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1891réf. 184661London: British and Foreign Bible Society 1891. Used on missionary service in Penang A scarce missionary imprint: an early edition of the first New Testament in the Hokkien dialect of Xiamen and southern Fujian province. This was the copy of Daniel Davies Moore among the first Methodist missionaries in Penang which had an established community of Hokkien speakers. The translation was the work of four members of the English Presbyterian Mission: William Macgregor William S. Swanson Hugh Cowie and James L. Maxwell. The first edition was printed in Scotland for private circulation in 1873 and the same plates were used to produce editions in 1880s and 1890s. Moore 1856-1946 "left Canada for Singapore in April 1891 as a foreign missionary. There he was commissioned by the newly established Methodist Church in Singapore to start work in Penang for the English-speaking community. In July 1891 he started the first English service at the Penang Town Hall. The following month the first sacramental service for eight people was conducted at the rented residence of the missionaries at Carnavon Street" Dictionary of Christian Biography in Asia. His ownership inscription "Davies Moore Penang Dec. 7th 1892" is on the first blank verso. Octavo. Original green pebble-grain cloth spine lettered in gilt and ruled in black boards blocked in black yellow coated endpapers edges sprinkled red. Twentieth-century bookseller's ink stamp on front free endpaper. Binding worn especially at spine ends and joints spine repaired with adhesive a few stains internally: just about very good. Darlow & Moule 2771. hardcover
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1945réf. 184914Tianjin: Municipal Government Reception Committee for Allied Forces 1945. A handout issued shortly after the launching of Operation Beleaguer and the arrival of American troops in Tianjin. Ten pages are devoted to the location of Allied billets which were set up in the consulates of defeated powers merchant premises and clubs as well as at the racecourse. Printing was handled by the Chihli Press located opposite the headquarters of the 3rd Amphibious Corps. Small octavo pp. 24. Text in English and Chinese. Original card wrappers wire-stitched as issued front cover lettered in black. Toned couple of old brown stains on rear cover: very good. unknown
1920réf. 185017Likely Shanghai: no stated publisher 1920. Held in only one institutional library First edition the majority of the 31 notices concerning pilotage harbours and port sanitation. Accompanying the text are two anchorage plans and the full bilingual text of the 1918 Ningbo harbour regulations which were formally propagated in 1919. The ports and harbours covered include Shanghai Wenzhou Chefoo Tianjin Hankou Fuzhou Amoy Swatow Santuao and Canton. While some notices merely repeal or tweak existing orders 14 provide substantial new directions for navigators and shipping often extending across multiple pages. This and one other copy were sometime deaccessioned from the Foreign Office Library. The library's retained copy held in the FCDO Historical Collection at King's College London is the only other example we have traced. Octavo. With folding plans of Ningbo and Zhenhai anchorages 4 folding text sheets with Ningbo harbour regulations in English and Chinese. Original buff boards brown cloth backstrip front cover lettered in black. Ex-Foreign Office Library with its date label and stamps on boards bookplate accession notation and withdrawal stamp. Volume hole-punched top left throughout contents unaffected save for numerical code at head of first page boards toned folding matter well preserved: very good. hardcover
1924réf. 185018Likely Shanghai: no stated publisher c. 1924. First edition. Alongside notices amending and repealing existing directions the volume includes the text of four newly propagated and substantial documents concerning the ports of Amoy Yingkou Newchwang Wuhu and Qingdao as well as several non-maritime orders. This copy now deaccessioned was one of at least two sent to the Foreign Office Library in August 1924 by Judge Skinner Turner 1868-1935 the chief justice of the British Supreme Court for China from 1921 to 1927 Skinner's bequest is noted on the bookplate. The library's retained copy held in the FCDO Historical Collection at King's College London is the only other example we have traced. Octavo. Original buff boards brown cloth backstrip front cover lettered in black. Ex-Foreign Office Library with its date label and stamps on boards bookplate accession notation and withdrawal stamp. Covers and contents toned: very good. hardcover
