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1911réf. 5251London: March 29 1911. Very good. 1p. Previously folded. Contemporary manuscript annotation is left margin. Light toning. A brief but interesting letter dated March 29 1911 from Marshall Broomhall Editorial Secretary of England's China Inland Mission to the Rev. Arthur H. Smail a prominent American Missionary in China. Broomhall had recently published a book Islam in China in which he promoted the use of Arabic-speaking missionaries to proselytize Chinese Muslims. The book used information received from Smail about the Chinese Muslim population but Broomhall at certain points managed to confuse Beijing Peking and nearby Tongzhou Tungchow while apparently attempting to criticize Smail's statements. This letter apologizes to Smail for his error though the American seems to have still been cross -- having received the letter Smail noted in the left margin "Two pages gives to demolishing what I never said! March 29 unknown books
1936réf. 4569Peiping China: June 4 1936. About very good. 2pp. Folio. Old fold lines minor wear a few contemporary annotations. Letter written by a nurse visiting China relating her itinerary in China which includes numerous trips to local hospitals and leper colonies. Minnie Goodnow was a registered nurse who served in France during the Great War. After her return to the U.S. she was a nursing administrator in several hospitals before embarking on this journey. She writes: "I am having a trip that is no less than wonderful. I had three objectives in mind for it -- to see the world or some bits of it; to see hospitals and learn something of what was being done in nursing education in several lands; and to see something of missions at first hand. I'm doing all three of them -- superficially but with great profit to myself. . I went up to Chiengmai with some of the mission people staid with Dr. and Mrs. Cort saw the wonderful leper colony and had a marvellous time. Here in China I have had a steady diet of missions and hospitals and done sight-seeing too." She goes on to relate her itinerary which includes trips to Shanghai Nanking Hankow and Changsha as well as a stay at a Buddhist monastery -- "Can you fancy the thrill I got from spending the night on top of a sacred mountain in a Buddhist monastery in the heart of China!" She continues: "Miss Stephenson went with me to two 'country' hospitals -- to complete -- or add to -- my education! They were those at Siaokan and Tiean and were most interesting. I also saw the old-fashioned leper asylum at Tiean which is on the way to becoming new-fashioned. Then I came here to Peiping where I have been for nearly four weeks. I am giving a short course in History of Nursing and doing sight-seeing also meeting people." She tells her reader that after China she plans to travel on to Indian with a similar mission. An interesting look into the culture of American travel and mission work in China in the 1930s. June 4 unknown
1911réf. 5251London: March 29 1911. Very good. 1p. Previously folded. Contemporary manuscript annotation is left margin. Light toning. A brief but interesting letter dated March 29 1911 from Marshall Broomhall Editorial Secretary of England's China Inland Mission to the Rev. Arthur H. Smail a prominent American Missionary in China. Broomhall had recently published a book Islam in China in which he promoted the use of Arabic-speaking missionaries to proselytize Chinese Muslims. The book used information received from Smail about the Chinese Muslim population but Broomhall at certain points managed to confuse Beijing Peking and nearby Tongzhou Tungchow while apparently attempting to criticize Smail's statements. This letter apologizes to Smail for his error though the American seems to have still been cross -- having received the letter Smail noted in the left margin "Two pages gives to demolishing what I never said! March 29 unknown
1930réf. 41627BBShanghai, Publishers: Kelly & Walsh, 1930. Original Hardcover-Volume. No Dust-jacket. Ex-Library-Copy. Library-Sticker on the Spine. Library-Stamp [dropped out] on Title. No Markings in the Text! No Underlinings! No private Owner's Note! Cover with middle Signs of Usage!
