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réf. 90499Liverpool Jabez Vale n.d. circa 1840. . Broadside 31 x 29.5 cm. approx printed in blue ink with a large pictorial vignette surrounded by an ornamental border. Rare Liverpool printed broadside. The text consists of a quote from Lord Byron followed by a nineteen-line text praising the city and giving details of its topography and features of interest. Nanking porcelain was a major export item and the city would have been of great interest to people in the West. The blue on white of the broadside presumably reflects the distinctive blue-and-white porcelain itself. Liverpool, Jabez Vale, n.d. circa 1840. unknown
1926réf. 145415Shanghai: California Directory Association and the Shanghai Times 1926. A well-preserved example of this scarce guide for American visitors to China recorded in just four institutions on WorldCat. Produced during a golden age of East Asian travel this convenient compendium lists places of interest and suggested itineraries for major cities alongside dozens of advertisements for hotels curio shops and luxury goods. Foreign tourists in East Asia were not a new sight in the early 20th century but the construction of railway lines from the late 19th century caused a dramatic increase in the ease and possibilities of travel. In Hong Kong Shanghai and other large cities the number of businesses catering to the foreign tourist market ballooned with many listed in this guide. Inside travellers could find information on the Hong Kong Hotel and the famous Grand Hotel des Wagon-Lits in Peking's Legation Quarter as well advertisements for firms as varied as the Hong Kong and Kowloon Taxicab Company the outfitters Aux Chic Parisien U. B. Pilsener Beer of Shanghai Strehlneek's Chinese Art Studio and Clerici Bedoni & Co. importers of fine Italian wines. Two pages of pidgin English phrases are provided to help travellers ask for the "Sing-song house" the theatre or "Smelleum water" Eau de Cologne. The California Directory Association produced a number of tourist guides for travellers to the Far East all of which are now rare. Duodecimo. With 2 folding maps of central Hong Kong and Shanghai halftone illustrations in text advertisements throughout. Original red card wrappers title and Chinese dragon to front cover in black. Wrappers lightly creased with small chip to lower tip of front cover internally clean and bright larger folding map with small closed tear partially tape repaired to verso. A very good copy of this vulnerable publication. unknown
1922réf. 174979Hong Kong Weihaiwei Canton and at sea: 1922-27. An album compiled by an officer likely involved with the maintenance and testing of battleships and submarines interspersing photographs taken while on duty with his tourist snapshots and shots of friends. Nine images show vessels from the China Station's fleet of L-Class submarines being put through their paces. The photographs are arranged roughly chronologically and although many are captioned and some show the officer he is unidentified. It commences in 1922 and seven photographs taken onboard the battlecruiser HMS Repulse in the Mediterranean show Repulse and HMS Hood the largest ship in the Royal Navy undergoing full power trials. Photographs taken in China a few years later continue the theme. During the 1920s L-Class submarines served on the station as the Fourth Submarine Flotilla and the album contains photographs of HMS L3 and L4 during trials at Hong Kong in 1926 as well as diving trials for HMS L5. Two photographs taken atop the main body of HMS L2 show it forging ahead at full power. He also records the process of changing the submarine's propellor. A range of images document life in Weihaiwei the base from which British naval power radiated in north China. He has the chance to visit HMS Titania a submarine depot ship and he relaxes at the United Services Club recording the appearance of the grounds and the view from the club out to sea. There is time to play some golf on nearby Liugong Island and visit the Temple of the Four Winds and the Beehive Tombs. He captures for posterity the naval boat race including the "veteran officers' skiff" pulled by Captain later Admiral Robert Henry Taunton Raikes 1885-1953 commander of the Fourth Submarine Flotilla. The sights and sounds of south China similarly beckon. In Canton he visits the waterfront and temples and photographs goods being taken to market and images show him holidaying with friends at Repulse Bay in Hong Kong. Interspersed are other glimpses onto life at sea: Hood's quarterdeck rigged for dancing; a group of pirates captured after they seized and torched the steamship SS Sunning near Hong Kong in late 1926; and cricket on the deck of a cruise ship. Landscape quarto album buff card covers tied with light brown cord through punch holes front cover with black embossed letters within blind-stamped panel 18 stiff card leaves full with 181 tipped-in gelatin silver photographs most c. 85 x 60 mm to 115 x 160 mm short pencil and ink captions. Covers worn couple of old adhesive tape repairs some photographs rather yellowed and aged but still with distinct tones: a very good album. unknown
