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Wilson, Ernest H.
China Mother of Gardens
First Edition, roy 8vo [26.5 x 18 cm]; [vi], x [i] 408 pp, frontis, plus 60 plates, folding map partly colored at end, index, title page printed in red and black. orig decorated cloth, gilt spine title lettering, top edge gilted, very lightly rubbed at spine ends but a fine, bright and clean copy. Wilson was one of the prime botanical collectors in China and Japan in early 1900's, introducing many species. Besides his descriptions of the plants he found, including some fascinating adventures in little explored places, he describes the geography, the native peoples and tribes, temples, timber trees, cultivated gardens and fruits, agriculture plant products, tea and tea-yielding plants, etc, during his extensive explorations (including Szechuan, Ancient Kingdom of Pa, Sungpan Ting, the Chino-Tibetan border area, Tachienly, Omei Shan, Laolin. 'He crossed the Laolin from north to south, probably the only European to have done so' [Coats - The Plant Hunters, p. 120] scarce.
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Phelps, Dryden Linsley [Translator]. Huang Shou-fu and T'an Chung-yo Ad. 1887-1891
Mount Omei Illustrated Guide o Shan T'u Shuo
reprinted from the 1936 harvard-yenching institute ed. pp.cxvii-354.english and chinese txt, chinese style sewn binding, beautiful woodprint repr. Cheng-tu, Szechwan: Jih Hsing Yin Shua Kung Yeh She, 1936. First edition in English. The first guide book in English on Mount Omei. With an English Translation by Dryden Linsley Phelps . Pictures Redrawn from the Original Plates by Yu Tzu-tan. Tall quarto. [454] pp. Profusely illustrated with double-page woodblock illustrations. Text in Chinese and English. Printed on double leaves in the Chinese Style. Original wrappers, paper label on front cover. Title ("Mount Omei") on front cover in English and Chinese. Part of a series issued by the West China Union University, Harvard-Yenching Institute. Very scarce. The double-page plates begin with a Panoramic View of Mount Omei from the South Gate of Omei-hsien to the Summit, showing all the defiles, watercourses, monasteries, peaks, cliffs, and ancient relics which must be passed. The remaining plates provide a look at each of the 72 monasteries of P'u-hsien, showing the architecture, grounds, paths, etc. The corresponding text, in English and Chinese, provides a detailed walking tour with historical annotations.
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Myrdal Jan
THE SILK ROAD: A Journey From The High Pamirs and Ili Through Sinkiang and Kansu
pp.292, maps and photos Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Taylor Bayard
Central Asia Travels in Cashmere, Little Thibet and Central Asia
Illustrated Library of Travel. Revised. Frontispiece: Babies of Koioum; other illustrations include Brothers Schlagintweit, Tibetan peasant, Kirghiz man, Toorkee funeral, Yarkandee Guest Chamber, Shaghawal of Karkand, King Yakoob Beg, Head of Asiatic Camel, Return to Yarkand, Toorkee Wedding P. original cloth in very good condition, pages tight and clean
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Sven Hedin
Big Horse's Flight. The Trail of War in Central Asia
Octavo, original cloth xvi, 248 pages plus 121 plates, a folding facsimile document and a folding colour map. Original black Cloth ; a very good copy lacking the dustwrapper. "In August, 1933, was commissioned by the Central Government in Nanking to conduct an expedition to Sinkiang in order to mark out two motor roads between China proper and that remote province. the story of the bloody war which made a desert of Sinkiang from 1931 to 1934"
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Bonvalot Gabriel
L'Asie inconnue - A travers le Tibet
In-12 relié demi-chagrin rouge, 388 pages, une carte dépliante in-fine, couverture non conservée, ; papier jauni mais tres bon exemplaire. Dans le Tien Chan, le Tarim et le Lob Nor, les hauts plateaux, la rechereche d'une route, les lacs les plus eleves du monde, les Tibetains pasteurs, les gens de Lhaca, le Tibet habite, l'est du Tibet, et par la Chine au Tonkin.
