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Best.-Nr. 535481959. 4to. ll. 117. Red cloth gilt lettering to upper board and spine. Numerous captioned photographs including 24 in colour one of which has come loose. Old ownership inscription of "Susann Edgar". Ji Lin lies across the northern border of North Korea. 1959. hardcover
1936Best.-Nr. 56738Shanghai China: China Journal Printed by The Mercury Press Dec. 1936. Tall 8vo. A32 4 311-354 A33-60 pp. With photo plates 1 colour plate photo text illustrations illustrated ads including index. Colour-illustrated softcovers Art Deco cover art of pink & yellow blossoms on black background lettering in green & black minor soiling minor chipping head & foot of spine minor tear & creasing to lower corner still G copy. First edition of this installment in the storied journal founded by Sowerby 1885-1954 the naturalist and explorer. Of particular interest in this installment is the first published announcement of Ruth Harkness’ d. 1947 as the first person to bring a living Giant Panda out of China a female named Su Lin. Her husband William Harkness zoologist and adventurer had headed an expedition to capture Giant Pandas but died before he even entered the habitat. Ruth traveled into Wenchuang County of Sichuan Province then onto Baoxing County where she discovered the cub less then 2 kilometers from Jiajin Mountain and was later donated to the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago. China Journal, Printed by The Mercury Press, paperback
1932Best.-Nr. 56735Shanghai: China Inland Mission 1932. Two parts in one. 8vo. 16 pp.; 1 51 1 leaves. Chinese title printed in black English title printed in red & black. Facsimile letters reduced in English section from the Chinese section. Gray limp oil cloth black lettering front & back covers minor shelfwear NF copy. First edition of this unusually scarce and invaluable handbook for English-speaking missionaries to China in the 1930s devoted freeing them from having to consult Chinese scholars to write and process their correspondence. The author encourages Chinese literacy and has supplied fifty different sample letters written in Wen-li in order to provide straightforward models for the potential inquirer. Wen-li was a term coined by Christian missionaries for classical literary Chinese and was never used in that sense either by the Chinese themselves or non-missionary Sinologues. China Inland Mission, hardcover
1913Best.-Nr. 56870Munich: Verlag von F. Bruckmann A.G. 1913. Oblong Atlas folio. 20.75 x 19.5 in. 4 12 pp. w/ 51 tipped-in collotype plates 1 partially coloured all retaining their original tissue guards. Loose portfolio held in folding covers minor bumping to corners of textblock some very light toning 1st couple leaves w/ very slight closed tear at upper left corner w/ open-backed slipcase w/ printed labels on covers wear toning some scuffing minor dampstaining soiling still a VG/G- exemplar. First edition thus of this remarkable group of collotypes reproducing drawings made from the famed frescoes of the renowned Tang Dynasty artist Wu Tao-Tze -- Godoshi in Japanese 680-760. Believed to have painted hundreds of frescoes on Temples representing the Buddhist purgatory or inferno they were of such dramatic power many on viewing them repented of their sins and nearly all were destroyed through the Cultural Revolution and development. All his artworks have either been preserved by being incised on stone as woodcuts or as Chinese brush drawings. These drawings taken from Dr. Martin’s Collection were rendered originally by Li Lung Mien 1070-1106 a Sung master painter and superb draftsman who has been often considered the Leonardo da Vinci of China. He was renowned for his paintings of horses and also adept at painting landscapes as well as works with Buddhist and Taoist themes. Each collotype reproduction within this portfolio has been printed on a tinted background to simulate the originals and then mounted on thick laid paper along with a critique by Anders Zorn and notes were by Dr. Haenisch. See: Reviews & Notices The International Studio Vol. LII 1914 pp. 255-256; Recent Publications of Chinese Subjects Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Vol. LIV Issue 1 1922 p. 99. Verlag von F. Bruckmann A.G., unknown