1919réf. 176501Shanghai: Privately printed by Kelly & Walsh Ltd for G.S.J. 1919. A Shanghai expat's otherwise unrecorded tribute to his goddaughter inscribed by the author on the first blank "To Irene from Stewart with all good wishes. 22nd October 1919 Shanghai". G. Stewart Jones "G.S.J." in the imprint ran the Shanghai office of the chemicals giant Brunner Mond & Co. Jones composed his poems in Shanghai Tianjin on the Yangtze River and in England. His collection is a rare surviving example of the bespoke luxury printing and bookbinding service provided by Kelly & Walsh Asia's largest publisher-printer. Octavo pp. 16. Contents printed in blue. Original decorative black and blue brocade front cover lettered in gilt edges untrimmed binder's ticket on rear pastedown. Boards lightly rubbed and bowed foxing to endpapers and edges: a very good copy. hardcover
1933réf. 144201Moscow: Parti noe izd-vo 1933. First edition first printing uncommon institutionally of this widely cited Russian research publication on the soviets controlled by the Chinese Communist Party in the early 1930s. It reflects the Kremlin's keen paternalistic interest in the development of China's communist movement and stamping Comintern authority on Mao and other party leaders. Worldcat records just ten copies. After the collapse of the Chinese Communist Party's CCP First United Front with the Kuomintang in 1927 the remnants of the CCP retreated to rural areas and formed a number of soviets as experiments in cultivating a socialist revolution in the countryside. These base areas including Jingangshan and Jiangxi-Fujian became the birthplaces of the rurally-focused ideology that would eventually deliver the whole of China for the CCP. Historical research continues to reveal the Soviet Union's extensive involvement in the CCP's early growth. In 1930 Stalin and other Comintern figures had been instrumental in convincing a wing of the CCP leadership to abandon hopes of forming urban soviets and instead focus on cultivating support among the peasantry. By 1933 having grown to distrust Mao's leadership Moscow again altered the shape of the party by sending Bo Gu one of the "28 Bolsheviks" and Otto Braun to take charge of the Jiangxi soviet and manage military operations against Kuomintang encirclement campaigns. Moscow needed access to the most up-to-date information on the base areas. The present work contains a 100-page introduction to the Chinese soviets co-authored by the Russian Sinologist Evgenii Sigismundovich Iolk 1900-1937 who was ideally qualified on account of having been in China in 1926-27 as a member of Borodin's staff specialising in agrarian issues. During this period Iolk had had a front row seat to Mao's early attempts to organise the peasantry. In 1932 he began working in the intelligence section of the General Staff of the Red Army in which role he undoubtedly enjoyed access to the latest information on developments in China. Octavo. With 5 folding maps 1 with colour. Original red cloth title to spine and front board reverse outlined in silver block silver hammer and sickle device to spine. With the errata slip tipped in. A few marks and faint stains to cloth extremities a little rubbed textblock and upper margin of maps lightly browned. A very good copy. hardcover
1694réf. 42217Amsterdam Gerardi Valk et Petri Schenk n.d. around 1694. 465 x 52 cm. Engraved map China in orig. handcolouring. Showing all the Chinese provinces Korea and the island of Formosa in the south. Ships in the sea and cartouche with Chinese costumes. A small rupture in a border due to etching from the colour used no loss. Left margin with a small tear no loss. Right very broad margin with a tear not reaching the image. This fine decorative map was first printed in "Atlas Novus" by J. Janssonius in 1658. This issue bearing the names of Valk and Schenck was published around 1694. unknown
1934réf. ABE-1528278985072Peiping: China International Famine Relief Commission 1934. 1934 First edition. Quarto 26.319.2cm 48p plus 27 foldout charts/maps. Illustrated with 41 photos. Plate XXIV torn otherwise a very good copy. More photos available upon request. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Good/No Jacket. Peiping: China International Famine Relief Commission, 1934. paperback
