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1900List1523N.p. 1900. 8vo wraps 16 pp. Some light foxing near fine. Near Fine. A memorial program for three American Presbyterian missionaries who were killed on June 30 1900 in Paotingfu at the newly established mission. Close to two hundred missionaries were killed as part of the uprising. This program is for three of them from the New Jersey and Philadelphia area George Yardley Taylor originally from Bucks County and Cortland Van Rensselaer Hodge and Elsie Campbell Sinclair who were married. Hodge was originally from Burlington NJ and Sinclair was from Iowa. They had been appointed to a mission in Peking in 1900 and were visiting Paotingfu when the mission station was attacked. The program consists of short biographies with accompanying photographs and hymns for each. Five copies in OCLC. unknown
1955209986United States: Lloyd Friedgen and Rajkamal Kalamandir Studio. circa1955. Movie Front of House/Lobby card 28 x 35.7 cms inset sepia photographic still from the film surrounded by a red border with the movie title in yellow a white dragon curling above the title in very good condition. Striking Front of House/Lobby card for a 1955 film produced at the height of anti-Communism in the West. <br> <br>The byline for the film was lurid: "Swooping down from the North they ceated a brutal Reign of Terror" and as The Movie Database TMDB notes the film was "culled from footage of a Hindi film titled 'The Journey of Dr. Kotnis.' Producer Lloyd Friedgen added real and staged footage of wartime atrocities." It played to both American and Indian suspicions about the rise of China and appeared the year after Nehru's visit to Beijing. <br> <br>During the Communist Revolution in China a young Indian physician Dr Dwarkanath Kotnis Shantaram Rajaram Vankudre aids the resistance movement working against the development of germ warfare by Communist doctors and develops a serum then meets and courts a Chinese girl Ching Lan Jayashree. . Lloyd Friedgen and Rajkamal Kalamandir Studio. unknown
1840217845London. Circa Late1840s. Steel engraving 10.7 x 16.3cms; 17.4 x 25.3cms including caption marginal toning and a couple of spots not affecting the image a fine dark impression in very good condition. Preserved in a modern window mount. Fine engraving showing Singapore river bustling with three-rigged ships junks and smaller vessels. In the foreground a platoon of British soldiers is shown marching down from what is now Fort Canning watched in the foreground by a trio of local Chinese. The Court House with its twin turrets can be seen in the middle ground lower right. . unknown
1864214353New York.: Johnson and Ward. circa1864. Handcoloured map 32 x 39.8 cms including decorative border; 35.5 x 46 cms sheet insets of the harbor and island of Amoy and Canton and adjacent islands unrelated text on the verso very slight age toning clean and bright in very good condition. Detailed map by leading American map maker and publisher Johnson & Ward active as a partnership from the 1860s. . Johnson and Ward. unknown
198919205Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago. 1989. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Small bump to one corner; Color Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 156 pages . 4900502073 . The Art Institute of Chicago paperback
188064107New York: Harper & Brothers 1880. Tall 8vo. 421 1 pp. plus 2 pp. publ. ads. Colour chromolithograph frontisp. reproducing a Japanese Ukiyo-e woodcut swimming scene over 300 text engravings & woodcut engraved plates most with tissue guards. Pictorial red publisher’s cloth illustrated & decorated in black silver gilt & red illustrated gray clay-sized endpapers minor rubbing dustsoiling slight rubbing to lower fore-edge front cover still VG bright copy. First edition of this title in the Boy Travellers series. Of particular interest are the historically accurate descriptions of social customs history and travel details including overland trip to California participating in a whaling voyage climbing Mt. Fuji studying the culture and habits of Japanese women before trekking onto China. After surviving a Typhoon the pair experience the Tai-Ping Rebellion and travel to Shanghai Peking the Great Wall of China Hong Kong Canton and beyond. Knox 1835-1896 famed Civil War correspondent for the New York Herald later worked for the Russo-American Telegraph Company which inspired his Boy Travellers series featuring an industrialist father and two sons traveling the world. Harper & Brothers, hardcover
