‎Porcelaine chinoise‎

‎[CHINA].‎

‎The six horses of Tang Tai Tsung; Tai Chi Shang Yuan -- The Chinese astrological theory of creation; The inscribed bones of Shang; Agricultural rites in the religion of Old China; Old problems concerning the Nestorian monument; Geophysical prospecting for gold metallic ores and petroleum and its possible application in China. . . . In: Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. Volume LXVII . . .‎

‎Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh Ltd. 1936. 8vo. 6 xvi 251 1 pp. Photo frntsp. numerous plates maps tables text illustrations. Yellow-tinted softcovers minor creasing & wear to spine VG copy. First edition of this installment of the famed journal on Chinese history and culture. The list of Royal Asiatic Society Members provides an invaluable reference. Kelly & Walsh, Ltd., paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 63564

‎HYDRO-ENGINEERING IN CHINA‎

‎Guangdong shuili niankan "Guangdong Hydroengineering Yearbook".‎

‎Guangzhou: Zhongguo shuili gongchengshi xuehui Guangdong fenhui "Guangdong Sub-Committee of the China Association of Hydro-Engineers" 1947. First edition of this report issued after an April 1947 meeting in Guangzhou of hydro-engineers from across China. Delegates discussed hydroelectric power flood dykes and the construction of spillways all pressing topics during the country's post-war economic reconstruction. The contents include a series of illustrated technical articles a report of the meeting's proceedings and a table of major donors to the Guangdong Sub-Committee of the China Association of Hydro-Engineers. Quarto pp. 30. With 2 plates 1 folding 3 tables 1 with additional information stamped in red ink as issued illustrations and tables in text. Text in Chinese. Original wrappers front cover printed in black. Wrappers worn and marked spine fold fragile at p. 30 browning internally as often: a very good copy of a fragile item. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 188457

‎[CHINA -- BOXER REBELLION]. WEALE, BL Putnam [pseud of Bertram Lenox Simpson]. B L‎

‎Indiscreet letters from Peking: being the notes of an eye-witness which set forth in some detail from day to day the real story of the siege and sack of a distressed capital in 1900 -- the Year of Great Tribulation. . . .‎

‎London UK: Hurst & Blackett Ltd. ca. 1910 c. 1906. 8vo. xii 310 pp. Frontisp. 1 map. Brick-red pictorial cloth black lettering & illust. front cover & spine minor edgewear scuffing some rubbing occasional interior foxing still VG- copy w/ former ownership markings on ffep. from the library of David G. Kohl 1946-2025 former art teacher at the Hong Kong International School musician artist and historian. Fifth edition of ostensibly what claims to be an eye-witness account of the Boxer Rebellion while the author was in China during the siege of the legations and later became Brigade interpreter for the British Expeditionary Force. The semi-notorious author was dismissed from the Chinese Maritime Customs Service perhaps from the looting and questionable behavior mentioned in his book including taking over a Manchu home filled with women Simpson 1877-1930 later worked as a Daily Telegraph correspondent in the Far East but later was killed after taking control of customs in Tianjin for Yan Xishan. See: Lanxin Xiang The Origins of the Boxer War: A Multinational Study 2003; Jacqueline Young Rewriting the Boxer Rebellion: The Imaginative Creations of Putnam Weale Edmund Backhouse and Charles Welsh Mason Victorian Newsletter Vol. 114 Fall 2008. Hurst & Blackett, Ltd., hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 64051

‎[CHINA]. HOLLISTER, Mary Brewster‎

‎South China folk.‎

‎New York NY: Fleming H. Revell Co. 1935. 8vo. 141 1 pp. Blue cloth yellow lettering on spine very slight interior toning minor shelfwear w/ d.j. Art Deco silhouette cover art minor edgewear rubbing still VG/VG copy from the library of David G. Kohl 1946-2025 former art teacher at the Hong Kong International School musician artist and historian. First edition of this anthology of short stories set against the backdrop of changing culture and society in Nationalist China prior to the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War. Mary Brewster Hollister 1892-1975 was the daughter of Methodist missionaries in China married George Hollister 1891-1967 born of Methodist missionary parents in Bangalore India and served as missionary in China on and off from about 1910 until the Communist takeover of China in 1950. They often both taught and were professors on mission sabbatical from 1927-1932 in New York before return to China and then to Delaware OH where George taught at Ohio Wesleyan University and Mary wrote and edited Methodist Missionary publications. Fleming H. Revell Co., hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 64049

