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ref. 2635Sans lieu, sans mention d'éditeur, 1932. 1 fort volume in-4, 175-71-36-63-45-84-124-81 pp., broché, couvertures souples légèrement tâchées, bon état intérieur.
ref. 9467Paris, Editions Pierre Bossuet, 1939. 1 volume in-8, 316 pp., broché, couverture imprimée souple, très bon état.
ref. 12713Paris, Société des Editions de "l'Officiel de la Couleur", 1952. 1 volume in folio (26 * 36 cm) sous couverture illustrée, 54 pp., très bon état.
ref. 12566Paris, Editions Pierre Bossuet, 1939. 1 volume in-8, 316 pp., broché, couverture imprimée souple, très bon état.
1907Reprint of the 1904 first edition. 564 pages. Index. Black and white photographic plates. Openings to fold-out map at back. Foxing to and near endpapers. Above-average but not excessive overall wear. Front hinge just starting. Minor evidence of moisture exposure inside boards. Prior owner's details atop front free endpaper. A worthy copy. Book
19503 vols.: lxxxviii,380 + 333 + 326pp. + portrait, maps (of which some folding) and facsimiles, 23cm., cloth, G, text in Russian, [Bichurin of Beijing, monastic name: Iankinf, 1777-1853, was the ninth leader of the Russian Orthodox Mission to Beijing and one of the founding fathers of sinology; this collection of information about the peoples inhabiting Central Asia in Ancient Times - i.e. Central Asia, South Siberia, Manchuria, Corea, Japan, Middle Asia and Eastern Turkestan - is the result of his travels through Asia as a missiologist and scholar], OCLC 417573879, X72530
1904ref. 1242751904-1905 La Vie Illustrée - Journal hebdomadaire - 1904-1905 - In folio, reliure amateur, couverture illustrée contrecollée sur cartonnage blanc, dos toilé blanc - sans pagination (environ 100 pages) - Nombreuses illustrations en N&B in et hors-texte
1925ref. 95101Ryuzan Chosen: Chosen Railways 1925. Very Good. single sheet folded several times to produce a 12 panel brochure on one side and a map of Heijo with a smaller map of Shingishu-Antung and various small 18 black and white photos around the edge on the other side. 19 x 9 cm. when folded and 38 x 44 cm. when fully unfolded. Text in English. Back cover of folded brochure heavily scuffed and lacking some of the text which briefly described hotels under the management of S.M.R. -- this damage probably occurred when this scarce item was "rescued" from an album or scrapbook. One of the photos surrounding the map shows the Railway bridge built by the Japanese 1909-1911 over the Yalu River between what is now Dandong on the Chinese side and Sinuiju in North Korea. Heij then a modest-sized city is known today as Pyongyang and is the capital of North Korea with a population of more than three million. Chosen Railways was under control of South Manchuria Railway between 1917 and 1925. Chosen Railways unknown
1925ref. 95101Ryuzan Chosen: Chosen Railways 1925. Very Good. single sheet folded several times to produce a 12 panel brochure on one side and a map of Heijo with a smaller map of Shingishu-Antung and various small 18 black and white photos around the edge on the other side. 19 x 9 cm. when folded and 38 x 44 cm. when fully unfolded. Text in English. Back cover of folded brochure heavily scuffed and lacking some of the text which briefly described hotels under the management of S.M.R. -- this damage probably occurred when this scarce item was "rescued" from an album or scrapbook. One of the photos surrounding the map shows the Railway bridge built by the Japanese 1909-1911 over the Yalu River between what is now Dandong on the Chinese side and Sinuiju in North Korea. Heij then a modest-sized city is known today as Pyongyang and is the capital of North Korea with a population of more than three million. Chosen Railways was under control of South Manchuria Railway between 1917 and 1925. Chosen Railways unknown books
1921ref. 177452Chinese Government Railways. 1921. Doublesided broadside sheet 36 x 39cm folding to 7 x 4 inches colour lithographic covers black and white map and photographic illustrations. Wear along some folds with three small spots of paper loss along one fold which has been neatly repaired with archival material age toning to sheet still good or better condition. The opened sheet shows a map of Northern China Manchuria and Japan with the Chinese Government Railways in red and other connecting lines; the map is surrounded by photographic illustrations of various tourist spots. On the verso is further information about the different railways and day excursions. An uncommon publication. . Chinese Government Railways. unknown
1925ref. 027144New York 1925 Robert M. McBride & Co Hardcover
19118vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), numerous plates and plans, and large folding maps; original cloth, gilt back, covers mildly age-marked else a very good,bright, firm copy. First appearance in English of an important account, originally published in Russian in 1909. VERY SCARCE.