1930réf. 027149Shangai 1930 Kelly & Walsh, Limited Hardcover
1912xi + 383pp.illustrated with photographs, hardcover: editor's red cloth with gilt lettering (some use ad edges), cm., good, X78888
1929Minor spotting to front boards. Front hinge weak; Nicely INSCRIBED in ink by the author on front free endpaper. This is partially a biography of the Empress Dowager Cixi. The author Der Ling was her first assistant. She wanted to set the record straight in regards of Cixi's reputation after her death; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 383 pages
1938réf. 192805New York: Trans-Pacific News Service 1938. First editions one a second printing. The Japanese Way photographically documents the extent of damage from the Japanese bombing and invasion in Shanghai Tianjin Nanjing Guangzhou and Suzhou with shots of soldiers marching through the streets injured civilians and destroyed buildings. The Story of Japan in China compiles satirical cartoons about the Japanese war effort from various North American newspapers. The Trans-Pacific News Service was established in 1937 as a newspaper and propaganda outlet that aimed to spread positive opinions about China among the American public. It was funded by the Kuomintang's Ministry of Information and Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Until 1941 they issued a weekly newsletter on the war between China and Japan and released longer pieces occasionally in the China Reference Series. In 1941 the company was expanded and renamed to become the China News Service Inc. This copy of The Japanese Way is a second printing 12 January 1938 following the first of 6 December 1937. 2 works octavo pp. 32; 32. halftone photographic and cartoon illustrations throughout. Original buff paper wrappers wire-stitched as issued wrappers lettered in black. Wrappers toned at edges contents bright: a near-fine collection. unknown
1930réf. 036752Los Angeles: Herman Sachs 1930. 1st Edition . No Binding. Near Fine. Original Photographs. Two Photographs One Mounted On Card Of Modernist Ceramics By Herman Sachs An American Artist And Architectural Decorator Who Also Worked In Textiles And Ceramics Of Modernist Design. Born In Romania To Jewish Parents Herman Hermann Sachs Immigrated To The U.S. As A Child. He First Trained Under His German-Born Father A Painter In The Court Of Queen Elisabeth Of Romania. Sachs Continued His Artistic Training In Europe Spending The 1910-1920 Period In Germany Where He Founded The Munich School Of Expressionists Munich Expressionist Werkstätten. Upon Returning To The United States In 1920 Sachs Exhibited At The Art Institute Of Chicago And Established The Chicago Industrial Art School Which Soon Failed Due To Lack Of Sufficient Funding. Afterward Sachs Became The First Director Of The Dayton Museum Of Fine Arts Now The Dayton Art Institute. During This Time He Also Served As The U.S. Representative Of Artist George Grosz. Around 1924 Sachs Moved To Los Angeles Where He Designed The Interiors Of The New Gas Company Building. As A Muralist And Decorator Sachs Went On To Design The Interiors Of Many Los Angeles Landmarks Including The Bullocks Wilshire Building Now Home To Southwestern Law School Union Station Los Angeles City Hall And The Title Insurance And Trust Company Building. An Educator As Well As An Artist Sachs Also Directed The Creative Art Students League Of Los Angeles. Sachs Was Active Within The L.A. Weimar Exile Community Of Artists Writers And Filmmakers. His Friend The Architect Rudolph Schindler Designed Sachs' L.A. House The Manola Court Apartments. Herman Sachs unknown
1967réf. 16838Urumqi XinJiang Uyghur Autonomous Region: Cultural Revolution Committee of Urumqi / Xinjiang Army Divisioni 1967/8. Two extraordinary hand-crafted parade banners ca. 110" x 84" 9 feet x 7 feet one slightly smaller. Each entirely composed of hook-work with colored yarns on white muslin backing. Slight age-toning and soil; a few threads loose but no significant losses; Near Fine condition overall. Folded and stored in original velvet draw-string carrying bags as found. Both banners bear the inscription "Chairman Mao Reviewing the Great Army of the Cultural Revolution" and depict the August 1966 mass rally at Tiananmen Gate where more than 10 million Red Guards from all over China converged to express their solidarity with Mao and his second-in-command Lin Biao. Additional text on the lower banner reads "Long Live Chairman Mao for ten thousand years" and "Sailing in the ocean requires a helmsman" -- both quotes from Lin Biao. The agencies responsible for the banners are identified in lower right of each: "Cultural Revolution Committee of Xinjiang Army Division 1968" upper banner and "Cultural Revolution Committee of Urumqi 1967" lower. The presence of Biao the figure to the right of Mao holding the Little Red Book in the top banner is of particular interest. Biao compiler of The Quotations