1998réf. 2091502135421932People's University of China Libraries Center 1998. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 145 People's University of China Libraries Center paperback
1998réf. 2091502135421942People's University of China Libraries Center 1998. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 200 People's University of China Libraries Center paperback
1945réf. 175494China: 1945. A rare series of photographs taken after Japan's unconditional surrender when the Office of Strategic Services launched eight operational missions to rescue prisoners of war across east and south-east Asia showing smiling internees and their liberators. Two of the images show Lee Beom-Seok a resistance fighter and the first prime minister of South Korea who worked closely with OSS personnel in China. In one photograph taken at night Lee stands alongside soldiers in the uniform of Chiang Kai-Shek's National Revolutionary Army. Other images capture a team of US soldiers disembarking from a C47 cargo plane while two at the end of the album show OSS personnel in discussion. At least one photograph appears to show Clyde Bailey Sargent 1909-1981 a sinologist who joined the OSS as a civilian and undertook intelligence-gathering missions in China and India; his short obituary is pasted on the inner rear cover. Square octavo photo album. Original card covers white plastic spiral binding housing 24 gelatin silver photographs each c. 95 x 105 mm in wallets. Photographs somewhat sunned and toned: very good. unknown
1915réf. 188485Tokyo: Imperial Japanese Government Railways 1915. Meticulously compiled Second and preferred edition corrected from the first of the same year of this detailed handbook for tourists complete with all city plans called for and the large regional map in well-preserved condition. Issued between 1913 and 1917 the volumes of An Official Guide to Eastern Asia were Japan's answer to Baedeker and symbolized Tokyo's growing regional influence. Small octavo. With 9 plates 8 collotypes and 1 in colour and with captioned tissue guard 22 colour maps all but 1 folding large colour folding map in end pocket illustrations and tables in text. Original brown diagonal-grain cloth spine and front cover lettered in gilt map endpapers top edge gilt green bookmarker. Contemporary ownership signature on title page; near-contemporary side- and underlining internally; recent bookplate of sinologist Keith Stevens 1926-2015. Cloth still fresh with only light rubbing and marking maps generally well preserved couple of stub tears: very good. hardcover
1913réf. 168261London: War Office 1913. Modernity's steel rails The 1913 version of a map that was issued periodically throughout the 1910s. Drawn and printed at the Ordnance Survey Office in Southampton it highlights railways built in progress and proposed and two inset maps show links to Beijing and in Manchuria. A column of notes gives gauges mileages and notes on construction. The map shows that at the onset of Republican rule China had around a dozen lines in progress or planned - including a stretch linking Hankou to Canton - to complement the main lines connecting Beijing to Hankou Shanghai and Mukden. The side notes address the complexity of the railway network's governance and administration - lines were variously built managed and worked by combinations of foreign and Chinese organizations. Colour lithographed map 740 x 990 mm. Sometime folded occasional scuffing and edge toning two panels on verso browned: a very good example. unknown
1960réf. 105810San Francisco: Young China Morning Paper 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. About very good to about very good with minor wear and slight discoloration to exterior some soiling to a few pages. Binding fo rthe most part tight. A solid copy. Large quarto in dark blue title-stamped cloth; 598 pages illustrations 27 cm; folding maps color plates b&w photos; adverts indexes. In Chinese. Rare. WorldCat locates but one copy. This 1960 San Francisco volume commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of Young China 《少年中國》 a youth-centered nationalist periodical and organization founded in 1910 amid the reformist and revolutionary currents leading to the fall of the Qing. Rooted in late–Qing and early Republican political culture Young China promoted moral regeneration national revival and resistance to foreign domination framing “youth” as the ethical vanguard of China’s future. Its survival and rebirth in the overseas Chinese world reflect the continuity of this ideology beyond the mainland.In a Taiwanese and émigré context the book is significant as a diasporic archive of Chinese republican memory maintained abroad during periods of rupture on both the mainland and the island. Produced in a limited non-commercial print run and distributed within overseas Chinese networks thi slarge illustrated volume functions less as a celebratory souvenir than as an assertion of historical legitimacy and political lineage. An important document of how Taiwanese-linked émigré communities in 1960 understood themselves as custodians of a revolutionary tradition originating in 1910 and carried forward in exile. Chinese California Chinese Chinese California Chinois Californie Chinese Young China San Francisco. Young China Morning Paper hardcover