1910ref. 151371910. Very good. B&w photo taken by the photographer Digby Bassett who traveled widely in Siberia and was the author of 'Mammoth and Mammoth Hunting'. Bassett studied and photographed mammoths as they thawed from glaciers. The photograph shows the governor general out of doors with a brick edifice in the background receiving visitors; on the verso is a handwritten explanatory note & signature of the photographer. 5 3/4 x 3 3/4" unknown
1931ref. 2090202122801315Not Available 1931. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 2733 pages Size: A5 Number of books: 2 Not Available paperback
1932ref. 220844東京. Tokyo.: 大日本雄弁会講談社. Dainihon Yūbenkai Kōdansha. Showa 7 1932. Attractive colour folding bird's-eye view map with black and white photographic illustrations on the reverse. 39 x 53.5cm. Very good condition. This colourful bird’s-eye view map of Manchuria by Ito Kikuzo 1901–1985 a popular graphic artist in the early Showa period covers the entire region showing railway lines cities local produce and natural resources. Although a few small human figures appear the map largely presents Manchuria as a treasure trove of agricultural produce and natural resources. The reverse features agricultural produce and natural resources including soya beans sheep and coal with accompanying explanations. A list of products at the lower left reinforces this emphasis on Manchuria’s abundant resources while making no mention of its inhabitants. . 大日本雄弁会講談社. [Dainihon Yūbenkai Kōdansha]. unknown
193352 pages. Cover painting by Thomas W. Mitchell features man with ax and oxen. Content: Fantastic International Trucks ad features photos of their largest and smallest models plus diagrams of their other 11 models; Investors Syndicate ad features Mrs. Martha E. Dodele; Nice Canada Dry ad features tennis-playing couple; She Who Walks the Waters, by Jefferson Cralle; Mr. Beatty - President of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company; Aces' Race - proposed professional world's championship sculling race at the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE), by Frank Adams - with illustrations of Major Goodsell, Teddy Phelps, Bert Barry and Bobby Pearce; Fair by not Frail, Gladys B. Taber; Eye, Eye, Sir, by Hugh Grant Rowell, M.D. - an article on vision; Who's Next? - an article to help other Canadians understand how political trouble of Ontario's Conservatives may affect the rest of the country - with photos of George S. Henry, Mines McCrea, Col. W.H. Price, and Mr. Macaulay; Warden of the Flock, by Paul Annixter; Central Banking, by Harold E. Crowle - a monetary commission will in the near future investigate the desirability of a central bank for Canada; Czar's Gold, by Robert Welles Ritchie; A Fall Out of History, by H.M. Blake; Feathered Speed - Pigeon Races, by W.T. Webb; Grain Fair, by Roderick Stuart Kennedy - The World's Grain Exhibition at Regina; Nice colour ad for Campbell's vegetable soup; President Roosevelt's Brain Trust; British M.P. W. Kirkpatrick supports Japan's conquest of Manchuria; Lux Toilet Soap ad features Loretta Young, Polly Ann Young and Sally Blake; Letters to the Editor; A Swedish Forest has supplied logs for 700 years and has greater supply than ever; The Great Auk may still live; The Summer Cottage - article by F.L. DeN. Scott; The Investor and His Stockbroker, by C.W. Stollery; Nice ad for Dominions Tires inside back cover; Nice ad for Chevrolet Standars Six and Master Six on back cover. Average wear. Address label atop front cover. A sound copy. Book
