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1863303391Paris 1863. 98pp. 274 items priced. 1 vols. 8vo. Disbound. 98pp. 274 items priced. 1 vols. 8vo. unknown books
18451437829th Cong. 1st Sess.: SD17. 1845. 2pp Disbound. Very Good. SD17. unknown books
1879VBF09CHINA<br /><br /><i><b>PANORAMA OF PEKING</b> during the Celebrations of the Sixtieth Anniversary of the Emperor Kang-He's birthday</i>.<br /><br />Shanghai: Tien-Shin-Chai 1879.<br /><br />Profusely illustrated throughout with 292 pages lithographed with images mostly captioned below in English script and on the side<br /><br />Small 8vo measures: 6 1/8 x 3 3/4 inches 155 x 96 mm original gilt pictorial purple silk wrappers front cover dulled.<br /><br />First edition thus.<br /><br />With 6 page Introduction in English explaining that the festivities being described date back to the western calendar year 1721. Six pages of text as introduction in English at the front and in Chinese at the back.<br /><br /><br /> Tien-Shin-Chai, paperback books
189924896China 1899. Colour-printed woodblock. Paper toned. Minor nicks to margin. Very good condition. A Chinese print depicting a battle during the Boxer Rebellion.<br/> <br/>During the Boxer Uprising one of the ways the Boxers spread their message throughout China was through widely circulated pictures known as nianhua or "New Years' pictures." These pictures were often used to illustrate celebrations and festivals but also current events such as military victories. Since there were many people in the countryside who were illiterate the Boxers used various examples of imagery including posters placards and flags to coordinate the mass peasant movement and communicate their message of heroism and resistance against imperial powers. This print gives a close look at the battle at Yangcun. Chinese commanders led by Dong Fuxiang and his Gansu Braves were gathered in an encampment which the Western forces planned to attack. They built a bridge in order to cross the river to the encampment but the Chinese had planted mines which caused the bridge to explode and the Western forces to retreat. The print shows the Chinese forces waving swords as well as the flags of their commanders surrounding the Western soldiers from many sides as they attempt to flee some jumping off the bridge and drowning. "On the 14th day of the 7th month the Western armies arrived at Yang village. Western officers ordered the foot soldiers to build a footbridge across the river to attack the encampment. They were hit by Commander-in-Chief Dong and General Lis secretly placed mines. Our armies attacked from different directions. The Western army was decisively defeated and half of them were killed. A picture by the Daoist of Mount Song" caption translated by the National Archives. The celebratory nature of the illustration shows that it was meant to evoke feelings of patriotism and increase morale amongst the Chinese people and not intended to depict a realistic and historically accurate military scene. The pictorial style combines elements of traditional Chinese woodblock printing with some Western details with the bright colors following the nianhua tradition of the colorful New Year pictures. The prominent red color splashed across the print draws attention to the fire and smoke blood and foreign uniforms.<br/> <br/>MIT Visualizing Cultures "The Boxer Uprising ll. unknown books
1890312761London: Printed at the Army-Navy Cooperative Society Limited 1890. 3Â mounted albumen photographs of the shooting party with their trophies head- and tailpieces. xii 170 pp. 1 vols. 8vo 7-3/4 x 5 -3/8 inches; 196 x 137 mm. Contemporary full black morocco over stiff card covers ruled in silver upper cover with text in blindstamp edges silvered decorative endpapers. Finely rebacked to style; edges rubbed. Black morocco backed slipcase and chemise. 