réf. #[36402]Paris de l'imprimerie d'Adrien Le Clere imprimeur de l'Archevêché de Paris 1818-1823. 8 volumes. 12mo. Contemporary half calf spines sl. rubbed with occasional light cracking. With printer's woodcut device on title-pages. XXVIII 486 1 errata; IV 560; IV 503 1 errata; IV 567 1; VIII 603 errata pasted on final page as usual; IV 511 1 errata; IV 419; IV 448 pp. First edition. - Important collection of Jesuit reports from China and Indochina Vietnam Laos Siam Macao etc. a continuation of the collection of Jesuit letters known as the Lettres édifiantes et curieuses. They are mostly concerned with internal matters such as clashes with the Chinese authorities Lust 830. Volumes one to five deal with China and volumes six to eight deal with the missions in Tong-King and Cochinchina. - Unobtrusive faint library blind stamps on title pages otherwise a fine and fresh set. - Rare. Löwendahl China I p. XLIX; Morrison II p. 159; Cordier B.S II cols. 953-957 listing the contents in detail; Streit & Dinginger Bibl. Missionen 1931: 2. unknown
réf. FRE25Oblong Quarto album ca. 15x19 cm. 12 card-stock leaves. Period black lacquered boards with elaborate inlaid motifs. 39 photographs from 75x7 cm to 9x135 cm. Almost all photos are captured in pre-revolutionary Russian. Front board of the album is detachable. Few photos faded rear cover slightly scuffed. otherwise good. Octavo album ca. 215x145 cm. 47 leaves 23 blank. Period green cloth binding. 73 photographs from 55x85 to 165x115 cm. Approximately half of the photos are captioned in Russian. The album is signed ’Sophie Stcherbakof. 26/1/1896 on the half-title’ the next page includes a deduction leaf from Alexei Fedorovich Vedernikov to Maria Fyodorovich and Nikolay Smirnov who got married on 26th of January 1896 in Verny now - Alma-Ata Kazakhstan next to the dedication is a song Vedernikov sang at their wedding on which he was the best man. Also album includes three pasted postcards a collage with three cloth stripes red-blue and white and a praise for ‘matouchka Rossia’ in mix of French and latinized Russian dated 1893 and a red piece of paper with printed in Chinese ‘Badong’ for the name of Badong province and three geographical names from the province in Russian. Few photos are faded and with tears but overall in good condition. The albums are coming from the families of the Russian officers who served in China Central Asia and the Far East in the last two decades of the existence of the Russian Empire. The album share provenance and have belonged together in the collection we acquired them from although it is unclear if the people on the photos are related. The first album is likely complied by lieutenant S.E.Bocharov of the South Manchurian Detachment of the Russian Army. This detachment operated in the Far East until the formation of the Manchurian Army in 1904 at the outset of the Russo-Japanese War. Its roots trace back to late summer and early autumn of 1901 when Russian troops in Northern Manchuria organized and executed operations to capture the last remaining leaders of the hunhuz movement who were still at large. The detachment was commanded by Lieutenant General Tserpitsky. The outcome of the detachment's operations was the capture of the Chinese General Sheu and the surrender of another hunhuz chieftain Fulango. In August 1901 Lieutenant General Tserpitsky relinquished command of the South Manchurian Detachment to Major General Fleischer who had previously commanded it at the beginning of the campaign during the advance on Haicheng. The creation of this album likely dates to this specific period; the photographs depict the detachment's headquarters in Mukden officers and their families a steam locomotive on the railway the Liaohe River in Yingkou a panoramic view of Yingkou and a barracks building under construction. The album also contains two studio photographs of Nagasaki—including a hand-colored image of the customs house—as well as two Japanese studio genre scenes. Individuals mentioned in the album include: Convoy Commander Anisimov Senior Adjutant Vlasenko Officer for Special Duties Vutman Colonel Glinsky and his wife Shura Glinskaya and Lieutenant Vlasenko. The second album is a keepsake album kept by Sophia Sherbakova Ð¡Ð¾Ñ„Ð¸Ñ Щербакова. The album starts in Kazakhstan then we see the couple vacating in Crimea Zeleny Mys and visiting Niagara Falls and New York. The second half of the album is dedicated to their life in China and Siberia: it starts with the street panorama in Badong an image of two Russian officers next to a buddhist temple group of four Russians on the horse-changing station the image of the house with a caption ‘our flat’ a group of Cossacks next to an entrance into a town street and nature views. The final section of the album shows Sophia in Irkutsk in 1914-1916 with one photo captured ‘Kazan’. Overall an interesting collection of photos of pre-1917 Russian activities in the Far East which are rare on the market. hardcover