1945Contents: Color ad for GM's Electro-Motive Division; Color ad for the new Pontiac (car); Color Kuppenheimer clothing ad; Moscow-London duel attests problems of Truman and Attlee in shaping policy on atomic bomb; Nice color military-themed Coke ad (in Leyte, Philippines); Nice color Camel cigarette ad; Stalin rumors kindled by failure to show up for Red celebrations; photo of tubby Col. Esao Tokunaga who abused Allied prisoners in Hong Kong; Evidence of Japanese war crimes in the Philippines; Blood over Manchuria; The idle GI and liberated France are mighty tired of each other; Dee Balla - Sweetheart of the Marines; Color ad for Pullman-Standard; Great color centerfold ad for the new 1946 Chevrolet; Two photos of a German weapon, the "Viper", a rocket-powered, piloted midget plane which was to be aimed at enemy bombers at 620 mph - the pilot would bail out pre-impact; Canada's arctic exercise Musk Ox; Lewis-Murray feud blurs start of labor-management meeting; Clarence Birdseye now holds 300 patents - his latest invention is a quick-dehydration method; nice color White truck ad; Edgar Bergen marries Frances Westerman; Prokofieff's voice is cosmopolitan - his theme is the spirit of Russia; Photo of German POWs at Fort Custer, Michigan; color ad for Philip Morris & Co. - Bond Street and Revelation; William Keighley; It's Pepsi's Money - Portrait of America Exhibition at Rockefeller Center; Color ad for Scheaffer's pens inside back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Address label atop front cover. A sound copy. Magazine
1934ref. 180943Dairen: South Manchuria Railway 1934. First edition of this comprehensive statistical and narrative report including a large folding map of Manchuria a map of road construction and plans of the ports of Rashin and Dairen. Sections convey the expansion of the railway's administrative structure and business interests into all aspects of governance. Quarto. With 24 plates 2 colour diagrams 4 maps and plans 2 colour. Original red cloth over limp card spine and front cover lettered in gilt. Covers and some text bowing rear endpaper lifting from cover spotting to edges plans at rear creased where incorrectly refolded: very good. hardcover
1947Pages 649- 676. Features: Cover photo of huge black plume of smoke rising from a Jerusalem cinema, mistakenly thought to be Arab owned and burned by Jews in retaliation for Arab looting; Six dramatic photos of Arab riots in Jerusalem where Britain represents the sole stable factor; Photo of the huge Consolidated Vultee military transport, the XC-99, during its first test flight; Photo inside the belly of the XC-99; Two photos of the air raid shelter, or bunker, where Hitler and Eva Braun died; Two photos of the deep water salvage submarine designed by Italian Pietro Vessena for use in Lake Como; Five photos of Russia's mighty military on parade in Moscow; Five photos of hunger and destitution in postwar Berlin; Article discusses the great communist counter-offensive in France; Photos from Manchuria where China's Civil War continues; Two pages of scenes of sabotage and civil disorder in Paris, Arras and Lille, where the French assertion of the right to work has brought the Communists into the open; One-page reproduction of the famous photo of St. Paul's Cathedral during the 1940 blitz - contrasted with the opposing page which shows St. Paul's today, war-scarred but majestic amid devastation; Five photos show repairs being made to St. Paul's; Two pages of photos illustrate the ancient art of Benin; Photos of personalities of the week include Sir Eustace Pulbrook, King Michael of Rumania and Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parme, Samuel Courtauld, Mr. Molotov, Mr. Vishinsky, Chiang Kai-shek, Harold Wilson, and Mme. Chiang Kai-shek; Photo of a detachment of the York and Lancaster Regiment at Dolni Bousov, Czechoslovakia, receiving back the regimental drum, lost to the Germans in Crete in 1941; Photo of huge crowd in Tel Aviv celebrating news that the UN had voted in favour of the partition of Palestine. Somewhat above average wear. Unmarked. Few tape repairs. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