1849Best.-Nr. 56871Edo Tokyo: n.p. Kaei 2 1849. Five vols. Tall 8vo. 40; 44; 48; 42; 34 pp. With 1 double-page colour woodblock map 18 double-page woodblocks 7 w/ colour 1 single-page woodblock plate. Uniformly bound in textured embossed pattern limp softcovers manuscript titles punch-sewn at gutter margins wear soiling some worming through fore-edges text in portions thumbing to fore-edges soiling lower 2/3 of front title leaf stating “Forbidden from Sale” torn away still a G- reference set of this noted rarity. First edition of the author’s “second series” recounting further events in the First Opium War fought between Great Britain and China in 1839-1842. The text and illustrations vividly stressed the terrible effects of opium on Qing Dynasty China and the brave Chinese resisting the British military. Buttressed with striking illustrations by Utagawa Sadahide 1807-1879/79 which depict such incidents as Chinese fire-boats approaching a British warship; a captured spy; Chenshi the Monk putting up a valiant fight; a Chinese Woman warrior fighting the British; a Taiwanese fort sinking a British Warship; the fall of Zhenhai; French diplomatic ships arriving on the Yangtze and even an omen appearing in the heavens. In addition there are a number of woodblock prints depicting British cannons mortars and firearms employed during the Opium Wars. The Kaigai Shinwa printed on Mino paper was written in a sensationalistic and simple style with Japanese syllabaries attached to all Chinese characters and intended as a cautionary tale advising Japan and other Asian countries of the pitfalls of foreign invaders and intervention just four years before the appearance of Perry’s squadron in Tokyo Bay. Mineta Fuko 1817-1883 was thrown into prison for having published the work without official consent and later after he was released was deprived of the right to live in Edo Kyoto or Osaka -- the santo kamae tri-urban banishment and many of the volumes were seized and others were censored or removed. See: Timothy Brook & Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi Opium Regimes: China Britain and Japan 1839-1952 2000 pp. 60-65; Masuda Wataru Seigaku tozen to Chukoku jijo: zassho sakki The Eastern Spread of Western Learning and Conditions in China: Notes on Various Books 14. Kaigai Shinwa. . . Tokyo 1979 Translated by Joshua A. Fogel UCSB pp. 27-39. n.p., paperback
1966Best.-Nr. 56119Taipei Taiwan ROC: China Evangelical Luthern Church 1966. 4to. 2 ii 4 128 pp. With 128 photo plates illustrations. Red & black softcovers black lettering front cover & spine very slight sunning to spine edgewear still VG copy w/ Chinese Chop stamped on ffep. Second edition of this informative and well-illustrated work on annual Chinese festivals marriage ceremonies and customs as well as funeral customs and rules to guide Christian missionaries working in Taiwan avoid unnecessary misunderstandings and offenses. Albrecht worked on the translation with Go Sin-gi and drew from the Chinese original which was much abbreviated and first published in 1955 by the Taiwan Presbyterian Church. [China Evangelical Luthern Church], paperback
1971Best.-Nr. 146680Peking: China Reconstructs 1971. 1st edition. Nice copy. large octavo. pictorial wrappers 44pp. colour & b/w plates Supplement to China Reconstructs: Superb photographic account of International Table Tennis in China with many action photos of the leading Chinese players. Scarce China Reconstructs unknown
1904Best.-Nr. 56112London: Methuen & Co. 1904. Thick 8vo. xiii 1 338 2 pp. plus 4 40 pp. publisher’s catalogue dated Sept. 1904. Frontisp. 15 plates 2 folding maps Chinese Empire Peking Forbidden City. Red decorated cloth illustration of Chinese Dragon on front cover gilt lettering on spine minor bumping & scuffing to corners minor shelfwear still VG bright copy. Second edition of this intriguing memoir by Lady Townley who has not only included an abreviated history of China and Chinese history including the Boxer Rebellion but also pointed observations of the Dowager Empress Cixi’s Court. As wife of Walter Townley British Foreign Minister she had a keen eye for the absurd and decidedly biting comments on Chinese court life and customs. She would later write in her 1922 indiscretions that Cixi was “a funny old lady.” See: Hayler-Menies Imperial Masquerade: The Legend of Princess Der Ling 2008 pp. 187-188 349 365. Methuen & Co., hardcover
1911Best.-Nr. 56113Berkeley: Lederer Street & Zeus Co. 1911. 8vo. 128 pp. Photo frontisp. 29 photo plates. Mustard-yellow publisher’s cloth black lettering & decoration on front cover minor soiling & thumbing to covers minor tear at gutter margin of ffep. slight wear & bumping to corners still G copy. First edition of this relatively scarce and frank memoir by a Berkeley graduate teacher at Miss Horton’s Girl’s School in Berkeley CA and later professor at UC Berkeley. He details traveling through China by sedan chair the often appalling poverty in cities such as Shanghai his experiences sailing by Chinese Junk up the Yangtze River the disappearance of planted poppy fields driving the opium trade in 1909 as well as the aftermath of the Boxer Rebellion in China. Lederer, Street & Zeus Co., hardcover
