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RIPA MATTEO
Storia della Fondazione della Congregazione e del Collegio de' Cinesi, sotto il titolo della Sagra Famiglia di G. C. scritta dallo stesso fondatore Matteo Ripa e de' viaggi da lui fatti
Tre volumi di cm. 22; pp. (4), 504; (4), 507; 480. Bel ritratto litografico di Matteo Ripa in antiporta al primo volume. Legatura coeva in mezza tela, titoli e fregi in oro al dorso, piatti marmorizzati. Timbri di biblioteca francese. Qualche lieve fioritura, ottimo esemplare. Volume primo: "Dalla sua vocazione sino allo stabilimento della Scuola a Pekin"; volume secondo: "Dallo stabilimento della Scuola in Pekin fino alla solenne apertura di questa Congregazione e del Collegio in Napoli"; volume terzo: "Il quale contiene quel che avvenne dopo la solenne apertura della fondazione fino agli ultimi anni, in cui potei notare queste memorie". (29/203) (470/P) 434/32
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Yuanzhong, Xu. trans.
Unexpurgated Translation of Book of Songs, An
Bumped top corner of spine. Slightly creased corners of covers. Clean interior. 359 pages.
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Menghu, Wang and Tieqin, Hu (eds.)
National Conservation Management Plan for The Giant Panda and Its Habitat
157 pages. Illustrated with maps and charts.
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Dizionario Consiso Cinese - Italiano
866 pages, Chinese words, Italian defenitions. Small format "concise" edition. Publisher and edition information in Chinese, but appears to be modern, and perhaps current edition.
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Alexeiev, Basil M.
The Chinese Gods of Wealth: A Lecture Delivered at the School of Oriental Studies, University of London, on 26th March, 1926
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. Slightly soiled bright yellow cover with black characters and illustration. Previous owner's stamp inside. 36 pages. Color and b&w plates.
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Zhang, Baiqing;Zhu, Chengyao
Chinese Films and Television Plays
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean. 183 pages, many color & b&w photos, sections (each with several chapters) include: Birth and Start of Chinese Cinema 1905 - 1948 Development and Ups and Downs of Chinese Cinema 1949 - 1976, Explorations and Progress of Chinese Cinema 1977 - 1997, Maturing of Chinese Television 1958 - 1997 . Text is in English.
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Lai, David Chuenyan
Chinatowns: Towns Within Cities in Canada
Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Slight marking and one instance of hilighting; tight binding. Contents: Part One: Canadian Chinatowns (Entry Without Restriction; Chinatowns in British Columbia; From Restriction to Exclusion; Vicissitudes of Old Chinatowns; Postwar Arrival of New Immigrants; Postwar Chinatowns); Part Two: Victoria's Chinatown (The Budding Period, 1858-1870; The Blooming Period, 1880s-1910s; The Withering Period, 1920s-1970s; The Reviving Period, 1980s); Part Three: Conclusion; Retrospect and Prospect. 347 pages.
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Peng, Jai-Lin
Wild Cat: Stories of the Cultural Revolution
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 180 pages.
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Tan, J. J.
Chinese Calligraphy
96 pages with artist's calligraphy presented on the left page with English, French and Chinese translation on the right. Perfect condition. 8 3/8"w x 11 1/8"h.
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Ling, Wang
Chinese Tea Culture: The Origin of Tea Drinking
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 154 pages.
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Maartman, Ben
The Iron Bowl Blues and Other Peeks Behind the Bamboo Curtain
Appears new, very clean copy. Signed by author under his bio.
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Zhizhen
Traditional Chinese Flower and Bird Painting
Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. 79 pages. Color plates. Translation of: Zhongguo hua niao hua. Title also in Chinese on cover: Yu Zhizhen Liu Lishang hua ji.
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Fong-Ching, Chen; Guantao, Jin
From Youthful Manuscripts to River Elegy: The Chinese Popular Cultural Movement and Political Transformation 1979-1989
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 343 pages. Previous owner's name inside.