‎[CHINA -- CHINESE CIVIL WAR & MISSION BUILDING]. [GEBHARDT, Arnold; SIMON, Gertrude (Photographers); MUELLER, Reinhold "RJ" (Pho‎

‎Enshih formerly Shihnan picture album. Building Committee. . . ; Description of pictures by numbers. . . An outstanding photo album filled with numbered photographs together with descriptive list and introduction by Rev. Mueller assembled following the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod missionaries return to Shihnan station in the aftermath of the Communist-Nationalist Civil War 1927-1930.‎

‎Enshih Shihnan Hubei China: R.J. Mueller Rev. Gebhardt Miss Simon LCMS ca. 1930-1937. Two vols. 1st - Oblong folio. 11.25 x 15 in. 48 pp unpaginated. thick black paper stock w/ 103 original silver gelatin photographs sized 2.75 x 3.5 in. all neatly numbered in ink MS at corners affixed to the leaves. Contemporary black flexible board post-binder punch-sewn & glued at spine in black paper paper title label partially torn on front cover Building Committee title label affixed to first page minor chipping edgewear to fore-edges some scuffing tidemark to fore-edges still a VG- exemplar w/ all images with bright strong contrast; 2nd - 4to. 8 leaves carbon copy typescript on onion-skin ruled paper some ink annotations corrections 1 pencil MS annotated correction still VG signed by R.J. Mueller on first leaf dated April 24 1937 from the library of David G. Kohl 1946-2025 former art teacher at the Hong Kong International School musician artist and historian. A remarkable photo album with images shot by three different Lutheran Church Missouri Synod LCMS missionaries in China along with the descriptive contents list compiled by Rev. R.J. Mueller detailing the purpose and composition. He writes that the Enshih Shihnan Mission had prepared three albums “one for the Mission Board one for the Building Committee of General Conference and one at the Enshih Station. The numbers all agree. However not all pictures listed appear in all books.†This “Building Committee†album was intended to focus primary on the structures homes chapels of the mission as well as surrounding areas and was intended to aid in speeding up communications for fundraising and building affairs issues as correspondents could then merely refer to the master list of numbers held by all three parties. Enshih China was one of the final mission stations established by the LCMS far from their other missions and when Gebhardt returned to Enshih following the Civil War in 1928 there was significant damage to the mission structures to be repaired. Looting by bandits and marauding soldiers had caused over $ 2000 in damage but was encouraged to find that the Lutheran evangelist Shen had continued the mission chapel school orphanage. He would later be joined by Mueller and others although primarily composed of Chinese Staff. These photos in the album includes views of Mueller’s residence windows frames and gutters looted; screens torn doors boarded up as well as views of the native house and threshing floor adapted into an orphanage at Yao Wan after 1930. Several others show the extent of the protective walls built around the properties farm houses the gates as well as farms bridges and nearby fields at Enshih. Landmarks such as rocks shaped like Elephants in the river and Big and Little Hog creek below farmland. A very nice series of photos depict the Ts’i Ts-ung-fu funeral the blind deaf and other orphans about 1931 as well as textiles drying in the sun. Other photos capture the Ch’i-li-ping market fortune teller temple noodle stand and the T’ai shan shrine at Ch’i-li-p’ing. More photos depict Hu Ping-chih the orphanage secretary Yuen Ye-chih cashier in 1934 Hsieh T’i-ya seminary student who died later in 1937; along with the mission pulpit nearby streets and the rear view of the Yao Wan houses.Of additional interest are the images of the rugged roads to Liang Shui-chin the temple and steep steps drying opium in Kuan-p’e which was a small town between the East Gate and Yao Wan before opium raising was banned in 1934; along with the nearby Ch’ing-Ching Clear River at the high water stage the front of the True Light Chapel in 1934 as well as the gravestone of Mr. & Mrs. Wang Japanese-Lutherans who had died in 1930. The final photo No. 169 again shows the Clear River below the city. Mueller 1905-1998 graduated from seminary in 1929 and left for China with his wife Dorothy for the Evangelical Lutheran Foreign Mission Board returned briefly to the U.S. from 1937-1940 spent 1939-1942 teaching at a Lutheran seminary in China while being bombed by the Japanese and also served in Shanghai where he would supervise the Lutheran Hour and Lutheran Hour offices. Although he and his wife briefly returned to the United States in 1946 following World War II they subsequently served again in Shanghai China into the early years of Communist rule by Mao tse-tung before returning again to the U.S. See: David Kohl Lutherans on the Yangtze: A Hundred Year History of the Missouri Synod in China 2014 pp. 103 124 131 132 166 174 99-131. R.J. Mueller, Rev. Gebhardt, Miss Simon, LCMS, unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 64035

