‎Geographie‎

‎Anton, G. K. (Hg.)‎

‎Mitteilungen der Geographischen Gesellschaft (Für Thüringen) zu Jena. Dreissigster (30) Band.‎

‎Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1912. 1. Aufl. Mit Vier (4) Karten und sechs (6) Abbild. auf zwei Tafeln, 261 S. 8°, Halbleinenband der Zeit.‎

‎Beide Arbeiten gesucht. Darin enthalten sind unter anderem: Wilhelm Ordemann, Beiträge zu morphologischen Entwicklungsgeschichte der deutschen Nordseeküste mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Dünen tragenden Inseln. 136 S, mit 1 Faltkarte. Ed. Kittlaus, Die Mission des Islam. 32 S., mit einer lithographischen Faltkarte. Dezenter Namensstempel auf vorderem Vorsatz, sonst schönes Ex.‎

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‎Kurze, G. (Hg.) und K. Dove (Hg.)‎

‎Mitteilungen der Geographischen Gesellschaft (Für Thüringen) zu Jena. Zwanzigster (20) Band.‎

‎Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1902. 1. Aufl. 134 S. 8°, Halbleinenband der Zeit.‎

‎Darin enthalten sind unter anderem: Joachim Graf von Pfeil, Geographische Beobachtungen in Marokko. 105 S. Kapitale minimal bestoßen, dezenter Namensstempel auf vorderem Vorsatz, sonst schönes Ex.‎

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‎Kurze, G. (Hg.) und Fr. Regel (Hg.)‎

‎Mitteilungen der Geographischen Gesellschaft (für Thüringen) zu Jena. Sechszehnter (16.) und siebenzehnter (17.) Band.‎

‎Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1898. 1. Aufl., 2 Bde. Mit zwei Karten und 2 Textskizzen, VI, 178, VI, 146 S. 8°, Halbleinenband der Zeit.‎

‎Darin enthalten sind unter anderem: A. C. Kruijt, Beiträge zur Volkskunde der Poso-Alfuren. 48, 43 S. - Kapitale minimal bestoßen, dezenter Namensstempel auf vorderem Vorsatz, sonst schönes Ex.‎

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‎(Nisard, Désiré)‎

‎Promenades d'un artiste. (Tome 2): Tyrol; Suisse; Nord de l'Italie. Avec 26 gravures d'après Stanfield et Turner.‎

‎Paris, Jules Renouard (1835). * Mit gestochenem Titel nebst Vignette und 25 Stahlstich-Tafeln nach George Clarkson Stanfield. 4 Blatt, 406 Seiten. 24 x 16 cm. Roter Halblederband der Zeit über vier falschen Bünden mit reicher Rückenvergoldung, goldgeprägten Deckelfileten und Marmorpapiervorsätzen. (036). [2 Warenabbildungen]‎

‎*** Vicaire VI, 78. - Der die Folge abschließende zweite Band. Mit schönen Ansichten von Feldkirch, Innsbruck (2), Konstanz, Landeck, Mailand, Roveredo, Schaffhausen, Trient, Venedig, Verona (2) etc. - Der hier nicht vorliegende erste Band trägt den Titel "Bords du Rhin - Hollande - Belgique". - Durchgängig unterschiedlich gebräunt und braunfleckig. - Dekorativ gebundenes Exemplar.‎

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‎Prochazka, Johann F‎

‎Topographisch-Statistischer Schematismus des Grossgrundbesitzes im Königreiche Böhmen, zugleich Adressbuch sämmtlicher bei demselben angestellten Beamten, des Forstpersonals u.s.w. Auf Grundlage authentischer Daten bearbeitet und herausgegeben. 2. vermehrte und verbesserte Ausgabe.‎

‎Prag, Selbstverlag des Verfassers 1891. * 3 nn. Bl., 786 S., 15 nn. Bl. (Inserate). 25,5 x 18 cm. Blauer Original-Leinenband (minimal bestoßen) mit goldgeprägtem Rücken- und Deckeltitel sowie eingebundenem Original-Umschlag und rotem Farbschnitt. (011).‎

‎*** Zuerst 1880 erschienenes, umfassendes Staatshandbuch für Böhmen. Enthält: Beschreibung der Domainen; Alphabetisches Verzeichnis der Besitzer, Domainen, Beamten, Pächter; Alphabetisches Verzeichnis der Bierbrauer, Spiritusbrennereien und Zuckerfabriken in Böhmen. - Papierbedingt leicht gebräunt, vereinzelt etwas fleckig. - Ordentliches Exemplar. - Wichtiges Nachschlagewerk für Heimat- und Familienforscher!‎

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‎Funk, Christlieb Benedict‎

‎Anfangsgründe der mathematischen Geographie, zum Gebrauch in Schulen.‎

‎Leipzig, Siegfried Lebrecht Crusius 1771. * Mit gestochener Titelvignette und 5 mehrfach gefalteten Kupferstich-Tafeln. 6 Blatt, 219 Seiten, 1 Blatt. 17,5 x 11 cm. Pappband der Zeit (Rücken verblasst) mit Rückenschild. (083). [2 Warenabbildungen]‎

‎*** Poggendorf I, 818. - Erste und einzige Ausgabe. - Christlieb Benedict Funk (1736-1786) war Professor der Physik an der Leipziger Universität und lehrte an der dortigen Nikolaischule. - Vorsatz und Titel mit gelöschten Bibliothekssignaturen, sonst weitestgehend sauber und gut erhalten. - Selten!‎

