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1836réf. 257805Paris: B. Warée Ainé Libraire. Rignoux Imprimeur - Founder 1836. vi pp. premlims 20 ff. text surrounded by engraved decorative border. 12mo. Later hand-lettered wrappers lacking original pink wrappers light soiling to title page else fine. vi pp. premlims 20 ff. text surrounded by engraved decorative border. 12mo. A catalogue of 20 works mostly on China paper printed by Rignoux and offered for sale by Warée. 18 of the titles had been displayed at the Exposition des produits de l'industrie française in 1834. Most of the works are marked "unique." Rare; only a handful of copies located on OCLC. B. Warée Ainé, Libraire. Rignoux, Imprimeur - Founder unknown
1930réf. 236931930. Western travel photo archive depicting Shanghai Chefoo Beijing and northern Chinese landscapes 1930 to 1938 recording the routes attractions and social encounters available to foreign travelers during the final decade before the Second Sino Japanese War transformed movement through coastal and northern China. The photographs move between the commercial modernity of Shanghai's waterfront the resort and treaty port environment of Chefoo imperial architecture near Beijing and river travel through mountainous terrain. Street portraits of rickshaw pullers itinerant vendors and an impoverished man also register the unequal relationship between foreign tourism and the Chinese labor on which it depended. Photo archive of 22 silver gelatin photographs China 1930 to 1938. ranging from 2 x 3 to 3.5 x 5 inches Shanghai views show the skyline and harbor from the water shipping along the waterfront traffic near the Bund rickshaw stands and the Western couple seated in rickshaws beside their pullers. Other photographs depict men carrying large suspended baskets two rickshaw pullers resting beside their vehicles and a full length portrait bearing the printed caption "Chinese special beggar." Northern views include the Summer Palace its lake bridges balustrades painted corridor and hillside architecture; boat travel through steep barren gorges; and broad river landscapes in which small craft are set against sharply eroded mountains. Handwritten versos identify "Summer Palace" "Chefoo No. China" and "On the Bund" with two photographs dated August 1938. A studio portrait is inscribed "Idabela Father Main Shanghai 1930" providing names for two members of the traveling party. Several prints carry additional captions en verso including references to Chefoo and a multi day boat journey. The archive belongs to the treaty port geography that structured much Western travel in Republican China. Shanghai's Bund served as the monumental commercial frontage of the International Settlement while Chefoo now Yantai had developed through foreign trade consular activity missionary residence and seasonal tourism. The Summer Palace offered travelers a carefully preserved landscape of Qing imperial architecture and garden design outside Beijing here photographed through its corridors bridges lake and elevated buildings. The photographs preserve both the travelers' itinerary and the visual categories through which foreigners encountered China: modern port imperial monument dramatic landscape hired transport street labor and poverty presented as a tourist subject. Light surface wear occasional creasing and edge wear mild toning and some fading; several versos inscribed in pencil or ink. Overall in good condition. A firsthand record of Western mobility through Republican China and of the Chinese workers urban spaces historic sites and transport networks encountered along the route. unknown
1891réf. 64156New 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
1930réf. 54650Shanghai China & St. Helena CA: Published by Browhite Arts 1930. 4to. 96 pp unpaginated. Including printed photo frontisp. 41 printed photographic plates all w/ decorative woodcut engraved borders. Raised embossed & decorated burgundy pebbled cloth publisher’s binding gilt dragon & ornament on front cover minor edgewear & rubbing light uniform interior toning minor ink staining to fore-edge of textblock not affecting text or images still G copy. First edition of this wonderfully illustrated compilation of photographs documenting China before the Second Sino-Japanese War including images of the Great Wall Bridge of the Jade Green Waters Spirit Mountain Monastery a Foochow Junk on the Min River The Moon Gate in Peking the Camel Back Bridge in the Palace Gardens the Lama Abbott in the monastery in Peking and many others. James Henry 1896-1954 and Herbert Clarence 1896-1962 were Australian-born twins who grew up in California and went to China as Seventh Day Adventist missionaries in 1921 and 1923 and Henry was an excellent photographer and filmmaker who took photographs and movies in China and then selling them as a fundraiser for the brothers’ missionary efforts in China. Prior to World War II they both went on frequent lecture tours presenting photos and movies to audiences across the West. Published by Browhite Arts, hardcover