‎[CHINA -- JAPANESE MANCHUKUO]. HSIAO-HSU,Premier Cheng [ZHENG XIAOXU].‎

‎Wang tao The Kingly Way: an outline of the political-moral code of the Manchoukuo government.‎

‎Dairen Dalian Manchukuo China: The Manchuria Daily News 1934. 8vo. 4 41 1 pp. Photo plate. Beige-coloured textured softcovers black lettering front cover minor corner creasing still a VG bright copy from the library of Tom Atiyeh. First offprint edition of this very scarce work outlining the governing philosophy and justifying principles outlined by Manchu loyalist advisor to former Hsuan-tung Emperor Pu-yi and politician who believed that by aligning with the Japanese Empire the Qing Dynasty could be restored in Manchuria and combat China’s rampant warlords. Following 1924 when Feng Yu-hsiang had occupied Peking deposed the rump Emperor and forced Pu-Yi and Zheng Xiaoxu 1860-1938 he had dedicated himself to restoring the Xing Dynasty and their rule. The state of Manchoukuo a Japanese puppet state was established March 1 1934 with Zheng Xiaoxiu serving as the first prime minister until 1935 when the Japanese forced the Emperor to remove him from the payroll and he was succeeded by Zhang Jinghui. The Manchuria Daily News, paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 63968

‎CHINA; SECOND SINO-JAPANESE WAR‎

‎Zhanshi gaoji. Di yi ce "Wartime Reading: Advanced. Book 1".‎

‎Hebei: c. 1938. Presumed first edition of this reading textbook "for use in training the populace and in primary schools" produced during the Japanese invasion of China. The highly propagandised stories tell of the bravery of Chinese soldiers and the savagery of the Japanese paying particular attention to the weaponry both sides used. The 29th section transcribes a Chinese army marching song. Small octavo pp. 32. Illustrations in text; text in Chinese. Original pictorial wrappers wire-stitched and glued into wrappers as issued front wrapper lettered in red. Wrappers a little creased light toning to contents: a very good copy. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 190996

‎[ASIA -- CHINA & JAPAN]. KNOX, Thomas W‎

‎Adventures of two youths in a journey to Japan and China. The Boy Travellers in the Far East. . . .‎

‎New York: Harper & Brothers 1880. Tall 8vo. 421 1 pp. plus 2 pp. publ. ads. Colour chromolithograph frontisp. reproducing a Japanese Ukiyo-e woodcut swimming scene over 300 text engravings & woodcut engraved plates most with tissue guards. Pictorial red publisher’s cloth illustrated & decorated in black silver gilt & red illustrated gray clay-sized endpapers minor rubbing dustsoiling slight rubbing to lower fore-edge front cover still VG bright copy. First edition of this title in the Boy Travellers series. Of particular interest are the historically accurate descriptions of social customs history and travel details including overland trip to California participating in a whaling voyage climbing Mt. Fuji studying the culture and habits of Japanese women before trekking onto China. After surviving a Typhoon the pair experience the Tai-Ping Rebellion and travel to Shanghai Peking the Great Wall of China Hong Kong Canton and beyond. Knox 1835-1896 famed Civil War correspondent for the New York Herald later worked for the Russo-American Telegraph Company which inspired his Boy Travellers series featuring an industrialist father and two sons traveling the world. Harper & Brothers, hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 64107