réf. 219860Hong Kong.: Sydney L. Moss Ltd. 2010. The set of 7 volumes complete 1363pp of text and catalogue profusely illustrated in colour with many folding plates: 4 volumes 34.7 x 25 cms and 3 accordion-fold folio volumes 50.3 x 34.7 cms Hsu Lin 1462-1538; Lan Ying 1585-1660s ; Sun Ch'eng-Tse 1592/3-1676 red cloth boards lettered in black housed in the original cream linen-covered fully-lined clamshell box barely visible bump to the top hinge gilt stamped spine title and blind-stamped on the front cover 54.5 x 37.5 x 18.5cm. A very heavy set approx 24 kg in very good near pristine condition. A magisterial production six years in the making: "Here we strive at considerable expense of time trouble money and the express courier's low back to show you and to force you to look at as many paintings and calligraphies as we could manage lifesize and where at all possible in the formats they were created in." Introduction . Sydney L. Moss Ltd. hardcover
1900réf. 238871900. Peking and northern China photographic archive documenting everyday commerce informal labor transportation and waterfront life during the final Qing and early Republican periods circa 1900 to the 1920s. Rather than concentrating on monuments or official events the photographs turn repeatedly toward merchants barbers vendors boatmen fishermen cart drivers and working streets. French manuscript captions identify Peking Tien Tsin and other northern Chinese locations suggesting a Francophone traveler recording the commercial and social landscape encountered along the route. Early twentieth century photographs of China survive in substantial institutional collections but small groups centered on ordinary economic activity and working neighborhoods like this one are less frequently encountered than architectural military and tourist views. Photo archive of 23 sepia toned silver gelatin photographs ranging from approximately 2 x 3 to 3 x 4 inches Peking Tien Tsin and northern China circa 1900 to the 1920s. The photographs show merchants displaying wares in open air markets; a street barber attending a seated customer; vendors working from tables baskets and temporary stalls; men gathered around cooking vessels beneath makeshift shelters; horse and donkey carts carrying goods; fishermen and boatmen among crowded wooden craft; and waterfront workers loading or unloading vessels. River and harbor views record dense concentrations of sampans and other small boats beside wooden landings while street scenes show carts animals warehouses a water tower and commercial traffic moving through the same urban environment. French inscriptions on the versos identify subjects and places including "Pékin marché" "Pékin restaurant en plein air" "Tien Tsin" "Tien Tsin rue Dillon" "voiture chinoise" and "port de bateaux français." Other captions appear to identify Chin Van Tao possibly an early romanization of Qinhuangdao though that reading remains uncertain. Several photographs carry French captions written directly in the negative or along the lower edge providing contemporary identifications of the scenes and further associating the group with a Francophone traveler or photographer. The photographs span the final years of the Qing dynasty the 1911 Revolution the establishment of the Republic in 1912 and the subsequent Republican period when Peking remained a major political and commercial center. After the Qing abdication in February 1912 Peking became the seat of Yuan Shikai's government and remained the principal seat of the Beiyang government until 1928. The material culture recorded here changed more slowly than the political institutions around it: carts animal transport open air markets small trades river traffic and neighborhood commerce continued to structure daily life. The French captions also broaden the archive beyond Peking connecting the capital to Tien Tsin and northern Chinese waterways and ports. Light to moderate surface wear occasional spotting edge wear minor creasing and varying degrees of fading and toning; manuscript verso inscriptions remain generally legible. Overall in very good condition. A concentrated visual record of merchants boatmen barbers vendors transport workers markets and waterways sustaining everyday economic life in northern China across the late Qing and early Republican eras. unknown
