rif. PD39Twelve loose gelatin silver photos all ca. 10x15 cm 4 x 5 ¾ in. Several photos with minor creases in the corners one photo with minor chipping of the image. Overall a very good collection of interesting photos. Interesting collection of early 20th-century gelatin silver photographs of China mostly Shanghai. The views of Shanghai show Longhua Temple Pagoda Huxinting or Willow Patern Tea House and Nine Curve Bridge the Bund with the original building of the Shanghai Club built in 1864 demolished in 1909 and replaced with the current building; the Bandstand in the Bund Public Garden; Bund waterfront decorated with garlands and signs the clock tower of the Custom House is seen in the far left; river view with apparently the second Garden Bridge over the Suzhou Creek; riverfront with Chinese junks and a bridge in the foreground and Bund waterfront lawn with several telegraph poles. The other photos show a Chinese peasant ploughing a rice field traditional sculptures a reproduction of a painting depicting an audience by the Chinese Emperor and a group portrait of Indian sepoys. Overall an attractive collection of early 20th-century views of Shanghai. unknown

Globus Rare Books & Archives · Stati Uniti375,00 USD≈ 335,03 €

CHINABiblio.com

The China Provincial Atlas and Geography.

1934rif. 176034Shanghai: Printed and Published by the North-China Daily News and Herald Ltd 1934. First edition first printing of this guide to China's 24 provinces Japanese-controlled Manchuria and the city of Shanghai including a short essay by Arthur de Carle Sowerby on "the regional distribution of China's Fauna and Flora". Information on physical geography is accompanied by summaries of communications and industrial infrastructure. The maps were first published in the North-China Daily News but extensively revised for this publication. "The far away interior northern and southern provinces which life of all beaten tracks and through which no railways have penetrated remain shrouded in mystery except where the veil has been slightly lifted by exploration expeditions" introduction. Folio. Maps and illustrations in text. Original blue cloth front cover lettered in gilt within blind panel and frames. With dust jacket. Cloth clean spine ends bumped contents lightly and evenly toned; jacket unclipped losses at foot of panels and spine a few closed splits: a near-fine copy in very good jacket. hardcover

Peter Harrington · Regno Unito900,00 £≈ 1074,91 €

RIVER MANAGEMENT IN CHINABiblio.com

Plan of Hai Ho from Tientsin City to the Sea.

1937rif. 176095China: Hai Ho Conservancy Commission 1937. An imposing cartographic document A rare plan untraced institutionally produced on the cusp of the Japanese invasion of Tianjin showing the fruits of a multi-decade effort to turn the city into a major international port. "Connected with the sea by an artificial river Tianjin's status as a seaport was heavily dependent on the continuous conservancy efforts of the Haihe and its tributaries" "River Conservancy". Formed in 1897 the Hai Ho Conservancy Commission focused on opening the channel to shipping for example by straightening the channel and thereby cutting the route to the sea by 17 miles. This plan shows the river's winding course marked with hundreds of survey stones and the build-up of warehouses and wharves by the foreign concessions Tanggu and Xidagu. Also shown are the results of the most recent survey of the seabed at the river's mouth. Although Japan declared war on China in July 1937 it respected the integrity of Tianjin's foreign concessions and river management remained in the hands of the British French and American authorities until Pearl Harbor. At the same time Japan started development of Tanggu Xingang - the foundations of which blossomed into the present-day megaport at Tianjin. Diazoprint plan 67 x 274 cm printed in reddish brown text primarily in Chinese. Contemporary black ink and red crayon marking and annotations in Chinese and Japanese on both sides. Toned old folds a few small splits and losses neatly conserved with tissue: a very good example of a fragile document. "River conservancy and the undetermined future of the port of Tianjin" Open Rivers available online. unknown

Peter Harrington · Regno Unito1250,00 £≈ 1492,93 €

Runsheng, Du/ China Development Research Foundation (Editor)Biblio.com

Chinese Economists on Economic Reform – Collected Works of Du Runsheng

2018rif. x-1138595829Routledge 2018. Paperback. New. 240 pages. 9.21x6.14x1.02 inches. Routledge paperback

Revaluation Books · Regno Unito55,36 £≈ 66,12 €

CHINABiblio.com

Map of China Shewing Railways Telegraphs & Treaty Ports.