of Chairman Mao popularly known as the "Little Red Book" and coiner of the phrase "Maoism" was probably more responsible than any other figure for creating the cult of personality around Mao particularly at the time of the Cultural Revolution. He quickly ascended Party ranks and was widely seen as Mao's obvious successor. But in 1971 Biao was exposed in the process of an apparent coup attempt the details of the event have never been made public. He died in an airplane crash attempting to leave China and from this point forward was officially condemned as a traitor by the Communist Party; any record of his achievements on behalf of the Revolution was expunged from the official record and any positive image of Biao would have been confiscated and destroyed as a matter of course - suggesting either that these banners left China prior to 1971 or that they remained out of sight until some later date. The second possibility is plausible given whence the banners issued - both were created by Red Guard branches in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region an extremely remote province in China's northwest corner and for many years the center of a militant independence movement for Uyghur and other Turkic minorities. Cultural Revolution Committee of Urumqi / Xinjiang Army Divisioni unknown books
1967réf. 16838Urumqi XinJiang Uyghur Autonomous Region: Cultural Revolution Committee of Urumqi / Xinjiang Army Divisioni 1967/8. Two extraordinary hand-crafted parade banners ca. 110" x 84" 9 feet x 7 feet one slightly smaller. Each entirely composed of hook-work with colored yarns on white muslin backing. Slight age-toning and soil; a few threads loose but no significant losses; Near Fine condition overall. Folded and stored in original velvet draw-string carrying bags as found. Both banners bear the inscription "Chairman Mao Reviewing the Great Army of the Cultural Revolution" and depict the August 1966 mass rally at Tiananmen Gate where more than 10 million Red Guards from all over China converged to express their solidarity with Mao and his second-in-command Lin Biao. Additional text on the lower banner reads "Long Live Chairman Mao for ten thousand years" and "Sailing in the ocean requires a helmsman" -- both quotes from Lin Biao. The agencies responsible for the banners are identified in lower right of each: "Cultural Revolution Committee of Xinjiang Army Division 1968" upper banner and "Cultural Revolution Committee of Urumqi 1967" lower. The presence of Biao the figure to the right of Mao holding the Little Red Book in the top banner is of particular interest. Biao compiler of The Quotations of Chairman Mao popularly known as the "Little Red Book" and coiner of the phrase "Maoism" was probably more responsible than any other figure for creating the cult of personality around Mao particularly at the time of the Cultural Revolution. He quickly ascended Party ranks and was widely seen as Mao's obvious successor. But in 1971 Biao was exposed in the process of an apparent coup attempt the details of the event have never been made public. He died in an airplane crash attempting to leave China and from this point forward was officially condemned as a traitor by the Communist Party; any record of his achievements on behalf of the Revolution was expunged from the official record and any positive image of Biao would have been confiscated and destroyed as a matter of course - suggesting either that these banners left China prior to 1971 or that they remained out of sight until some later date. The second possibility is plausible given whence the banners issued - both were created by Red Guard branches in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region an extremely remote province in China's northwest corner and for many years the center of a militant independence movement for Uyghur and other Turkic minorities. Cultural Revolution Committee of Urumqi / Xinjiang Army Divisioni unknown
1937réf. 029960Cambridge Massachusetts 1937 Harvard University Press Hardcover 1st Edition
1924réf. 00005797Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. 1924 316 pages backstrip is faded book is cocked front hinge starting previous owner's signature in pencil one page of illustration is loose but all illustrations are present and the cloth is clean. 1923 on copyright page small font. This may be the first edition although I am not positive. J. B. Lippincott & Co. hardcover
réf. 83225aafWashington, Freer Gallery, 1971, lg. in-8vo, XII + 77 p., ill., original wrappers.
réf. 6983HALL CHINA TWINSPOUT TEAPOT - COBALT AND GOLD. In excellent condition. unknown
1934réf. 030013London24 x 15 1934 Victor Gollancz Ltd, Hardcover 1st Edition
1973scaffale sinistra in alto
réf. 14021aafLondon, Hurst & Blackett, 1933, gr. in-8°, XIV + 309 p. + VII (Index), illustrated with 20 photographic plates, original green cloth binding, title gilt on the back, fine copy.