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‎Humboldt, Alexander von‎

‎Reisen in Amerika und Asien. Eine Darstellung seiner wichtigsten Forschungen von H(ermann) Kletke. 4 Bände.‎

‎Berlin, Hasselberg 1856-1856. * Mit lithographischem Frontporträt. VIII, 367; VIII, 368; VI, 358; VI, 361 Seiten. 21 x 14 cm. Schwarze Halblederbände der Zeit (leicht beschabt, ein Gelenk minimal angerissen) mit reicher Romantiker-Rückenvergoldung. (013). [3 Warenabbildungen]‎

‎*** Engelmann 120. - Erste Ausgabe. - Enthält: I-II.) Reisen in die Aequinoctial-Gegenden Amerika's. - III-IV.) Reisen im europäischen und asiatischen Rußland. - Stellenweise ganz leicht gebräunt. - Gutes Exemplar. - Beigegeben: William MacGillivray. Die Reisen und Forschungen des Freiherrn Alexander von Humboldt; eine gedrängte Darstellung seiner Reisen in den Aequinoctial-Gegenden von Amerika und im asiatischen Rußland, mit beständiger Rücksicht auf seine wichtigsten Forschungen. Aus dem Englischen von Johann Sporschil. 2 Teile in 1 Band. Leipzig, Hartleben 1836. Mit gestochenem Frontporträt und 6 Holzschnitt-Abbildungen. XIV Seiten, 1 Blatt, 198; VI, 195 Seiten. 15,5 x 11 cm. Grüner Leinenband der Zeit mit hübscher Rückenvergoldung. - Kainbacher? 356, 2. - Leicht wasserrandig. - Vorgebunden: Michael Russell. Gemälde der Berberei. 2 Teile. Ebenda, 1836.‎

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‎(Mordtmann, Andreas David)‎

‎Stambul und das moderne Türkenthum. Politische, sociale und biographische Bilder von einem Osmanen. 2 Teile in 1 Band.‎

‎Leipzig, Duncker & Humblot 1877-1878. * 4 Blatt, 259 Seiten; 3 Blatt, 323 Seiten. 19 x 13,5 cm. Halbleinenband der Zeit. (013). [2 Warenabbildungen]‎

‎*** Holzmann-Bohatta VII, 9642. NDB XVIII, 92 f. - Erste Ausgabe. - Anonym erschienene, umfassende Darstellung der politisch-sozialen Verhältnisse im Osmanischen Reich und speziell in Konstantinopel nach dem Krimkrieg von 1853/56. - Der Orientalist Andreas David Mordtmann (1811-1879) war ab 1845 diplomatischer Vertreter der Hansestädte im Osmanischen Reich. 1859 trat er als Handelsrichter in türkische Dienste. - "Er darf als einer der wichtigen Zeitzeugen der osmanischen Geschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts gelten" (NDB). - Papierbedingt leicht gebräunt, zwei Blatt gelockert. - Selten angeboten!‎

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‎Hornemann, Friedrich Konrad‎

‎Tagebuch seiner Reise von Cairo nach Murzuck, der Hauptstadt des Königreichs Fessan in Afrika, in den Jahren 1797 und 1798. Aus der teutschen Handschrift desselben herausgegeben von Carl König.‎

‎Berlin und Hamburg, 1803. * Mit 2 Kupferstich-Tafeln von Johann Blaschke und 2 (1 mehrfach gefalteten) Kupferstich-Karten. 3 nn. Bl., 248 S. 21 x 13 cm. Halblederband der Zeit mit Buntpapierbezug (stärker beschabt und bestoßen, Kapital eingerissen) mit zwei Rückenschildern, floraler Rückenvergoldung, Buntpapiervorsätzen und rotem Farbschnitt. (Archiv der neuesten und interessantesten Reisebeschreibungen, Band 1). (015). [3 Warenabbildungen]‎

‎*** Kainbacher? 185, 2. ADB XIII, 149 f. - Nachdruck der 1802 in Weimar erschienenen deutschen Erstausgabe. - "Friedrich Konrad Hornemanns (1772-1801) Tagebuch von seiner Reise Kairo-Mursuk, nebst Einzelaufsätzen über verschiedene Gegenstände nordafrikanischer und sudanischer Länder- und Völkerkunde wurde von der afrikanischen Gesellschaft in englischer Uebersetzung (London 1802) herausgegeben [...] Die Bedeutung dieses Reisenden liegt darin, daß er als der erste wissenschaftlich forschende Europäer den Weg Kairo-Mursuk und Mursuk-Tripolis beschritt, die erste direkte Nachricht über Audschila und Mursuk nebst einer reichen Menge von Erkundigungen über die Länder südlich, westlich und östlich von Mursuk mittheilte, welche für spätere Erforscher bis auf Barth und Vogel herab von Werth gewesen sind" (ADB). - Kleiner privater Besitzvermerk. Nur vereinzelt gering fleckig, einige Wurmspuren im Papierrand.‎

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‎Bérenger, Jean-Pierre‎

‎Collection de tous les voyages faits autour du monde, par les différentes nations de l'Europe. 9 Bände.‎