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Lanier L.
L' Asie - Choix de lectures de géographie 2 Vols
2 volumes : t1 ( Asie russe, Turkestan, Asie ottomane, Iran ), t2 ( Indes orientales, Indo-Chine, Empire chinois, Japon) - 53 vignettes, 9 cartes tirées en couleur et 41 cartes intercalées dans le texte , br, 1 vol. en train de derelier, autr, bon etat.
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Karazine
Le pays où l'on se battra Voyages dans l'Asie Centrale
in-12, br orig. 281 pages tres bon état. (les campements de l'Issik-Koul - la contrée du Bas-Amou - le vieux Kachkaral). (en gros le Turkestan au nord de l'Afghanistan).
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PRUSEK,J. PALAT,A.
IL MEDIOEVO CINESE. DALLA DINASTIA SUNG ALLA DINASTIA YUAN
In 8, tela edit. ., pp. XI+624 con fig. in nero nel testo, Societa' e costume n X. come nuovo.
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Wittfogel, Karl A. and Feng Chia-Sheng
History of Chinese Society. Liao. (907-1125).
4to, editorial cloth xvi, 752 pp., 43 illus. in b&w, 2 maps, 1 folding. "A monumental compendium on the Khitan people and their Liao Dynasty, in a topical analysis, fully documented; the basic source on this aspect of Chinese history and not likely to be superceded. Contains a special appendix on the Central Asia branch of the Khitan Empire, called Kara Khital". Hucker 355. From the author of Oriental despotism. heavy item, could require extra shipping for international orders.
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Von Erdberg Eleanor
Chinese Influence on European Garden Structures
Cloth. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Edited by Bremer W. Pond. pp.221, 94 b&w illustrations (mostly from old prints and engravings). Scholarly study of the history of Chinese influence on architectural elements in the garden during the 17th and 18th centuries. With an annotated list of buildings mentioned in the text. Styles of Chinoiserie; source of Knowledge of Chinese Architecture in the 18th Century; The Anglo-Chinese Garden; Designs for Garden Buildings; The Garden Buildings of the Exotic and of the Grotesque Styles; Architectural Details of the Exotic and of the Grotesque Styles; Evolution of the Imitative Style; Types and Details of the Imitative Style. Appendix, Bibliography, influenza della cina sui giardini europei.
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De Heer
The Care-Taker Emperor. Aspects of the Imperial Institution in Fifteenth-Century China as Reflected in the Political History of the Reign of Chu Chi'i-yü.
8vo xi,226 p. (Sinica Leidensia, 18)
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Wilbur Clarence Martin
Slavery in China During the Former Han Dynasty: 200 B.C. to 25 A.D. (Field Museum of Natural History Anthropology Series Vol. 34, 1943)
large 8vo 490p., folding map, 9 b.w. illustrations, index, bibliography, notes. In English and Chinese, a scholarly study with extended documentation on primary sources. scarce. Han history and society, historical sources and terminology, enslavement, prisoners of war, hereditary slavery, manumission, slave owners, goverment's slaves.
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Kiang Kang-hu
On Chinese Studies
8vo original cloth pp.403
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De Saussure Léopold
Le Système Cosmologique Sino-Iranien Extrait Du Journal Asiatique Avrl-juin 1923
8vo, pp.235-297 br. tres bon etat
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Williams S. Wells
The Middle Kingdom a survey of the geography, government, literature, social life, arts and history of the Chinese Empire and its Inhabitants.revised Edition with Illustrations and a New Map of the Empire, 2 Vols.
original green cloth gilth titles , 80-850pp 2 large octavo volumes with large folding frontispieces, many illustrated plates, text illustrations and a large folding map of the Empire to slipcase at rear of vol. two. some. wear to backstrips, otherwise fine.
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Kim-Gaul, Kwan
Chinese Cavalcade
First Edition. 8vo. With a Foreword by Professor Neville Whyman.Original cloth gilt, Pp. (xiv), 236, with 8 coloured plates and 40 black and white illustrations. Maps on endpapers.
