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1856Best.-Nr. 63919Washington D.C.: Beverley Tucker Senate Printer 1856. Thick 4to. xvii 1 537 1 pp. With 88 lithographs some colour others colour-tinted 2 large folding colour lithograph reproductions of colour Japanese woodblocks numerous woodcut-engraved text illustrations & plates numerous maps 2 large folding. Contemporary full sheep rebacked w/ red & gilt morocco spine label minor scuffing edgewear slight bumping to corners still VG bright copy w/ admonishment on front cover in MS advising “Do not touch the plates.” First edition of Volume I of this account published for the U.S. Senate and without the suppressed bath house plate. This fascinating historical and travel document chronicles Perry’s voyage to St. Helena Cape Town Mauritius Ceylon Singapore Hong Kong Shanghai Japan for half a year where he opened the isolated country to commerce with the Western World by sailing into Edo Bay. Beverley Tucker, Senate Printer, unknown
Best.-Nr. 105659London 1891. IX 1 s. foldekart 43 x 483 cm. i farger oppklebet på lerret. Orig. dekorert brunt helsjirtingb. med en samtidig oppklebet håndskrevet etikett “Selsö missionsforening” . nederst på bakdekkelen. Samtidig skrift på forsats med rød penn. Indre fremre fals med brist i papiret. Foldekartet litt brunplettet. . unknown
1919Best.-Nr. 63313Tokyo: å›½éš›å ±é“ Kokusai hodo 昭和 Showa 19 1944. Tall 8vo. 232 pp inpaginated. With 100’s of photo illustrations two-colour maps sections chapter titles in green & black. Blue publisher’s cloth white lettering on spine turquoise-coloured lettering front cover some scuffing & rubbing edgewear minor sunning to spine still G copy from the library of Otto C. Winzen 1917-1979 pioneering German-American aeronautical engineer was interned during World War II and later significantly advanced material and construction of high-altitude balloons after World War II. First edition of this very scarce photographic history of the Imperial Japanese movements battles and actions in the Sino-Japanese War and across China later in World War II. Many of the photos and text focus on the impact of the Japanese Naval Air Force with photos of amphibious aircraft aerial bombing campaigns and continued action across Japanese- and Chinese-controlled areas. Worldcat locates 2 copies TX A&M National Diet Library. å›½éš›å ±é“ Kokusai hodo, hardcover
1937Best.-Nr. 63311Changsha: 商務尿›¸é¤¨ - Shangqu yinshuguan Commercial Press Minguo 26 1937. 8vo. 362 18 pp. With photo illustrations throughout tables charts several large folding tables at rear. Printed softcovers as issued minor chipping head & foot of spine old dampstain ring front cover chipping edgewear uniform toning some scuffing & wear to a couple fore-edge creases of folding tables at rear still a G- copy from the library of Otto C. Winzen 1917-1979 pioneering German-American aeronautical engineer was interned during World War II and later significantly advanced material and construction of high-altitude balloons after World War II. First edition of this very scarce Chinese analysis of the military build-up by the major powers around the World with a focus on aviation developments by Allied powers Nazi Germany and more importantly the Imperial Japanese Army air forces. There are references to the 1931 Mukden incident the Japanese occupation of Manchuria and the following events leading to the Second Sino-Japanese War leading to events such as the Rape of Nanking and World War II. Worldcat locates 3 copies National Lib. of China - Beijing Wuhan Univ. U of Hong Kong. 商務尿›¸é¤¨ - Shangqu yinshuguan, [Commercial Press], paperback
1946Best.-Nr. 62723New York: Doubleday and Co. Inc. 1946. 8vo. vi 2 199 1 pp. Colour frontisp. 3 colour plates numerous black & white plates. Blue pictorial publisher’s cloth black illust. cover art by Wiese front cover black lettering illustrated endpapers slight shelfwear w/ d.j. cover art by Wiese minor chipping head & foot of spine couple closed tears still NF/VG- copy. Early printing of this very uncommon Kurt Wiese title first published in 1929 and reissued in 1946 by Doubleday after he was awarded the Caldecott Honor Award for his “You Can Write Chinese.” This charming work follows the adventure of a Chinese ink stick made out of “Hei Du” black earth first used by an old bamboo painter then a letter writer a tea merchant’s son and more. Scarce in original dustjacket. Doubleday and Co., Inc., hardcover