réf. 14801London: Folio Society 2025. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/No Jacket. Limited to 500 copies. Crafted with the author's close involvement this ultimate edition features an exclusive afterword by China and striking illustrations by Doug Bell. Unread fine copy. Folio Society hardcover
2001réf. SONG0742511634Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2001-03-27. hardcover. Used: Good. 6.12x0.69x9.26. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers hardcover
1799réf. 254690Paris: Chez F. Buisson Imprimeur-Librair rue Hautefeuille no. 20 1799. Seconde édition augmentée d'un Précis de l'Histoire de la Chine par le traducteur et du Voyage en Chine et en tartare de J. C. Huttner traduit de l'allemand par le même Traducteur. Vol.1 : with half-title portrait frontispiece of Macartney clxxxiv 311 pp. Plates 1-6. VOLUME II : half-title 408 pp. Plates 7-13. VOLUME 3 : Half title 414 2 Catalogue "Voyages" de la librairie chez Buisson pp. Plates 14-27. VOLUME 4 : half-title 380 pp. Plates 28-35. VOLUME. 5 : half-title. 350 pp 1 plate 36 and 2 folding maps Plates 37 & 38. 5 vols. 8vo. Nineteenth century brown boards red paper labels some rubbing else Very Good. Seconde édition augmentée d'un Précis de l'Histoire de la Chine par le traducteur et du Voyage en Chine et en tartare de J. C. Huttner traduit de l'allemand par le même Traducteur. Vol.1 : with half-title portrait frontispiece of Macartney clxxxiv 311 pp. Plates 1-6. VOLUME II : half-title 408 pp. Plates 7-13. VOLUME 3 : Half title 414 2 Catalogue "Voyages" de la librairie chez Buisson pp. Plates 14-27. VOLUME 4 : half-title 380 pp. Plates 28-35. VOLUME. 5 : half-title. 350 pp 1 plate 36 and 2 folding maps Plates 37 & 38. 5 vols. 8vo. Cordier Biblioteca Sinica IV 2385 Chez F. Buisson, Imprimeur-Librair, rue Hautefeuille, no. 20 unknown
réf. 16750Geneva: Collections Baur 1972. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 11.5x9.5x1.5in. #353 of 1100 copies; dust jacket lightly yellowed on spine in VG cardboard slipcase. Dust jacket in clear protector. Volume Three of the Baur collection centers on Chinese Ceramics with particular attention to Monochrome glazed porcelains of the Ch'ing Dynasty. 4.97lb 11.5x9.5x1.5in Collections Baur hardcover
réf. PE54Oblong Folio album ca. 25x33 cm or 10 x 13 ¼ in. 30 card stock leaves. With ca. 330 mounted original gelatin silver photos including five large images from ca. 195x26 cm 7 ¾ x 10 in to ca. 175x24 cm 7 x 9 ½ in; the rest of the photos are from ca. 125x205 cm 4 ¾ x 8 in to ca. 45x65 cm 1 ¾ x 2 ½ in. Nine photos are captioned in negative; at least eighteen with ink manuscript captions on recto or verso. With seven mounted period newspaper clippings or ephemera. Period brown faux leather album fastened with a string; gilt-lettered title “Photographs” on the front cover. Binding rubbed with chipping and losses on extremities over a dozen photos with creases losses of corners or scratches two or three photos possibly previously removed A few photos mildly faded or with mild silvering but overall a very good album of interesting photos. Interesting extensive collection of original gelatin silver snapshot and studio photos taken and collected by an American sailor during his service on U.S.S. “Huron” and “U.S.S. “Black Hawk” in the Southwest Pacific in the 1920s. Former U.S.S. South Dakota 1908-1920 U.S.S. “Huron” served as flagship of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet in 1919-1926 “operating in Philippine waters during the winter and out of Shanghai and Yantai during the summer” Wikipedia. In 1923 the ship participated in the relief operation in Yokohama and Tokyo after the Great Kanto earthquake. U.S.S. “Black Hawk” served in the Asiatic Fleet for twenty years 1922-1942 cruising between various locations in the Philippines Manila Olongapo and China Hong Kong Shanghai Amoy/Xiamen Tsingtao/Qingdao and Chefoo/Yantai. During WW2 it served in Hawaii and Kodiak Alaska. Most images in the album show the U.S. naval ships where the compiler served and their crew members including a large group portrait of sailors wearing the U.S.S. “Huron’s” sports uniform and a large view of U.S.S. “Huron” in Hong Kong harbour. The smaller photos include numerous scenes taken on board mostly of U.S.S. “Black Hawk” with the sailors working or resting some are captioned i.e. “scrubbing gangway in Yellow Sea en Chefoo to Shanghai me with pipe in mouth B.H.” “just like convicts” “B.H. looking forward; x - is our movie screen and o - is the movie