1929215642South Australia. 1929. Typescript manuscript 11 pages foolscap 33.8 x 21 cms inked manuscript corrections and annotations in Jack's hand some age toning most noticeable on the first leaf and small chips from the inner margin no loss to the text old folds pin holes to the upper corner good condition. Unpublished typescript for an illustrated address given to the Royal South Australian Yacht Club in September 1929 by Robert Lockhart Jack 1878-1964 with annotations in his hand. <br> <br>In January 1900 at the age of 22 Jack travelled with his father Robert Logan Jack 1845-1921 pioneer geologist and the first Government Geologist for Queensland to select and acquire mines in the Western Chinese province of Szechuan on behalf of an Anglo-Belgian Company. Chengtu Chengdu the capital served as a starting point for research trips to record the deposits of mineral resources on the Chinese-Tibetan border on behalf of English companies. Jack's lively and detailed description of the methods and incidents of the 1400 mile 2250 km journey on the Yangtze offer fascinating insights into life and customs along the great river at that time as well as mindful of his audience very detailed descriptions of sailing vessels. With the start of the Boxer Rebellion the expedition was cancelled immediately and as a precaution their return journey was along the shortest route: still some 700 kms 450 miles of mountainous and uncharted terrain; south along the Chinese-Tibetan border where they reached British territory again on October 20th and the town of Bhamo in Upper Burma a day later. <br> <br>Robert Lockhart Jack began his career working in Europe South Africa and China becoming assistant government geologist of South Australia from 1912. He led an expedition to the Everhard and Musgrave Ranges in 1914. He joined BHP in 1931 and became chief geologist retiring in 1948. . unknown
1986217328Taipei.: Caves Books LTD. Reprint. Circa1986. Two volumes. Volume I: ix 713pp. Volume II: ix 754pp. Both volumes: Maps bibliography glossary index. Dustjackets faded on spine. Overall a very good set. Modern China's history begins with the processes recorded here of economic growth social change and the deterioration of central government within China. Volume 10 examines the complex interplay of foreign invasion domestic rebellion and Ch'ing decline and restoration. Special reference is made to the Peking administration the Canton trade and the early treaty system the Taiping Nien and other rebellions and the dynasty's survival in uneasy cooperation with the British French American and other invaders. Volume 11 surveys the persistence and deterioration of the old order in China during the late nineteenth century and the profound stirring during that period which led to China's great twentieth-century revolution. It focuses on commercial and technological growth foreign relations the stimulation of Chinese intellectual life by the outside world and military triumphs and disasters. The impact of Japan is emphasised and there is consideration of the movements of reform and revolution in the two decades before 1911. Adapted from blurbs . Caves Books, LTD. unknown
1900159678London.: Church of England Zenana Missionary Society. No date. circa1900. Nine printed sheets each printed with people or items and showing the cut lines. Original chromolithograph card box archivally repaired along seams. Some occasional light foxing on sheets card covers browned and worn in places a few other minor signs of wear but generally very good. 43 x 24cm. Rare. We have found no other copies of this game. The first two sheets show Chinese people in clothes appropriate to their age occupation etc. Those illustrated include The Opium Smoker School-master The General Shopkeeper Native Biblewoman etc. Other sheets show furniture and fittings a coloured illustration of the street a black and white image of the city gate and a much larger sheet 50 x 87.5cm which is an illustration of the street and onto which the other cut-outs when coloured and cut out are placed. . Church of England Zenana Missionary Society. hardcover
880171908 - 14. . 102 photographs size range from 8 x 6 cm to 11 x 16 cm including 2 with stamps of Lai Chong studio on reverse some inscribed in German; margins chipped some with creases several images faded. <br /> A collection of photographs recording German presence in China and Japan in the years 1908 1914. <br /><br />Decades before WWI Germany competed with other industrialised nations to acquire colonies and create "spheres of influence" in the non-European areas interfering in the Chinese domestic affairs. <br />In the wake that followed the murder of two German missionaries in 1898 Chinese government agreed to lease the territory of Tsingtao to Germany as a colony for the period of 99 years in order to appease the German government. Consequently the Germans began to assert their influence across the rest of the province of Shandong. They built the city and port of Tsingtao which became the base of the German Navy's East Asia Squadron that operated in support of German territories in the Pacific.<br /><br />When the WWI erupted in summer 1914 Japan issued an ultimatum ordering the German government to withdraw their warships from Chinese and Japanese waters and transfer control over Tsingtao to Japan. When the ultimatum expired Japan began a bombardment of the port on 2 September 1914. Britain wary of Japanese intentions in the region decided to send troops to assist the Japanese and to keep a watchful eye upon proceedings. The Germany garrison held out for over two months before finally surrendering on 7 November 1914 and handing over the port three days later. The surrender of Tsingtao marked the end of the Germans in China and was a great morale booster to the Japanese.<br /><br />Several photographs show SS Patricia a passenger liner built in 1899 in Germany for the Hamburg-America Packet Steamship Company. In 1914 during WWI she was chartered to the German Government who used it as a troop transport to Tsingtao.<br /> 1908 - 14. unknown