2007Best.-Nr. 2012-B5952007. Hardcover. Like New. Clean and unmarked. Almost like new. In original slipcase all stamps present. hardcover
1930Best.-Nr. 54998Shanghai China: Association Press 20 Museum Road 1930. 4to. 56 pp unpaginated. musical scores throughout. Decorated blue publisher’s cloth bamboo illust. & lettering in Chinese & English on front cover in silver minor edgewear faint tidemark lower fore-edge textblock still G copy w/ former ownership markings on title. Fourth printing of this anthology of Chinese folk songs including patriotic Chinese Republic songs as well. Association Press, 20 Museum Road, hardcover
1929Best.-Nr. 54544New York: The Macmillan Co. 1929. 8vo. 243 1 pp. Photo frontisp. plates maps. Tan publisher’s cloth green lettering front cover gilt lettering on spine w/ d.j. wraparound cover art of walls of Nanking minor chipping head & foot of spine edgewear still NF/VG copy from the library of Marjorie Fleishhacker Mitau 1906-1983 and Martin Mitau 1900-1973 noted San Francisco collectors of fine printing and members in the Roxburghe Club and Book Club of California w/ their bookplate on front pastedown. First edition of this graphic memoir by these two noted authors relating their experiences during the Nanking Incident in March 1927 when the National Revolutionary Army and Communist troops took Nanjing from Beiyang warlord Zhang Zongchang killed the American vice president of Nanking University and looted homes and businesses of Americans British Japanese and other foreign citizens. Royal Navy and US Navy cruisers and destroyers responded engaging and driving off the NRA soldiers and Chinese rioters evacuating many foreigners including the families of Hobart & Ayscough to Shanghai. The Macmillan Co., hardcover
1930Best.-Nr. 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
1971Best.-Nr. 53880Annapolis MD: Naval Institute Press 1971. Thick 4to. 9.5 x 12.25 in. 20 626 pp. Illustrated title in brown & black with over 900 illustrations plates some folding diagrams. White cloth embossed lettering front cover gilt & red lettering on spine w/ d.j. price-clipped old tape repair 1 corner NF/VG copy. First edition of this comprehensive and authoritative record of the vessels which for centuries provided practically the sole means of communication and transportation along the waterways of China. Worcester 1890-1969 served as a River Inspector for the Chinese Maritime Customs during the first decades of the 20th century and spent 30 years wandering up and down the coast and rivers of China surveying marking and opening the Yangtze to steam navigation and during the 1930s carried out field research culminating in a three-year internment in a Japanese prison camp during World War II. Naval Institute Press, hardcover
1927Best.-Nr. 53914Philadelphia & Toronto: China Inland Mission Feb.-Dec. 1927. Six vols. 4to. 17-51 1; 153-231 1 pp. Numerous photo illustrations text illustrations maps self-printed softcovers minor creasing edgewear couple leaves w/ corners worn folded still VG set. First editions of these very scarce China Inland Mission periodicals published for supporters and as fundraiser during the 1920s for the noted interdenominational missionary society originally founded by Hudson Taylor in 1865. The 1920s were a period of great unrest famine and ongoing conflicts between various warlords as reflected in these contemporary missionary accounts. The China Inland Mission actively recruited women missionaries who in turn often proselytized to Chinese women to promote Christianity public health measures increased education and more. These issues have a number of letters and first-hand accounts of the ongoing internal battles between the Nationalist forces of Chiang-kai Shek and Mao-tse-tung’s Communists. In addition there are a few special mentions that the “Christian” Chinese are the most resistant to the Communists forces. Of special interest are the inclusion and special centerfold supplements of the Young China magazine which was issued for children in the China Inland Mission and young children in China. China Inland Mission, paperback