‎[CHINA -- MINIATURE BOOKS]. [MORGAN, HT (Ed)]. H T‎

‎Chinese classics in miniature: Chinese recipes; Chinese dogs; Chinese music; Chinese symbolism; Chinese carvings; Chinese porcelain and pottery; Chinese metal art; The story of jade; China a brief history; Chinese religious beliefs; Kuan yin; Chinese proverbs; Chinese astrology; The romance of Chinese writing. . . .‎

‎Los Angeles CA: Quon-Quon Co. 843 So. Los Angeles St. 1942-1944. 16mo. 3.8 x 4.75 in. 224 pp each one separately paginated. with many text illustrations. Illustrated softcovers in varying colours slight age toning preserved w/ original portfolio wrapper illustrated minor dustsoiling NF/NF set. Early printing of this charming miniature set of books filled featuring treatises on Chinese cookery art natural history religion political history legends and folklore issued by the noted International Import-Export firm in Los Angeles during World War II in format reminiscent of the Little Blue Book Series. Very scarce in original portfolio wrapper. Quon-Quon Co., 843 So. Los Angeles St., paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 64166

‎[CHINA -- WOMEN]. NEVIUS, Helen S[anford] C[oan].‎

‎Our life in China.‎

‎New York NY: Hurst & Co. 1891. 12mo. vi 7-504 pp. Frontisp. Decorated emerald-green publisher’s cloth gilt & black ornament borders lettering front cover & spine patterned endpapers uniform interior toning throughout as typical with 19th-Century Hurst publications still a VG copy from the library of David Kohl 1946-2025 former art teacher at the Hong Kong International School musician artist and historian. First Hurst edition of this well-written memoir first published in 1869 by Robert Carter detailing her life as a Presbyterian missionary to China with husband John Nevius 1829-1893 after first sailing for China in March 1853 arriving in Ningbo Hangzhou Yantai then Chefoo in China’s Shandong Province. The couple’s efforts included diligently learning the Chinese language setting up schools for Chinese women and young female children coping with Cholera outbreaks warlords bandits and setting up schools. One particular section of the memoir focuses on preparing tea and tea leaves for market and how the varieties were determined as well as traveling up the Yangtze River. Despite her frequent illnesses Helen Nevius 1833-1910 devoted considerable time and support into her husband John’s development of the “Nevius Method†of missionary efforts in China whihc emphasized personal evangelism Bible centric instruction self-propagation and self-government encouraging local fundraising church and mission building and cooperation with other missionaries along with continually building and expanding schools which received partial subsidies. They were frequently apart for extended periods due to her frequent poor health and over 40 years returning to the U.S. from China due to incapacity and overwork. See: Joshua Bowman The “Nevius Method:†Retrieving Theological and Missiological Criteria for Money in Missions Training Leaders 2026. Hurst & Co., hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 64156

‎[CHINA & MONGOLIA TRAVEL -- WOMEN]. CABLE, Mildred & FRENCH, Francesca‎

‎The gobi desert.‎

‎New York: The Macmillan Co. 1944. 8vo. 302 2 pp. Colour frontisp. numerous photo plates 2 maps 1 large folding. Salmon-coloured cloth blue lettering on spine w/ d.j. cover art of gateway in China to the Gobi minor chipping edgewear couple a few closed tears creasing still NF/G copy. First American edition 1st printing of this fascinating travel account of these two British women missionaries from the China Inland Mission through the Gobi desert in the years before the onset of World War II. This work does examine the subsequent impact of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II Warlord Politics and lives of Muslim women. Scarce in original dustjacket this work is considered one of the best accounts of travel through Central Asia and the Silk Road in Western China. The Macmillan Co., hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 64125

‎CHINA PICTORIAL‎

‎In Deep Memory of Esteemed and Beloved Premier Chou En-lai. China Pictorial 1977 1.‎

‎Peking: 1977. folio. pp. 40. illus. throughout some colour. wrs. small tear to spine. dola3211 Peking: 1977 unknown‎

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‎[CHINA - WOMEN]. AYSCOUGH, Florence [Wheelock].‎