1939réf. 235931939. Japanese occupation of China photo archive depicting military administration and daily life in Hangzhou 1939 documenting how the Imperial Japanese Army imposed control over one of China's most important cultural capitals during the early years of the Second Sino Japanese War. Captured by Japanese forces in December 1937 after the collapse of Chinese defenses following the Battle of Shanghai and the fall of Nanjing Hangzhou remained under occupation until 1945 becoming part of Japan's expanding system of military rule across eastern China. These photographs record both the machinery of occupation and the altered rhythms of civilian life showing soldiers prisoners bomb damage public spaces transportation and ordinary residents living within a city under foreign military control. Photo archive of 25 silver gelatin photographs each measuring 1.75 x 2.25 inches Hangzhou China 1939. The photographs show Japanese soldiers drilling posing in uniform and participating in military ceremonies; guards standing beside railway rolling stock and station platforms; troops demonstrating rifle marksmanship; prisoners or detainees under military supervision; and Japanese personnel engaged in what appears to be ceremonial or recreational activities. Civilian life appears throughout the group in photographs of Chinese women children fishermen street scenes market districts temple architecture lakeside promenades pavilions around West Lake and interior commercial displays bearing Chinese signage. Several images record extensive wartime destruction including collapsed neighborhoods burned waterfront districts ruined masonry buildings smoking urban landscapes and cleared industrial sites. The archive juxtaposes military occupation with recognizable landmarks of Hangzhou producing a visual record of a city simultaneously functioning as an occupied administrative center and enduring the physical consequences of invasion. The Japanese Army occupied Hangzhou on 24 December 1937 as it advanced through Zhejiang following the capture of Shanghai and Nanjing incorporating the city into a broader occupation regime that relied upon military garrisons transportation networks local policing and collaborationist administration to secure eastern China. During 1939 the occupation entered a more settled phase in which combat receded inside the city while military infrastructure rail transport public order and civilian adaptation became defining features of everyday life. The combination of military personnel damaged urban landscapes traditional cultural sites transportation facilities and civilian activity distinguishes this archive from purely battlefield photography by documenting the coexistence of violence governance and ordinary existence within an occupied Chinese city. Light surface wear and occasional silvering at the edges; overall in very good condition. A concentrated visual record of Japanese military occupation and civilian life in Hangzhou during the formative years of the occupation of eastern China. unknown
1930réf. 222401930. China family photograph album. 1930s-1960s. This album documents family life across major political transitions in twentieth-century China including the Republican period the years of Japanese occupation and the early decades of the People's Republic. The photographs record everyday experience across multiple regions showing movement between northern southern and northeastern cities as well as Hong Kong and provide visual evidence of how individuals and families navigated changing political and social conditions. The material is particularly strong in its geographic breadth with identified locations including Beijing Guangzhou Wuhan Dalian Jilin Shenyang Anshan Fushun and Hong Kong linking domestic life to major urban and industrial centers. Album containing 107 original black-and-white silver gelatin photographs mounted in a string-bound volume with individual prints ranging approximately from 1.25 x 1.5 to 4 x 6 inches. The photographs include studio portraits with painted backdrops from the 1930s family groupings of multiple generations and school portraits of children posed in uniform before institutional buildings. Clothing varies between Western-style suits and traditional garments such as qipao indicating shifts in dress across time and place. Urban scenes show streets promenades docks and architectural landmarks with some images bearing printed or written location identifications in Chinese. Several photographs depict travel aboard a passenger vessel suggesting movement between mainland cities and Hong Kong. Industrial environments and city signage appear in images associated with Shenyang and Fushun reflecting the presence of major industrial centers in northeastern China. The album spans decades marked by war occupation and state formation when cities such as Shenyang and Anshan developed as industrial hubs under Japanese control and later under the People's Republic while Hong Kong functioned as a site of movement and exchange. The combination of studio portraiture school imagery and travel scenes provides a continuous record of family life through these changes linking private experience to broader historical conditions. Light edge wear and toning to photographs with occasional spotting and minor marks to mounts; overall very good. A substantial visual record of Chinese family life across shifting political and geographic landscapes in the mid-twentieth century. unknown
2005réf. BN334268Erotic Review Books 2005. 2005. Hardcover. The Cabinet of Dark Things The Cabinet of Dark Things China Hamilton Erotic Review Books hardcover