1928Best.-Nr. 53915Philadelphia & Toronto: China Inland Mission Feb.-June 1928. Three vols. 4to. 17-31 1; 47-63 1; 81-95 1 pp. Numerous photo illustrations text illustrations maps self-printed softcovers minor creasing edgewear couple leaves w/ corners worn folded still VG set. First editions of these very scarce China Inland Mission periodicals published for supporters and as fundraiser during the 1920s for the noted interdenominational missionary society originally founded by Hudson Taylor in 1865. The 1920s were a period of great unrest famine and ongoing conflicts between various warlords as reflected in these contemporary missionary accounts. The China Inland Mission actively recruited women missionaries who in turn often proselytized to Chinese women to promote Christianity public health measures increased education and more. These issues have a number of letters and first-hand accounts of the ongoing internal battles between the Nationalist forces of Chiang-kai Shek and Mao-tse-tung’s Communists. China Inland Mission, paperback
1926Best.-Nr. 53912Philadelphia & Toronto: China Inland Mission Jan.-Oct. 1926. Six vols. 4to. 15 1; 17-31 1; 33-47 1; 65-79 1; 129-143 1; 145-159 1 pp. Numerous photo illustrations text illustrations maps self-printed softcovers minor creasing edgewear couple leaves w/ corners worn folded still VG set. First editions of these very scarce China Inland Mission periodicals published for supporters and as fundraiser during the 1920s for the noted interdenominational missionary society originally founded by Hudson Taylor in 1865. The 1920s were a period of great unrest famine and ongoing conflicts between various warlords as reflected in these contemporary missionary accounts. The China Inland Mission actively recruited women missionaries who in turn often proselytized to Chinese women to promote Christianity public health measures increased education and more. China Inland Mission, paperback
1925Best.-Nr. 53913Philadelphia & Toronto: China Inland Mission May-Dec. 1925. Eight vols. 4to. 65-191 1 each issue paginated continuously pp. Numerous photo illustrations text illustrations maps self-printed softcovers minor creasing edgewear couple leaves w/ corners worn folded still VG set. First editions of these very scarce China Inland Mission periodicals published for supporters and as fundraiser during the 1920s for the noted interdenominational missionary society originally founded by Hudson Taylor in 1865. The 1920s were a period of great unrest famine and ongoing conflicts between various warlords as reflected in these contemporary missionary accounts. The China Inland Mission actively recruited women missionaries who in turn often proselytized to Chinese women to promote Christianity public health measures increased education and more. These issues encompass a range of topics including depredations by Chinese bandits working to keep girl’s schools open expanding the missionary efforts into Tibet and southeast Asia and much more. Of special interest is the article on the persecutions and killings of Chinese Christians who refuse to cultivate opium poppies. China Inland Mission, paperback
1921Best.-Nr. 53107Shanghai: A.S. Watson & Co. Ltd. Printed & Bound by Kelly & Walsh Ltd. 1921. Folio. 6 40 pp. Title in red & black rubricated decorated initial with 66 tipped-in sepia- and aqua-tinted photogravures each w/ printed border explanatory text on facing page. Publisher’s decorated blue silk over beveled boards gilt lettering stamped on front cover rebacked in blue silk gilt lettering on spine in equivalent font wear to fore-edges of boards w/ minor loss at fore-edges on front & back covers minor bumping & wear to corners still VG- copy w/ interior in excellent condition from the library of Dr. Leonard William Buck 1891-1953 scion of the famed Buck family in Vacaville CA whose holdings included Bucktown and the ranch where the California Medical Facility is located. Dr. Buck traveled to Asia on behalf of the California Grower’s and Shipper’s protective League at the behest of his brother Frank in 1921. Second edition of this large and beautiful photographic souvenir portraying the ancient Chinese capital and surrounding countryside. The striking images by Mennie portray Chinese temples palaces peddlers laborers ancient walled cities Chinese shops and Chinese eating at outdoor tables at the beginning of the 20th century. Mennie 1875/6-1941 trained as a chemist and worked as an amateur photographer in Scotland. He initially began working in China as an assistant in the firm of Mactavish & Lehman & Co. in Beijing later working for the Mactavish Photo Shop in Shanghai as one of the first producers in China of picture postcards. He later joined the A.S. Watson & Co. -- chemists druggists wine spirits & cigar Merchants who also dealt in all kinds of photographic chemicals and equipment later becoming their managing director the firm still flourishes to this day as one of the largest health and beauty retailers in the world. Mennie contributed photographic images for numerous works and published several of his own images. He died in the Japanese Lungwha internment camp near Shanghai in 1941. See: Worswick & Spence Imperial China: Photographs 1850-1912 1979. A.S. Watson & Co., Ltd., Printed & Bound by Kelly & Walsh, Ltd., hardcover
