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‎[China] Conwell, Russell H.‎

‎Why and How. Why the Chinese Emigrate and the Means they Adopt for the Purpose of Reaching America‎

‎Boston: Lee and Shepard 1871. First edition. Hardcover. The story of Chinese immigrants to northern California with the first section entitled 'Why' with such chapter headings as the Chinese Government Chinese Superstition Chinese Character Thirst for Gold Early Emigration A New Chapter of Horrors; the second 'How' includes The Coolie's Dwelling Coolie's Resolve Consulting the Gods The Loan and Burial Insurance among others. Sml 8vo frontis iv 283pp b&w ills. Maroon gilt decorative cloth gilt title to spine. Covers slt rubbed spine sunned but titles still legible. HKD1750. Lee and Shepard hardcover‎

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‎[China] De Rosny, Leon‎

‎Extraits d'un Glossaire Bouddhique Sanscrit-Chinois‎

‎Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie 1890. Paperback. Very good. 8vo pp 129 - 192 unopened. Gray paper wraps title in black at front cover ad at back cover. Front cover detached sml lib stamp; internally very good. In French. HKD735. Maisonneuve et Cie paperback‎

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‎[China] Du Halde, Jean Baptiste‎

‎A Chart of the entrance into Kanton from the Sea. Humbly Inscribed to the Rt. Honourable Lord Vere Beauclerk‎

‎London: Edward Cave at St. John's Gate 1738. Very good condition. A map of the entrance to Canton with Macau Ma-kau and the islands on the approach pictured with depth soundings and an inset "Plan of Quang-Chew Fu commonly called Kanton". Copper engraved map 9 3/8 x 14 1/2" with sml margins a little ruffled with slt. margin loss. The map is from the Edward Cave folio edition of Du Halde's important encyclopedic work on Chinese culture history and society "A Description of the Empire of China and Chinese-Tartary Together with the Kingdoms of Korea and Tibet" by a French Jesuit who specialized in China. Du Halde's work inspired great interest in China among Europeans and was a ground breaking work in geography. The Du Halde book is referred to in Cordier BS 50; Löwendahl 409; Lust 15. Edward Cave, at St. John's Gate unknown‎

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‎[China] Du Halde, Jean Baptiste‎

‎Chinese Barks & Vessels of Burden. A Kind of Galley Two uncommon ways of catching Fish; the manner of taking Wild Ducks described.from "A Description of the Empire of China and Chinese-Tartary."‎

‎London: Edward Cave at St. John's Gate 1738. Very good overall. Copper engraving 11 x 8 3 3/4" with margins. Map from the Edward Cave folio edition of this important encyclopedic work on Chinese culture history and society by a French Jesuit who specialized in China. Du Halde's work inspired great interest in China among Europeans and was a ground breaking work in geography. The book: Cordier BS 50; Löwendahl 409; Lust 15. Sml. closed tear repaired into print at top. Edward Cave, at St. John's Gate unknown‎

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‎[China] Du Halde, Jean Baptiste‎

‎Cities of the Province of Shen-si from "A Description of the Empire of China and Chinese-Tartary."‎

‎London: Edward Cave at St. John's Gate 1738. Very good overall. Copper engraving 8 1/2 x 14 1/4" very good condition. A series of walled cities. Plan from the Edward Cave folio edition of this important encyclopedic work on Chinese culture history and society by a French Jesuit who specialized in China. Du Halde's work inspired great interest in China among Europeans and was a ground breaking work in geography. The book: Cordier BS 50; Löwendahl 409; Lust 15. Edward Cave, at St. John's Gate unknown‎

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‎[China] Du Halde, Jean Baptiste‎

‎Cities of the Province of Che-Kyang from "A Description of the Empire of China and Chinese-Tartary."‎

