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1991Best.-Nr. 15597BB1991. Shanghai People's Publishing House 1991 4° mit zahlreichen oft ganzseitigen Farb- und s/w-Abbildungen Fotos von Strassenzügen Architektur Strassenleben Luftbilder etc. sowie kartographischen Skizzen einzelner Strassenzüge zweisprachig: in englischer und in chinesischer Sprache hellblauer original Pappband Hardcover mit weisser Deckel- und Rückenbeschriftung sowie weisser floraler Deckelillustration farbig illustr. original Schutzumschlag Schutzumschlag geringfügig berieben und vereinzelt mit minimalen Druckstellen sonst ein sehr schönes sauberes Exemplar. Mit 584 Fotos von 10 berühmten Strassen/Strassenzügen aus verschiedenen Zeiten. Abholung im Ladengeschäft in Frankfurt am Main Nordend ggü. Musterschule möglich. Das spart die Portokosten. Pickup at the store in Frankfurt am Main Nordend close to Musterschule is possible. It saves the shipping costs. hardcover
1935Best.-Nr. 170702New York: Joseph Tuck c. 1935. A scarce complete set pleasingly retaining the original box of this charming introduction to Chinese cultural values aimed at American audiences. The maxims include "institute no litigation for it never ends well" "do not employ handsome servants" and "refrain from talking too much as it may bring mishap". 60 pictorial cards each 65 x 53 mm lettered in black on verso housed in printed cardboard sleeve as issued. Cards slightly bowed otherwise fresh; sleeve skilfully repaired the majority of one side no longer present: a very good example. unknown
1938Best.-Nr. 171717Wuchang: American Church Mission 1938. First and only edition first printing untraced institutionally reporting on a pivotal year for the hospital. The Japanese invasion of China the first major engagement of the Second World War created intense demand for in-patient care and statistical tables and reports by leading medical personnel chronicle the military and civilian costs of Tokyo's expansionism. Several institutions in the United States hold copies of the hospital's annual reports for other years but we have not located any copies of this pivotal instalment on WorldCat. Octavo. With 3 halftone photographic plates tables in text. Original paper wrappers front cover lettered in black. Lightly toned overall front cover sometime re-attached with adhesive wrappers chipped. A very good copy of this fragile work. unknown
1842Best.-Nr. 170558At sea & China: 1842-48. This ground is under English control though their authority is might makes right An American second mate's illustrated eyewitness account of China in the immediate aftermath of the First Opium War. Sailing east on a Jardine Matheson specie and opium runner he becomes an old China hand and a sharp observer of early colonial Hong Kong and Shanghai coastal trade and maritime life. The opening section consists of diary entries kept during the outward voyage from the United States describing a life of adventure entered almost by accident. "On the 1st of Sept. 1842 being in Boston and out of employ I shipped in the Schr Gazell" p. 1. The Gazelle - an Aberdeen-built schooner illustrated in watercolour at the front of the manuscript - sailed on 19 September 1842 with guns muskets and nine boxes of specie. Some 30 pages trace the passage with detailed daily entries including latitudes and longitudes weather hazards marine life shipboard routines and the rituals of crossing the Equator. After rounding the Cape the vessel encounters American traders off China and reaches Macao on 22 February 1843. The remainder of the manuscript comprises reflective recollections written later in the 1840s. Macao is judged healthy and pleasant but eclipsed after the war by Hong Kong now the hub of British trade. The Gazelle is reassigned to opium running along the coast bringing higher pay and extended travel. The author recalls Hong Kong in 1844: the nightly curfew gunshot the opium fleet at Whampoa and the crowded Pearl River illustrated with pencil sketches of local craft. His view of the Chinese population is unsympathetic though he offers a vivid portrait of "Boston Jack" a wealthy comprador and indispensable intermediary to American ships. Further chapters describe Canton the forts of the Bogue Amoy and its junks and Chusan praised for its industry and abundance. Shanghai emerges as a newly important centre of opium exchange its foreign settlement firmly under British control. The author sketches the harbour notes the thousands of junks and contrasts the city's "civil and obliging" inhabitants with those of Canton. The manuscript breaks off mid-sentence on page 50 leaving the writer's later life unknown but preserving a detailed first-hand record of a China on the threshold of colonial modernity. Octavo notebook 252 x 165 mm. Opening full-page watercolour 12 illustrations and plan in pencil. Original blue linen pink patterned endpapers edges sprinkled blue 49 pages neatly written in black ink 38 unused blanks. Notebook worn and shaken with sewing loose a few closed tears internally touching a few letters only. A very good example. unknown