‎Paris, Fr. Dufart 1795. * Mit 9 gestochenen Frontispizen. 19,5 x 13 cm. Pappbände der Zeit (etwas fleckig und bestoßen, Rücken unten mit Bibliotheksetiketten) mit roten Rückenschildern, goldgeprägten Rückenfileten und rotem Farbschnitt. (083). [2 Warenabbildungen]‎

‎*** Ferguson 215. Vgl. Sabin 4822. - Umfangreiche Sammlung von Reisebeschreibungen und Berichten, u. a. von Bougainville, Byron, Carreri, Cavendish, Dampier, Magellan, Wallis. Die Bände 7-9 enthalten ausschließlich Cooks Reisen. - Titel und Frontispiz rückseitig (teils durchschlagend) mit gelöschtem Bibliotheksstempel. Etwas braunfleckig.‎

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‎(Berg, Albert)‎

‎Die preussische Expedition nach Ost-Asien. Nach amtlichen Quellen. 4 Bände.‎

‎Berlin, Verlag der Königlichen Geheimen Ober-Hofbuchdruckerei (R. v. Decker) 1864-1873. * Mit 4 gefalteten Karten und 48 photolithographischen Tafeln auf aufgewalztem China. XXII Seiten, 1 Blatt, 352; X Seiten, 1 Blatt, 375; XI Seiten, 2 Blatt, 426; VIII, 448 Seiten. 26,5 x 18,5 cm. Moderne braune Halblederbände mit Buntpapierbezug, goldgeprägten Rückentiteln und eingebundenen Original-Umschlägen. (013). [5 Warenabbildungen]‎

‎*** Henze II, 185. NDB IV, 681. Thieme-Becker III, 384 f. - Erste Ausgabe. - Der komplette Expeditionsbericht nach den amtlichen Quellen. Die Expedition (1859-1862) unter Leitung des Diplomaten Friedrich Albrecht Graf zu Eulenburg (1815-1881) führte von Singapur über Bangkok, Indonesien, Hongkong und den chinesischen Küstenstädten nach Japan. - "Dabei gelang es Eulenburg, Handelsverträge mit Japan, China und Siam abzuschließen. Durch diese Verträge konnte unter anderem die Ausweisung der preußischen Kaufleute aus Japan abgewendet und die Beteiligung preußischer Schiffe an dem Warenhandel zwischen China und Japan erreicht werden" (NDB). - Albert Berg (1825-1884), der als Landschaftsmaler an der Expedition teilnahm, lieferte die Zeichnungen und verfasste den Text. - Mit schönen Ansichten von Bangkok, Nagasaki, Peking, Tientsin, Yeddo/Tokio etc. - Ohne die drei Supplementbände mit den wissenschaftlichen Ergebnissen zur Zoologie und Botanik und ohne den separat erschienenen Atlas mit weiteren, großformatigen Ansichten. - Mitunter etwas braunfleckig. - Gutes und vollständiges Exemplar.‎

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‎Schowalter, August: (Hrsgr.)‎

‎Im Kampf um Südafrika. 4 Bände.‎

‎München, J. F. Lehmann 1902. * Mit 3 Frontporträts, 4 mehrfach gefalteten Karten, 2 gefalteten Faksimiles sowie zahlreichen Tafeln und Textabbildungen. 309 Seiten, 1; 2 Blatt, 404 Seiten, 2; 4 Blatt, 380 Seiten, 2 Blatt; VIII, 293 Seiten, 1 Blatt. 23 x 16 cm. Braune Original-Halblederbände (Rücken minimal verblichen) mit goldgeprägten Rückentiteln, Rückenvergoldung, farbig gemusterten Vorsatzpapieren und Kopfgoldschnitt. (013).‎

‎*** Kainbacher? 377. - Die komplette Reihe, in welcher über den Zweiten Burenkrieg, "von den berufensten Staatsmännern und Generalen der Buren selbst berichtet wird". Herausgegeben und teilweise übersetzt von dem Theologen August Schowalter (1870-1940). - I.) Paul Krüger. Lebenserinnerungen des Präsidenten Paul Krüger. - II.) Ben Viljoen. Die Transvaaler im Krieg mit England. Kriegserinnerungen. - III.) Frederik Rompel. Präsident Steijn. Ein Lebensbild. - IV.) Andries de Wet, H. v. Doornik und G. C. du Plessis. Die Buren in der Kapkolonie im Kriege mit England. - Die Halblederausgabe in schöner Gesamterhaltung und seltener Vollständigkeit. - Beigegeben: Paul Liman und Jozef Leonhard Haller von Ziegesar. Der Burenkrieg. Seine Ursachen und seine Entstehung. Leipzig, Historisch-Politischer Verlag 1902. Mit 1 gefalteten Faksimile und 5 gefalteten Karten. VII, 481 Seiten. Original-Halblederband mit Rückenvergoldung und Kopfgoldschnitt. - Kainbacher? 245. - Schönes Exemplar. - Zusammen 5 Bände.‎

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‎Ukert, Friedrich August‎

‎Vollständige und neueste Erdbeschreibung der Nordhälfte (und: Südhälfte) von Afrika, mit einer Einleitung zur Statistik dieser Länder. 2 Bände.‎