‎London: Edward Cave at St. John's Gate 1738. Very good overall. Copper engraving 9 x 15" very good condition with slt. loss on lower left corner as inserted in the book. A series of walled cities. Plan from the Edward Cave folio edition of this important encyclopedic work on Chinese culture history and society by a French Jesuit who specialized in China. Du Halde's work inspired great interest in China among Europeans and was a ground breaking work in geography. The book: Cordier BS 50; Löwendahl 409; Lust 15. Edward Cave, at St. John's Gate unknown‎

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‎[China] Du Halde, Jean Baptiste‎

‎Province I Pe-Che-Li Che-Li or Li-Pa-Fu Drawn on the Spot by the Peres Regis Jartoux & Fridelli in the Year 1710. From "A Description of the Empire of China and Chinese-Tartary."‎

‎London: Edward Cave at St. John's Gate 1738. Very good overall. Copper engraving period folds. 111/4 x 14 1/2" with margins & period folds. Map from the Edward Cave folio edition of this important encyclopedic work on Chinese culture history and society by a French Jesuit who specialized in China. Du Halde's work inspired great interest in China among Europeans and was a ground breaking work in geography. The book: Cordier BS 50; Löwendahl 409; Lust 15. Edward Cave, at St. John's Gate unknown‎

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‎[China] Du Halde, Jean Baptiste‎

‎Province IV Fo-kyen Drawn on the Spot by ye Peres Regis de Mailla and Henderer in the Year 1713. From "A Description of the Empire of China and Chinese-Tartary."‎

‎London: Edward Cave at St. John's Gate 1738. Very good overall. Copper engraving period folds. 12 1/ x 14 1/4" with margins. Closed semi-circular tear repaired archivally. Map from the Edward Cave folio edition of this important encyclopedic work on Chinese culture history and society by a French Jesuit who specialized in China. Du Halde's work inspired great interest in China among Europeans and was a ground breaking work in geography. The book: Cordier BS 50; Löwendahl 409; Lust 15. Edward Cave, at St. John's Gate unknown‎

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‎[China] Du Halde, Jean Baptiste‎

‎Province II Kyang-nan. Drawn on the Spot by the Peres de Mailla and Henderer in the Year 1711. From "A Description of the Empire of China and Chinese-Tartary."‎

‎London: Edward Cave at St. John's Gate 1738. Very good overall. Copper engraving period folds. 13 3/4 x 13 1/4" with margins. Map including Shanghai area from the Edward Cave folio edition of this important encyclopedic work on Chinese culture history and society by a French Jesuit who specialized in China. Du Halde's work inspired great interest in China among Europeans and was a ground breaking work in geography. The book: Cordier BS 50; Löwendahl 409; Lust 15. Edward Cave, at St. John's Gate unknown‎

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‎[China] Du Halde, Jean Baptiste‎

‎Province V Che-Kyang Drawn on the Spot by ye Peres Regis de Mailla & Henderer in the Year 1714. From "A Description of the Empire of China and Chinese-Tartary."‎

‎London: Edward Cave at St. John's Gate 1738. Very good overall. Copper engraving period folds. 9 1/4 x 9 3/4" with margins. Map from the Edward Cave folio edition of this important encyclopedic work on Chinese culture history and society by a French Jesuit who specialized in China. Du Halde's work inspired great interest in China among Europeans and was a ground breaking work in geography. The book: Cordier BS 50; Löwendahl 409; Lust 15. Edward Cave, at St. John's Gate unknown‎

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‎[China] Du Halde, Jean Baptiste‎

‎Province XV Quey-Chew Drawn on the Spot by the Peres Fridelli and Regis in the Year 1716. From "A Description of the Empire of China and Chinese-Tartary."‎

‎London: Edward Cave at St. John's Gate 1738. Very good overall. Copper engraving period folds. 11 1/4 x 10" with margins. Map from the Edward Cave folio edition of this important encyclopedic work on Chinese culture history and society by a French Jesuit who specialized in China. Du Halde's work inspired great interest in China among Europeans and was a ground breaking work in geography. The book: Cordier BS 50; Löwendahl 409; Lust 15. Clean loss to bottom left corner where the map was tabbed into book. Edward Cave, at St. John's Gate unknown‎

