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1950192804Hong Kong: YWCA c. late 1950s. A multinational cookery book with recipes for curry pork pies Portuguese desserts and Dutch soup. The first recipe is attributed to the sadly unidentifiable wife of Eduardo Rosal who was appointed the first Filipino consul general in the colony in 1958. The YWCA branch was founded in 1920. Octavo pp. 36. Text in English and Chinese. Original illustrated wrappers wire-stitched as issued. Wrappers lightly creased and marked: very good. unknown
1961176992Hong Kong: Chinese Importers' & Exporters' Association 1961. The 1961 edition of this long-running handbook offering a snapshot of the colony's commercial life and major businesses. In the 1950s following the UN trade embargo on China Hong Kong shifted towards export-led growth in particular the manufacture of textiles and plastic goods. Between 1951 and 1961 exports as a percentage of GDP grew from 30 to 80 percent. Octavo. Tables and advertisements a few colour throughout; section titles printed on green paper; text in Chinese. Original grey cloth spine decoratively stamped in blind and lettered in Chinese in gilt front cover lettered in Chinese and English in gilt advertisement endpapers. 1971 Hong Kong ownership inscription on title page. Spine worn in places with couple of marks at head signs of handling contents lightly toned: a very good copy. hardcover
1968193375United States: Commerce & Industry Department 1968. This pamphlet was produced in the midst of a trade embargo with the People's Republic of China and advises the reader on when and how to use a Certificate of Origin what goods are prohibited and a list of trustworthy vendors for various goods in Hong Kong. Small quarto 130 x 93 mm. Wire-stitched in original blue wrappers covers lettered in white. A little rubbed rear panel and last few leaves creased. A very good example. unknown
1958192118Hong Kong: Servicemen's Guides 1958. The 1958 iteration of this introductory leaflet issued by the Servicemen's Guides Association a civilian group created to provide material and spiritual aid to US sailors calling into port. Readers are warned of street guides who prey on unsuspecting tourists. "These fellows are for the most part members of gangs who lead you to places where you may be cheated." Octavo leaflet 194 x 134 mm unfolding to 388 x 535 mm with maps of Hong Kong and Kowloon and Hong Kong region west to Lantao inset map of Central. Verso with general information and shopping guide. Text printed in red and blue. Couple of contemporary pen marks general creasing: very good. unknown
1965192454Hong Kong: Servicemen's Guides c.1965. A guide to Hong Kong issued by the Servicemen's Guides Association a civilian group created to provide material and spiritual aid to US sailors calling into port. The booklet gives the best retail and tourist pit-stops information on hotels and exchange rates and a bilingual list of handy phrases. Sailors are warned to buy selectively: "U.S. Treasury Department regulations prohibit the importation into the United States of any merchandise originating in Communist China or North Korea" p. 24. Duodecimo 28 pp. Original illustrated card wrappers maps of Hong Kong and Kowloon on rear folding wrapper. Very good. unknown
1967158680Hong Kong: Ta Kung Pao 1967. Hongkong has been turned into a hell for its Chinese inhabitants First edition first printing scarce in this condition of this charged and sometimes graphic bilingual photobook published by the pro-Beijing newspaper Ta Kung Pao in the wake of the Hong Kong riots and the burning of the British mission in Beijing in August 1967. Despite all the bluster privately Mao and other communist leaders were extremely keen to see the territory an important trading partner remain in British hands. Following the explosive beginning of the Cultural Revolution in China left-wing propagandists in Hong Kong infiltrated labour disputes and protests over conditions to fan the flames of anti-British sentiment. The present work presents dozens of photographs to show how patriotic residents have "armed themselves with the great thought of Mao Tse-tung" in a struggle against "anti-national oppression" foreword. A final section boasts of the global support for these actions including from London's very own Finsbury Communist Association. The present work was issued in two variants of the wrappers with no discernible priority. The front cover of the other design is lettered "The Upheaval in Hong Kong" in white against the same red-drab colour scheme. Short quarto. Photographic half-tones throughout several pages with quotations from Mao printed in red sepia vignette on first leaf. Text in Chinese and English. Original card wrappers titles to spine in red and black front cover lettered in white and black against red and drab horizontal bands. Wrappers well-preserved moderate creasing and marking loss at head of spine only slightly affecting Chinese title text block square and holding firm clean internally with light bumping to lower corner of text block. A very good copy indeed. Martin Parr & WassinkLundgren The Chinese Photobook: From the 1900s to the Present second edition 2016 p. 348. unknown