1898réf. 178920China Japan and at sea: 1898-99; 1911-13. The "scramble for China" An important visual record of Germany's empire-building in China and naval life in East Asia before the First World War including early views of Qingdao. It was assembled by Hermann Mörsberger a future rear-admiral who served at Kiautschou Bay during the 1897-8 crisis and commanded the East Asia Squadron's SMS Nürnberg between 1911 and 1913. The murder of two missionaries in Shandong in 1897 offered Germany an excuse to deploy troops to Kiautschou Bay and press its case for a concessionary area - and strategically positioned port - on Chinese soil. Attached to the Matrosenartillerie-Detachement Kiautschou as a leutnant zur see Mörsberger 1872-1940 shipped out to China in late 1897 on the screw steamer Darmstadt. The ship's arrival off Qingdao in January 1898 and the rapid deployment of its marines confirmed Germany's de facto control of the territory and left the Qing government with little option but to grant a concession. The first album opens with a photograph of Darmstadt and superb photographs of the cruiser SMS Kaiserin Augusta - ordered to China to brandish its dozen guns - and other powerhouses of the squadron including Cormoran Irene and Prinzess Wilhelm. Images show the parade on 27 January 1898 to welcome the future governor Rear-Admiral Ernst Otto von Diederichs 1843-1918 and Qingdao's artillery dump and yamen. Missionaries were hot on the navy's heels the album containing a group portrait of Joseph Freinademetz and other visiting Catholic missionaries in February 1898 as well as several pieces of red paper with their Chinese and Western signatures. After the legal takeover of the concession Mörsberger transferred to Kaiserin Augusta visiting Shanghai Hong Kong and Tokyo. More standard tourist views of Shanghai including a nicely composed image of a junk moored in the river are arranged alongside photographs of the unveiling of the city's ltis Monument on 21 November 1898. In a more relaxed moment Mörsberger poses playfully with other junior officers. German power did not take long to bed in. Within a decade and a half Mörsberger - now a fregattenkapitän - returned to Qingdao with Nürnberg a Königsberg-class light cruiser and the squadron's newest member. A panorama shows the armoured cruiser SMS Scharnhorst the flagship of squadron commander Count Maximilian von Spee docked in newly built facilities the recently christened Prince Heinrich Hill in the background. Nürnberg moves between ports as part of its Yangtze patrol duties Mörsberger obtaining panoramas taken from the river of Shanghai Zhenjiang Jiujiang Nanjing and Hankou as well as shots of other squadron vessels. Alongside official events including the welcoming of official dignitaries and the parade to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Kaiser's coronation there is time for tourism parties and an international rowing contest. Four unusual photographs capture the illuminated buildings of Shanghai at night. A small proportion of material concerns Japan Thailand Honolulu and Mexico. Many of the professionally executed photographs concerning China were clearly circulated only within the German military and in small numbers. 2 albums landscape folio. With 195 mounted albumen platinum and gelatin silver photographs including 31 large portraits and views c. 145 x 205 to 205 x 280 mm 26 panoramas c. 90 x 290 to 110 x 340 mm and 138 small photographs c. 55 x 80 to 145 x 210 mm. Together with other laid-down material: 17 items of printed ephemera documents menus etc. 14 ms. items some in Chinese ms. map watercolour 110 x 140 mm. With 4 ms. maps printed map photographic panorama and printed passport loosely inserted. Neat German captions. First album: original black half sheep green cloth sides decorative linings card leaves hinged with black cloth. Second album: original green cloth lettered "S.M.S. Nürnberg" in gilt on front cover decorative linings black cloth rear pocket card leaves hinged with black cloth. Material well preserved occasional offsetting fading and yellowing to some photographs but detail still readily discernible one photograph splitting along old horizontal fold binding of first album worn second sunned and with a few abrasions: very good. hardcover
1959réf. 185404Beijing: "Beijing" huace bianji weiyuanhui 1959. The splendours of a socialist capital First edition deluxe issue published to mark the tenth anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Though unmarked as such this copy was owned by Solomon Adler one of the select group of Westerners permanently resident in China during the Mao era. The celebratory photobooks published in 1959 - equivalents were produced for Shanghai and other major cities - were predominantly distributed as gifts to party officials and foreign VIPs the latter group also receiving brochures containing translations of the captions. Among the many plates is an impressive folding panorama of Tiananmen Square and its vicinity showing the Great Hall of the People and the history museums which were all built in record time by a state keen to display communism's accomplishments. Immediately following the title page is a high-quality reproduction of Dong Xiwen's famous painting Kaiguo dadian "The Founding Ceremony". The work was repainted several times over the course of the 1950s