‎Weimar, Verlag des Geographischen Instituts 1824-1825. * XXXIV, 774 S., 1 nn. Bl.; XXXII, 886 S., 1 nn. Bl. 20 x 12,5 cm. Marmorierte schwarze Pappbände der Zeit (gering berieben und bestoßen) mit roten Rückenschildern und rotem Farbschnitt. (Vollständiges Handbuch der neuesten Erdbeschreibung; Abteilung 6, Band 1-2). (086).‎

‎*** Kainbacher? 426. Vgl. ADB XXXIX, 175 f. - Erste Ausgabe. - Umfassende Länderkunde Afrikas, bearbeitet von Friedrich August Ukert (1780-1851), Hauslehrer der beiden Söhne von Friedrich Schiller, später Lehrer am Gymnasium Gotha und Bibliothekar der dortigen Herzoglichen Bibliothek. - Ohne den Reihentitel. Ausgeschiedenes Bibliotheksexemplar mit gelöschtem Stempel auf dem Titel und altem Etikett auf dem Rücken. Mitunter etwas gebräunt und fleckig, im Ganzen aber gut erhalten.‎

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‎Echard, Laurence (Ps. Vosgien)‎

‎Herrn Vosgien Chorherrn zu Vaucouleurs, Geographisches Handwörterbuch, oder Beschreibung der Königreiche, Provinzen, Städte, Patriarchate, Erzbißthümer, Bißthümer, Herzogthümer, Markgraffschaften, Graffschaften, Reichs- und Hansestädte, Seehäfen, Vestungen, Citadellen, und anderer merkwürdigen Oerter in allen vier Theilen der Welt. darinne man Nachricht findt in welchen Königreichen, Provinzen und Gegenden diese Oerter liegen; [...], u. d. m.; Ein zur Erkänntniß der neuern Geschichte und des gegenwärtigen Zustandes der Welt sehr nützliches Werk Zweyter Band: L. bis Z.‎

‎Ulm, Bartholomäi, 1765. 8°. [1] Bl., 1660 Sp. Original-Lederband. (Einband berieben u. bestoßen, unt. Kapit. rest., insges. ordentliches Expl.).‎

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‎Sborník historický. Vol. 6 und 7.‎

‎Praha, 1959-1960. In 2 OBr. Umschl. angestaubt. Vol. 6 Umschlag m. kl. Fehlst. u.a. Rücken eingerissen. Papier nachgedunkelt.‎

‎EINZELN AUF ANFRAGE! - Enth. u.a.: Fiala, Z., Vztah ceského státu k nemecke risi do pocátu 13. Stleti (Podle kritiky pramenu) (6); Kurz, K., Remeslnická kolegia rimském Podunaji (7). - Zsffsg. in verschied. Sprachen.‎

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‎Schoeppel, F.A‎

‎Kommerzielles Handbuch von Niederländisch-Indien.‎

‎Wien, Lechner, 1907. 4°. M. 2 Ktn., 26 Taf. und 1 Tab. XII, 301 S. OBr. Umschlag läd. (teils lose, eingerissen, m. Fehlst. und angeschmutzt). Buchblock gebrochen. Schnitt angeschmutzt. Taf. teils am Rand angeschhmutzt. (Abhandlungen der K.K. Geographischen Gesellschaft in Wien. Bd. 4 Nr. 2.).‎

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‎Wex, Gustav Ritter v[on]‎

‎Periodische Meeresanschwellungen an den Polen und am Aequator, hierdurch veranlasste Ueberfluthungen der Polar- und Aequatorial-Länder, dann Sintfluthen, Eiszeiten und Vergletscherungen der Alpen. Lösung obiger Probleme.‎

‎Wien, Spielhagen & Schurich 1891. 4°. VIII, 59 S. m. 27 Fig. u. 4 Tafeln, HLnbd. d. Zeit, ausgeschiedenes Bibl.-Expl. mit den entsprechenden Kennzeichnungen.‎

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‎China. [Secret British Military Report]‎

‎Reports on Kwangtung and Fukien Provinces.‎

‎Hong Kong, British War Office, 1926-1928. Folio (22.5 x 35 cm). [ii], 11; [ii], 12-35; [i], 36-60; [i], 61-101; [i], 103-138 ll. Five secret military reconnaissance reports totalling 138 numbered leaves in typescript (some in carbon copies or duplicated) with insertions and manuscript additions, with 47 original photographs (3.5 x 6 to 8 x 13 cm) mounted on the leaves (3 of the 47 are longer panoramas, each built up from 2 to 3 photos) and a folding blueprint plan (26 x 48.5 cm). Contemporary brown half cloth with diapered cloth sides and printed paper labels on the spine and front cover. Kept in a modern cloth clamshell box.‎

