réf. SONG3642316085Used: Good unknown
1966réf. 57346Peking: Science Press Distributed by Guozi Shudian 1966. 4to. 9.25 x 11.5 in. 90 pp unpaginated. Photo-illustrated throughout many in colour 2 large folding panoramic photos. White cloth gilt lettering rounded corners maps on endpapers very slight dustsoiling w/ d.j. photo cover art of expedition photographic team in front of glacier gilt lettering minor edgewear 1 small closed tear rubbing NF/VG copy. First edition of this lavish photographic essay exploring the ascent of Mount Shishapangma now Xixabangma or Gosainthan while Professor Shi Yafeng led a team of glacialogists as part of their detailed glacier survey in the Tibetan Autonomous Region. The true summit is at 8027 meters 26335 feet and often climbers claim to reach the summit when in fact they have climed the lower western summit. The Chinese mountaineering team for the 1964 expedition was led by famed Chinese climber Xu Jing who had climbed Muztagh Ata with the Soviets in 1956 retreated in the 1960 Chinese Mount Everest expedition and succeeded on Mt. Shishapangma which the last unclimbed eight-thousander in the Himalayas. See: Tingjun Zhang & Daqing Yang A Legendary Glaciologist: Academician Shi Yafeng on his Ninetieth Birthday In: Arctic Antarctic and Alpine Research Vol. 40 No. 3 pp. 600-604. Science Press, [Distributed by Guozi Shudian], hardcover
1960réf. 151101960. Photography. Very good. The Taching Oilfield now called Daqing is the largest oilfield in the Peoples Republic of China and is located between the Songhua river and Nunjiang river in Heilongjiang province; it was discovered in 1959 and is now the fourth most productive oilfield in the world. Ca. 1960 b&w poster size photograph of Wu Chuan-ching wearing helmet & drilling uniform taken at the oilfield. With text in English and Chinese on the verso describing Wu Chuan-ching's dedication: "Wu got wounded three times in protecting the state property and class brothers. After recovery he persists in working together with his mates at the well site". 20 x 15 in. Slt ruffled at corners o/w very good. unknown
1870réf. 14615Chicago: The Western News Co 1870. First edition first printing. Paperback book. Very good condition. Harte celebrated satire in anti Chinese feeling which was perverted into a war cry against 'Chinese cheap labor". Very important and scarce this is the original version with original printed envelope. A satiric look at race relations which established Bret Harte's literary reputation. All housed inside a second envelope with the name C.S. Rackemann in ink on cover and in small pencil script at the base '11/9/73 Goodspeeds' the noted Boston Book and Print Seller. 9 cartoon series in the original envelope with story by Bret Harte and cartoons by Joseph Hull. Numbered cartoons with text below depict a card game between 2 western miners "Truthful James" and "Bill Nye" and a Chinese "Ah Sin" in which the Chinese is more proficient at cheating at cards and for which he is beaten by a mob. With the line ""Can this be We are ruined by cheap Chinese labor". 5 x 7 1/4 in cards in original envelope with ink inscription with a small bookseller's stamp laid in "Burnton's 92 Fourth Av" and with an inscription at the upper right 'Charlie Rackemann from Uncle Ell'. Original envelope dusty with short tears at edges cards themselves clean very good condition. BAL 7248. The Western News Co paperback
1947réf. ABE-1763458602448Shanghai: China Bible House 1947 1947 Title page dated 1947. 12mo 18.713.8cm 908pp. Black cloth with gilt lettering pages moderately tanned at edges. Boards with moderate shelf wear spine ends rubbed otherwise a good hardcover with clean pages and firm binding. Paralell columns of text in English and Chinese. More photos available upon request. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Shanghai: China Bible House, 1947 hardcover
1736réf. 137249J. Wood c. 1736. Rare eighteenth century hand-colored map providing plans of Kanton Shang Chwen Shan and Ma-kau being a plate extracted from Du Halde's celebrated Description Geographique the most important cartographic record of the region of the eighteenth century. In near fine condition. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 14 inches by 11.5 inches. Based on surveys conducted by French Jesuits at the behest of the Emperor Kang Hsiand Jean-Baptiste Du Halde's Description Geographique constitutes the first scientific mapping of China and remains the most important cartographic record of the region from the eighteenth century. Du Halde did not travel to China but collected seventeen Jesuit missionaries' reports and provided an encyclopedic survey of the history culture and society of China and "Chinese Tartary" that is Manchuria. Voltaire said of Du Halde's work: "Although it is developed out of Paris and he hath not known the Chinese he gave on the basis of the memoirs of his colleagues the widest and the best description the empire of China has had worldwide." J. Wood unknown