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Ching-hsien, Ho (ed.)
Teacher's Manual for Elementary Chinese (Volume 1)
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 184 pages.
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Ching-hsien, Ho (ed.)
Teacher's Manual for Elementary Chinese (Volume 2)
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 288 pages.
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Sigurdson, Jon
Rural Industrialization in China (Harvard East Asian Monographs 73)
Slight pencil marking. Full red cloth boards. 281 pages.
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No Author Listed
The Nanking Massacre: 70 Years of Amnesia
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding.
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Qingzheng, Wang; Scott, Rosemary E.; Chen, Jennifer
Serene Pleasure: The Jinglexuan Collection of Chinese Ceramics
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 72 pages. Many color photos.
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Hutcheon, Robin
Wharf: The First Hundred Years
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 222 pages. Many illustrations and photos. Inscribed by author on the title page.
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Despeux, Catherine; Obringer, Frederic
La Maladie Dans La Chine Medievale: La Toux
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 289 pages. Text in French.
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Steltzer, Ulli
Sights and Insights: Life in Lijiang, Baidi, and Yongning
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 142 pages. Text in Chinese and English. Many b&w photos.
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Valder, Peter
The Garden Plants of China
An excellent copy in as-new condition with straight spine, clean covers with sharp corners, spotless text with no marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows very light shelfwear. Comprehensive reference to more than 400 ornamental plants grown in Chinese gardens, their history and their place in art, literature, symbolism and everyday life. Beautiful volume covering a wide variety of plants.
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Kennelly, M. S. J. ; Dore, Henry, S.J. (trans)
Chinese Customs
Ex-library copy with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interion is clean and free of marking of any kind. Good, solid, clean reading copy. 223 pages, first published in 1911, the intro lists about 250 books that were consulted in the writing of this one. Heavily illustrated.
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Jiao, Fan
Learning Chinese Measure Words
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 244 pages. Illustrated.
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Chiang Kai-shek
Madame Chiang Kai-shek: Selected Speeches and Messages 1940-1950
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 280 pages. Full green cloth boards with gilt lettering.
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Lao-Tzu; He, Guanghu; Ren, Jiyu
A Taoist Classic: The Book of Lao Zi
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 103 pages.
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Yuan Ke; Translated By Ke Wen-li & Hou Mei-xue
Stories From Chinese Mythology
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. In a very good slipcase. Patterned silk cover. 438 pages. Text in English.
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Doar, Bruce Gordon; Dewar, Susan
China Archaeology & Art Digest: Vol 1 No 3
A clean, unmarked copy; tight binding. 254 pages. July-September, 1996.
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Doucheng, Du; Shuqing, Wang
Dunhuang & Silk Road
A clean, unmarked copy - except for ink note on endpaper -with a tight binding. 115 pages. Many color photos and illustrations.
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Lip, Evelyn
Classic Chinese Legends
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 111 pages. Previous owner's note on endpaper.
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Harris, Nathaniel
Hamlyn History of Imperial China
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 192 pages. Many illustrations.
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Zhang, Baiqing;Zhu, Chengyao
Chinese Films and Television Plays
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean. 183 pages, many color & b&w photos, sections (each with several chapters) include: Birth and Start of Chinese Cinema 1905 - 1948 Development and Ups and Downs of Chinese Cinema 1949 - 1976, Explorations and Progress of Chinese Cinema 1977 - 1997, Maturing of Chinese Television 1958 - 1997 . Text is in English.
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Jianzhong, Qiao
Chinese Music
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean. 180 pages, Many color & b&w photos.
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Stursberg, Peter
No Foreign Bones in China: Memoirs of Imperialism and Its Ending
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 216 pages. Inscribed by author. Slight edge wear to cover.
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Wilson, Ernest H.