86795ca.1880. . A pair of gelatin silver prints 21 x 28 and 21 x 26.5 cm. <br /> <br /> ca.1880]. unknown
81700c.1880. . Albumen print. Good tonal range and in good condition printed label.<br /> <br /> c.1880]. unknown
86939Early nineteenth century. . Album 24.5 x 13.5 cm; 70 watercolours on paper many heightened with gold MS inscriptions to each watercolour MS title in Traditional Chinese to endpaper ownership inscription in pen to pastedown; orange endpapers cloth boards cover detached ff coming detached from spine housed in a modern green calf-backed solander box spine lettered in gilt.<br /> A fine collection of Qing dynasty watercolours depicting deities and immortals from Chinese folk religion incorporating elements from Confucianism Buddhism and Taoism. Each image caption in manuscript in Traditional Chinese.<br /> Early nineteenth century]. hardcover
107536Circa 1800. . Watercolour album; folio 55 x 37.5 cm; 64 watercolour illustrations heightened in white featuring tradesmen 23 flowers 17 and bird and flower 24 subjects on pith paper sheet size: approx. 41 x 31.5 cm each laid down on thick grey paper tissue guards endpapers watermarked 'B E & S 1815'; an exceptional green morocco binding by George Mullen of Dublin with his ticket the panels elaborately tooled in gilt and blind in a Celtic Cross design spine gilt in six compartments all edges gilt inside dentelles gilt endpapers with gilt vine borders minor rubbing to joints and extremities internally clean throughout.<br /> A remarkable collection of sixty-four fine large-format Chinese watercolours with subjects depicting tradesmen flowers and images combining both birds and flowers in an exceptional green morocco binding elaborately tooled in gilt and blind with a Celtic Cross design by the Irish bookbinder George Mullen. <br /><br />Designed for the export market the watercolours offer a fascinating glimpse into Chinese cultural life during the Imperial Qing Dynasty. Trades and occupations depicted include wok mender fortune teller fishmonger tailor woman and monkey performer tobacco cutter meat vendor clog maker silk spinner puppet show metal worker lantern maker medicine vendor rice grinder umbrella maker toy maker grocer and embroiderer. <br /><br />Similar paintings by the Canton Guangzhou artist Pu-Qúa fl.1780-1810 formed the basis of the 60 engravings illustrating George Henry Mason's The Costume of China published in 1804 and John Dadley produced stipple engravings after Pu-Qúa's originals which were published by William Miller in 1799. The remainder of the album is given over to the flora and avian fauna of the far east including Chinese golden pheasants framed within a naturalistic setting blossom-headed parakeets woodcocks varieties of orchid rose and jasmine. <br /><br />In an exceptional green morocco binding by George Mullen fl.1800-1850 who was one of the most pre-eminent booksellers publishers and binders operating in Ireland at the turn of the nineteenth century. From his Dublin studio he experimented with a variety of styles using gilt and blind tooling to great effect on morocco russia and calf. Records show he ran a business of considerable size counting the Marquess of Sligo among his clients. His work is identifiable here by his ticket which is neatly pasted to the upper left corner of the front free endpaper verso. Later he was joined in business by his son George and John and Thomas Mullen are also listed as Dublin bookbinders in the directories of the time. <br /> Circa 1800]. unknown
189264093London: Chapman and Hall 1892. 8vo. 12 365 1 pp. Frontisp. numerous plates 1 map. Tan cloth decorative motif and border on front over in red & black gilt lettering on spine shelfwear slightly cocked rubbing to spine minor bumping offset toning to endpapers from brown claysized flyleaves still a G copy. Second edition 1 of 750 copies of this wonderfully inspiring account of the author’s trek through from Peking Beijing China Russia across the Gobi Desert through Central Asia Russia and into Europe in the 19th-Century. He would later backtrack across the trans-Siberian Railway to Alaska head to the gold fields during the Klondike Gold Rush and then onto New York. Chapman and Hall, hardcover