1985réf. ABE-1495364912414Taipei: Library Association of China 1985 1985 Large Octavo 381p. Hardcover no dustjacket. Please note the text is in the CHINESE language. Photos available upon request. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Taipei: Library Association of China, 1985 hardcover
1924réf. ABE-1721189048505New York: China Trade Bureau 1924 1924 First edition. Small folio 30.523.2cm 32ppp.65-96. General wear and soiling to covers. Photos available upon request. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fair/No Jacket. New York: China Trade Bureau, 1924 paperback
réf. 23591People's Republic of China travel photo archive circa 1958 to 1962 documenting the visual transformation of China during the first decade after the Communist victory when the new government reshaped cities through Soviet inspired architecture monumental public spaces heavy industry and carefully promoted historical landmarks. The photographs record both the official face of the new People's Republic and the continued importance of China's imperial past moving from Tiananmen Square and newly constructed exhibition halls to the Great Wall Buddhist temples and traditional pagodas. Produced during the years of Mao Zedong's First Five Year Plan and the Great Leap Forward era the archive captures a country simultaneously presenting revolutionary modernity industrial expansion and national heritage to domestic travelers and foreign visitors. Photo archive of 50 original black and white silver gelatin snapshot photographs each measuring approximately 2.25" x 2.25" People's Republic of China circa 1958 to 1962. The photographs show visitors posing at the Great Wall the Monument to the People's Heroes in Tiananmen Square the Hall of Prayer precinct at the Temple of Heaven the Beijing Exhibition Hall Beijing Railway Station monumental government buildings pagodas imperial gateways parks memorials and civic squares crowded with tourists and official gatherings. Several photographs depict large public assemblies inside Tiananmen Square and athletic demonstrations in a stadium while others record textile mills steel works factory interiors machine halls industrial furnaces rail yards diesel locomotives buses and workers inside modern production facilities. Additional views include lakeside parks university or government compounds memorial cemeteries bridges and modern streets illustrating the architectural language adopted throughout the early People's Republic. Numerous versos carry contemporary handwritten Chinese captions identifying locations. Among those legible are "Beijing Exhibition Hall" 北京展览馆 "Beijing Railway Station" 北京ç«è½¦ç«™ "Beijing People's Cultural Palace" 北京市劳动人民文化宫 "Wuhan Iron and Steel Works" æ¦æ±‰é’¢é“厂 "Wuhan Meat Processing Plant" 武汉肉类加工厂 "Great Hall Beijing Exhibition Hall" 北京展览馆大厅 and "Outside Xiamen Jimei School Village" åŽ¦é—¨é›†ç¾Žå¦æ‘外 providing valuable contemporary identifications for many of the views. The archive belongs to the formative years of the People's Republic when the Communist government invested heavily in monumental construction industrialization transportation infrastructure and carefully managed public spectacle. Beijing became both the political capital and a symbolic showcase of socialist modernization while industrial centers such as Wuhan emerged as flagships of Mao's drive to develop heavy industry through Soviet technical assistance. The photographs reveal how official monuments honoring revolutionary history existed alongside preserved imperial landmarks reflecting the government's effort to position Communist China as both the heir to a long national civilization and the architect of a new socialist future. Public rallies exhibition halls factories transportation networks and restored historic sites appear not as isolated tourist subjects but as components of a carefully constructed national image during one of the most transformative decades in modern Chinese history. Light surface wear occasional corner creasing and scattered silvering and toning from age; handwritten captions on many versos. Overall in very good condition. A concentrated visual record of travel through the People's Republic of China during the Mao era documenting the intersection of revolutionary state building industrial modernization and China's enduring historic landscape. unknown