3Â mounted albumen photographs of the shooting party with their trophies head- and tailpieces. xii 170 pp. 1 vols. 8vo 7-3/4 x 5 -3/8 inches; 196 x 137 mm. Presentation Copy. A signed presentation copy from the author John Bell-Irving to Douglas Jones. <br/>Bell-Irving was a Scottish businessman and partner in the Hong Kong trading firm Jardine Matheson and a director of the Hong Kong Electric Company. Jones was Secretary of the Union Insurance Society of Canton of Shanghai. <br/>"The greatest pleasure in up-country shooting trips"Â Bell-Irving claims "is the idea of perfect freedom far removed from business cares and beyond the reach of letters and telegrams." Succinct account of many hunting trips after pheasant waterfowl deer and other game with observations on weather and conditions and game bag. Bell-Irving and Jones are quoted frequently in Wade's With Boat and Gun in the Yangtze Valley 2nd ed. 1910.<br/><br/>A SUSTANTIAL ACCOUNT OF SPORT ALONG THE YANGTZE OVER THREE DECADES.<br/><br/>EXCEEDINGLY RARE. OCLC 42241800 Princeton Printed at the Army-Navy Cooperative Society Limited unknown books
1873312749Shanghai: Printed at The "North China Herald" Office 1873. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed from the author to Douglas Jones on first blank. Title-page printed preface and text with holograph manuscript by Jones on the Index and Game Register. Pp. vii 116 Diary & Game Register accomplished in ink 4 pages unused; 1-50. 1 vols. 4to 10-1/8 x 8 inches; 257 x 203 mm. Contemporary full brown roan upper cover titled in gilt. Spine neatly rebacked notes on front endsheets. Quarter black morocco slipcase and cloth chemises. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed from the author to Douglas Jones on first blank. Title-page printed preface and text with holograph manuscript by Jones on the Index and Game Register. Pp. vii 116 Diary & Game Register accomplished in ink 4 pages unused; 1-50. 1 vols. 4to 10-1/8 x 8 inches; 257 x 203 mm. "The immense tracts of country available for purposes of sport and well stocked with game the entire absence of game laws and the friendly disposition of the natives combine to render Keang-soo and the adjoining provinces a very Paradise for sportsmen ." Groom from the Preface. <br/><br/>Early work on hunting in China with a partly printed dairy and "Register of Game Bagged" here accomplished with an extensive and detailed manuscript of expeditions from 1878 to 1892 recounting trips on the Merlin and other boats after deer waterfowl and other game listing participants names of dogs and game bags. The manuscript is followed by the printed text with notes on boats guns and kit "The Medicine Chest" cookery and chapters on various types of game pheasant snipe wild pig and a printed Vocabulary with Chinese/English translations and phonetic transcriptions.<br/><br/>Among the hunting companions of Jones in the 1885 season was Bell-Irving author of Diary of the Ewo Party 1890. Both Jones and Bell-Irving are quoted frequently in Wade's With Boat and Gun in the Yangtze Valley 2nd ed. 1910.<br/><br/>Some interesting ephemera has been preserved including printed Chinese broadside shooting permits for Jones for the years 1884 and 1885 a shooting permit for Hong Kong and the New Territories 1894; fivee sketch maps of Kiang Su Le Yang and Kashing; four small photographs of Hong Kong mounted on the verso of a Victorian photographic portrait of Douglas Jones; a manuscript translations of Chinese verse by one of Jones' companions and four autograph letters on sporting topics or introductions and requests to assist Jones in his up country trips; and a stray sheet of printed letterhead of the Union Insurance Society of Canton Shanghai where Jones was Secretary.<br/><br/>A UNIQUE AND SUBSTANTIAL RECORD OF SPORT IN CHINA. Czech Asia p. 93. Not in OCLC Printed at The "North China Herald" Office unknown books
185259356London: Smith Elder 1852. First Edition. 8vo pp. 279. Bound in rubbed 3/4 leather abd marble boards lacks part of the gilt label small bookpalte a very good tight clean copy. from Wikipedia: The Daoguang Emperor 16 September 1782 - 26 February 1850 Chinese was the eighth Emperor of the Qing dynasty and the sixth Qing emperor to rule over China proper reigned from 1820 to 1850. His reign was marked by "external disaster and internal rebellion" that is by the First Opium War and the beginning of the Taiping Rebellion which nearly brought down the dynasty. The historian Jonathan Spence characterizes the Daoguang Emperor as a "well meaning but ineffective man" who promoted officials who "presented a purist view even if they had nothing to say about the domestic and foreign problems surrounding the dynasty. Smith, Elder unknown books