1955Best.-Nr. 172442Shanghai: Shanghai shi huaxue yuanliao gongye tongye gonghui c. 1955. An uncommon early Mao-period sampler issued by the Shanghai Chemical Materials Industrial Guild presenting the tone and chemical composition of the 19 core pigments used in industries such as publishing and printing. In 1954 as part of a programme of nationwide consolidation Beijing promulgated production guidelines for the 19 colours and placed the industry under the control of a national-level regulator. This sampler was likely distributed gratis at a trade event. Blank sections at the end provide space for the owner to list commercial contacts and write diary entries. Small octavo. With 19 plates. Text in Chinese. Original illustrated boards red cloth backstrip front cover lettered in red rounded board and page edges decorative endpapers. Binding worn contents clean plates bright. A very good copy. hardcover
2018Best.-Nr. x-1138481963Routledge 2018. Paperback. New. 218 pages. 9.00x6.25x0.50 inches. Routledge paperback
1875Best.-Nr. 160133Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press 1875-78. The most important interdenominational missionary journal of the time A collection of four scarce early volumes of this Shanghai-based periodical which served as the expatriate missionary community's premier forum for sinological exchange including contributions on philosophy social history linguistics literature and religion. Early volumes are now seldom encountered in commerce. The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal was first published in 1868 in Fuzhou under the editorship of Stephen Livingstone Baldwin and then Justus Doolittle. In 1874 editorial responsibilities were passed to Alexander Wylie 1815-1887 the agent of the British and Foreign Bible Society in Shanghai with the city's American Presbyterian Mission Press taking over printing and distribution. Issued every two months the journal featured articles by leading missionary-sinologists including Emil Bretschneider Henry Yule Timothy Richard and Samuel Wells Williams. 24 parts in 4 vols octavo 235 x 153. With 4 folding plans and maps 3 woodblock and printed on delicate rice paper illustrations in text. Vol. VIII bound without the index. Contemporary black half sheep A. H. Chen Shantou recently rebacked with original spines laid down red spine labels purple wavy-grain cloth sides. Bindings somewhat worn and faded small piece of leather reglued at head contents generally fresh folding plans with occasional creasing and stub tears. A very good set. Francesca Torocco The Cultural Practices of Modern Chinese Buddhism 2007. hardcover
1894Best.-Nr. 001928PHILADELPHIA PA: GLOBE BIBLE PUBLISHING CO. 1894 NICE LOOKING TAN RED AND GOLD COVER. SPINE OUTSIDE MISSING FRONT AND BACK COVERS LOOSE. CLEAN AND TIGHT INSIDE WITH HEAVY PAGES.FRONTISPIECE MAP OF CHINA CONTAINS GEOGRAPHICAL POSITIONS ENORMOUS RESOURCES WEALTH EMPERORS AND COURTS GOVERNMENTS AND PEOPLE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS HOW THE PEOPLE OF THE GREAT NATIONS LIVE AND DIE AND MAINTAIN IN ORIENTAL SPLENDOR THE CHINA AND JAPAN OF TODAY. A SKETCH OF COREA AND THE COREANS AND THE CAUSES LEADING TO THE CONFLICT OF 1894.20 CHAPTERS LARGE NUMBER ILLUSTRATIONS.WONDERFUL BOOK HELPING UNDERSTAND THE GREAT NATIONS AND THE CONFLICT.China Chinese officially the People's Republic of China PRC is a country in East Asia. It is the world's second-most populous country with a population exceeding 1.4 billion. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and borders fourteen countries by land tied with Russia as having the most of any country in the world. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN WHERE HISTORY LIVES. GLOBE BIBLE PUBLISHING CO. hardcover
1920Best.-Nr. 152667China: 1920. From palace to park lake to shining sea A collection of 230 vernacular photographs recording a couple's trip to Beijing Jinan and Qingdao a decade after the abdication of the last Qing emperor. Arranged chronologically the album combines landscape and architectural views with candid shots of the travellers and the people they met. The appearance of many easily identifiable landmarks more than compensates for a lack of captions. The travellers begin their holiday in Beijing recently the site of the May Fourth demonstrations. The first 35 images capture the serenity of the Summer Palace once an imperial retreat with images showing the East Palace Gate and the exterior Hall of Joyful Longevity. The visitors strike jaunty individual poses on a stone lion and ride regally on the back of a bronze deer statue. The lady is captured from a distance on a balcony overlooking the Kunming Lake the largest body of water in the palace complex with the famous 17-arch bridge visible in the background. Like many before them these travellers are drawn to such architectural wonders as the Glowing Clouds and Holy Land Archway as well as the full-size marble boat restored by the Empress Cixi in the 19th century using funds allocated for outfitting a real navy. Several vistas of the lake show its solitude and remoteness - qualities accentuated by the palace's transition in 1914 from a working royal residence into a publicly accessible monument to China's imperial past. Until 1924 the Forbidden City remained the private residence of the last emperor Pu Yi and this album thus contains only a few images taken in the accessible outer court. The travellers find