1932réf. ABE-175117020746712mo 22.316.6 cm 6 pp 26 pp. Thin booklet. More photos available upon request. The Institute of Educational Research, Sun Yat-sen University, Canton, China, 1932 paperback
1936réf. ABE-1639313083493Chengtu: The West China Baptist Mission 1936 1936 First edition. Small octavo 21.613.9cm 24pp. Photos available upon. Scarce. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Chengtu: The West China Baptist Mission, 1936 paperback
1945réf. 206545Calcutta: Compiled and drawn by the Survey of India. Second Edition. 1945. Large folding colour map 77.5 x 80cm; 95.5 x 86.2cm sheet including legend and small inset showing adjoining maps light toning and wear to upper margins and at corners and folds; but in very good condition. Very large clear map of China printed in 1945. The projection is noted as the "Lambert Conical Orthomorphic" a polyconic projection employed by the exhaustive Survey of India and the map includes surrounding countries: Taiwan Korea French Indo-China with a small inset key to Korean place-name abbreviations. As is typical of maps of this period Arunachal Pradesh is shown as Tibetan territory.The legend lists borders and provinces railways roads and canals with topography indicated with colouration. . Compiled and drawn by the Survey of India. unknown
1960réf. 217263Circa1960s. Collection of four colour-printed Nianhua posters three of the central images onlaid within a stiff red paper border with a thin cream paper frame worn and discoloured and at the top of each a fine aqua paper border one without a red border; the sheets a little creased one of the images with a visible tide-mark minor edge tears not affecting the images strengthened neatly on the verso with washi three approx. 93 x 51.5cms sheet size one slightly smaller 58 x 43.5cm in good condition. Four Nianhua posters at least one dating from the Great Leap Forward. In this example a sister braids her hair whilst minding her crawling toddler brother "Sweet Heart". On the wall a poster depicts the industrialisation of agriculture "Agriculture is the foundation of the national economy and grain is the foundation" caption. Two others feature traditional narrative tales and one other features a pair of chubby toddlers holding a tray of peaches and flowers symbols of longevity and abundance. . unknown
1914réf. 215760Yokohama.: Thomas Cook and Son; Box of Curios Press. circa1914. Folding coloured map of Japan showing steamship and railway routes picked out in red 28.5 x 336.2cm large inset map shows Japan's connections with Korea Manchuria and North China; tipped into the original blue card title-wrappers small professionally sealed tear to a lower margin no loss early owner's neat inked tracing to a few railway routes and a note to the front cover "Ymato - Kobe - left side of Torr Rd." tracing; but overall an excellent copy of a scarce item of Thomas Cook ephemera. Very scarce early 20th Century map of Japan for English speaking tourists. We can find no copies listed on WorldCat. Although the wrappers bear the Thomas Cook logo used in the late 19th Century the map carries the updated logo adding the ribbon "Australasia" in use from 1914 until the late 1920s. . Thomas Cook and Son; Box of Curios Press unknown
1884réf. 174187London.: Hodder & Stoughton. 1st Edition. 1884. Fold-out map and black & white woodcut illustrations throughout. Original gray cloth covered boards decorated in light and dark blue and gilt some marks spine lightly sunned head & tail slightly frayed. Brown endpapers with inner front hinge cracked edges and corners rubbed page edges age toned some light foxing. Yet still a good firm copy.All edges gilt. 312pp. By Annie W. Marston "old Friend The author of "The Children of India" dedicated to 32 English children who asked for a book on Chinese children. Annie Wright Marston daughter of Dr. C. H. Marston of Devizes Wiltshire was a missionary born at Uley Gloucestershire in 1852. There are gritty descriptions of the treatment of baby girls in China and of women in general. The final chapter of the book asks for help to raise money for Chinese Missionary Societies. . Hodder & Stoughton. hardcover