1940réf. ABE-1606100165077First edition. Slim octavo 21.514.5cm 70pp. Original paperback rebound with original front cover laid on. MISSING the last text page Page 71 Enrollment in the University. Shanghai: St. John's University, 1940 paperback
1973réf. 15955-ARHardcover w/ clear plastic dj in slipcase last entered info in text appears 1973 publication. Color still good on softcover slipcase but has a little wear to flap end corners some pressured places along spine. Hardback virtually fine one small spot on title page not sure whether came after or part of printing some tiny light spots on page edges in places. hardcover
2000réf. 2080502106909629Not Available 2000. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
2020réf. 2081502111900023China Statistics Publishing House 2020. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. China Statistics Publishing House paperback
2017réf. 2081502111901209Chinese Ming History Society 2017. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Chinese Ming History Society paperback
1924réf. 64072New York: China Trade Bureau August 1921 to June 1924. 2 volumes large 4to lacking vol. I no. 1 and volume VI no. 6 but otherwise complete from volume I no 2 to volume VI no. 5 - 34 issues in all and contained in a library binding of blue cloth gilt-lettered spine; ex-Purdue University lightly marked. Issues range from 24 to 56 pages. Illustrated throughout. Publication was suspended during June July and August 1924 and finally folded withg the publication of volume VI no. 6 in September 1924. The China Review "is the only magazine published in the United States and edited by Chinese that deals exclusively with all phases of China political social industrial etc." Regular features include: book reviews China's Business Barometer; Finance Industry and Commerce; Foreign Press Comments; The Month in the East; Trans-Pacific Sailings; and Home and General News; together with feature articles by Nathaniel Peffer Cornelius Vanderbilt Charles Hodges Charles W. Mason Nora Waln Loretta Shaw Chungshu Kwei Dr. P. W. Kuo Genevieve Wimsatt K. H. Li Ma Soo James D. Bush and Robert Harris among others writing on various topics relating to China including Chinese Pagodas The Modern Chinese Girl The Future of American Trade in China China's Mathematics - The Oldest Approach and Development of Chinese Markets The Mongolian Situation Selling to the Chinese Millions China's Silk Industry China and the Four Power Treaty Tibet - The Closed Country The Part Birds Play in Chinese Life and many others of interesting content. China Trade Bureau, August, 1921 to June unknown
2002réf. 2081502111901380line book office 2002. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. line book office paperback
2004réf. 64060Beijing: Sinomaps Press distributed by Xinhua Bookstore 2004. Contains Explnatory Notes in English 4to pp. 4 iv 3 1 244; original printed wrappers; Attached Tables in English an envelope containing 21 double-page tables; plus a very large geological map of China on 8 sheets each sheet approx. 24" x 38" or slightly smaller; depths shown by gradient tints and contours. The entite contents in a publisher's pictorial folding clamshell box. Fine copy. The Geological Map of the People's Republic of China with Chinese and English versions was published by the SinoMaps Press in 2004 at the scale of 1:2 500 000 including 8 sheets. The chief compiler is Huang Chongke and the associate chief com pilers are Ye Tianzhu Chen Keqiang Wu Kuanlian Ji Xiaoyan Gao Zhenjia Qian Dadu Tian Yuying He Yongxiang Zhang Qinghe Cao Banggong Li Long Shao Heming Wang Yongqin Yang Minggui Zhang Zhongwei Yao Dongsheng and Zheng Jiankang. More than 100 geologists cartographers and members of computer mapping took part in the compilation of the map. OCLC locates 7 copies in the US: South Florida Illinois Harvard Ohio State St. Louis University the US Geological Society 2. Sinomaps Press, distributed by Xinhua Bookstore unknown
1993réf. 2081502111900077TW Republic of China Historical Materials Research Center 1993. Soft Cover. Fine. Size: hardcover book TW Republic of China Historical Materials Research Center paperback
1796réf. 207049London.: George Nicol. 1796. Double-sheet engraved copperplate map 63.2 x 44.8 cm; 75 x 57 cms sheet including platemark central fold the sheet toned at the edges and central fold a couple of minor spots and edge wear but in very good condition. An exquisitely engraved map with fine detail of the route taken by George Macartney on the first official British embassy to China 1792-1794 undertaken with the aim of gaining trade concessions from the Chinese Emperor and published in George Staunton's officall account. While the official purpose was not successful much was learned about China and the Chinese as is evident from this map with its explanatory texts. To the west of Pekin just below the starting point at Zhe-hol Jehol which is situated at the top of this map the commentary reads: "A great part of the country around Pekin is employed in the production of culinary vegetables and a variety of fruits." At the lower edge of the map just north of the ending point of Hangzhou is the lake Tai Hoo: "The western side of the Tai-hoo is bounded by a very romantic and fertile country whose mountains are clutivated to their very tops. A great part of the province of Tche-tchiang appears to be cultivated with Mulberry trees for the food of the Silk worms." Cities of the 1st 2nd and 3rd orders "considerable towns" and villages are marked along with "Halting places" etc. Fascinating Western documentation of the area around the Imperial Canal of the late Eighteenth Century. . George Nicol. unknown