‎Chinese women yesterday & today.‎

‎London: Jonathan Cape Thirty Bedford Square 1938. 8vo. xiv 324 pp. Frontisp. numerous illustrations plates. Red publisher’s cloth gilt lettering on spine red topstain to upper fore-edge as issued minor shelfwear very slight bumping to a couple corners w/ d.j. minor shelfwear price-clipped still VG/VG copy from the library of David Kohl 1946-2025 former art teacher at the Hong Kong International School musician artist and historian. First edition of this uncommon history detailing the impact of women in China over the centuries including such figures as Chi’iu Chin Qiu Jin woman martyr of a failed uprising against the Qing Dynasty who was beheaded in 1907; Hua Mu Lan legendary Chinese folk heroine from the Northern Wei Period 386-535 based on the 6th Century poem; the three Soong Sisters Ai-ling Ching-Ling and Mei-Ling with Ching-ling marrying revolutionary Sun Yat-Sen while Mei-Ling married Chiang Kai-shek after he successfully divorced his first wife and became Chinese political power centers in their own right. Ayscough 1875/78-1942 was a noted sinologist editor poet and translator of Chinese literature who wrote and lectured on Chinese Art & Literature and also worked as librarian of the Royal Asiatic Society in Shanghai. She co-wrote with Hobart relating their experiences during the Nanking Incident in March 1927 when the National Revolutionary Army and Communist troops took Nanjing from Beiyang warlord Zhang Zongchang killed the American vice president of Nanking University and looted homes and businesses of Americans British Japanese and other foreign citizens. Jonathan Cape, Thirty Bedford Square, hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 64257

‎[CHINA -- WOMEN]. O'HARA, Albert Richard‎

‎The position of woman in early China according to the Lieh Nu Chuan “The biographies of Chinese women.â€‎

‎Taipei Taiwan: Mei Ya Publications Inc. 1971. 8vo. xii 302 pp. Red publisher’s cloth black lettering w/ d.j. minor chipping head of spine couple minor closed tears still NF/G copy from the library of David Kohl 1946-2025 former art teacher at the Hong Kong International School musician artist and historian. Second edition of this analysis and translation of the famed Western Han Dynasty work 77-6 B.C. containing 125 biographies of women extending fro the virtuous to the virtueless focused on how a nation’s prosperity and adversity were highly influenced by women. This edition was first adapted from an extended thesis by the author and originally published in a very small run expanded for this Taiwanese printing. Mei Ya Publications, Inc., hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 64258

‎[CHINA -- OPIUM WARS]. MINETA FUKO‎

‎In Japanese. Kaigai Shinwa Shui. Gleanings from the foreign news: relations between China and Great Britain and the story of the Opium War based on the I fei fan chiang lu. Illustrated by Utagawa Sadahide.‎

‎Edo Tokyo: n.p. Kaei 2 1849. Five vols. Tall 8vo. 40; 44; 48; 42; 34 pp. With 1 double-page colour woodblock map 18 double-page woodblocks 7 w/ colour 1 single-page woodblock plate. Uniformly bound in textured embossed pattern limp softcovers manuscript titles punch-sewn at gutter margins wear soiling some worming through fore-edges text in portions thumbing to fore-edges soiling lower 2/3 of front title leaf stating “Forbidden from Sale†torn away still a G- reference set of this noted rarity. First edition of the author’s “second series†recounting further events in the First Opium War fought between Great Britain and China in 1839-1842. The text and illustrations vividly stressed the terrible effects of opium on Qing Dynasty China and the brave Chinese resisting the British military. Buttressed with striking illustrations by Utagawa Sadahide 1807-1879/79 which depict such incidents as Chinese fire-boats approaching a British warship; a captured spy; Chenshi the Monk putting up a valiant fight; a Chinese Woman warrior fighting the British; a Taiwanese fort sinking a British Warship; the fall of Zhenhai; French diplomatic ships arriving on the Yangtze and even an omen appearing in the heavens. In addition there are a number of woodblock prints depicting British cannons mortars and firearms employed during the Opium Wars. The Kaigai Shinwa printed on Mino paper was written in a sensationalistic and simple style with Japanese syllabaries attached to all Chinese characters and intended as a cautionary tale advising Japan and other Asian countries of the pitfalls of foreign invaders and intervention just four years before the appearance of Perry’s squadron in Tokyo Bay. Mineta Fuko 1817-1883 was thrown into prison for having published the work without official consent and later after he was released was deprived of the right to live in Edo Kyoto or Osaka -- the santo kamae tri-urban banishment and many of the volumes were seized and others were censored or removed. See: Timothy Brook & Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi Opium Regimes: China Britain and Japan 1839-1952 2000 pp. 60-65; Masuda Wataru Seigaku tozen to Chukoku jijo: zassho sakki The Eastern Spread of Western Learning and Conditions in China: Notes on Various Books 14. Kaigai Shinwa. . . Tokyo 1979 Translated by Joshua A. Fogel UCSB pp. 27-39. n.p., paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 56871