1859réf. 224676Edinburgh and London.: William Blackwood and Sons. 1859. Two volumes. Volume I: Two folding maps the large folding map of China coloured in outline sealed fold tear with tape on the verso five coloured lithographs "Japanese Funeral" supplied in facsimile text wood engravings xiii 492pp 16pp publisher's adverts. Rebacked mounting the original spine with the endpapers renewed. Volume II: Three folding maps fifteen coloured lithographs "Temple of Supreme Felicity" supplied in facsimile text wood engravings xi 496pp. A few gatherings loose but holding one leaf neatly tipped in. Both volumes: 23 x 15cm. Original embossed cloth boards gilt decorated and gilt lettered on the spines. Pencilled marginalia and underlining bindings scuffed and worn the spines darkened with the cancelled library stamps of the Church Missionary Society to the preliminaries. A good set. First edition account of a pivotal British diplomatic expedition. Laurence Oliphant 1829-1888 was private secretary to Lord Elgin at this time and his very readable narrative provides a first-hand record of the 19th-century diplomatic and military efforts that forced open trade in East Asia including for example an account of the bombardment of Canton during the Second Opium War. During this journey they secured the Treaty of Tientsin in China and the Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Amity and Commerce. The text is highly significant for documenting this critical era of Western imperialism. . William Blackwood and Sons. hardcover
1922réf. 165763Shanghai.: Commercial Press Limited. First edition. 1922. Blue cloth covered boards lettered in gilt spine very slightly sunned. x 685pp index and appendix top edge a little dusty endpapers faint foxing but a very good clean and firm copy of the first edition. . Commercial Press Limited. hardcover
1982réf. 220392London.: Han-Shan Tang at the Pisces Press. No. 209 of a limited signed edition of 250 copies. 1982. 85 pages of text 72 full page black and white photographic plates original green cloth with title stamped in gilt and red on the upper board and the spine a near fine copy in dustjacket with light abrasions and sunning to spine. 32 x 24cm. From the library of Aubrey and Eva Sweet with a label indicating the collection number on the spine. Originally published in 1938 this is an unabridged facsimile edition published in a limited edition of 1000 copies by Han-Shan Tang. . Han-Shan Tang at the Pisces Press. hardcover
2020réf. 2081502111900482Capital Economics and Trade University Publishing House 2020. Soft Cover. Fine. Size: Hardcover Capital Economics and Trade University Publishing House paperback
2017réf. 2081502111902488Culture publishing company 2017. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Culture publishing company paperback
2026réf. __3527355839Wiley-Vch Verlag Gmbh 2026. Hardcover. New. 976 pages. 6.69x0.59x9.61 inches. Wiley-Vch Verlag Gmbh hardcover
2013réf. SONG1848721595Routledge 2013-11-14. 1. hardcover. Used: Good. 5.50x0.63x8.50. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Routledge hardcover
1977réf. 006843Los Angeles Etc: Chinese Historical Society Of Southern California 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 193 1977. First Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Photographs Etc. Near Complete Run From Vol 1 No. 1 August 1977 Through Volume 16 No. 1 June 1993 29 Issues. With Two 1977 Copies Of The Bulletin And The Brochure For The Society's 10Th Anniversary Dinner In 1985. Near Fine No Marks. Chinese Historical Society Of Southern California 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 19 paperback
1957réf. 183246Harbin: Heilongjiang renmin chubanshe "Heilongjiang People's Press" 1957. First edition untraced institutionally of this pictorial guide for workers on China's rapidly expanding railway network. Each double-page spread includes an illustration and facing textual explanation of best practices. Between 1952 and the year of publication 6100 kilometres of new railway lines were laid across the country. Landscape duodecimo. Illustrations and Chinese text throughout. Original pictorial wrappers gatherings wire-stitched and glued into wrappers as issued spine and covers lettered in red. Wrappers lightly rubbed and toned contents clean: near-fine. unknown
1938réf. 171717Wuchang: American Church Mission 1938. First and only edition first printing untraced institutionally reporting on a pivotal year for the hospital. The Japanese invasion of China the first major engagement of the Second World War created intense demand for in-patient care and statistical tables and reports by leading medical personnel chronicle the military and civilian costs of Tokyo's expansionism. Several institutions in the United States hold copies of the hospital's annual reports for other years but we have not located any copies of this pivotal instalment on WorldCat. Octavo. With 3 halftone photographic plates tables in text. Original paper wrappers front cover lettered in black. Lightly toned overall front cover sometime re-attached with adhesive wrappers chipped. A very good copy of this fragile work. unknown