‎Five secret British military reconnaissance reports made by the South China Command in Hong Kong for the Under Secretary of State at the War Office in London from 1926 to 1928 and distributed in 1927 and 1928, giving a very detailed account of sites of military importance in Guangdong and Fujian provinces on the southeast coast of mainland China at a critical moment in Chinese history. It includes a description of the famous Whampoa (Huangpu) Military Academy, established by Sun Yat-sen in 1924 with help from the Soviet Union and commanded by the young Chiang Kai-shek in his first major post, the Guangzhou radio transmitting station, the aerodrome near the academy, arsenals, railways, fortifications, other prospective military targets, the topography of the region and possible landing sites for an invasion. The folding plan shows "The Asiatic Petroleum Co's wharf Amoy", with extensive soundings, reproducing a drawing dated 14 September 1919. The British were secretly preparing for military intervention in China during a period of tension between China and the western powers. Although the text gives some background information and a few anecdotes about events in China (some Chinese feared the compiler might be a Russian spy), it mostly leaves political opinions to the politicians and concentrates on the factual information the military would need if England decided to invade China. Sun Yat-sen died in March 1925 and in the wake of worker and student uprisings, the British-led Shanghai Municipal Police shot and killed at least nine protesters in Shanghai on 30 May, stoking the existing anti-British sentiments. The Chinese Communist Party and Sun Yat-sen's Nationalist Kuomintang had been allied against the warlords since 1923 but Chiang Kai-shek had commanded their National Revolutionary Army since 1925 and beginning in March 1926 he purged Communists in the military and declared martial law, a coup that made him the undisputed leader of the Kuomintang. Mao Zedong, still only one of several leaders of the Chinese Communist Party, was beginning to organise peasant militias in Guangzhou, planting the seeds of what would become the Red Army. In April 1927 the hostilities erupted in civil war, with Chiang killing thousands of Communists and Mao Zedong leading the Red Army against him was to prove equally ruthless. The British government under Conservative Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin saw dangerous Bolshevic influences on both sides, but were pleased that Chiang made a definitive break with the Communists. After Chaing captured Nanking in March 1927, British and American ships opened fire on uprisings against him, and the British built up their military presence around the Communist stronghold of Shanghai as well. In the event, this was the closest they came to an invasion, and the preparations shown by the present reports never went further. But they give a remarkably detailed picture of the military state of southern China at this critical moment and form a primary source for both the beginnings of the Chinese civil war and the British view of the situation. The five reports are: [Part 1:] Report on Canton City [= Guangzhou in Guangdong] (sent 13 October 1927 and referring to an arsenal established 16 June [1927]). [Part 2:] Report on Shekcheng Arsenal, Whampoa Military Academy, and other establishments near Canton (sent 15 June 1928 and including information gathered in Guangzhou on 31 May 1928). [Part 3:] Report on Swatow [= Shantou in Guangdong] (dated March 1926 and sent 28 July 1927; addendum sent 10 February 1928). [Part 4:] Amoy [= Xiamen in Fujian] (dated March 1926 and sent 28 July 1927). [Part 5:] Foochow [= Fuzhou in Fujian] (refers to a publication of 1925 and sent 28 July 1927). The reports of 1927 and 1928 (parts 1 & 2) were compiled by Captain Robin Hasluck Campbell (1894-1964) of the Royal Marines, who was to rise to the rank of Major-General in 1944, and he also added a page of addenda to the 1926 report on Shantou, which was written by Captain R.A. Slater. Two of the Hong Kong cover letters were signed by Major-General Charles Camac Luard (1867-1947), Commander of British Troops in South China, and the other two by officers under his command. The paper for part 3 is watermarked "D. Gestetner's|Rotary" and some texts in the volume seem likely to have been reproduced on a Gestetner stencil-based duplicating machine, though some may be carbon copies and others appear to have been typed directly. Most of the leaves added in India are watermarked "Government|of|India|T". The Hong Kong cover letters indicate that these reports were distributed in only three to five copies, all but one going to Asian offices (including Malaya, Singapore and Peking), and we have located no surviving copies besides the present ones. They were sent in 1927 and 1928 to the Headquarters of the British Army in Delhi, India, which passed them on to their General Staff Branch at its summer office in Simla in the latter year. It was in India, probably when the reports were sent to Simla, that they were bound together with the four original cover letters (the third for parts 3 to 5 and the fourth for the addenda to part 3) and some new additions: a new typescript table of contents for all five reports headed by a general drop-title (with a manuscript note telling the binder to have the title printed for the cover), a manuscript part-title inserted before each part and one additional cover letter written in Delhi. Also at that time, the British authorities in India mounted some of the cover letters on paper leaves (and seem to have remounted some of the photos on new leaves) and made some manuscript annotations. They also used a red pencil to number the leaves of the five reports in a single series including the cover letters and leaves with photos, but not the manuscript part-titles. The table of contents cites these new leaf numbers. The reports in parts 1-3 had been separately foliated in typescript without the added leaves: 8; [2], 19; [1], 9, [3] ll. Some worm holes, especially in the first few and last few leaves (slightly affecting 2 photographs), and with occasional minor chips and tears, the folding plan has separated at the folds, a folding photographic panorama assembled from 3 photographs has one part torn through and another photo has a faded patch, but most text leaves and photographs are in good condition. A detailed secret report of British military reconnaissance in southern China as the civil war between Communists and Nationalist broke out. - For the British military's view of the circumstances: Jonathan Parkinson, The Royal Navy, China Station (2018), pp. 359-372.‎

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‎[China and the U.S.]. Central Intelligence Agency‎

‎China. Provisional Atlas of Communist Administrative Units. CIA/RR GR 59-20.‎

‎Washington, DC, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Office of Technical Services, 1959. Large oblong folio (600 x 485 mm). IX leaves of text, 29 maps (4 multicoloured overview maps and 25 grey provincial maps, overprinted and with captions in red), 14 ff. of index of places (Pinyin typescript). Original printed grey waxed paper wrappers with cloth-reinforced spine edges, screw-bound.‎