1833301618London: John Murray 1833. First edition. iv 258 pp. Recently rebound quarter calf over green cloth spine gilt retaining contemporary upper board text clean and bright. First edition. iv 258 pp. FROM THE CANTON READING ROOMS. A copy from the Canton Reading Rooms the library of the 13 factories at Canton China which existed until the factories were destroyed during the Second Opium War. <br/><br/>With bookplate of the Newburyport Public Library stating that the book was: "Presented by Hon. Caleb Cushing." Caleb Cushing first U.S. Minister to China who probably acquired or was given this book when he was in China negotiating the Treaty of Wangxia in 1844. John Murray unknown books
1836257805Paris: B. Warée Ainé Libraire. Rignoux Imprimeur - Founder 1836. vi pp. premlims 20 ff. text surrounded by engraved decorative border. 12mo. Later hand-lettered wrappers lacking original pink wrappers light soiling to title page else fine. vi pp. premlims 20 ff. text surrounded by engraved decorative border. 12mo. A catalogue of 20 works mostly on China paper printed by Rignoux and offered for sale by Warée. 18 of the titles had been displayed at the Exposition des produits de l'industrie française in 1834. Most of the works are marked "unique."<br/>Rare; only a handful of copies located on OCLC. B. Warée Ainé, Libraire. Rignoux, Imprimeur - Founder unknown books
1844317009London: John Murray 1844. First edition. Coloured frontispiece laid down 160pp. 12mo. Bound in three quarters modern brown polished calf red leather label. Fine. First edition. Coloured frontispiece laid down 160pp. 12mo. John Murray unknown books
1891BB009<p> CHINA: Propaganda against Western Missionaries<br /></p><p>The Cause of the Riots in the Yangtse Valley. A "Complete Picture Gallery" by CHOU HAN. Hankow China 1891. With 32 full=page woodblock plates printed in color. Oblong 4to original printed wrappers sewn spine soiling minor repairs.</p><p>The author Chou Han is described by the translator Griffith John 1831-1912 as 'a gentleman of high official rank Taotai in Hunan' and was part of an orchestrated propaganda campaign aimed at discouraging Western Christian missionaries from working and traveling in China. This volume was perhaps his most significant and horrific attack on western culture managing a "reptile press" in Hunan creating unrest and distrust amongst the Chinese people see John's "A Voice from China" 1907 p. 220. Chou Han himself is probably represented in plates IX XIII XXVI and XXIX; the images are virulently anti-foreigner and specifically anti-Christian. John translated and circulated the present work to draw attention to the British authorities of the problems faced by missionaries in Asia. </p><p>Very Rare. ONLY 3 COPIES CAN BE TRACED AT AUCTION IN THE PAST 40 YEARS ABPC & RBH. </p><br /> paperback books
1899006605Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh Limited 1899. RARE in the 1899 First Edition. Very Good sticker abrasion bottom front and rear wrappers rubbing and a few small stains to wrappers. From the collection of the Richard M. Dorson Memorial Library Folklore Institute Indiana University its bookplate namestamp half-title page and blindstamp title page and a few interior pages with blindstamp as well. 48 pp. A Lecture delivered at the request of the Senate of University College Liverpool. Edward Harper Parker 1849-1926 was a barrister and noted China scholar and although not a trained linguist his greatest contribution historically may well be his unusual outlook on colloquial Chinese language. . First Edition. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Kelly and Walsh, Limited Paperback books
18806512East Liverpool Ohio: the company; Simms Steam Print 1880. 16mo single sheet uncut & folded to form 10 pages; illustrated. Net price list of decorated ware with descriptions of Toilet Sets Tea Sets Decorated Ware Covered Jugs Molasses Cans Etc. Knowles Taylor and Knowles was formed in 1870 though its antecedents date to 1854. By the early 1870's the company specialized in Iron Stone China and operated four kilns. One horizontal fold light edgewear with some tiny losses slightly foxed & soiled. Still very good. OCLC locates no copies. [the company]; Simms Steam Print unknown books