Best.-Nr. B9789819745364Paperback / softback. New. This book offers comprehensive analysis for individual cases of poverty alleviation to facilitate respective in-depth key learnings and an overview of poverty alleviation strategies carried out in China. paperback
Best.-Nr. A9780275933425Hardback. New. China Trade and Price Statistics 1988 is compiled to give a comprehensive and systematic reflection of China's development and achievements in the field of domestic trade prices foreign economic relations trade and tourism since the founding of the People's Republic of China. hardcover
Best.-Nr. A9780275938697Hardback. New. Some figures in this survey are provisional and the final ones will appear in the Statistical Yearbook of China. This book is a revised English language edition of the official China Statistical Abstract published by the State Statistical Bureau of the People's Republic of China SSB. hardcover
Best.-Nr. A9780275934361Hardback. New. The latest edition in the China Statistics Series China Statistical Abstract 1989 offers essential basic information on China's economic and social development in 1988. hardcover
2009Best.-Nr. 79314Burton MI: Subterranean Press 2009. Limited edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Fine dust jacket. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. 325pp. Pale blue cloth in dust jacket. Limited to 500 numbered and 26 lettered copies signed by the author of which this is copy 239. Jacket design by Vincent Chong. There is a bit of an incense aroma. Small stain to the bottom of the front cover of the cloth. One of the most awarded speculative fiction book of all time being awarded the Arthur C. Clarke BSFA Hugo Kitschies Locus and ! World Fantasy Award for 2010 and also haivng been nominated for the John W. Campbell and Nebula awards. Subterranean Press hardcover
2003Best.-Nr. 156448Hong Kong: South China Morning Post 2003. As New. Laminated card box 100 postcards 100 postcards in 5 sections: Life 20 cards; Headlines 20 cards; Leisure 20 cards; Challenge 20 cards; Evolution 20 cards. All cards mint & presented in a nice decorated laminated box.ÊScarce South China Morning Post unknown
Best.-Nr. B9789819961085Paperback / softback. New. This book aims to reflect the digital transformation of Chinese education toward smart education comprehensively and accurately. It is the first systematic summary of the progress of smart education in China. The book believes that smart education is a new education form in the digital era and is essentially distinct from education forms in the industrial era. This new education form is innovative in five dimensions. First is the new core concept. Smart education is not only a concrete action concerning people’s well-being but also a vital strategy concerning national plans. Through technology empowerment and data drive it empowers educational reform in all aspects systematically constructs a new relationship between education and society provides suitable education for each learner and makes the aptitude-based teaching that we have been dreaming of for thousands of years a reality. For the first time in history smart education helps to reach the full alignment between individual development and societal development. Second is the new system structure. Smart education will break through the boundaries of school education drive the diversified combination of various education types resources and elements promote the collaboration of school family and society in education and build a high-quality individualized lifelong learning system that is available for anyone anywhere anytime. Third is the new teaching paradigm. Smart education will integrate physical social and digital spaces to create new learning scenarios and promote human–technology integration and cultivate cross-grade cross-class and cross-discipline learning communities across time and space to organically combine large-scale education with individualized cultivation. Fourth is the new educational content. Smart education will focus on developing all-round education establishing digital knowledge graphs based on systematic logics of knowledge points and innovating content presentation methods to make learning a wonderful experience and help learners develop higher-order thinking skills comprehensive innovation capability and lifelong learning ability. Fifth is the new education governance. With data governance at the core and digital intelligence technology as the driver smart education will boost the