197040716Hong Kong: Oxford Univ. Press 1970. Two vols. 8vo. xii xiii 1 492; 2 xi 2 496 2 pp. Colour frntsps. some colour plates plates maps some large folding. Burgundy-coloured cloth gilt lettrng w/ d.j.s NF/NF set. Facsimile edition of this 19th-century account of when Sir James Bruce Earl of Elgin became High Commissioner to China and traveled to Asia to end the Second Opium War by signing the Treaties of Tianjin. Later he ordered the destruction of the Old Summer Palace outside Beijing in retaliation for the imprisonment torture and execution of 20 European and Indian prisoners. The surrender documents included ceding Hong Kong and part of the Kowloon Peninsula to Great Britain. He also signed a treaty of Commerce with Japan in between the trips. Oxford Univ. Press, hardcover
191744452London: Thos. Cook & Son 1917. 8vo. 181 xxiii pp. 3 large folding maps numerous maps numerous photo illusts. Green cloth blk lettrng & insignia on frnt cvr blk lettrng on spine mnr rubbng edgewear still a VG copy. Third edition revised & expanded of this excellent Cook travel guide for travel through China Manchuria and Korea during World War I. There are detailed sightseeing instructions for Peking visiting the Great Wall Tientsin Tianjin Port Arthur in Manchuria and more. Of particular interest is the extensive section on Chosen Korea nice folding map of Seoul photo illustrations etc. Thos. Cook & Son, hardcover
194464125New York: The Macmillan Co. 1944. 8vo. 302 2 pp. Colour frontisp. numerous photo plates 2 maps 1 large folding. Salmon-coloured cloth blue lettering on spine w/ d.j. cover art of gateway in China to the Gobi minor chipping edgewear couple a few closed tears creasing still NF/G copy. First American edition 1st printing of this fascinating travel account of these two British women missionaries from the China Inland Mission through the Gobi desert in the years before the onset of World War II. This work does examine the subsequent impact of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II Warlord Politics and lives of Muslim women. Scarce in original dustjacket this work is considered one of the best accounts of travel through Central Asia and the Silk Road in Western China. The Macmillan Co., hardcover
191246593Hanoi-Haiphong Vietnam: Imprimerie d’Extreme-Orient 1912. Four vols. Folio. xiii 1 370 pp. 20 plates some maps photos each with facing explanatory leaf numerous tables several large folding; Atlas unpaginated w/ 178 diagrams maps geological sections relief maps 2 very large folding colour maps some geological formation plates in colour; 4 146 2 pp. plus 25 plates each with facing explanatory leaf numerous text illustrations diagrams; 8 76 4 pp. plus 9 plates each with facing explanatory leaf numerous text illustrations diagrams. Uniformly bound in original printed wrappers some scuffing soiling edgewear occasional light foxing still a VG- uncut & unopened presentation set inscribed and presented by Honore Lantenois & Henri Mansuy to Prof. Marcellin Boule 1861-1942 French geologist palaeontologist and physical anthropologist who reconstructed the first complete Neanderthal skeleton in France. First edition presentation set of this massive first installment in the Geological Survey of Southeast Asia begun in 1908 documenting the biostratigraphy of the Yunnan Region which was awarded the Tchihatchef Prize of the French Academy of Sciences. Much of this survey work was done during the building of the Hanoi to Yunnan-fou Kunming railroad which was built by the French to exploit the tremendous mineral wealth of Yunnan. The Director of the Department of Natural Resources for France in Vietnam was Honore Lantenois 1863-1940 who worked for years with Henri Mansuy 1857-1937 and sent him back to France several times to study palaeontology at the School of Natural Resources Ecole des Mines. Lantenois recruited Jacques Deprat 1880-1935 in 1908 -- at the time a brilliant palaeontologist -- to conduct an ambitious program mapping the geology of Indochina and neighboring areas. All three men became involved in the notorious Deprat Affair which resulted in Mansuy accusing Deprat to Lantenois in 1917 that Deprat had used a few European-sources trilobites among his fossil specimens from Indochina and Yunnan. This accusation rested on the distinction that the suspect trilobites were not just similar in nature to others found in Europe but the matrix they were embedded may have originated from Europe. Although nearly 90 years later it would be determined that the trilobite fauna discovered by Deprat indicated that the Yunnan had occupied a location adjacent to Bohemia originally in the early Palaeozoic period; the French scientific community condemned Deprat at the time stripped him of his degrees and posts and forced him to leave the field. A complete set including the Atlas is quite scarce. See: Genovese Madeleine Colani and the Deprat Scandal at the Geological Survey of Indochina Journal of the Siam Society Vol. 99 pp. 269-290 2011; Osborne The Deprat Affair: Ambition revenge and deceit in French Indo-China 1999; Stokes Deprat’s trilobites and the position of the Indochina Terrane in the Early Palaeozoic Proceedings of the International Symposia on Geoscience Resources and Environments of Asian Terranes 2008 pp. 201-207. Imprimerie d’Extreme-Orient, unknown