house” “main mast” &c. images of an official ceremony on board naval exercises at sea “firing a torpedo” “standing by to fire 4 inch” portraits of the crew members several identified by the compiler i.e. “… Seaner he is at the hospital in Peking now” “F.J. Tancey from Fort Wayne apt gun deck Chefoo” “Lewis R. Hand he died the night we left Chefoo from desentery sic!” “Wirth and Mardis” &c. There are also views of the interior of U.S.S. “Huron’s” launch boat the ship’s radio tower “comforts of a man-of-war” a view “taken from inside of Hawk looking thru an air port tin cans ships and the beach” a launch boat “waiting for the Captain Chefoo” &c. A series of photos show the U.S. naval ships in Chefoo Yantai: “a small part of the Asiatic Fleet anchored in Chefoo;” “x – is were the cans go for shelter when it gets bad also the subs. They might slip there sic! anchor and get washed up on the shore. O. Chinese fort Chefoo;” “tin cans coming in from fireing sic! Chefoo;” “cans and sampans taken at apt gun deck B.H. Chefoo;” “English gun boat in river” “repairing cans Chefoo B.H.” “more of the navy Chefoo” &. Several views of Chefoo show “God in Heaven temple” “Door & lions at Yu Hwan Ding Chefoo” “Chefoo Wall’ taken from above “Arch at American Mission School Temple Hill – Chefoo” “Y.M.C.A. Court Chefoo” “Row of old guns Chefoo Fort” “Chinese memorial Tablets – Chefoo” local boys swimming in the sea &c. There are also several views of Hong Kong port and wharves waterfront residences on Victoria Peak Statue Square with the monument to Queen Victoria Shanghai “entering Shanghai we are in the Yangtze river” “view from B.H. outskirts of Shanghai” a view of the General Post Office building with the Suzhou Creek Qingdao “Tsingtau” &c. Several photos portray American sailors in rickshaw carts “Jew Wirth and me Oriental Hotel Chefoo” posing with Chinese girls “Sing Tat and Job” “6 Chinaman sic! Chefoo” on board the ship &c. The large photos include two reproductions of drawings depicting the service of American sailors in China and the Philippines a map with “Distances from Guam to principal points in the Pacific. Over a dozen photos taken in the Philippines show “Hotel Abella Pagsanjan P.I.” local villages native workers dancers women boys playing a ball game and a group portrait of American sailors “in the Philippine jungles Olongpo sic! while we were in dry dock Feb. 25…” The newspaper clippings and ephemera include articles about the USS S-4 submarine disaster 1927 the appointment of U.S.S. “Pittsburg” the flagship of the Asiatic Fleet in the end of 1926 the movement of San Diego warships a receipt from “Hanson photo studio” in Tsingtau/Qingdao and a ticket to the Peak tramway in Hong Kong. Overall an interesting content-rich visual source on the history of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet and its service near the coast of China and the Philippines in the 1920s. hardcover
réf. PD35Oblong Quarto album ca. 183x288 cm. 45 card-stock leaves 10 blank. With 239 mounted original gelatin silver photographs with the larger ones from ca. 154x24 cm 6 x 9 ½ in to 147x99 cm 5 ¾ x 4 in the smaller ones ca. 66x42 cm 2 ½ x 1 ¾ in and the rest ca. 138x82 cm 5 ½ x 3 ½ in. About half of the photos with captions only indicating the age of a baby 1 photo dated. Period full-cloth album fastened with a string; gilt-tooled generic title “Photographs” on the front board; paper label of “The J. L. Hanson Co Chicago” on the back side of the rear board. About twenty pages detached occasional silvering but overall a very good album with strong interesting photos. Historically interesting collection of lively vernacular photos illustrating the life of an upper-class German family in Beijing during the 1920s-1930s. According to the photographs the family was likely connected to the German military stationed in Beijing from the 1920s until Japan’s invasion in 1937. During this period Germany maintained strong economic and military ties with China providing military advisors and technical assistance to the Nationalist government. The presence of a high-ranking German family suggests they may have been part of this mission involved in military training arms trade or diplomatic efforts. The album contains 239 rare original photos likely taken by a female German expatriate in Beijing. About 160 images follow the compiler’s son from infancy showing him strolling through Beijing streets with Chinese nannies riding in carts pulled by local coolies and posing in military uniforms and Chinese conical hats with other Western children. Especially interesting are about fifteen rare photos of a fascist youth camp showing children beside fascist flags and Chinese courtyard houses dressed in uniform and participating in group activities. There are also several excellent large-size photographs of a local German school capturing costumed Christmas Eve performances and classroom scenes. The rest of the photos likely show the compiler’s husband with other high-profile Europeans at an outdoor picnic fascist flags displayed on buildings and scenic views of Miaofeng Mountain Tan Zhe Si temple roofs and surrounding landscapes. Overall historically interesting collection of lively vernacular photos illustrating the life of an upper-class German family in Beijing during the 1920s-1930s. hardcover