1913rif. 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

Peter Harrington · Regno Unito1000,00 £≈ 1194,34 €

NAVIGATION IN CHINABiblio.com

Lower Yangtse sailing directions: collection of notices to mariners.

1928rif. 174745Likely Shanghai: 1928-34. Mariners are warned to exercise due caution when approaching and when in the waterways A collection of otherwise untraced notices to mariners compiled by a civilian captain who plied the lower Yangtse during the late 1920s and early 1930s. Yangtse shipping was regulated by the Maritime Customs Service which issued around 100 navigational advisories per year. During the late 1920s shipping traffic on the Yangtse rebounded after several years of decline during the Warlord Era. Low water however continued to pose problems for navigators and increased the need for effective river management. The 39 notices are technical directions concerning specific parts of the channel. They specify when vessels may and may not enter stretches of water warning of the persistent presence of Chinese craft not subject to the same notices offer guidance for navigating buoyed channels provide optimum bearings and relay a change to the position of the Bend and Gravener Island beacons due to the erosion of the channel. The majority date from 1929. The identify of the "Captain Smith" referenced on the front cover has proved elusive but he may be the individual pictured in photograph Sw13-045 G. Warren Swire collection SOAS. Landscape octavo. Contemporary brown half cloth binder with metal clasp spine lettered in gilt buff paper sides front board with manuscript label "Captain Smith" boards lined with pink paper typescript list of charts on inner front cover 39 sheets each typed one side only in black or blue most duplicate typescript a few top copy. Boards lightly soiled clasp rusted sheets generally well preserved a few creased or with holes near clasp legibility unaffected typescript list with a few losses to text: a very good example. hardcover

Peter Harrington · Regno Unito2500,00 £≈ 2985,86 €

MAO'S CHINABiblio.com

Shanghai 1949-1959.

1959rif. 168621Shanghai: Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe c. 1959. The preferred deluxe issue First edition first printing of this photobook issued by the Shanghai Municipal Government to celebrate ten years of Communist rule as well as Chinese culture history and art. Shanghai's status as the country's economic powerhouse is stressed through numerous pictures of heavy and light industries smiling workers and modern housing developments as well as of consumer goods such as fountain pens sewing machines and bicycles. Space is given to healthcare culture and the arts the historic architecture of the Bund parades and tourism. Unlike other propaganda from the period the message is uniformly forward-looking centring on developments achieved under socialism rather than recycling shop-worn condemnations of the Republican and imperial eras. Copies of this extravagant production were also issued housed in a paper box. Folio. With 21 tipped-in plates 16 colour 2 folding colour and black and white illustrations throughout. Title page printed in brown and grey. Binding designed by Ren Yi Chen Zhichu Zhang Suyu Cai Zhenhua and Qian Zhenzhi. Original red cloth spine elaborately decorated in gilt gilt calligraphic title on front cover foot of front board blocked in blind floral-patterned endpapers. Housed in publisher's folding grey cloth case title to front panel in gilt bone ties. Spine bright boards lightly soiled extremities worn spine ends and tips a little finger soiling internally else bright. A very good copy indeed in very good case with some soiling lining foxed. Parr & WassinkLundgren The Chinese Photobook: From the 1900s to the Present pp. 189-92. hardcover

Peter Harrington · Regno Unito5000,00 £≈ 5971,72 €

Reeves, Keanu and Mieville, ChinaBiblio.com

The Book of Elsewhere: The Sunday Times bestselling novel by Keanu Reeves and China Miéville SIGNED COPY FIRST UK PRINTING

2024rif. 7773Del Rey 2024. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. New in new dust jacket. SIGNED by China Mieville on the title page signature only. 1st UK edition 1st printing complete number line. New unread copy with dust jacket in a protective mylar sleeve. "Signed Copy" sticker. Reeves is an MTV Movie Award- Saturn Award- and Inkpot Award-winning actor "My Own Private Idaho"; "The Matrix". Mieville is the Arthur C. Clarke Award- British Fantasy Award- BSFA Award- Hugo Award- Locus Award- Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire- Ignotus Award- Italia Award- Kurd Lasswitz Preis- SF Site Readers Poll- Kitschie Award- and World Fantasy Award-winning author of the Bas-Lag series and "Railsea". Rare signed. Where possible all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve sealed in a ziplock bag wrapped in bubble wrap shipped in a box. Del Rey hardcover

MostlySignedBooks · Stati Uniti64,95 USD≈ 58,03 €

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