1931Pages 881-921 plus advertising covers. Features: Cover illustration of new American idea using mirror to protect bank tellers from gun-toting robbers; Six captioned photos of the Nonni Front / Tsitsihar and the relics of the original cause of trouble between the Japanese and Chinese in Manchuria; Review of "The Coinage of England" by Charles Oman; Photos of horse racing; Photo of burning passenger steamer the L.M.S. "Duke of Lancaster"; Photos of sinking of the "Nautilus", the first submarine to attempt reaching the North Pole; Photo of Bert Hinkler, the first airman to fly solo from South America to West Africa; Photo of J.A. Mollison's Gipsy moth upside-down in an Egyptian maize field; Photos of Jammu - occupied by British troops after riots; Bronze-age discover in Cyprus - prehistoric snake-worship; Two excellent photos show New York City's skyline (overlooking Central Park) twenty-five years ago and now (dramatic difference); Two pages of photos (and captions) of New York skyscrapers; Five photos of Captain C.W.R. Knight and white-headed sea-eagle "Miss America" - trained to falconry; Two photos of the first anniversary of the Coronation of Haile Salassie; Photo of Miss Peggy Salaman feeding one of her lion cubs; Photos of the Indian Conference ending and the Burman Conference beginning; Photos of personalities of the week include E.G. Pretyman, Maj.-General Sir P. Hambro, Mr. S.R.C. Bosanquet, Lady Bruce, Maj.-Gen. Sir David Bruce, Dr. Sze of China, Yotaro Sugimura, Mr. Yoshizawa, Yehudi Menuhin performing at the Albert Hall, Mr. C.J. Longmore - the first man to loop-the-loop in a glider in England; Preparing the New Gorilla Group for the Natural History Museum; Four photos of mural discovered in Little Missenden's 12th century church; Five photos of scenes in new film "Tsar Lenin"; Photos of Christmas gift suggestions; plus many nostalgic ads. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
1932ref. JA9-319Dairen [Dalian], The South Manchuria Railway, 1932 / 1934. 2 B?nde original flexible Leinenb?nde, 4?, mit zahlreichen Abb. und Karten; Zustand: gut Vorsatz gestempelt
1904ref. 216818東京. Tokyo.: 電報新聞社. Denpō Tsūshinsha. Fifth Edition. Meiji 37 1904. Colour folding map with four inset maps 78.2 x 54.5cm folds into light card covers measuring 21 x 14cm. Very good copy. This the fifth edition of this map was published on 7th June 1904 reflecting the high level of public interest in receiving up-to-date information on the war particularly while the siege of Port Arthur continued without a decisive Japanese victory. The map includes four inset maps among them detailed views of Port Arthur and Vladivostok. It also records distances between key ports in Japan Korea and China. . 電報新聞社. [Denpō Tsūshinsha]. unknown
1933ref. 1964131933. An attractive piece of ephemera with photographs of cities in Manchuria a regional map incorporating the railway network and infographics recording the growth of imports exports and the population. The South Manchuria Railway occupied a prominent place in the exposition's Japanese pavilion. The leaflet's text portrays Manchuria as an independent state whose residents had seceded from China in a manner akin to the American Revolution of 1776 and positions Japan as a neutral conduit between the West and the region's rich resources. Colour lithographed sheet 460 x 300 mm folding to 230 x 103 mm printed both sides. Colours vivid and bright small closed tear at foot of one fold: a fine example. unknown
1940ref. 234221940. Chinese prisoner execution photo archive from Japanese-occupied Manchuria circa 1940s recording the custody restraint killing and aftermath of Chinese prisoners under Japanese military control. Japan's occupation of Manchuria followed the Mukden Incident of September 18 1931 when Japanese forces used an explosion along the South Manchurian Railway as the pretext for military conquest; in 1932 Japan established Manchukuo a puppet state that drew international condemnation through the League of Nations' Lytton Commission. By the 1940s Manchuria remained a central zone of Japanese military power in northeast China where occupation authority puppet-state policing and anti-guerrilla campaigns produced summary punishments prisoner shootings and public terror against local Chinese populations. Photo archive of 7 silver gelatin photographs each 4" x 6.5" Manchuria circa 1940s. Japanese soldiers in field uniforms and peaked caps surround blindfolded Chinese captives seated in open ground near an earthen bank; in one scene soldiers level rifles toward bound or blindfolded prisoners at close range. Several men lie face down or on their sides at the base of the embankment with soldiers