1901réf. 214540Stockholm.: C. E. Fritze's Royal Library. 1901. 26 pages 27.7 x 19.3 cm original green cloth boards gilt-stamped title slight toning to the text block but in very good condition. Scarce work by Swedish physician veterinarian and zoologist Johan Gustaf Hjalmar Kinberg 1820-1908. Kinberg is best known as ship surgeon and zoologist on the Eugenie circumnavigation of 1851-1853 and for his contribution to the classification of Annelida specimens collected on the voyage. This work is his noble attempt no doubt prompted by the voyage to offer a simplified transcription for Japanese and Chinese characters following the work of J. J. Hoffman 1868 and Georg V. D. Gabelentz 1881. Fine letterpress renderings of the characters text in English. We can trace only a handful of library holdings worldwide. . C. E. Fritze's Royal Library hardcover
1939réf. ABE-1760845525865Original first edition. Octavo 24.216.5cm 162pp plus numerous plates. Cheng Te K'un's decorative bookplate / ex-libris on front free endpaper. Slight water stains to book edges spine taped by previous owner. All pages and plates complete as called for. Chengtu, Szechwan: Canadian Methodist Mission Press, 1939 paperback
1960réf. 025662Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press / Oxford University Press / Institute of Pacific relations 1960. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine Dustjacket. Xiii 247. Orange Cloth. One Of 2000 Copies Of The First Printing But This Copy With Printed $5 Us Price At Bottom Of Front Flap So Perhaps An American Issue. Slight Signs Of Usage To Book And Dj. Inscribed To Mr. And Mrs. Z. T. Nyi Zau Tsung Nyi Of Los Angeles "With High Esteem And Respect". Information From His Archives At Usc: Theodore H.E. Chen Ph.D. 1939 Was Chairman Of Usc's Department Of Asian Studies From 1940 To 1968 And From 1960 To 1971 He Directed The East Asian Studies Center In Support Of Which He Had Obtained The First Federal Grants. Chen Also Secured Outside Funding For A Project To Help Train And Advise High School Teachers Of Chinese And Japanese. A Native Of Fuzhou China Chen Was President Of Fukien Christian University In 1946 And 1947 While On Leave To Participate In Postwar Rehabilitation. He Also Helped Organize Tunghai University In Taiwan As A Representative Of The United Board Of Christian Colleges. He Was The Author Of Nine Books Including Thought Reform Of Chinese Intellectuals And Maoist Educational Revolution And Chinese Education. Dr Chen Hits An Easy Target; The Worst Governments Are Those Who Try To Control What And How People Think And How And Where They Communicate Because Their Leaders Have An Excess Of The Oldest Disease Of Officials Crap-In-The-Brain Which Prevents Them From Engaging In Exchanges Of Facts And Ideas. Hong Kong University Press / Oxford University Press / Institute of Pacific relations hardcover
réf. 0428GUBR6NDHardcover. Good. London: Hodder and Stoughton 1884 first ed. Scarce. Almost Very good good only on the outside and VG inside Edgewear at extrems. Color pictorial blindstamped publisher's cloth. Decorated blue cloth cover with scenes from Chinese life flowers trees our pics Titles in gilt to upper board and spine are rubbed. Brown ffep is missing and there is no half title page name in pencil to verso of frontispiece. Fold-out map All edges gilt. 312pp. Loss of decor. brown cloth 1/8th" at foot and crown of spine. Complete. Fold out map VG though a little loose. 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 pic. hardcover
réf. SONG0333781724MACMILLAN 0000-00-00. First Edition. hardcover. Used: Good. 6.02x2.20x9.21. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. MACMILLAN hardcover
1934réf. 2091502135500803Not Available 1934. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
2010réf. 040749U.S.A.: Subterranean 2010. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. 1ST. Outstanding Copy - Sub Press Limited. Number 2 Of 500 Signed Numbered Copies. Signed By The Author On The Special Limitation Page. A First Edition First Printing. Book Is In Fine Condition. Boards Are Clean Not Bumped. Fore Edges Are Clean. Interior Is Clean And Legible. Not Remaindered. Dust Jacket Is In Fine Condition. Not Chipped Or Crinkled. Not Price Clipped. Dust Jacket Is Covered By Mylar Brodart. Thanks And Enjoy. Subterranean Hardcover
1937réf. 187500Shanghai: Post Mercury Co. Federal Inc. USA c. 1937. Later edition of this vividly illustrated record of the Battle of Shanghai the first major confrontation of the Second World War. The photographs show the skyline of smoke and flame as well as the impact of devastating Japanese aerial bombardments. The front cover states that this is a fifth printing. Quarto. Many halftone illustrations in text. Original buff wrappers gatherings wire-stitched and glue into wrappers issued front cover illustrated in black and red map endpapers. Contemporary gift inscription from Captain E. Johnson China Navigation Company on title page. Spine mostly perished but volume still sturdy staining and creasing to covers and some pages: very good. unknown