more freedom however in nearby Beihai Park climbing up to the imposing White Pagoda and snapping several views of Beijing from on high. Also captured here are two soldiers on duty by one of the bridge archways as well as the classic view of the pagoda looming over the park's picturesque lake. China's rapidly growing network of railway lines afforded travellers conveniences unknown even a couple of decades before. The visitors record their journey on the Beijing-Zhangjiakou line the first stretch of railway built by the Chinese government rather than foreign investors alighting near Nankou. There the lady poses in a sedan chair and later with three young children fascinated by a camera held by one of the couple's acquaintances. Visiting the Ming tombs affords many opportunities to photograph and be photographed with the famous stone animal sculptures while in one image the lady lies comfortably in a tree. Back on the train they travel to the Great Wall near Badaling and Qinglongqiao. A dozen pictures taken on the wall show the brickwork in a state of disrepair as was common with sections of the wall by this time and the travellers take refreshments on a level section with some local children for company. A well-earned rest on the return train refreshes them for a visit to the Jade Peak Pagoda on Jade Spring Hill today the site of residences for top political leaders with the camera capturing several nice landscape views of the pagoda and a temple desecrated inside. Following further excursions to the unmissable Temple of Heaven and the Cishou Pagoda they follow the steel rails to Jinan admiring the Yangtze River and waterfront industries in the company of local perhaps warlord troops. The holiday ends in the Japan-controlled coastal resort of Qingdao its station platform teeming with adult and child passengers and its seafront peppered with colonial architecture including the Grand Hotel. The final photographs commemorate time spent at the beach and climbing a nearby mountain most likely Laoshan - the relaxing denouement to a holiday of considerable excitement. Landscape folio 260 x 335 mm. Original brown pebble-grain leatherette tied with brown cord through punch holes front cover lettered in gilt within blind frame covers lined with black moiré-patterned cloth 52 black card leaves with 230 gelatin silver photographs each c. 75 x 130 mm mounted with silver photo corners first blank with pencilled title "China 1920". With 3 gelatin silver photographs 63 x 40 mm loosely inserted. 2 photographs no longer present. Photographs clear most with silver mirroring and a few with corners lifting image loose from its mount and another partially split vertically a few leaves beginning to split at gutter couple of expertly repaired tears: a very good example. hardcover
1920Best.-Nr. 168012Beijing: Thos. Cook & Son 1920. Fourth and revised edition first printing of this tourist handbook published during a golden age of travel. The folding maps and plentiful photographs capture some of the spirit of Beijing and its East Asian surroundings. Foreign tourists coming to East Asia were not a new sight in the early 20th century but the building of railway lines from the late 19th century onwards along with the development of other modern conveniences caused a dramatic increase in the ease and possibilities of travel. Thomas Cook published the first iteration of this guide in 1910 and established its China presence in 1911 in Shanghai. The adverts some driving business to Cook's local partners market the services and wares of railway companies art dealers hotels tea shops and tobacconists - everything the China traveller needed to enjoy their visit in comfort. Small octavo. With 3 folding maps illustrations throughout text. Original green cloth title to spine in black printed paper label on front cover Thomas Cook emblem in black below advertisement endpapers. Cloth lightly rubbed endpapers and first 2 maps somewhat browned: a very good copy. hardcover
1931Best.-Nr. 40956AB1931. o.O. Frankfurt a. M. Schaumainkai 71 China-Institut Druck: Elsner Berlin o.J. 1931 8° 54 S. mit einer großen Ausklappkarte original Kartonage Paperback altersgemäß ein schönes sauberes Exemplar MIT der zumeist fehlenden China-Karte Abholung im Ladengeschäft in Frankfurt am Main Nordend ggü. Musterschule möglich. Das spart die Portokosten. Pickup at the store in Frankfurt am Main Nordend close to Musterschule is possible. It saves the shipping costs. paperback
2004Best.-Nr. 1-7799805781Popular Science Press 2004. Audio Cassette. New. 4.40x4.10x2.80 inches. Popular Science Press unknown
2000Best.-Nr. 1-0764311484Schiffer Pub Ltd 2000. Hardcover. New. 288 pages. 0.29x0.22x1.00 inches. Schiffer Pub Ltd hardcover