as several party leaders present at the founding ceremony fell out of favour with Mao. An economist by training Adler 1909-1994 worked in the US in the 1940s but later fell under suspicion during the "red scare." After a period spent at Cambridge University he moved to China in 1962 living in Beijing until his death three decades later and working on the official Chinese translation into English of Mao's Selected Works. Parr & WassinkLundgren note three other issues: "a special deluxe clothbound issue with a gold brocade box and red cover;. a third edition with 120 selected photos printed on loose pages and placed in a brocade box; and a fourth edition with a silver brocade case". Quarto. With 64 tipped-in colour plates 8 folding 2 folding colour plates; illustrations throughout; title page printed in dark and light brown. Text in Chinese. With publisher's 8-page brochures of English and Russian captions loosely inserted. Original red silk over bevelled boards spine and front cover lettered in gilt spine with decorative gilt patterns front board decoratively blocked in blind with gilt vignette of Tiananmen cream patterned endpapers. Housed in original textured cardboard box front cover with calligraphic title in blind and photographic onlay showing fireworks in Beihai park. Silk bright with just light soiling and marking couple of edge creases to folding plates: a near-fine copy in very good box the onlay with some cockling. Parr & WassinkLundgren The Chinese Photobook: From the 1900s to the Present pp. 180-1. hardcover
1959réf. 185410Beijing: no stated publisher 1959. A grandiose photobook First and only edition with a printed compliments card from the preparatory committee for the anniversary celebrations. Though unmarked as such this copy was owned by Solomon Adler one of the select group of Westerners permanently resident in China during the Mao era. The 1959 festivities signalled China's growing independence on the international stage and its stepping out of the Kremlin's shadow. This lavish production carefully compiled and printed at great expense is a comprehensive pictorial review of events held on and around 1 October 1959. It begins with the text of addresses by Liu Shaoqi Zhou Enlai Lin Biao Deng Xiaoping and Song Qingling followed by vistas of famous architectural landmarks such as Tiananmen Square and the Museum of the Chinese Revolution. Photos of a meeting and banquet held in the Great Hall of the People accompany shots from the National Day parade showing fireworks dancing and flowers. Mao and Khrushchev feature prominently as do images of diplomatic events and of politicians inspecting industrial exhibits architectural landmarks and cultural artefacts. An economist by training Adler 1909-1994 worked in the US in the 1940s but later fell under suspicion during the "red scare." After a period spent at Cambridge University he moved to China in 1962 living in Beijing until his death three decades later and working on the official Chinese translation into English of Mao's Selected Works. Folio. With tissue-guarded portrait frontispieces of Mao Zedong and Liu Shaoqi tipped in many illustrations 9 folding in text. Original white cloth spine lettered in gilt on red ground compartments elaborately tooled in gilt front board with gilt and red emblem of the People's Republic of China "1949-1959" lettered below in gilt silver silk bookmarker. With dust jacket. Housed in original card box. Binding with touch of wear couple of illustrations slightly proud where incorrectly refolded; jacket flaps without price as issued a few closed tears and chips scuffing: a near-fine copy in very good jacket and like box with some toning and marking. hardcover
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1900réf. 174874Xi'an China: c. 1900. China's "Christian Rosetta Stone" A rubbing of the most famous document of Chinese Christianity. When rediscovered the Nestorian Stele transformed understanding of the cross-cultural history of Tang dynasty China. "The discovery of this monument is what made Westerners aware of the presence of Christianity in China prior to the mission of the Franciscans in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and those of the Jesuits" Nicolini-Zani p. 117. The Nestorian Stele was carved in 781 and stands at almost three metres tall. The Chinese inscription in the calligraphy of a local official Lu Xiuyan describes how Christians arrived at the Tang capital of Xi'an in 635 and with official permission founded churches. The stele also introduces in Chinese and Syriac some of the community's senior clergy and the present state of the Nestorian church. "Erecting a stone monument to describe commend and propagate its teachings was no small undertaking for the Tang Christian community. Putting up stone monuments was an expensive exercise because of the price of the stone and the fee of the expert artisan who engraved the text. The monument itself makes an important statement about the place of Christianity within Tang