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Culin, Stewart
Korean Games : With Notes on the Corresponding Games of China and Japan
Unabridged reprint of the Original 1895 Edition. Illustrations in b/w. Wraps. as new. 8vo. xxxvi, 177 pps. Uncommon. ISBN: 0486265935
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Santangelo Paolo
Emozioni e Desideri in Cina. La riflessione neoconfuciana dalla metà del XIV alla metà del XIX secolo,
Perfetto, salvo piega sul dorso /br. ed. Prima edizione. pp. 208
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Stein Rolf A.
La civiltà Tibetana
Cm. 21,5 - pp. 306 - Tela ed. + sopracop. ill. Con ill. in b.n. e a colori n.t. e f.t. Timbri editoriali alla fine. Volume della Collana Saggi. "Storia, cultura, religione della civilta' nata sul "tetto del mondo" ottimo
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Kiang Kang-hu
Chinese Civilization, an introduction to Sinology
8vo, original red cloth, 676 pages., Preface is dated June 30, 1933, but the book was not printed until 1935. A series of lectures in english on Chinese civilization delivered between 1913 and 1933 at McGill University in Montreal by a Chinese scholar who subsequently returned to China and had them printed in Shanghai, under Japanese threat. and bombings. He mentions the urgency of understanding Chinese history and culture because a Chinese Soviet is functioning in the Yangtse valley; communism and anti-communism becoming the pretext of further mayhem. The original scarce item, not a reprint. .
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Xiang, Lanxin
Recasting the Imperial Far East : Britain & America in China, 1945-1950 (Studies on Modern China)
Fine. First Edition. - 8vo. - as new hardcover bound in red boards with white and gold titles and cover illustration, not issued with a dj. Contents include; "The Strong China Controversy," "The Japanese Surrender," "The Marshall Mission," "A Chinese Tito?," "The Korean War," and more. Bibliography, notes, and index. ISBN: 1563244594
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Blacker J. F.
Chats on Oriental China
original gilt decorated cloth, 8vo. A practical guide for collectors. 408 pages. Color and black & white illustrations. classico manmuale per collezionisti dfella porcellana orientale e cinese, in english.
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Favier, Alphonse
Peking. Histoire et Description orné de 524 gravures anciennes et nouvelles reproduites ou exécutées par des artistes chinois d'après les plus précieux Documents
in-4, 416 pp., toile rouge ed., dos tres ornée, tranches dorées. L'ouvrage se divise en une partie historique et une partie descriptive. La partie historique débute avec la mythologie et l'origine du peuple chinois et se termine à la guerre sino-japonaise et les soulèvements au Sse-tch'ouan. La partie descriptive passe en revue le plan de la ville, les monuments, les moeurs, les loisirs, les institutions, les moyens de transport, la faune et la flore, etc. Cet ouvrage, publié originellement à Pékin en 1897 par l'Imprimerie des Lazaristes au Pé-t-ang, connut un grand succès et deux éditions françaises (1900 et 1902). tres bon etat
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Fenollosa, Ernest, and Ezra Pound
The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry
Pale green paper-covered boards, paper title label inset front panel and spine in plain paper dust jacket printed in green. Edges of boards slightly worn, ow excellent, in original torn tape repaired dj. Despite dj flaws, a clean, presentable copy handsomely printed by the Kynoch Press, Great Britain ; The Ideogramic Series 1edited by Ezra Pound; Square 8vo; 52 pages. This is one of the Ideogramic Series which was edited by Ezra Pound. At the time of printing, the series had 3 volumes in it of which this is #1. Pound provided the foreword and notes for this edition, subtitled "An Ars Poetica". The notes which were finished by Pound from preliminary work by Fenollosa are commentaries on the ideograms themselves with paraphrased translations. Pound introduces his role in the finishing of the notes as being that of "a very ignorant man." The notes include 5 pages or plates of Chinese characters or ideograms.
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White Theodore and Jacoby Annalee
Thunder Out of China
8vo. With maps on front and back endpapers. 331p. Hardback. Very Good, clean and bright text. Firm and clean binding. WWII and Chinese Communism.