‎Rare CIA-produced atlas of the People's Republic a decade after the "loss of China", at the onset of the country's "Great Leap Forward". It was designed to provide U.S. analysts with "fuller information on Communist adminstrative units" and to aid their interpretation of data emanating from the PRC, of "its statistical reporting, and the complexity of the administrative structure". The names of counties, districts, and municipalities are listed in the margin of each provincial map in Chinese and English. As the editors write in their introduction, the "catastrophic overhaul now in progress requires that the atlas be provisional in content and economical in format". Curiously, the 25 provincial maps are larger-scale reproductions from a 1956 Communist Chinese school atlas, the pocket-size "Chung-kuo fen-sheng ti-t?u" ("Provincial Atlas of a China"), with additional Agency annotations, while the "maps give place names, hsien (county) seats, and some hydrography and roads. The accompanying marginal lists [...] are based on the '1957 Handbook of Administrative Subdivisions of the PRC' (Chung-hua jenmin kung-ho-kuo hsing-cheng ch?ü-hua chien-ts?e) which lists and indexes all administrative units at the hsien level and above as of 1 January 1957". - Maps, captions, and index are carefully coordinated by the editors, including tables of comparative keys to the Wade-Giles, Yale, and the then-new Pinyin romanization system as well as of the standard abbreviations of Chinese characters. A prefixed letter-sized typescript advises readers that the atlas is not intended foremost to convey topographical information, but rather "to aid research workers faced with problems of interpreting current information on Communist China in the light of its complex administrational structure", and requests recipients who find it "does not serve their needs" to return it ("because of the expense involved in the production of the atlas and the limited size of the edition") to the CIA's Record Center at the old CIA Headquarters in the E Street complex of Washington, DC. - A very light waterstain to the upper edge throughout; insignificant wrinkling, more pronounced in upper cover, which also shows light scuff marks and tiny loss to the lower right corner. A fine survival documenting the fraught U.S.-Chinese relations of another age. - Phillips/Le Gear VI, 9622. OCLC 1709509.‎

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‎[China]‎

‎Photograph album.‎

‎China, 1910-1917. Oblong folio (306 x 252 mm). Contemporary half leather album of 230 photographs (average size 9 x 12 cm).‎

‎A remarkable collection of photographs showing China during the 1910s, the vast majority captioned in English. They include Shanghai, the Yangtze River, life outside Shanghai, Hong Kong, the River Canton, the canal between Shameen and Canton City, Canton, the five-storey pagodas and graveyards outside the Canton walls, Cheefo, Wei-hai-Wei, old Taku Forts and junks on the Pei-ho River, Changli station, Pei-tai-ho, Chien-Meng gate in Beijing, Chien-Men, the wall of Beijing, shelter for man guarding crops, kiaolang and soya crop near Beijing, the Beijing bell tower, the Race Club, yew trees, Temple of Heaven, the Pagoda at Yu-Chuan-Shan near Beijing, the Terracotta Pagoda and hills east of Beijing, the hills west of Yu Chuan-Pu, camel-back bridge in the gardens of Ya Choan-Shan, temples and lake in the summer palace, the Lama Temple courtyard in Beijing, the Pond Summer Palace, the Marble Bridge Summer Palace, looking up beginning of Pass Kalgar, foot of pass: carts and bullocks, the great wall on hills, camels waiting to be loaded at foot of pass, the riverbed forming a road; ascending the Nantow Pass, Messrs. Brisker, Hawkshaw and Horsely with the Lama Temple in the background, a view from the train near Kalgar, Men-Tou-Kou, a coal mine near Beijing, the Shan-Hai-Kwan hills, junks, fishing boats, a bluff seen from the harbour, Chinwantao, the old walled town on way to Hot Springs, the Great Wall of China at Shan-Hai-Twam, a steamer going down the river, a pontoon bridge to a Russian concession, Peizus waiting on tee to take passengers down the river, gardens, the Tientsin Club and station, the Tientsin Golf course, a fire at Liddell Bros., British soldiers leaving Tientsin for Tsingtau, international manoeuvres at Tientsin (spring 1914) showing Russian, British, French, Japanese, German troops, an icebreaker at Tientsin, the river near Canton, inside the Forbidden City of Beijing, Tai-Ho-Tien Forbidden City, a grotto temple near Shan-hai-Kwan, 13 photographs of Japan, a dam in the course of construction (Li-Shu-Shcen), the Regent Emperor (12th July 1917), Manchu troops in Beijing, the funeral of Yuan Shih-Kai in 1916, northern troops outside Tung Hua, Chang Siens soldiers, a flooded Chinese city, as well as eight photographs of Russia. - Album bumped at extremeties and lacks spine, a few leaves loose but interior very well preserved altogether.‎

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‎[Singapore - Photographs]. Sachtler, August, and others‎

‎Views of Singapore and surroundings.‎

‎Singapore, ca. 1870. 20 large uniform albumen prints (210 x 270 mm), all but one in landscape format. Each print mounted on paper boards (245 x 325 mm) with a manuscript series number and a German caption. Stored in a modern black cloth clamshell box with a red morocco label ("Singapore").‎