society" Nicolini-Zani pp. 120-1. In 845 Christianity was banned by Emperor Wuzong and the stele was buried. Rediscovered by Chinese antiquarians around 1625 it brought to light a lost dimension to China's history and translations soon appeared in Jesuit writings including Kircher's China Monumentis 1667 which included the first printed reproduction of the text. The stone now stands at the Beilin Museum in Xi'an and is listed among the small number of protected antiquities that will never be exhibited abroad. Rubbings from the original are no longer permitted. This piece belonged to the theologian and sociologist Y. Y. Tsu 1886-1986 also known as Chu Yu-Yu. Born in Shanghai Tsu studied at St John's College Shanghai and at Columbia becoming one of the first Chinese students of sociology to study abroad. In 1912 he became Professor of Sociology at St John's and later served as the religious director of the Peking Union Medical College. "In 1940 he was consecrated an Episcopal bishop in Shanghai and was named Assistant Bishop of Hong Kong and Bishop of Kunming where he began his Burma Road work." Tsu was known "as the 'Bishop of the Burma Road' because of his efforts to befriend Allied troops traveling the international highway that ran through his district" obituary in New York Times. In 1931 Tsu held a visiting lectureship at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley California. This rubbing was gifted to the institution by Tsu and displayed there during the 1930s. It is regularly mentioned as a point of interest in contemporary tourist guides to the state. Mounted on four long pieces of paper total size: 234 x 96 cm. Rubbing from stone on multiple paper sheets arranged soon after execution to form 120 x 320 mm curved headpiece 100 x 588 mm title and 1825 x 870 text body edges of mount reinforced with old decorative white paper. Rubbing generally sharp and legible a few surface blemishes sectional joins reinforced in places on verso: a very good example of an imposing piece. Matteo Nicolini-Zani The Luminous Way to the East: Texts and History of the First Encounter of Christianity with China 2022. unknown
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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
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1913réf. 178292London: Thos. Cook & Son 1913. Second edition revised and updated from the first edition following the 1911 revolution. "It is seldom such momentous changes take place in a country within three years as have shaken the political industrial and civil life of China since this book was first compiled" introduction. The construction of railway lines from the late 19th century onwards afforded new opportunities for Westerners to travel in Asia. Thomas Cook established its first China office in 1911 in Shanghai to capitalize on this. Its guides were well known for their itineraries maps and ease of use. Octavo. Folding frontispiece map of railway and steam connections across East Asia folding plan of Beijing and Seoul maps and illustrations in text. Original yellow cloth covers lettered in black within black frame yellow advertising endpapers. Recent bookseller's ticket on rear free endpaper verso; ownership signatures and stamps of one Gerald A. Gill on endpapers and title page as well as his marginalia on table of contents. Cloth bright light marking and bumping maps and endpapers browned as usual: a very good copy. hardcover
1923réf. 168267Shanghai: Commercial Press Limited 1923. The city of poets the city of dreams First edition first printing of this large and rare map identifying major landmarks and features in both Chinese and English. The picturesque city is most closely associated with the poet Su Shi whose careful stewardship of Hangzhou restored the West Lake to its former glory and preserved its beauty for generations to come. We have traced a single institutional copy only University of Manchester. The scenery and calm of Hangzhou has inspired numerous poets and artists from the Tang dynasty down to the present day including the Tang master Bai Juyi and the Yuan dynasty's Zhao Mengfu. An inset map shows the Gushan region of outstanding natural beauty. Colour lithographed map 1090 x 780 mm folding away to 275 x 200 mm as issued housed in original printed paper sleeve. Light toning couple of splits along folds; sleeve with losses at edge as expected: a very good copy. unknown