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‎[China] Du Halde, Jean Baptiste‎

‎Province XII. Quang-Tong drawn on the Spot by the Peres de Tartre & Cordoso in the Year 1714 with Improvements by the Editor.‎

‎London: Edward Cave at St. John's Gate 1738. Very good condition. A map of the China coast from Behai to Shantou centering on the Pearl River Canton Macau & the islands of Hong Kong. Copper engraved map 20 3/4 x 16 1/2" with sml margins. The map is from the Edward Cave folio edition of this important encyclopedic work on Chinese culture history and society "A Description of the Empire of China and Chinese-Tartary Together with the Kingdoms of Korea and Tibet" by a French Jesuit who specialized in China. Du Halde's work inspired great interest in China among Europeans and was a ground breaking work in geography. The Du Halde book is referred to in Cordier BS 50; Löwendahl 409; Lust 15. Edward Cave, at St. John's Gate unknown‎

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‎[China] Foreign travel‎

‎Sketches of Foreign Travel Sketches of China‎

‎Begins with a description of "Fung-shui" and how the citizens of the city of Ku-Yung became barbers corn-cutters and bamboo-root shavers in order to ward off the evil spirit which threatened their city. Three page article with many ills including A Chinese Pavilion Beating on a Temple Drum Chinese Scholars A Chinese Doctor Teacher and Her Boys Chinese Playing Checkers A Chinese Bride and A Chinese Method of Punishment. Also with a 3pp article 'The Island of Cyprus' with 3 woodblock engravings. Lge 8vo self wraps stitched binding damp marks to outer and upper edges o/w very good. HKD2130. paperback‎

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‎[China] Gautier, Judith‎

‎Le Livre de Jade. Poesies Traduites du Chinois. Signed presentation copy. "Nouvelle edition considerablement augmentee et ornee de vignettes et de gravures hors texte d'apres les artistes chinois‎

‎Paris: Felix Juven 1900. New Edition augmented. Hard Cover. Very good. Ca. 1900 not dated; first published in 1867. A signed presentation copy to Madame 'Vatsamachi' unclear by Judith Gautier the first woman elected to the Academie Goncourt and the daughter of the poet and dramatist Theophile Gautier. With the initials LV at the base of the spine. Judith Gautier was an artist poet novelist and orientalist the friend and collaborator of artists such as Wagner Hugo and Sargent who painted a full length portrait of her. She wrote poetry prose essays and articles; her creative work drew on Middle Eastern Japanese and Chinese sources. She studied Chinese at a young age from Tin Tun Ling a Chinese man brought to Paris by the bishop of Macao to work on a French-Chinese dictionary. <br /> This is an anthology of Chinese poetry translated into French one of the earliest translations of Chinese poetry published in a European language. Each page is decorated with varying Art Nouveau inspired designs around the borders with poems grouped by topic such as: 'Les Amoureux' 'La Lune' 'Les Voyageurs' 'La Cour' 'La Guerre' 'Le Vin' 'L'Automne' and 'Les Poetes'. Signed presentation copy. "Nouvelle edition considerablement augmentee et ornee de vignettes et de gravures hors texte d'apres les artistes chinois". <br /> 8vo 279pp with black & white illustrations after Chinese artists. Half dark red gilt decorated cloth and marbled boards gilt title to red spine label. Corners and head and tail of spine gently rubbed. The rear free end paper missing. HK2700. Felix Juven unknown‎

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‎[China] Harte, Bret F. cartoon‎