1970Hardback reprint in dust jacket. VG/VG (price clipped). Translated from the French by Jacqueline Baldick.16674. eng
réf. 95935Xiamen, Xiamen Post Office, o. J. 20 Tafn. Gr.-8° Groß-Oktav, Softcover/Paperback
1983Paperback, out of print. 9.25 X 6 with 517 pp.
réf. 8107New York and London, Columbia University Press, 1966. 1 volume in-8, xii-470 pp., hardback, red cloth covers wrapped by a grey paper dust-jacket decorated by an illustration of a red dragon, the upper part of the dust-jacket is a bit torn, flat spine, a red Chinese name stamp on the title page, enriched with 16 illustrations and 5 maps, very good condition in general.
1908réf. 217946London Durban Perth Colombo Singapore Hongkong Shanghai Bangkok Batavia and Cairo.: Lloyd's Greater Britain Publishing Company Ltd. 1908. Maps numerous black and white photographic illustrations 848pp; full pebble-grained morocco gilt decorated spine gilt-lettered and ruled between raised compartments edges fully gilt 31 x 24cm modern marbled endpapers and hinges neatly strengthened worming to the boards and mainly affecting the preliminary leaves and the final fifty leaves the boards with a little edgewear a few gatherings a little proud but otherwise a good sound clean and complete copy of a work uncommon on the market. A good copy of a now remarkably scarce work profusely illustrated with remarkable black and white photographic portraits and panoramas and detailed chapters on everything from history geography culture and specific industries like shipping manufacturing agriculture and trade. Whilst earlier works in the series focussed exclusively on British colonial interests Western Australia Natal Ceylon and British Malaya the editor notes that: "More than one half the imports and exports of China passes through the various Treaty Ports and it would have been a negation of one of the avowed objects of these publications if no attempt had been to show the present-day tendency of this trade and how the proportion borne by the British Empire compares with that of its competitors". The series served as a handsome soft power testament to British colonial might and aspiration. . Lloyd's Greater Britain Publishing Company, Ltd. hardcover
réf. 39034502Paris circa 1670 P. Bertrand. Copper-etched engraving of the King of China French text sheet size: 17.3 x 24.2 cm. excellent impression 2 small mends to right edge else very clean and solid example trimmed edges. RARE FIRST EDITION . An excellent example of a portrait of the reigning Emperor of China called "Roy" or King in French. . With long text below the image. . Brief translation of the first few lines of caption: " TVN-MIN ROY OF CHINA: Under the Power of the Grand Cam or Emperor of Tartary For Some Years By The Nonchalance Of These Recent Chinese Natural Kings And By The Betrayals after What Will Be Struggling And Have In Their Revolutions." . Color photos are posted to our website. . . unknown
réf. 39034501Paris circa 1670 P. Bertrand. Copper-etched engraving of the King of ChinaFrench text sheet size: 19.5 x 27.27 cm. excellent impression 1 faint right margin stainleft margin a few brown spots else clean & solid. RARE FIRST EDITION . An excellent example of a portrait of the reigning Emperor of China called "Roy" or King in French. . With long text below the image. . Brief translation of the first few lines of caption: " TVN-MIN ROY OF CHINA: Under the Power of the Grand Cam or Emperor of Tartary For Some Years By The Nonchalance Of These Recent Chinese Natural Kings And By The Betrayals after What Will Be Struggling And Have In Their Revolutions." . Color photos are posted to our website. . . unknown