and civilian onlookers standing above them; plain wooden boxes or planks sit nearby suggesting prepared burial or removal. Another scene records a prisoner being physically restrained in a courtyard or village setting with tiled rooflines uniformed soldiers and civilian men crowded around him. The sequence moves between armed custody execution ground bodies on the earth and prisoner handling under guard giving the group a direct evidentiary relationship to Japanese military violence in occupied Manchuria. Manchuria was not a peripheral theater in Japan's war in China; it was the region where the Kwantung Army transformed a railway-security pretext into territorial occupation state building under Manchukuo and a long-running military presence that helped bring international crisis in the 1930s and full-scale war in Asia. The scenes preserved here are not battlefront combat views but close-range records of prisoners controlled by armed soldiers making the archive especially significant for the study of occupation violence Japanese military practice wartime China and the fate of Chinese civilians or irregular fighters labeled enemies under Japanese authority. Light edge wear and minor fading to some areas; images remain primarily clean; overall very good condition. The archive preserves a compact but stark record of military force in Japanese-occupied Manchuria grounded in the physical proximity between guards prisoners rifles and bodies. unknown
1940ref. 234221940. Chinese prisoner execution photo archive from Japanese-occupied Manchuria circa 1940s recording the custody restraint killing and aftermath of Chinese prisoners under Japanese military control. Japan's occupation of Manchuria followed the Mukden Incident of September 18 1931 when Japanese forces used an explosion along the South Manchurian Railway as the pretext for military conquest; in 1932 Japan established Manchukuo a puppet state that drew international condemnation through the League of Nations' Lytton Commission. By the 1940s Manchuria remained a central zone of Japanese military power in northeast China where occupation authority puppet-state policing and anti-guerrilla campaigns produced summary punishments prisoner shootings and public terror against local Chinese populations. Photo archive of 7 silver gelatin photographs each 4" x 6.5" Manchuria circa 1940s. Japanese soldiers in field uniforms and peaked caps surround blindfolded Chinese captives seated in open ground near an earthen bank; in one scene soldiers level rifles toward bound or blindfolded prisoners at close range. Several men lie face down or on their sides at the base of the embankment with soldiers and civilian onlookers standing above them; plain wooden boxes or planks sit nearby suggesting prepared burial or removal. Another scene records a prisoner being physically restrained in a courtyard or village setting with tiled rooflines uniformed soldiers and civilian men crowded around him. The sequence moves between armed custody execution ground bodies on the earth and prisoner handling under guard giving the group a direct evidentiary relationship to Japanese military violence in occupied Manchuria. Manchuria was not a peripheral theater in Japan's war in China; it was the region where the Kwantung Army transformed a railway-security pretext into territorial occupation state building under Manchukuo and a long-running military presence that helped bring international crisis in the 1930s and full-scale war in Asia. The scenes preserved here are not battlefront combat views but close-range records of prisoners controlled by armed soldiers making the archive especially significant for the study of occupation violence Japanese military practice wartime China and the fate of Chinese civilians or irregular fighters labeled enemies under Japanese authority. Light edge wear and minor fading to some areas; images remain primarily clean; overall very good condition. The archive preserves a compact but stark record of military force in Japanese-occupied Manchuria grounded in the physical proximity between guards prisoners rifles and bodies. unknown books