holistic reengineering of education administration and business processes and enhance the modernization of the education governance system and governance capacity. This book is intended for teachers education administrators education policymakers education researchers and parents concerned about education innovation and development as well as people from all walks of life who have aspirations for the education industry. It can also serve as a reference for international organizations and education research institutions of all countries to promote the joint exploration of the development path of smart education and create a better future for the world’s mutual development through educational reform. paperback
1913Best.-Nr. 60726Tokyo Japan: Bunkyudo-Shoten 1913. 12mo. 6 244 pp. Printed in Chinese & English w/ instructions. Limp brown calf gilt lettering in Chinese on front cover gilt lettering on spine in English minor chipping & wear head & foot of spine corners shaken occasional annotations in Chinese still G copy. Eighth edition revised & expanded of this compact handbook revised and developed the year the Republic of China established the Commission on the Unification of Pronunciation in order to develop a national phonetic system and language for China. Okamoto’s handbooks were marketed to business people in Japan and focused on the steamship passengers passing from and through Japan to Hong Kong Shanghai Canton & Beijing from the West Coast of the United States as well as British Empire subjects. Although Okamoto had first issued the dictionary in 1902 in a smaller format this 244 page version would continue to be reprinted until World War II. No copies in Worldcat. Bunkyudo-Shoten, unknown
1924Best.-Nr. 59787New York: Dodd Mead & Co. 1924. Tall 8vo. xv 1 373 1 pp. Illust. title in red & black photo frontisp. numerous photo plates & illustrations. Pictorial gold publisher’s cloth cover art illust. of Chinese doorways bedecked in Chinese Lanterns in red & blue lantern on spine blue lettering minor shelfwear light rubbing still VG bright copy. Second printing of this excellent memoir of the author’s travels through China following the Chinese revolution the civil war aftermath and her experiences with women of varying social strata as China underwent tremendous social political and economic change. Thompson-Seton 1872-1959 was a noted hunter author and suffragette founded the Camp Fire Girls Girl Pioneers with her then-husband Ernest Thompson-Seton and was noted for her active promotion of women’s emancipation and women authors. See: Czech With Rifle and Petticoat: Women as Big Game Hunters 1880-1940 pp. 111-122; Tiffany Johnstone Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson: Frontier Adventure Literature and the Dawn of Suffrage 2013. Dodd, Mead & Co., hardcover
Best.-Nr. B9783038971337Paperback / softback. New. paperback
1740Best.-Nr. 12377China n.n. 1740-1760. Drie fraaie kopjes van Chinees porselein gedecoreerd in encre de Chine en goud. Met op de buitenwand van de kopjes een portret van Petrus Boudaan vaandels en de tekst 'Petrus Boudaan Ecclesiastes Amstelodamensis'. Langs de mondrand een fijn lijnornament in goud. Niet gemerkt. Portretten naar een gravure van Frederik Ottens. Enkele vergelijkbare exemplaren betreffende Gijsbertus Voetius in 1903 uit een legaat ontvangen zijn te vinden in Museum de Lakenhal te Leiden inventaris nr. 3645. Petrus Boudaan was de oudste zoon van Gualtherus Boudaan en Maria Coymans. Geboren in 1666 te Middelburg in het huis van zijn grootvader Pieter Boudaan. Hij studeerde te Franeker en werd in 1691 predikant te Rijnsburg twee jaar later te Arnhem en in 1710 te Amsterdam. Hij overleed 20 Mei 1734 en werd te Amsterdam in de Oude kerk begraven. H. 65 cm. Fragmentarische stukjes van de rand wat slijtage aan de vergulding één kopje met een haarlijn aan het oor. Literatuur: Jochem Kroes 'Chinese armorial porcelain for the Dutch market' p. 299. A set of three encore de Chine porcelain cups on a wooden stand decorated with a portrait of Petrus Boudaan 1666-1734 a protestant pastor from Amsterdam banners and the text 'Petrus Boudaan Ecclesiastes Amstelodamensis'. Portraits after an engraving by Frederik Ottens. Unmarked. China 1740-1760. H. 6.5 cm. Tiny chips to the rim some wear to the gilding one with hairline to the ear. Literature: Jochem Kroes 'Chinese armorial porcelain for the Dutch market' p. 299. China, n.n. unknown
Best.-Nr. B9781760460648Paperback / softback. New. paperback