‎The Heathen Chinee‎

‎Chicago: The Western News Co 1870. First edition first printing. Paperback book. Very good condition. Harte celebrated satire in anti Chinese feeling which was perverted into a war cry against 'Chinese cheap labor". Very important and scarce this is the original version with original printed envelope. A satiric look at race relations which established Bret Harte's literary reputation. All housed inside a second envelope with the name C.S. Rackemann in ink on cover and in small pencil script at the base '11/9/73 Goodspeeds' the noted Boston Book and Print Seller.<br /> <br /> 9 cartoon series in the original envelope with story by Bret Harte and cartoons by Joseph Hull. Numbered cartoons with text below depict a card game between 2 western miners "Truthful James" and "Bill Nye" and a Chinese "Ah Sin" in which the Chinese is more proficient at cheating at cards and for which he is beaten by a mob. With the line ""Can this be We are ruined by cheap Chinese labor". <br /> <br /> 5 x 7 1/4 in cards in original envelope with ink inscription with a small bookseller's stamp laid in "Burnton's 92 Fourth Av" and with an inscription at the upper right 'Charlie Rackemann from Uncle Ell'. Original envelope dusty with short tears at edges cards themselves clean very good condition. BAL 7248. The Western News Co paperback‎

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‎[China] High Life Tailor Montmartre, Paris‎

‎Carre Casse-Tete‎

‎Otherwise very good condition. French advertising card with color illustration of a two young Chinese gilrs working on a Chinese geometric paper puzzle and instructions on how to do the puzzle printed below in French. With advertising text for the Parisian tailor on the verso. Not dated. 2 1/2 x 4 1/4" two small ares of text missing on verso. HK581. unknown‎

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‎[China] Linebarger, Paul Myron‎

‎La Chine et la Judee. trop vieilles pour mourir. Une esquisse des revolutions de Sun Yat-Sen‎

‎Washington DC: Editions Mid-Nation 1937. Pamphlet 64pp ex-lib with perforated stamp on title bound with original wrappers in brown stiff card boards. The author's father had close ties to the leaders of the Chinese revolution of 1911. His godfather was Sun Yat-sen. While at Duke University from 1937 to 1946 he became an expert in Far Eastern affairs. In 1943 while with the newly formed Office of War Information and Intelligence Board he was sent to China and became a confidant of Chang Kai-shek. He was the author of "Psychological Warfare" considered a classic text. HKD735. Editions Mid-Nation unknown‎

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‎[China] Lin-Le (Lindley, Augustus F)‎

‎Ti-Ping Tiem-Kwoh The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution Including A Narrative of the Author's Personal Adventures‎

‎London: London Day & Son 1866. First edition. Hardcover. Good condition. An account of Augustus F. Lindley 1840 -1873 British officer writer and adventurer who fought for the Taiping insurgents in their rebellion against the Manchu dynasty one of the largest and bloodiest civil wars in history. The Taiping Rebellion 1850-64 was instigated by Hong Xiuquan and his followers whose goal was to create a "Heavenly Kingdom" in China with Christianity as the official religion. Lindley was a Royal Navy officer stationed in Hong Kong who resigned his commission in 1860 to work for a Taiping general as an artillery instructor. He also became a spokesperson for the cause courting Western support and procuring weapons and supplies. His wife Maria the daughter of the Portuguese consul at Macau served in the rebellion as a sniper and was killed in an ambush. Lindley remained in China until the fall of the Heavenly Kingdom in 1864. Two years later he wrote this work the only detailed account written of the Taiping Rebellion from the rebels' perspective.<br /> <br /> Two volumes royal 8vo: Vol I xvii iii 424pp; Vol II: vii i 425-842 complete. Folding color frontispiece 20 chromolithographs 9 wood engravings two folding maps. Original publisher's maroon pictorial gilt cloth covers with blind stamped borders gilt illustrations at upper covers. An ex-library copy with bookplates library stamps to plates only on versos. Archivally restored with the original spines laid down. OCLC: 3467844. London Day & Son hardcover‎

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‎[CHINA] MACKERRAS, Colin [ED.]‎