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Cumming, C. F. Gordon
Wanderings in China
VG original cloth Small tears at top and bottom of spine. Previous owner's inscription and a chinese red stamp to title page. frontis detached but present. ; Yellow, beautifully decorated cloth with brown lettering. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 528 pages.Illustrated by Cumming, C. F. Gordon.
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CH'U, T'ung-Tsu
Law and Society in Traditional China
8vo 304pp, bibliography, index, errata, Chapters cover Family and Tsu, blood revenge, marrriage, concubinage and divorce, social classes, ancestor worship, law of the feudal nobles, inequalities between races and slaves, magic and law, the Confucian School and the Legal School. Reprint. edition.
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Chen Cheng-Siang
China: Essays on Geography
8vo 22x15cm, 379pp.
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Champly Henry
The Road to Shanghai: White Slave Traffic in Asia
1st Edition 8vo. original coth, spine gilt titled . ex library,usual marks, but overall quite a well preserved copy. Uncommon 288p., index, translated from the French by W. B. Wells. Covering the erotic activities of European women in Asia, their relationships with Chinese and foreigners. The women travelers of Marseilles, Siberian Pearl in the Yellow casket, Singapore marriages, walled gardens. Among contents: With the Colonials, from Malaya to Indo-China. New Saigon "Professionals," Runners, "boys and Malabars." The gates of China open to white women, Hong Kong Yellow Slaves -some times half-white. The author was familiar to Lyndhurst Terrace Hong Kong's red light district in the 1930's. Shanghai: Navy girls, walkers on the Shanghai Bund, Venus Bar. Interviews with dozens of perverts, pimps, pederasts and prostitutes through Southeast Asia, China and Japan.
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GLOVER, Archibald E
Thousand Miles of Miracle in China: A Personal Record of God's Delivering Power From the Hands of the Imperial Boxers of Shan-Si
ninth edition,original Red cloth, good, 372p., 36 bw photos, folding map. This is the autobiographical resource covering the author's sojourn as a missionary in China from 1896 for the China Inland Mission group to Lu-an in Shansi. primary record of the outbreak of the Boxer uprising, the effect it had on the five foreigners of their mission, a recital of the facts in sequence. Also an account of the martryed missionaries by the Boxers, with their photos just prior to being killed.
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De Groot J. J. M, Chavannes Tr.
Les Fetes Annuelement Célébrées a Emoui ( Amoy) Etudes Concernant La Religion Populaire Des Chinois. 2 Vols. Annales Du Muée Guimet Tome 11 et 12
1977 high quality reprint of the 1886 original , including the illustrations with a new introduction by inez de beauclair and harvey molé. reprint scarce as the original.
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Bacot Jacques
Zuginima. Cahiers de la Société Asiatique. XIV. Texte. Traduction, 2 Vols.
2 vols.in 8vo, orig. blue wrappers, Texte: 140pp (b/w plates)+10pp., Traduction:xii+93pp., excellent condition. Contents : v. 1. Texte--v. 2. Traduction. Subject : Tibetan drama -- Translations into French. Manuscripts, Tibetan. en français.
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Patterson George N.
Tibetan Journey
8vo original Red cloth, 232p., index, 16 b.w.photos 2 maps. An authority on Tibet outlines his route & experie- ces from Tinsokia in Singpho to Tatsienlu. As a physican and As a medical missionary, Patterson offered his services to the Tibe, where he began a study of Kham dialect while pre- scribed medical treatment. He traveled to a remote valley in Kham Province, while avoiding the Chinese Communists.