‎[CHINA -- JAPAN]. COBLE, Parks M‎

‎Facing Japan: Chinese politics and Japanese Imperialism 1931-1937.‎

‎Cambridge MA: Harvard University Council on East Asian Studies 1991. Thick 8vo. xi 1 492 pp. plus 8 pp. publisher’s ads. With 4 maps. Black cloth silver lettering w/ d.j. political cartoon cover art slight shelfwear NF/NF copy. First edition of this work which focuses on the impact of Japanese military and economic incursions and attacks on Nationalist China during the 1930’s leading to the Second Sino-Japanese War while Chiang Kai-shek continually tried to unite the country. Due to their weak military and economic his ongoing focus on the Communist movement led to public support for the Communists as he continued to back away from confronting Japan. Harvard University, Council on East Asian Studies, hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 58303

‎[CHINA -- ATLAS]. HERRMANN, Albert‎

‎Historical and commercial atlas of China. Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series Volume I.‎

‎Taipei Taiwan: Ch’eng Wen Publishing Co. P.O. box 22605 1970. Folio. 8.25 x 13.25 in. 112 pp. With 84 colour maps & diagrams many double-page. Blue linen gilt lettering on spine NF copy. First Taipei Ch’eng Wen reprint edition of this uncommon atlas first issued by Harvard University press in 1935. The colour maps trace China’s geography and political development from 1900 B.C. through 1930 with detailed maps charting the evolution of Asia and Asiatic empires. Of particular interest are the two final maps tracing the Chinese diaspora throughout the world and specifying population numbers of Chinese-Americans in the U.S. between the Wars. Ch’eng Wen Publishing Co., P.O. box 22605, unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 58684

‎[CHINA -- WOMEN]. THOMPSON SETON [SETON-THOMPSON], Grace [Gallatin].‎

‎Chinese lanterns: illustrated with photographs taken by the author or given to her.‎

‎New York: Dodd Mead & Co. 1924. Tall 8vo. xv 1 373 1 pp. Illust. title in red & black photo frontisp. numerous photo plates & illustrations. Pictorial gold publisher’s cloth cover art illust. of Chinese doorways bedecked in Chinese Lanterns in red & blue lantern on spine blue lettering minor shelfwear light rubbing still VG bright copy. Second printing of this excellent memoir of the author’s travels through China following the Chinese revolution the civil war aftermath and her experiences with women of varying social strata as China underwent tremendous social political and economic change. Thompson-Seton 1872-1959 was a noted hunter author and suffragette founded the Camp Fire Girls Girl Pioneers with her then-husband Ernest Thompson-Seton and was noted for her active promotion of women’s emancipation and women authors. See: Czech With Rifle and Petticoat: Women as Big Game Hunters 1880-1940 pp. 111-122; Tiffany Johnstone Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson: Frontier Adventure Literature and the Dawn of Suffrage 2013. Dodd, Mead & Co., hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 59787

‎[CHINA -- SINO-JAPANESE WAR].‎

‎Shanghai under fire. July -- September 1937. A pictorial record of Shanghai’s undeclared war as photographed by Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury Staff photographers.‎