1944195577New York.: Army Information Branch. 1944. Very large folding colour map main map 85 x 95.5 cm plus 6 sidebar maps together 85 x 14.1 cms; sheet 88 x 118 cms several fold splits archivally sealed in good condition. Large colour wartime map issued by the U.S. Army Information Branch in 1944 the main map showing Shanghai to French Indochina with the islands of Formosa and Hainan scale 7 inches to 200 miles. At the right edge are inset maps of Shanghai Wenchow Foochow Swatow Canton and Hong Kong. Map issued to accompany Newsmap Volume III No. 51B. . Army Information Branch. unknown
1796209283London.: George Nicol. 1796. Engraved copperplate map on Whatman paper 43.8 x 33.6 cm; 57 x 42 cm sheet including plate markscale in nautical and English miles; light undulation to sheet marginal toning and edgewear but in very good condition. Finely engraved and detailed map of two routes to Pekin Beijing along the White River Baihe from the Gulf of Petcheli and along the Imperial Highway from Jehol and includes commentary locating palaces and gardens type of cultivation "many barges" and "the road shaded by willow trees". The map elegantly drawn by Henry William Parish was published in George Staunton's account of Earl Macartney's embassy to China 1792-1794. . George Nicol. unknown
1796207049London.: George Nicol. 1796. Double-sheet engraved copperplate map 63.2 x 44.8 cm; 75 x 57 cms sheet including platemark central fold the sheet toned at the edges and central fold a couple of minor spots and edge wear but in very good condition. An exquisitely engraved map with fine detail of the route taken by George Macartney on the first official British embassy to China 1792-1794 undertaken with the aim of gaining trade concessions from the Chinese Emperor and published in George Staunton's officall account. <br> <br>While the official purpose was not successful much was learned about China and the Chinese as is evident from this map with its explanatory texts. To the west of Pekin just below the starting point at Zhe-hol Jehol which is situated at the top of this map the commentary reads: "A great part of the country around Pekin is employed in the production of culinary vegetables and a variety of fruits." At the lower edge of the map just north of the ending point of Hangzhou is the lake Tai Hoo: "The western side of the Tai-hoo is bounded by a very romantic and fertile country whose mountains are clutivated to their very tops. A great part of the province of Tche-tchiang appears to be cultivated with Mulberry trees for the food of the Silk worms." Cities of the 1st 2nd and 3rd orders "considerable towns" and villages are marked along with "Halting places" etc. Fascinating Western documentation of the area around the Imperial Canal of the late Eighteenth Century. . George Nicol. unknown
1796197217London.: George Nicol. 1796. Engraved copperplate map on Whatman paper 43.8 x 33.6 cm; 57 x 38.5 cm sheet scale in nautical and English miles; light undulation to sheet marginal toning and edgewear a couple of rust spots to the blank of the map's lower corner trimmed to the border on the inner margin but in very good condition. Finely engraved and detailed map of two routes to Pekin Beijing along the White River Baihe River from the Gulph of Petcheli and along the Imperial Highway from Jehol and includes commentary locating palaces and gardens type of cultivation "many barges" and "the road shaded by willow trees". The map elegantly drawn by Henry William Parish was published in George Staunton's account of Earl Macartney's embassy to China 1792-1794. . George Nicol. unknown
1883197075Paris.: Canson Libraire-Editeur. 1883. Chromolithograph highlighted with hand colour 26 x 29.5 cms; 63.7 x 45 cms sheet the generous margins a trifle toned and spotted but the image in very good condition. Delicately coloured plate with detailed line work from the French portfolio "Ornements de la Chine Recueil de Dessins Pour l'Art et l'Industrie" A Collection of Designs for Art and Industry one of the most attractive 19th century books of design of which only 500 copies were issued. . Canson, Libraire-Editeur. unknown
1883197077Paris.: Canson Libraire-Editeur. 1883. Chromolithograph highlighted with hand colour 64 x 47.3 cms; 90.5 x 65.6 cms sheet original fold small chip and fold split at the outer margin and slight toning at the fold but in very good condition. Richly coloured and beautiful large plate with flowers and birds from "Ornements de la Chine: Recueil de Dessins Pour l'Art et l'Industrie" A Collection of Designs for Art and Industry one of the most attractive 19th century books of design of which only 500 copies were issued. This work was a seminal influence on the introduction of Chinoiserie and Islamic decorative art to French artists and craftsmen. In 1863 the authors Eugène Collinot and Adalbert de Beaumont founded their own faience factory in the Bois de Boulogne specializing in wares inspired by Persian and Iznik pottery. see "Grove Dictionary of Art". . Canson, Libraire-Editeur. unknown