95510c.1849. . Water colour on paper Hong Kong visible area 74.8 X 137 cm. mounted. Overall size: 90 cm x 150 cm.<br /> A rare large-scale view of Hong Kong Island painted in the first ten years of colonial rule. The charming scene shows both Chinese Junks and European tripple-masted sailing ships at anchor in Victoria harbour with the rippling hills of Hong Kong Island above the burgeoning town of Victoria.<br /><br />Many watercolours painted for western export emphasised the trading nature of Hong Kong hence the emphasis on merchant vessels and company buildings on the waterline including those of Dent & Co. and Lindsay. The absence of St John's Cathedral amongst the urban waterline dates this painting before 1849 only eight years after land grants were first issued to British investors following the cession of Hong Kong to Britain at the Treaty of Nanking. The image is also reminiscent of the 1843 seal of Hong Kong which shows merchant ships on a quay with the mountains of Hong Kong in the background and strengthens the idea that this painting represents the quintessential depiction of Hong Kong.<br /> [c.1849]. unknown
1619220705Hong Kong.: Hong Kong Tourist Association. June 16th1963. Colour folding map and four stapled booklets within original envelope. Map measures 43 x 54.5cm; booklets measure 21.5 x 9.5cm; envelope measures 23 x 10.5cm. Covers of booklets and extremities of envelope somewhat abraded though map in very good condition. A collection of four booklets and a folding map of Kowloon Peninsula and the northern shore of Hong Kong Island prepared for tourists to Hong Kong. The four booklets each focus on general information dining and entertainment sightseeing and shopping. Throughout each booklet particular emphasis is placed on the affordability of travel in Hong Kong and much effort is made to portray the colony as a romantic idyll. . Hong Kong Tourist Association. unknown
63-5983Hong Kong China: C. Piens ca. 1905. Postcards. 3.5" x 5.5". Color illustrations blank on verso. Very Good. Text in English French & Chinese.The postcard Slow Death is said to depict some who participated in the Boxer Rebellion. Hong Kong, China: C. Piens, [ca. 1905]. unknown
1969188451Hong Kong: Tourist Association c.1969. First editions of these bilingual guides each promising to list only retailers committed to value for money honest trading and polite service. The folding map sheets show both the Victoria and Kowloon districts. 2 works small octavo. With 2 folding maps. Original illustrated wrappers. One issue with contemporary ink notation on rear cover and internally. Very good. unknown
2026x-1032480351Taylor & Francis Ltd 2026. Paperback. New. 268 pages. 7.00x0.59x10.00 inches. Taylor & Francis Ltd paperback
190151358Hong Kong 1901. Three quarto manuscript letters totaling 22 pages and approx. 6000 words on life in Hong Kong as an American expat. Clean and legible. The author "Katheryn" writes to her friend Jesse in Oregon describing her daily routine and life in Hong Kong with her husband Tom who works there. "Hong Kong is the most beautiful place I have ever seen. I cannot describe it to you but will send you some Kodak pictures." Her writing is rather slangy and telegraphic but she manages to convey a sense of her life and times. "We have a rickshaw of our own now Tom bought it last week. It is a nice one made in Japan and better than the ones they make here. Have two coolies so they can drag Tom up the hill. One runs behind and pushes. A tailor is making their uniforms. I chose kahki sic trimmed with red for them Will also have the monogram TWH in red letters on them. People here think you are somebody if your coolies are in uniform." She goes on at length in this manner explaining that the chair coolies necessary to negotiate the many steps in Hong Kong do not like Tom because he weighs 200 pounds. She on the other hand goes where she pleases. She discusses her wardrobe all white clothing and talks about clothing and Chinese tailors and about friends of her husband's - other expats. She describes their rooms a bargain at $160 per month. Then "Although the Plague is usually worse here in summer it seems now that there are fewer cases than there were a few weeks ago. I go through the Plague district that is where it is the worst Wauchai a suburb nearly every day." She also talks about ships currently in the harbor "trouble in the north" and the Hong Kong regiment. We gather that she's been married just a year and that her husband pampers her but that she misses her friend Jessie and is a little homesick. The first twelve-page letter was written between June 19 and 25. The second a two-pager sending condolences for a death in Jessie's family was written August 27 1900. The third letter eight pages was written in 1901. In it Kathryn talks about cameras and mentions their trip to Canton and Macao. unknown
15546iii c.100 pp. 82 lots. Auction Catalogue Sotheby's - Hong Kong Tuesday 15th Novenber 1988. Hbk. Price list included. KEYWORDS: 003 Auction Catalogues 073 China - Keramiek - Porcelein - Jade - Brons Lakwerk etc. unknown