1948réf. 178144Higganum Connecticut: 30 November 1948. I hope you won't reply to this" - a sinological circle rent asunder A window onto the collapse of the marriage of Edgar and Helen Snow the 20th century's most important bridges between China and the Western world. As shown in this terse exchange between two of their friends the split sowed distrust and trapped some of the leading lights of American sinology in a quagmire of pettiness. Enjoying privileged access to top Chinese political and social figures Edgar 1905-1972 and Helen Foster Snow 1907-1997 also known as Nym Wales and "Peg" shaped Western views of China and its people to an extent unmatched by any other journalist or academic. Edgar Snow's career was bookended by Red Star Over China 1927 the work that introduced Mao Zedong to the English-speaking world and the historic 1972 Nixon visit to Beijing for which he laid important groundwork in the 1960s. Helen Snow reporting and writing from China in the 1930s and 1940s opened American eyes to the country's deteriorating political and refugee situations earning two nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize. With Rewi Alley the Snows co-founded the Indusco "Gung Ho" co-operative movement to promote economic recovery and they are lionized in China today. Their 1932 marriage ended acrimoniously in the late 1940s following their permanent return to the US and divided their sinological circle. This letter written by the State Department China expert Lawrence Salisbury 1891-1976 was sent in reply to Helen Snow's close friend the medical missionary Ida Pruitt 1888-1985 at the New York headquarters of Indusco. There are no opening niceties. "Your letter just came. You and I must not talk about the Snows to each other. I have known them for fifteen years. Peg is a liar". There follows several paragraphs listing Helen Foster Snow's character faults "unreasonable" "unprincipled" and "willing to blacken people" and her attempts to take advantage of Edgar Snow. "On Ed's side I find no lies. I find that he has been hitched to a selfish self-seeking pathological woman who is set to destroy him financially and/or in reputation. When I told him that Peg was responsible for the arrival at my farm in early this month of two men to serve a writ to attach most unreasonably his car and his river property he would not at first believe me". A pencilled note in the margin states that "I can give many underlined other instances". Salisbury also accuses Helen of greed and money-grabbing and sneers at her "feminist theories" and her inability to produce commercially viable books. In the final third of the letter he flatly rejects Pruitt's suggestion that he intervene to soften Edgar Snow's mind ending with a word of advice: "I hate to see you waste your time and emotional strength in so undeserving a cause. I hope you won't reply to this." Provenance: by descent through the Pruitt family; recently in a private collection in Hong Kong. Single sheet 275 x 215 mm text one side only. With mailing envelope typed address "Miss Ida Pruitt Indusco Inc. 425 Fourth Avenue New York 16 N.Y.". Envelope split along 3 edges otherwise fine. unknown
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2011réf. 1-1607012898Prime Books 2011. Paperback. New. 528 pages. 8.80x6.00x1.50 inches. Prime Books paperback
2006réf. Alibris.0007144New York NY: China Institute Gallery China Institute in America. 2006. Hard cover. Very good. Light cover wear. Pages appear clean and unmarked. 135 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. . China Institute Gallery, China Institute in America hardcover
1930réf. 179497Shanghai: California Directory Association 1930. Today she stands supreme as the greatest city of all the Orient First edition first printing of this charming and hard-to-find travel guide. Tourists are invited to listen to the "snappy dance orchestra" at the Old Carlton on Shanghai's Ningpo Road or explore Beijing's famous Camel Bell curio shop based at the Grand Hotel. For trips that went awry readers could turn to page 49 and its advertisement for "the best equipped Funeral Establishment in the Orient". Small octavo. Folding map of Shanghai at rear; illustrations and advertisements in text. Original illustrated card wrappers wire-stitched as issued front cover lettered in white with illustration of Shanghai's Willow Pattern Tea House. Occasional pencil marking in text. Extremities lightly rubbed contents clean: near-fine. unknown
1920réf. 180565China: c. 1920s. An attractive handmade gift for the tourist market the delightful papercuts depicting rural scenes and figures. The large example on the first page incorporates the motif "double happiness" within a setting of birds flowers and foliage. Landscape octavo. With 20 handmade papercuts some embellished with colour pieces of textile on 10 leaves glassine guards. Original black brocade boards with black and red embroidered decoration tied with black cord through three holes. Binding smart small mark on read board occasional spotting internally: near-fine. hardcover
1920réf. 180564China: c. 1920s. An attractive handmade gift for the tourist market the delightful papercuts depicting rural scenes and reproducing the Chinese characters for "luck" and "joy". This example contains 18 pages for inscriptions each with a papercut in the bottom corner. Landscape octavo. With 20 handmade papercuts on 10 leaves glassine guards. Original dark blue brocade with embroidered patterns blue silk xianzhuang stitching Rear cover with couple of marks toning and offsetting internally first glassine with loss at foot: near-fine. unknown