‎The Uighur Empire; According to the T'ang Dynastic Histories‎

‎Columbia South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press 1972. First Limited Edition. Octavo. 23.5cm. Unnumbered copy from a limitation of 999. Publisher's black cloth spine over red marbled paper boards titled in gilt and red to spine. 226pp. 1. Very light wear a little scuffing to the spine housed in a matching marbled slipcase; internally clean and fresh from the library of noted translater oand poet Nathaniel Tarn bearing his bookplate; page edges stained red; in a strong clean slipcase with a little light edgewear. A very good copy indeed. <br /> <br /> An academic history of the Uighur Empire and its relations with larger Chinese cultures between the 8th and 9th centuries. University of South Carolina Press unknown‎

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‎[China] Meyer, Vilhelm; Ferguson, Charles J., ed; Li, Guangzhao‎

‎Andersen Meyer & Company Limited of China. Its History: its Organization Today Historical and Descriptive Sketches Contributed by Some of the Manufacturers it Represents. March 31 1906 to March 31 1931‎

‎Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh 1931. Hardcover. Very good condition. A presentation copy of a scarce volume celebrating the 25th anniversary of a Danish engineering company that brought western technology to the industrial development of 1900s China and secured the exclusive right to represent General Electric in China. <br /> <br /> Andersen Meyer first worked on a joint basis with an American import export firm based in Shanghai named Fearon Daniel & Company to set up an engineering firm in China. In 1907 it won the right to represent G. E. in China and in 1908 secured its first large contract with the Mukden Electric Light Works. <br /> <br /> The firm quickly diversified from the construction and engineering fields to partner with American makers of textile machinery and equipment selling the first cotton mill entirely equipped with American machinery. It also expanded into power plant machinery electrical machinery including Xray equipment plumbing and heating equipment agricultural machinery and drugs and chemicals. Offices were located in Tientsin Peiping Harbin Mukden Hankow Tsingtao Tsinan Hong Kong and Canton. Meyer Andersen represented the major American manufacturers of the day from G. E. American Radiator International Harvester Masonite Parke Davis once America's oldest and largest drug maker Sherwin Williams and more.<br /> <br /> This is a signed presentation copy to a long term business associate who was the principal of a company acquired by Pittsburgh Coal Co. from the founder Vilhelm Meyer and signed below Meyer's frontispiece portrait: "F. L. Robbins with thanks for your long and loyal cooperation. From your old friend Vilhelm Meyer. March 1931".<br /> <br /> The first section is written in English; the second section in Chinese translated and prepared by Kuang Chao Lee with a special title page and separate pagination with Chinese numerals. The volume is impressive for its wide array of b&w photographic illustrations in all the areas in which the company operated including staff portraits showrooms of the various departments interior views of factories including cotton & silk mills power plants lighting of Shanghai buildings railway and locomotive equipment and workshops and bridge construction. There is an unusual double spread photograph of the Bund in Shanghai with 29 numbered buildings and a chart below listing all the heating supplies provided by Andersen Meyer to the prominent landmark buildings all along the waterfront! pp92-93. The many images in a broad range of fields provide a vivid sense of the tremendous impact of western technology on China's industrial growth.<br /> <br /> In 1934 Vilhelm Meyer died and the ownership of the company passed to its main American partner General Electric. In 1949 following the founding of the People's Republic of China many international firms in Shanghai were nationalized including Andersen Meyer. By 1950 it was completely Chinese controlled.<br /> <br /> Large 4to 247pp; 134pp frontispiece b&w photographic illustrations including portraits of staff maps. With the book plate of F. L. Robbins at the front paste down. Dark blue stamped buckram covers title in English at front cover in Chinese at rear cover original titles in yellow somewhat dulled.<br /> <br /> We located four copies at the National Library of Singapore National Library of Australia the University of Hong Kong and Stanford. OCLC: 123199443. Libraries Australia ID 5041194. Kelly and Walsh hardcover‎

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