1920Best.-Nr. 53104Shanghai China: Commercial Press Ltd. Minguo 9 1920. Oblong 8vo. 44; 44 pp. With 89 photographic plates & illustrations all identified in Chinese & English. Original printed softcovers black lettering on front covers of both vols. Commercial Press company logo on back covers minor dustsoiling creasing small Merry Xmas labels on left fore-edge of front covers still a VG- set. First edition of this scarce photographic souvenir of China soon while Sun Yat-Sen was attempting to establish the Chinese Republican Party as the ruler of China during the Guandong-Guangxi War which resulted in the Military Government in Guangzhou 1921-1925 and then the National Government 1925-1927. This fascinating photographic survey of China depicts the cities towns villages rivers temples including the Yellow Crane Tower in Wuchang Hubei the Iron Bridge over the Yellow River which was finished in 1907 at the end of the Qing Dynasty the famed railway tunnel of Man-shan on the Peking-Hankow Railway in Hunan Province historic sites as well as images of the Tibetan Himalayas including Mt. Everest as the last photo. Commercial Press in Shanghai printed a number of these “Views of China” from about 1910 to 1925 most with different photo images from each other and varying number of pages and formats. No copies located in Worldcat 1 copy of a 1915 edition with similar pagination located at Univ. of London. Commercial Press, Ltd., paperback
1950Best.-Nr. 53183London: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd. 1950. 8vo. ix 1 xi-219 1 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates text illustrations. Blue-green publisher’s cloth gilt illust. on front cover gilt lettering on spine map endpapers edgewear rubbing rubbing to corners minor bumping w/ d.j. cover art by Jean Maln chipping tears w/ minor loss to spine closed tears to fore-edges old tape repairs still G/Fair copy w/ former ownership signature on ffep. First edition stated of this memoir of the novelty and dangers faced by the author and her husband Eric Shipton noted British Himalayan mountaineer who participated in many of the Mt. Everest expeditions in the 1930s and later in 1951. This fascinating account of China during and after World War II provides an engaging narrative of his years as British Consul-General at Kashgar. Hodder & Stoughton, Ltd., hardcover
1920Best.-Nr. 52482Shanghai London Philadelphia: China Inland Mission The Religious Tract Society 1920. Two vols. in one. Thick 12mo. xi 1 196 2; xxii 400 2 pp. Gray ribbed cloth black lettering on front cover gilt lettering on spine very minor shelfwear slight bumping rubbing VG copy w/ former ownership signature on ffep. Later omnibus edition of these biographies of Pastor Hsi a recovering Opium addict. Of interest are the substantial sections devoted to the Opium trade and implements as well as the Boxer Rebellion. China Inland Mission, The Religious Tract Society, hardcover
1989Best.-Nr. 52095Stanford CA: Stanford Univ. Press 1989. 8vo. xiv 2 440 pp. Numerous photos maps diagrams. Red cloth gilt lettering minor bumping to couple corners w/ d.j. slight shelfwear minor scuffing to fore-edges very minor bumping to couple corners VG/VG copy. First edition of this groundbreaking and dynamic social history examining the ethnic diversity occupations and mobility of Hankow Hankou China during the waning decades of the Qing Dynasty in the 19th century. Stanford Univ. Press, hardcover
1989Best.-Nr. 000919France: Éditions françaises du Graal Série « Éveil des temps passés » 1989 Texte reçu dans l'entourage de Abd-ru-shin grâce au don particulier d'une personne appelée à cet effet. « Le déroulement de la vie de Lao-Tseu est relaté depuis sa jeunesse où sous la protection du plus grand des Lamas il parcourt de nombreuses régions de l'empire chinois. Ensuite dans le silence du monastère du Tibet il reçoit les ultimes connaissances pour l'accomplissement de sa mission.». Edition originale. Couverture souple. Neuf. Éditions françaises du Graal (Série « Éveil des temps passés ») paperback
1985Best.-Nr. 52228Oxford Hong Kong & New York: Oxford Univ. Press 1985. 4to. ix 1 266 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates throughout. Gray boards gilt lettering on spine maps on endpapers minor shelfwear w/ d.j. NF/NF copy. First edition of this striking photographic memoir of northern China from 1933 to 1946 by a photographer who had escaped Nazi Germany in 1933 to take charge of a German-owned photographic studio in Peking. She is considered to have been one of the finest photographers who has ever worked in Asia. Oxford Univ. Press, hardcover