‎A uniform set of large photographic albumen prints of Singapore, including exterior views of traditional, European, and mixed-style buildings, landscapes, the botanical gardens, etc., many with European and/or Malay people in the scene and some with horse-drawn carriages, or boats. The two views from Fort Canning have been attributed to August Sachtler (ca. 1839-73): one looking southwest toward Telok Blanagah village and its hill, with a Malay man in the foreground; the other looking southeast toward the roadstead, with many ships in the background and a canon in the foreground, at least the former published in the National Museum of Singapore's catalogue "The Image of Our Landscape" (2009). Sachtler gained experience as a photographer in the Prussian expedition to Japan and China (1860-62), came to Singapore in 1863 and worked there as a commercial photographer until his death in April 1873. He may be the author of some of the other photographs as well. They show the Jamae Mosque (ca. 1835) and Sri Mariamman Hindu temple (ca. 1827; the tower and wall to the left differ only slightly from those in a dated view of 1866: the tower was completely changed in the early 20th century); six views of the botanical gardens established by Whampoa (1816-80); a jungle plantation in operation (with 4 boats); jungle houses built on wooden stilts with roofs and some walls of reed; the Hôtel de l'Europe (either that on St Andrew's Road, demolished in 1906, or its predecessor on Beach Road); the mission chapel; the gothic revival St Andrew's Cathedral (ca. 1861); Raffles Square (named Commercial Square by Stamford Raffles in 1823 but changed to Raffles Place in 1858, the name in the photograph apparently retaining the older name); the town hall (ca. 1862: the offices moved elsewhere in 1893). The view of Raffles Place clearly shows the signboards of the shops: G. Schiller; Geokteat & Co; John Little (department store established 1845), and Singapore Dispensary (these last two are also visible in an album presented to Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh in 1869). - Two of the photographs have lettered captions and numbers as part of the photographic prints themselves, in white sans-serif capitals in the lower right corner: "Bot. Garden S. 200" and "Raffles Square S. 212". Most have a number in the lower left corner, written after the print was made, ranging from 3 to 200 (matching the number in the print, but the print with number 212 has no written number). Each has a number written on the mount, along one long edge (the head except in the one photograph in portrait format) ranging from 109 to 139, not corresponding to the other numbers. - As usual for albumen prints, the sky in the background shows little or no cloud detail, and two or three have lost a bit of detail in the background, but all further preserve very detailed images and are in very good condition, with only occasional minor spots. A remarkable set of large, detailed and well-preserved historical images of Singapore ca. 1870. - For Sachtler, see the report of a lecture by Sebastian Dobson on oag.jp.‎

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‎[Shanghai and the Xinhai Revolution]‎

‎Photograph album.‎

‎Shanghai, early 20th century. Oblong folio (362 x 274 mm). Contemporary block-bound silk album of 111 photographs. Various sizes; largest 212 x 155 mm.‎

‎A photograph album comprising 111 personal photographs of Shanghai, including several images of battleships, various English-language shop signs for local businesses (such as "Hsing Loong Carpenter Mason and Painter"), and 12 photographs showing the burial procession of the mother of Shanghai businessman Pau Ching Po. Also, there are several photographs of the 1911 Xinhai Revolution in Shanghai: in November 1911, Shanghai citizens organised a rebellion and captured the city, establishing the Shanghai military on 8 November that same year. The photographs offered here depict the uprising in the streets as well as scenes of destroyed homes and weapons used when taking the city. The revolution resulted in the overthrow of the last imperial monarchy in China and the establishment of the Republic of China in 1912. - Also includes images of the German Theatre at the Lyceum, founded in 1930 as an amateur dramatics society, a photograph of Prince Adalbert of Prussia (1884-1948) at the Club Concordia in 1904 laying the foundation stone to the new German Club in Shanghai, and three photographs of the wedding of Wilhelm Knappe (1855-1910), the German Consul General in Shanghai from 1899 to 1906. - Very well preserved. Provenance: From the collection of Johannes Gottfried William Schröder (1870-1942). Born in India, the brother of the German poet Rudolf Alexander Schröder grew up in Bremen, trained as a merchant and visited India, China, Japan, and America. He established his own business in Shanghai in 1906. His intimate knowledge of East Asia led him to embrace the philosophy of anthroposophy.‎

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‎Mayers, William Frederick / N. B. Dennys / Charles King‎

‎The Treaty Ports of China and Japan. A Complete Guide to the Open Ports of Those Countries, Together with Peking, Yedo, Hongkong and Macao. Forming a Guide Book & Vade Mecum for Travellers, Merchants, and Residents in General.‎

‎London & Hong Kong, Trübner and Co. / Shortrede and Co., 1867. 8vo. VIII, (2), 668, (2), XLVIII, (2), 26, (2) pp. With 29 mostly folded maps and charts, block-printed in colour. Recent half morocco with gilt lettering on spine.‎

‎First edition; the scarce original printing. - As trade between the East and the West grew in the mid-19th century, increasing numbers of Westerners travelled to China and Japan, and in 1867 this guide to the key port cities such as Hong Kong and Nagasaki was published in both Hong Kong and London. Its editor, Nicholas Belfield Dennys (ca 1813-99), claimed it was the first such comprehensive handbook printed for public distribution. Intended for visitors and new residents, the guide was originally typeset in China, allowing place names and other words to be printed in Chinese characters. The specially commissioned maps were also engraved in China. The book includes physical descriptions and brief histories of over twenty cities, details of schools and libraries, population statistics and much practical information, as well as a list of other publications on China and Japan. It is a valuable historical source on East Asia during a period of rapid change. - Includes appendices, folding maps, a folding illustration of "Japanese Coinage", and one page "Reference to Map of Peking" (complete as called for in the Table of Contents, "List of Maps, &c". Stamp of the Danish Royal Navy Library ("Marinens Bibliothek") and Officers' School on title-page. Internally clean and fine.‎