Best.-Nr. 1642598933.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 107536Circa 1800. . Watercolour album; folio 55 x 37.5 cm; 64 watercolour illustrations heightened in white featuring tradesmen 23 flowers 17 and bird and flower 24 subjects on pith paper sheet size: approx. 41 x 31.5 cm each laid down on thick grey paper tissue guards endpapers watermarked 'B E & S 1815'; an exceptional green morocco binding by George Mullen of Dublin with his ticket the panels elaborately tooled in gilt and blind in a Celtic Cross design spine gilt in six compartments all edges gilt inside dentelles gilt endpapers with gilt vine borders minor rubbing to joints and extremities internally clean throughout. A remarkable collection of sixty-four fine large-format Chinese watercolours with subjects depicting tradesmen flowers and images combining both birds and flowers in an exceptional green morocco binding elaborately tooled in gilt and blind with a Celtic Cross design by the Irish bookbinder George Mullen. Designed for the export market the watercolours offer a fascinating glimpse into Chinese cultural life during the Imperial Qing Dynasty. Trades and occupations depicted include wok mender fortune teller fishmonger tailor woman and monkey performer tobacco cutter meat vendor clog maker silk spinner puppet show metal worker lantern maker medicine vendor rice grinder umbrella maker toy maker grocer and embroiderer. Similar paintings by the Canton Guangzhou artist Pu-Qúa fl.1780-1810 formed the basis of the 60 engravings illustrating George Henry Mason's The Costume of China published in 1804 and John Dadley produced stipple engravings after Pu-Qúa's originals which were published by William Miller in 1799. The remainder of the album is given over to the flora and avian fauna of the far east including Chinese golden pheasants framed within a naturalistic setting blossom-headed parakeets woodcocks varieties of orchid rose and jasmine. In an exceptional green morocco binding by George Mullen fl.1800-1850 who was one of the most pre-eminent booksellers publishers and binders operating in Ireland at the turn of the nineteenth century. From his Dublin studio he experimented with a variety of styles using gilt and blind tooling to great effect on morocco russia and calf. Records show he ran a business of considerable size counting the Marquess of Sligo among his clients. His work is identifiable here by his ticket which is neatly pasted to the upper left corner of the front free endpaper verso. Later he was joined in business by his son George and John and Thomas Mullen are also listed as Dublin bookbinders in the directories of the time. Circa 1800]. unknown
Best.-Nr. SONG1405048301MACMILLAN 0000-00-00. F First Edition. hardcover. Used: Good. 6.02x1.10x9.21. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. MACMILLAN hardcover
1736Best.-Nr. 137249J. Wood c. 1736. Rare eighteenth century hand-colored map providing plans of Kanton Shang Chwen Shan and Ma-kau being a plate extracted from Du Halde's celebrated Description Geographique the most important cartographic record of the region of the eighteenth century. In near fine condition. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 14 inches by 11.5 inches. Based on surveys conducted by French Jesuits at the behest of the Emperor Kang Hsiand Jean-Baptiste Du Halde's Description Geographique constitutes the first scientific mapping of China and remains the most important cartographic record of the region from the eighteenth century. Du Halde did not travel to China but collected seventeen Jesuit missionaries' reports and provided an encyclopedic survey of the history culture and society of China and "Chinese Tartary" that is Manchuria. Voltaire said of Du Halde's work: "Although it is developed out of Paris and he hath not known the Chinese he gave on the basis of the memoirs of his colleagues the widest and the best description the empire of China has had worldwide." J. Wood unknown
1812Best.-Nr. 137293London: William Darton 1812. Hand-colored engraved nineteenth century Map of China by English cartographer William Darton. One page hand-colored. In very good condition. Matted and framed. The entire piece measures 16 inches by 14.5 inches. William Darton unknown
1812Best.-Nr. 137350Paris 1812. Fine detailed nineteenth century map of China by Dano-French geographer Conrad Malte-Brun. One page. In near fine condition. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 18 inches by 14.75 inches. Dano-French geographer and journalist Conrad Malte-Brun sometimes referred to simply as Malte-Brun is perhaps best remembered for coining the name for the geographic region Oceania French Océanie around 1812 as well as the name Indo-China. He was the founder of Les Annales des Voyages in 1807 and Les Annales des Voyages de la Géographie et de l'Histoire in 1819 which encouraged observations and reports as a basis for research. He became well known after contributing Tableau de la Pologne a treatise on the geography of Poland in 1807 as the First Empire troops established French tutelage in the region. In 1822-1824 he served as the first general secretary of the newly founded Société de Géographie. unknown
2013Best.-Nr. DADAX1848721609Routledge 2013-11-11. 1. paperback. New. 5.43x0.44x8.50. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Routledge paperback
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1988Best.-Nr. mon0000058294Xs Books 1988-06-01. Paperback. Good. 1.8486 in x 21.3937 in x 14.8487 in. Ex-library book usual markings. Clean text sound binding. Xs Books paperback
2008Best.-Nr. DADAX0367313235Routledge 2020-08-19. 1. hardcover. New. 6.15x1.36x9.21. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Routledge hardcover
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