1937Best.-Nr. 60087Shanghai China: Post-Mercury Co. 17-21 Avenue Edward VII Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury 1937. 4to. 9 x 12 in. xv 1 88 pp. With 100s of text photo illustrations on gray-blue tinted paper. Colour-illustrated softcovers cover art photo of red & black tinted smoking skyline of Shanghai w/ bomb bursts illustrated on front cover “Shanghai Area War Maps” on endpapers -- surprisingly light interior toning to the XV pp. of text on light-gray tinted paper bumping & wear at covers some dustsoiling chipping head & foot of spine still G copy stapled as issued. First edition 1st printing of this scarce illustrated pro-China work documenting the opening campaigns by the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force and Navy during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Hostilities had increased throughout the 1930s following the first Sino-Japanese War in which Japan had conquered and absorbed Manchuria into the Japanese Empire. Chiang Kai-shek’s nationalist forces joined with the warlords of Hunan and Szechwan provinces to fight the Japanese after a number of provocations in the summer of 1937. Chiang Kai-shek believed that by initially attacking and bombing Japanese naval installations and troops in and around Shanghai he would force the foreign powers to ally with China to fight against Japan to protect their enormous investments in southern China. The Nationalist Chinese armies held out for three months against ferocious bombardment and shelling by the Japanese from planes based in Taiwan and ships on the Huangpu River inflicting huge numbers of casualties on the Chinese and eventually forcing the Chinese to retreat from Shanghai to Nanking with Japanese reinforcements constantly decimating them. These images show victims at the South Station bombings caring for Chinese wounded Chinese women training as soldiers and nurses in the aftermath of the North Station Area shelling and bombing bitter retreat by Chinese soldiers the advances and marching of Japanese forces in Shanghai and beyond. This would later be revised and reissued in March 1938; See: Dorothy Perkins Japan Goes to War: A Chronology of Japanese Military Expansion 1997 pp. 127-135; Crittall in Shanghai -- Some Photos Unearthed December 22 2008. Post-Mercury, Co., 17-21 Avenue Edward VII, Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury, paperback
1940Best.-Nr. 60092New York: Institute of Pacific Relations 1940. 8vo. xv 1 255 1 pp. Red publisher’s cloth blue & gilt spine label minor shelfwear slight bumping to corners w/ d.j. minor closed tears minor chipping to lower right corner minor bumping still VG/VG copy. First edition of this pre-World War II analysis of the British Empire’s relations with China as the Japanese forces moved into Chinese territories during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The author posits that the outcome of the Second Sino-Japanese War without connecting to a larger worldwide conflict would determine the future of British influence in East Asia. Institute of Pacific Relations, hardcover
1915Best.-Nr. 59953Peking China & Brooklyn NY: The Camera Craft Co. The Albertype Co. ca. 1915. Oblong folio. 13 x 10 in. 20 leaves unnumbered. each w/ mounted 5 x 7 in. collotype photograph mounted w/in embossed border on leaf printed text below. Publisher’s illustrated softcovers yapp fore-edges punch-sewn at gutter margin w/ gray silk braid minor chipping & tears some scuffing small loss at left lower corner at foot of spine still a VG- copy w/ all the interior images in excellent original condition. First edition of this rare souvenir Chinese export album documenting architectural wonders and Chinese people in and around Beijing during the second decade of the 20th Century. The photographer has included views of Hatamen Street Arches Views of the Summer Palace including the Marble barge followed by a donkey-drawn cart Chinese Plowmen Peking Bird Man holding cage the Grand Canal the Great Wall of China and more. Zumbrun 1875-1949 was an American photographer who after serving in the U.S. Army set up his Camera Craft Company photographic studio in Beijing in the 16 Legation District in 1910 where he remained until 1929 capturing a China in transition from townsmen to tradesman farmers the Forbidden City Summer Palace Great Wall much of which would later be swept away during the Sino-Japanese War Japanese Occupation of Manchuria and the Communist rise to power. Worldcat locates 2 copies Harvard Brooklyn Museum. The Camera Craft Co., The Albertype Co., paperback