0331905728.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1899176918Hong Kong: Noronha & Co. Printers to the Hongkong Government 1899. First separate edition comprising the 15 ordinances and many regulations issued during the first full year of William Robinson's tenure as governor. These concerned quarantine shipping in the vicinity of the telegraph cables linking the island with Kowloon and the introduction of new legal protections for young children. Robinson's governorship overlapped with the dominance of Sir Paul Chater in the colony's affairs and he was a firm supporter of Chater's expansion plans for the New Territories. Octavo. Original green quarter cloth front cover lettered in black. Boards stained tidemarks at margins of contents: a very good copy. hardcover
1556477 pp.; c.80 illustrations. Auction Catalogue Christie's Swire - Hong Kong Monday 8 October 1990. Pbk. KEYWORDS: 003 Auction Catalogues 073 China - Keramiek - Porcelein - Jade - Brons Lakwerk etc. unknown
1856177303London.: The Illustrated London News. December 271856. Engraving 23.5 x 34.5 cm plus caption from "The Illustrated London News" uncoloured as issued marginal staining and browning paper adhesions at the lower edge small edge tears and a few chips but an uncommon image in good condition. View towards Hong Kong Harbour published in "The Illustrated London News" by Richard Principal Leitch signed by him lower left. A most interesting composition overlooking Government House the formal gardens with a gardener at work the officers’ quarters with officers on parade the town of Victoria and a view across the harbour to Kowloon. <br> <br>From the estate of the late collector and scholar Arthur Hacker. . The Illustrated London News. unknown
2025x-1032505591Taylor & Francis Ltd 2025. Paperback. New. 162 pages. 9.18x6.12x9.21 inches. Taylor & Francis Ltd paperback
1995018973Hong Kong: Christie's Auction House 1995. FIRST EDITION first printing. Full beige cloth with black lettering on the front cover. Modest wear to the dust jacket. 200 pages 120 pieces illustrated in color. With an essay by Wu Hung this catalog presents an impressive collection of largely Ming and Qing jades in the Gerald Godfrey Collection. Highlights are many fine yellow and white jade animal carvings jade vessels and jade as scholar's objects and adornment. Overall an EXCELLENT book in a VERY GOOD brodart protected dust jacket. First Edition. Full Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover. Christie's Auction House Hardcover
1860178252London.: The Illustrated London News. June 231860. Black and white full-page engraving on a newspaper leaf 28 x 40 cm related text on the verso one small marginal edge-tear upper corner creased but the image in very good condition. Fine engraving of the combined Expeditionary Force at its encampment at Tsim Sha Tsui Kowloon nearing the culmination of the Second Opium War.The descriptive text notes on the verso : "The expeditionary force is arriving rapidly; every day troop-ships come into the harbour. Probyn's horse Sikhs to the number of five hundred are encamped on the mainland; Armstrong guns also are there. I never saw anything more picturesque than the camp: the scenery is beautiful." see detail in attached image. <br> <br>From the Estate of the late collector and scholar Arthur Hacker. . The Illustrated London News. unknown
196764143New York NY & London UK: Roy Publishers Inc. Robert Hale 1967. 8vo. 190 pp. Numerous photo plates. Blue-gray boards silver lettering on spine minor shelfwear slight sunning to spine upper fore-edges minor bumping to couple corners w/ d.j. splendid Mid-Century Modern cover art by CWB 1 very small closed tear slight bumping to a couple corners still a VG/VG copy from the library of David Kohl 1946-2025 former art teacher at the Hong Kong International School musician artist and historian. First American edition of this exceedingly scarce companion volume for the author’s 1964 “Hong Kong†detailing the night lights colour and beauty of Hong Kong which anchors millions of sampans. He details the transformed Hong Kong skyline the Chinese opera Chinese shadow-boxing comic street signs bird cafes Mah Jong “Schools†and more. Even rarer in original dustjacket. Roy Publishers, Inc., [Robert Hale], hardcover
3350London: Spottiswoode and Co.; no date but 'READ BEFORE THE ROYAL COLONIAL INSTITUTE FEB. 12 1895'. 8vo. 42 pages in original grey printed wraps. Grubby and with staining to front wrap and first leaf. On verso of front wrap: 'With the Author's Compliments. Author had experience of China India and Japan. London: Spottiswoode and Co.; no date, but 'READ BEFORE THE ROYAL COLONIAL INSTITUTE FEB. 12, 1895'. paperback
ria9780415618960_inpPaperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The book addresses the globalization of supply chains and logistics. It provides a complete coverage of service facilitation and IO aspects of supply chain and transport logistics. paperback
1998x-0749427973Kogan Page Ltd 1998. Paperback. New. 256 pages. 9.50x6.25x1.00 inches. Kogan Page Ltd paperback
A9781138178038Hardback. New. hardcover