réf. PD8879 loose gelatin silver photographs from ca. 12 x 9.5 cm 4 ¾ x 3 ¾ in to 10 x 6.5 cm 4 x 2 ½ in. 40 images with period pencil captions on verso. Four images with “Lama Temple” stamped on verso. Overall a very good collection of strong interesting photos. A well-preserved collection of 79 original and studio gelatin silver photographs showing Beijing written as “Peiping” in late 1946 and early 1947. The collection was likely compiled by a US Marine Corps officer serving in China as part of Operation Beleaguer 1945-1949. Operation Beleaguer was the US-overseen repatriation of Japanese and Koreans living in China’s northeastern Hebei and Shandong provinces in the wake of World War II. Over 30 photographs show landmarks and sites in Beijing. They include the Forbidden City’s northern gate Gate of Divine Might and Hall of Supreme Harmony; the Hall of Prayer and Circular Altar Mound at the Temple of Heaven; aerial views of the Great Wall of China taken north of Beijing; the Marble Boat in the Summer Palace; a “Lama Service” at Yonghe Temple; the Beijing Guozijian; the city fortifications including the archery and gate tower described as being “the north gate on the east wall”; the White Pagoda at Miaoying Temple; the Diamond Throne Pagoda at Zhenjue Temple; the Nine-Dragon Wall at Beihai Park; Peking Union Medical College; and two bird’s eye views of the city one showing the Forbidden City from the Grand Hotel de Peking currently Beijing Hotel the other a busy street. Also included are over 25 photographs of the streets of Beijing. They show busy street markets including a grain market; street vendors including a peddler of earmuffs and gauze masks a vegetable merchant and a knife sharpener; and street scenes near a city gate with portraits of locals including a municipal policeman a man smoking tobacco and a “militiaman.” There is also a series of six photographs showing a funeral procession. Other photographs in the collection include the interior of a residence; a courtyard with an air raid shelter; lion statues next to cannons in front of a pavilion; statues from a Buddhist temple; and a dragon boat with many spectators in Shanghai in front of the Capitol Theatre. Overall an interesting and well-preserved collection of original and studio photographs showing Beijing shortly after World War II. unknown
1939réf. 96005Shanghai 1939. Paperback. Generally Very Good. Group 1 Pagination varies but generally 100-100 variously numbered pages or perhaps more on the earlier reports. Softcovers in original wrapper. 29 cm. Backstrips chipped and partially gone. Reports internally sound and clean. Group 2. numbered pages range between 22 and 8 with most having 10-12. Final page of report is printed inside back cover and usually unnumbered. Softcovers in original wrapper. 33 cm. 1925-1926 and 36 cm. 1928 issues. Bound with two staples along left side. Corner creasing on some issues. April 1928 issue printed on higher acid paper than the other issues and its browned pages are chipped and stained around edges. Group 3. folded and unnumbered four-page reports. 28 cm. Issues beginning with April 1929 given Volume is issue numbers beginning with Vol. V No.4. Group 4. Reports before July 1937 generally 24p. Reports thereafter are much shorter mostly 4-8 pages. Softcovers. 27 cm. Staples rusty. Folded strip on outer pages foxed. September 1937 issue creased and soiled. Title in Chinese and English. Slip printed in red and tipped to front cover of thin July 1937 issue reports that since their printer's office was located in the war zone the issue had not come out on schedule and was "bridged" -- the July August and December issues are only four pages as war problems continued. The lengthier January 1938 issue with Shanghai under Japanese control contains Notes to the Table of Wholesale Prices July-December 1937 explaining the war effects during that period and whether numbers were hypothetical or based on real transactions etc. during the war period. Japan gained control of Shanghai in November 1937 although they did not take control of the foreign concessions until after declaring war on the USA in 1941. We don't know what effect that had on the accuracy of these reports. paperback