‎Shanghai China: Post-Mercury Co. 17-21 Avenue Edward VII Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury 1937. 4to. 9 x 12 in. xv 1 88 pp. With 100s of text photo illustrations on gray-blue tinted paper. Colour-illustrated softcovers cover art photo of red & black tinted smoking skyline of Shanghai w/ bomb bursts illustrated on front cover “Shanghai Area War Maps†on endpapers -- surprisingly light interior toning to the XV pp. of text on light-gray tinted paper bumping & wear at covers some dustsoiling chipping head & foot of spine still G copy stapled as issued. First edition 1st printing of this scarce illustrated pro-China work documenting the opening campaigns by the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force and Navy during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Hostilities had increased throughout the 1930s following the first Sino-Japanese War in which Japan had conquered and absorbed Manchuria into the Japanese Empire. Chiang Kai-shek’s nationalist forces joined with the warlords of Hunan and Szechwan provinces to fight the Japanese after a number of provocations in the summer of 1937. Chiang Kai-shek believed that by initially attacking and bombing Japanese naval installations and troops in and around Shanghai he would force the foreign powers to ally with China to fight against Japan to protect their enormous investments in southern China. The Nationalist Chinese armies held out for three months against ferocious bombardment and shelling by the Japanese from planes based in Taiwan and ships on the Huangpu River inflicting huge numbers of casualties on the Chinese and eventually forcing the Chinese to retreat from Shanghai to Nanking with Japanese reinforcements constantly decimating them. These images show victims at the South Station bombings caring for Chinese wounded Chinese women training as soldiers and nurses in the aftermath of the North Station Area shelling and bombing bitter retreat by Chinese soldiers the advances and marching of Japanese forces in Shanghai and beyond. This would later be revised and reissued in March 1938; See: Dorothy Perkins Japan Goes to War: A Chronology of Japanese Military Expansion 1997 pp. 127-135; Crittall in Shanghai -- Some Photos Unearthed December 22 2008. Post-Mercury, Co., 17-21 Avenue Edward VII, Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury, paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 60087

‎[CHINA -- PHOTOGRAPHS]. [ZUMBRUN, John David].‎

‎Peking Art Series II. Bei Jing : meishu-p'in di-er bu.‎

‎Peking China & Brooklyn NY: The Camera Craft Co. The Albertype Co. ca. 1915. Oblong folio. 13 x 10 in. 20 leaves unnumbered. each w/ mounted 5 x 7 in. collotype photograph mounted w/in embossed border on leaf printed text below. Publisher’s illustrated softcovers yapp fore-edges punch-sewn at gutter margin w/ gray silk braid minor chipping & tears some scuffing small loss at left lower corner at foot of spine still a VG- copy w/ all the interior images in excellent original condition. First edition of this rare souvenir Chinese export album documenting architectural wonders and Chinese people in and around Beijing during the second decade of the 20th Century. The photographer has included views of Hatamen Street Arches Views of the Summer Palace including the Marble barge followed by a donkey-drawn cart Chinese Plowmen Peking Bird Man holding cage the Grand Canal the Great Wall of China and more. Zumbrun 1875-1949 was an American photographer who after serving in the U.S. Army set up his Camera Craft Company photographic studio in Beijing in the 16 Legation District in 1910 where he remained until 1929 capturing a China in transition from townsmen to tradesman farmers the Forbidden City Summer Palace Great Wall much of which would later be swept away during the Sino-Japanese War Japanese Occupation of Manchuria and the Communist rise to power. Worldcat locates 2 copies Harvard Brooklyn Museum. The Camera Craft Co., The Albertype Co., paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 59953

‎[CHINA - WOMEN]. HOBART, Alice Tisdale & AYSCOUGH, Florence [Wheelock].‎

‎Within the walls of Nanking.‎

‎New York: The Macmillan Co. 1929. 8vo. 243 1 pp. Photo frontisp. plates maps. Tan publisher’s cloth green lettering front cover gilt lettering on spine w/ d.j. wraparound cover art of walls of Nanking minor chipping head & foot of spine edgewear still NF/VG copy from the library of Marjorie Fleishhacker Mitau 1906-1983 and Martin Mitau 1900-1973 noted San Francisco collectors of fine printing and members in the Roxburghe Club and Book Club of California w/ their bookplate on front pastedown. First edition of this graphic memoir by these two noted authors relating their experiences during the Nanking Incident in March 1927 when the National Revolutionary Army and Communist troops took Nanjing from Beiyang warlord Zhang Zongchang killed the American vice president of Nanking University and looted homes and businesses of Americans British Japanese and other foreign citizens. Royal Navy and US Navy cruisers and destroyers responded engaging and driving off the NRA soldiers and Chinese rioters evacuating many foreigners including the families of Hobart & Ayscough to Shanghai. The Macmillan Co., hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 54544