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‎[Keying]‎

‎A Description of the Chinese Junk "Keying".‎

‎London, J. Such, Printer, 25 Budge Row, Watling Street, City, 1848. 8vo. 31, (1) pp. With frontispiece and 4 plates with wood engravings, of which one signed [Ebenezer] "Landells", as well as 8 text illustrations. Thread-stitched in original pale orange wrappers with decorative title printing in red and green. Printed for the proprietors of the junk and sold only on board.‎

‎Exhibition catalogue for the Chinese trade junk "Keying", at anchor for visitors against admission in the London Docklands in 1848. Personalised copy of the Swedish visitor Carl Peter Freidenfeldt, with autograph of and stamped by the Mandarin on board, He Sing. - The "Keying", an impressive 3-masted 800-ton sailing ship, was the first Chinese vessel ever to sail from Hong Kong to New York and further to London. The junk had been purchased in 1846 in secrecy by unknown British businessmen in Hong Kong, defying a Chinese law prohibiting the sale of Chinese ships to foreigners. Loaded with artefacts and oddities of Chinese culture and sailing with a mixed crew of Chinese and British sailors under the command of Captain Charles Alfred Kellett, the "Keying" reached New York in July 1847 and fast became an attraction serving as a kind of floating ethnographic museum. - In late March 1848, the "Keying" arrived in London to great fanfare, anchoring in the London Docklands, at Blackwall. Several different medals were struck to commemorate its appearance, including one that had a bust of Mandarin Hesing. The ship was visited by Queen Victoria, whose right to be the first European woman to visit it was reserved, as well as by the Duke of Wellington and Charles Dickens. It has been suggested that the Chinese Emperor was aware of the project from the start and was secretly kept informed about it, and that the mandarin served as an informer to report back in detail. Visitors were "received by a Mandarin of Rank and a Chinese Artist of Celebrity" (promotional text on rear cover). - Apart from the description of the ship as a whole, the cook-house and the decks, the present catalogue also contains an annotated and partly illustrated list of Chinese objects (musical instruments, weapons, tableware etc.) exhibited in different parts of the ship. - The wood-engraved plates are captioned "The Keying", "Portrait of Hesing", "Stern of the Keying", "After Deck", and "Saloon". - Ink ownership of "C[arl] P[eter] Freidenfelt, London den 15 Aug. 1848", at the upper edge of front cover. Front flyleaf (recto of 1st plate) with two red ink stamps depicting Chinese characters, one of them being the seal of Prince Hui Rui. Above and below the signature "Hesing" and the word "Keying" in Latin and Chinese letters written in bold ink; at top and bottom of the page a tiny ink comment in Swedish by Freidenfelt: "Anm: Nedanstående är måladt med pensel af den Chinesiske mandarinen Hesing ombord på den Chinesiska Junken den 15 Aug. 1848 på Londons redd. Då jag besökte Mandarinen, fann jag honom läsande Nya Test. på Chinesiska. Han sade på engelska 'a very good book; makes good for the heart.' (Note: The following is painted with a brush by the Chinese mandarin Hesing aboard the Chinese Junk on Aug. 15th 1848 at London's docks. When I visited the Mandarin, I found him reading New Testament in Chinese. He said in English 'a very good book; makes good for the heart'"). - An 8 mm tear to rear cover professionally repaired. Wrappers slightly worn with some minor stains, otherwise a well preserved copy.‎

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‎Guignes, Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de‎

‎Voyages a Peking, Manille et l'Île de France, fait dans l'intervalle des années 1784 à 1801 [...].‎

‎Paris, l'Imprimerie Impériale (J.J. Marcel) for Treuttel and Würtz, 1808. 3 text volumes (8vo) & atlas volume (folio). The atlas with 92 engraved illustrations on 61 leaves by De Guines after Deserve and 6 engraved maps (4 folding) by d'Houdan. Contemporary gold-tooled tree calf with marbled endpapers (text vols.), modern gold-tooled half sheepskin, marbled sides (atlas). The atlas untrimmed, leaving deckles intact.‎

‎First edition of an esteemed and well-illustrated account of China and the Philippines by the French sinologist and lexicographer Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de Guignes. De Guignes lived in China for 17 years, partly as Resident of France in China and consul at Canton. He was attached as interpreter to the Dutch embassy to Beijing (1794-1795), led by Titsingh and Van Braam. His engaging travelogue recounts his experiences in China, with illustrations after sketches that he made on the spot. De Guignes's narrative provides an interesting and personal perspective on the embassy to Beijing. - De Guignes was the son of the distinguished sinologist Joseph de Guignes, and a correspondent for the Académie des Sciences and the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. He authored an important dictionary, the "Dictionnaire Chinois-Français et Latin" (1813). A German translation of the "Voyages" appeared in Leipzig in 1809-1810. - Slightly browned, plates in the atlas spotted and slightly dirty, the bindings slightly worn, otherwise in good condition. - Cordier (Sinica) 2351f. Gay 3307. Löwendahl 738. Lust 336. Morison II, 104. Reed & Demattè 11.‎

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