1920Best.-Nr. 60095Shanghai China: Engineering Society of China 1920. 8vo. 20 pp. A few tables. Printed softcovers old tape repair to spine minor toning creasing & minor closed tears to back cover still G copy from the library of Otto C. Winzen 1917-1979 pioneering German-American aeronautical engineer was interned during World War II and later significantly advanced material and construction of high-altitude balloons after World War II. First edition of this exceedingly scarce offprint and a pioneering analysis of the necessary expenses and needs for developing commercial aviation in China following World War I. The author details weather impacts needs for aerodromes topographical conditions such as those experienced near the Gobi Desert followed by discussions of bodies of water for seaplanes or requirements for dirigible & Zeppelin aerodromes. Chatley 1885-1955 was a professor of engineering supervised the dredging works for the Huangpu Conservancy Board in the Huangpu and Yantze estuaries and also wrote on aeronautics and rocketry. Worldcat locates 2 copies Yale U of Limerick. Engineering Society of China, paperback
1970Best.-Nr. 58684Taipei Taiwan: Ch’eng Wen Publishing Co. P.O. box 22605 1970. Folio. 8.25 x 13.25 in. 112 pp. With 84 colour maps & diagrams many double-page. Blue linen gilt lettering on spine NF copy. First Taipei Ch’eng Wen reprint edition of this uncommon atlas first issued by Harvard University press in 1935. The colour maps trace China’s geography and political development from 1900 B.C. through 1930 with detailed maps charting the evolution of Asia and Asiatic empires. Of particular interest are the two final maps tracing the Chinese diaspora throughout the world and specifying population numbers of Chinese-Americans in the U.S. between the Wars. Ch’eng Wen Publishing Co., P.O. box 22605, unknown
1919Best.-Nr. 58763Washington D.C. National Geographic Society 1919. Two parts in one. Oblong 4to. 11 x 9 in. 24; 24 leaves printed on thick glossy paper stock w/ photo & colour illustrations on recto of each leaf slight shelfwear rubbing still NF set preserved in original printed envelope with instructional information and stamp “China & Philippines” on recto minor creasing edgewear former ownership ink markings. First edition of these scarce sets of plates designed for geography classroom use following World War I filled with text by Burrall 1883-1960 to increase geographical literacy of children as well as promote the ideas of preparing American youths to assume the role of a “World Power.” This first set focused on China includes text and photos describing the “Avenue of Stone Animals;” increasing number of girls attending school; rice fields street restaurants Chinese temples along with several parts with photos by E.H. Wilson of the Arnold Arboretum. The photographs are unidentified in the Philippines section and includes descriptions and photos of tree houses greased pole contests weaving cloth making pottery and growth of school bands and schools. Worldcat ostensibly locates 5 surviving China & Philippines portfolios at least 1 is microfilm; See: Katie Good Bring the World to the Child: Technologies of Global Citizenship in American Education 2020 pp. 44-47 227-228. National Geographic Society, hardcover
1991Best.-Nr. 58303Cambridge MA: Harvard University Council on East Asian Studies 1991. Thick 8vo. xi 1 492 pp. plus 8 pp. publisher’s ads. With 4 maps. Black cloth silver lettering w/ d.j. political cartoon cover art slight shelfwear NF/NF copy. First edition of this work which focuses on the impact of Japanese military and economic incursions and attacks on Nationalist China during the 1930’s leading to the Second Sino-Japanese War while Chiang Kai-shek continually tried to unite the country. Due to their weak military and economic his ongoing focus on the Communist movement led to public support for the Communists as he continued to back away from confronting Japan. Harvard University, Council on East Asian Studies, hardcover
1999Best.-Nr. 2021-L138Turner Publishing Company 1999. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. This is a limited second edition of the history of the marines that have served in China by the China Marine Association. There is slight wear to the edges and slight damage to the outside hinge and bottom spine. Pages are clean and unmarked. Turner Publishing Company hardcover