‎[CHINA -- MUSIC]. KOO, TZ [TZU-JEN KU]. T Z‎

‎Songs of Cathay: an anthology of songs current in various parts of China among her people. Compiled by. . . Min jian yin yue.‎

‎Shanghai China: Association Press 20 Museum Road 1930. 4to. 56 pp unpaginated. musical scores throughout. Decorated blue publisher’s cloth bamboo illust. & lettering in Chinese & English on front cover in silver minor edgewear faint tidemark lower fore-edge textblock still G copy w/ former ownership markings on title. Fourth printing of this anthology of Chinese folk songs including patriotic Chinese Republic songs as well. Association Press, 20 Museum Road, hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 54998

‎[CHINA]. SPRAGUE, Roger‎

‎From Western China to the Golden Gate: the experiences of an American University graduate in the Orient. . . .‎

‎Berkeley: Lederer Street & Zeus Co. 1911. 8vo. 128 pp. Photo frontisp. 29 photo plates. Mustard-yellow publisher’s cloth black lettering & decoration on front cover minor soiling & thumbing to covers minor tear at gutter margin of ffep. slight wear & bumping to corners still G copy. First edition of this relatively scarce and frank memoir by a Berkeley graduate teacher at Miss Horton’s Girl’s School in Berkeley CA and later professor at UC Berkeley. He details traveling through China by sedan chair the often appalling poverty in cities such as Shanghai his experiences sailing by Chinese Junk up the Yangtze River the disappearance of planted poppy fields driving the opium trade in 1909 as well as the aftermath of the Boxer Rebellion in China. Lederer, Street & Zeus Co., hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 56113

‎[CHINA]. [SOWERBY, Arthur de Carle (Ed) & MOISE, Clariece S (Manager) & HARKNESS, Ruth].‎

‎The grandeur of the Yun Kang Caves Kin-Ka-San; A winter journey from Shanghai to North Anhuei; Reclaiming China’s great North-West; A baby Panda comes to town. . . In: The China Journal Vol. XXV No. 6.‎

‎Shanghai China: China Journal Printed by The Mercury Press Dec. 1936. Tall 8vo. A32 4 311-354 A33-60 pp. With photo plates 1 colour plate photo text illustrations illustrated ads including index. Colour-illustrated softcovers Art Deco cover art of pink & yellow blossoms on black background lettering in green & black minor soiling minor chipping head & foot of spine minor tear & creasing to lower corner still G copy. First edition of this installment in the storied journal founded by Sowerby 1885-1954 the naturalist and explorer. Of particular interest in this installment is the first published announcement of Ruth Harkness’ d. 1947 as the first person to bring a living Giant Panda out of China a female named Su Lin. Her husband William Harkness zoologist and adventurer had headed an expedition to capture Giant Pandas but died before he even entered the habitat. Ruth traveled into Wenchuang County of Sichuan Province then onto Baoxing County where she discovered the cub less then 2 kilometers from Jiajin Mountain and was later donated to the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago. China Journal, Printed by The Mercury Press, paperback‎

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‎[CHINA]. ETHERTON, Colonel PT & TILTMAN, H Hessell P T‎

‎Manchuria the cockpit of Asia. . . .‎

‎New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co. 1932. 8vo. x 327 1 pp. Photo frontisp. 15 photo plates 1 folding map. Yellow-ribbed cloth black lettering on front cover & spine minor soiling slight lean minor wear to corners front inner hinge starting ex-lib stamps on endpapers title d.j. flaps mounted on endpapers G- reference copy. First edition of this insightful and prescient account of Manchuria publishes just after the Japanese began their invasion of China to set up the puppet state called Manchukuo which lasted until the end of World War II. Frederick A. Stokes Co., hardcover‎

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