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Law B. C. Foreword by the Earl of Ronaldshay
Heaven and Hell in Buddhist Perspective
8vo pp. xxxiv + 162, Biblio., Index, Appendix, Paper Cover, Size 22cm,Heaven and Hell of Buddhism are places with the categories of space and time whose inhabitants are much subject to the iron law of Karma as are the dwellers upon the earth itself. ISBN: 8176240206
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Dixey.Annie Coath
The Lion Dog of Peking, Being the Astonishing History of the Pekingese Dog
First Edition. A very good copy in the original yellow cloth, just moderately soiled, 245p., appendix, 13 b.w. photos illustrating 16 individual dogs, chronology. S C A R C E. The history of the famous mascot dog of Peking and N. China. Based on copious research, assisted by celebrated Sinologists: Prof. H. Giles, Florence Ayscough, W. Collier and breeders. Contents: The dog that became a lion, Favorites of the Emperor, Literary resources. The Pekingese in Japan. Hunting dogs of Kublai Khan, Sleeve dog of the Manchus, their life in the Forbidden City and under the rule of the eunuchs. Superstitions and legacy, Pekingese dog in the days of old, as found in Chinese art, how it is today. Standard points drawn up by the Pekingese Club.
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Kamachi Noriko
REFORM IN CHINA: HUANG TSUN-HSIEN AND THE JAPANESE MODEL
1st octavo, as new, no dj, original burnt orange cloth w/ gold title in black text box
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U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary
THE AMERASIA PAPERS: A CLUE TO THE CATASTROPHE OF CHINA: VOLUME I
Soft Cover. In Good Condition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 946 pages.
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Bisch, Jorgen
Mongolia: Unknown Land
8vo, 24x16cm, original red cloth, 160pp, col photos, map, bibliog. 1st Eng ed. Informal account, well illustrated with colour photos, of trips to Mongolia in the 1950's. A very good copy
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Cloud, Frederick D.
Hangchow: The City of Heaven. With a Brief Historical Sketch of Soochow
Hardcover. 110pp. VG condition.
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McAleavy Henry
A Dream Of Tartary - The Origins and Misfortunes of Henry P'u Yi
"Written from original sources and abounding in anecdote, it is an enthralling history of a little-known aspect of China's pilgrimage from Confucius to Marx". Indexed and illustrated with a frontisportrait, 10 B/W photoplates, endpapermaps, 292p.
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Till Barry
In Search of Old Nanking
pp.244, softcover, very good.
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Pan Ling Pan Lynn
In Search of Old Shanghai
8vo pp.145244, softcover,
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Bland, J.O.P. and E. Backhouse
China under the Empress Dowager. Being the history of the Life and Times of Tzu Hsi. Compiled from State papers and the private diary of the Controller of her Household
1975 reprint of the 1911 heinemann ed, cloth, pp.xxvi-525.large 8vo
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Backhouse, E. and J. O. P. Bland
Annals and Memoirs of the Court of Peking, From the 16th to the 20th Century
pp. 531, lga 8vo, hardcover,
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The Canton Advertising & Commission Agency
Canton It's Port, Industries & Trade, with Maps, Drawings & Illutrations
reprint of the original canton 1892 ed. pp. 250, cloth, very good.
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Peking United International Famine Relief Committee
THE NORTH CHINA FAMINE OF 1920-21 With Special Reference to the West Chihli Area
maps (1 folding), photos, viii, 175p. Cloth. 26cm. Reprint of the 1922 edition.
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All About Shanghai And Environs: A Standard Guide Book; Historical and Contemporary Facts and Statistics ; Illustrated with Maps and Photographs
reprint of the shanghai university press 1934-35 ed. pp.223, illustrations, foldng map. cloth, small chinese seal vg
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Rea Kenneth W. (editor).
CANTON IN REVOLUTION; THE COLLECTED PAPERS OF EARL SWISHER, 1925 - 1928
8vo. xiv, 144 pages. H 23.5cm x L 15.75cm. Dark green cloth with gilt lettering.
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Shaw, Kinn Wei pref. Edwin Seligman
DEMOCRACY AND FINANCE IN CHINA: A Study in the Development of Fiscal Systems and Ideals
8vo, 217 pp.,original publisher's blue cloth, very good gilt titles bright, some pages tape repaired, but overall in excellent state scarce. history of ancient china's economic thought. and fiscal theories,
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