China: Mother of Gardens
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 408 pages. With fold-out map and 61 illustrations from photographs taken by the author. Previous owner's inscription inside. Purple cloth boards with silver lettering and design. Bumped very lightly at corners, otherwise in excellent conditon, showing little to no wear.
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Bossert, Helmuth Th.
Decorative Art of Asia and Egypt
Ex-library book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is tight and straight and text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Book has been re-bound by the library in to strong, heavy green cloth boards that show small tears at lower corners, but little else. Interior is very very clean and bright with very heavy paper with sharp corners. The forty 4-color full page plates illustrate approximately 600 examples of ornamental designs from Ancient Egypt, Syria, Turkey, Persia, Bokhara, Samarkand, Chinese Turkestan, Persia, India, Siam, China, Japan; and from those of the Tartars, the Siberian peoples, the Lapps, the Kirghiz, the Turcomans and the peoples of the Pamir plateau. These illustrations cover mainly the peak periods of non-European civilizations, so rich in decorative ornaments.
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Fang, Zhang
Animal Symbolism of the Chinese Zodiac
Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 156 pages.
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Kwan, Michael David
Things That Must Not Be Forgotten: A Childhood in Wartime China
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 244 pages. Inscribed by author.
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Imin, Turdi
Chinese Painting Collection of Turdi Imin / Tu er di ? yi ming zhong guo hua zuo pin Ji
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 117 pages. Many color plates. Some wear and spots on back cover.
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Thrasher, Alan R.
Chinese Musical Instruments (Images of Asia)
Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 98 pages. Pictorial cover. Illustrated. Contents: The Ancient Heritage; Han Literati and the Qin; Common-Practice Instruments in Historic Perspective; Sizhu Instruments; Chuida Instruments; Postscript: Twentieth-Century Developments; Selected Bibliography; Index.
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No Author Listed
Historical Pictures: The Collection of the Hong Kong Museum of Art
Clean and unmarked; tight binding. 92 pages. Text in English and Chinese.
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Liu, kwang-Ching (ed.)
American Missionaries in China
Some edgewear with a curled lower corner of the front cover, spine fading. Binding and text/interior are clean and tight. An introduction by the editor, then seven articles on various subjects including missionary contributions to China, the relationship of missionaries to Chinese nationalism or the missionary's relationship to rural problems. 310 pages with index,
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China Social Culture (ed.)
The Best in Modern Chinese Folk Painting
Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 179 pages. Many color illustrations. Includes paintings from regions all over China.
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Henry, William Jay Rathbun and Catherine A. Kaputa Trubner
Asiatic Art in the Seattle Art Museum: A Selection and Catalogue
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 300 pages. 8 3/4"w x 10 1/2"h.
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Yunhua, Hu
Penjing: The Chinese Art of Miniature Gardens
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 166 pages. Many photos and illustrations. Tears on dust jacket.
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Clements, Johathan
Wu: The Chinese Empress Who Schemed, Seduced and Murdered Her Way to Become a Living God
Ex-library book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 239 pages with several pages of b&w photos.
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Gillette, Maris Boyd
Between Mecca and Beijing: Modernization and Consumption Among Urban Chinese Muslims
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 279 pages. Slight edge wear.
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Chinese Paintings
9 5/8"wide x 12 3/4"tall. Full cloth boards (raw silk?) with gilt Chinese characters. 135 pages. Full color prints; 140 printed pages of color paintings with bilingual Chinese and English text. Dust jacket worn around edges with small tears.
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Chinese Rubbings
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 176 pages. Catalogue of color and black and white rubbings. Text in English and Chinese. No date given; circa 1980. 8 5/8"w x 8 184"h.
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Wenjie, Duan (Editor)
The Cream of Dunhuang Art /Tun-huang i shu ching hua
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 127 pages. 9 7/8"w x 9 1/2"h. "This picture-album offers you 136 masterpieces of the mural paintings, painted sculptures, silk-paintings, brick-paintings and calligraphies in Dunhuang art, adding an academic thesis and the simple explanations of the plates." Text in English and Chinese.
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