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1799254690Paris: Chez F. Buisson Imprimeur-Librair rue Hautefeuille no. 20 1799. Seconde édition augmentée d'un Précis de l'Histoire de la Chine par le traducteur et du Voyage en Chine et en tartare de J. C. Huttner traduit de l'allemand par le même Traducteur. Vol.1 : with half-title portrait frontispiece of Macartney clxxxiv 311 pp. Plates 1-6. VOLUME II : half-title 408 pp. Plates 7-13. VOLUME 3 : Half title 414 2 Catalogue "Voyages" de la librairie chez Buisson pp. Plates 14-27. VOLUME 4 : half-title 380 pp. Plates 28-35. VOLUME. 5 : half-title. 350 pp 1 plate 36 and 2 folding maps Plates 37 & 38. 5 vols. 8vo. Nineteenth century brown boards red paper labels some rubbing else Very Good. Seconde édition augmentée d'un Précis de l'Histoire de la Chine par le traducteur et du Voyage en Chine et en tartare de J. C. Huttner traduit de l'allemand par le même Traducteur. Vol.1 : with half-title portrait frontispiece of Macartney clxxxiv 311 pp. Plates 1-6. VOLUME II : half-title 408 pp. Plates 7-13. VOLUME 3 : Half title 414 2 Catalogue "Voyages" de la librairie chez Buisson pp. Plates 14-27. VOLUME 4 : half-title 380 pp. Plates 28-35. VOLUME. 5 : half-title. 350 pp 1 plate 36 and 2 folding maps Plates 37 & 38. 5 vols. 8vo. Cordier Biblioteca Sinica IV 2385 Chez F. Buisson, Imprimeur-Librair, rue Hautefeuille, no. 20 unknown books
1908318531London: Fisher Unwin 1908. Second Edition. Illus. xv i 304pp. 8vo. Bound in modern three quarters maroon morocco and marbled boards blue leather title label. Fine. Second Edition. Illus. xv i 304pp. 8vo. The authoress tries to outline the conditions in China before the Boxer Rebellion esp. in relation to foreigners. Fisher Unwin unknown books
191246352Foochow: Foochow College Press 1912. First Edition. Small slim octavo 19.5cm.; publisher's pale pink decorative wrappers; 226pp.; photographic frontispiece 4 leaves of plates including one mounted facsimile printed on yellow handmade stock; additionally tipped in on p. 27 are five strips of colored paper to recreate the new Chinese flag "five broad band stripes -- Red - Yellow - Blue - White - Black--representing the five original parts of the Republic of China proper -- Mongolia - Manchuria - Thibet - Eastern Turkistan" p. 26. Faint vertical crease wrappers a bit dust-soiled and slightly faded along extremities tiny splits at spine ends else Very Good internally fine. Laid in fundraising leaflet calling for monetary donations together with a separate donation blank printed on pale green stock. The Foochow alt. spelling Fuzhou Hospital's annual report covering almost exclusively the overnight revolutionary uprising which took place in the city on November 9 and 10 1911. Includes a photograph of the Surgeon-in-Charge Dr. Kinnear with his first patient injured during the hositilities "a boy from the preparatory military school who had been throwing bombs at the 'Water Gate.' He was within the gallery of the gate and missing his aim threw the bomb against the side of the window through which he was attempting to throw it. His lip was badly torn and he had a flesh wound of his right leg" p. 7. Kinnear goes on to describe his other patients all Chinese many of whom perished over the course of the following days from their wounds. A significant first-hand account of one of the last battles before the fall of the Qing dynasty. Foochow College Press unknown books
1967181803New York: The Institute 1967. Paperback. VG. Cover shows age toning. Previous owners name written in pen on ffep. White paper wraps with color photograph and tan illistrations. 39 pages : chiefly illustrations. introduction by Fong Chow. The Institute paperback books
196688849New York: China Institute in America 1966. Paperback. Very Good. Illustrated in black & white. 42p. Softcover in original wrapper. 25cm. Minor cover soil. Contents sound and clean. <br/><br/> China Institute in America paperback books
196546051Peking: Foreign Languages Publishing House 1965. Fourth Edition. Slim octavo 18.5cm; illustrated wrappers; 88pp; illus. Light wear and dustiness to wrappers with a small tear at upper spine; Very Good. Graphic novel dealing with "an episode in the War of Resistance Against Japan. It describes a group of Young Pioneers composed of Chinese and Korean children like their fathers and elder brothers waged a courageous relentless struggle against the enemy during the occupation of northeastern China by the Japanese imperialists" from introduction. Foreign Languages Publishing House unknown books
198789045New York: China House Gallery / China Institute in America 1987. Paperback. Very Good. Illustrated mostly in black & white. 111p. Softcover in original wrapper. 28cm. Catalog for an exhibition at China House Gallery Oct. 18 1986--Jan. 4 1987. <br/><br/> China House Gallery / China Institute in America paperback books
1788314738Paris: chez l'auteur . et chez Ponce 1788. First editions. Vol 1: Title 24 plates and 24 leaves of text; vol 2: title dedication 24 plates and 24 leaves of text. 4to. Contemporary green morocco with gilt Greek key borders pink silk endpapers a.e.g. Corners rubbed spine a touch browned marginal foxing in first volume and to a few leaves in second. First editions. Vol 1: Title 24 plates and 24 leaves of text; vol 2: title dedication 24 plates and 24 leaves of text. 4to. First editions beautifully and fully engraved. The first volume is on the life of Confucius the second details notable events in the reigns of various Chinese emperors. The plates were made after a series of drawings by the Jesuit missionary Joseph Marie Amiot. Cohen-De Ricci 479; Lust 729 1133. Provenance: Francis John Hughes bookplate chez l'auteur ... et chez Ponce 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
1901316993London: Morgan & Scott 1901. Eighteenth Thousand. Third edition Re-cast and freshly Illustrated. Illus. xv 180 2 adspp. 4to. Bound in three quarters modern green morocco and marbled boards. Fine. Eighteenth Thousand. Third edition Re-cast and freshly Illustrated. Illus. xv 180 2 adspp. 4to. Morgan & Scott unknown books
1980260399Milano: Franco Maria Ricci 1980. First edition # 523 of 3000 copies signed by the Publisher. With tipped in colour plates 212 4 pp. 1 vols. Black silk paper onalys in drop box. Fine. First edition # 523 of 3000 copies signed by the Publisher. With tipped in colour plates 212 4 pp. 1 vols. Franco Maria Ricci 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
200333036Beijing: Zhongguo jia de guo ji pai mai you xian gong si 2003. First edition. Illustrated paper wrappers. Unpaged 185 pp. Illus. with 348 color reproductions. 4to. Sale held at Beijing Kunlun Hotel Beijing July 13 2003. Catalog contains 348 lots 1401-1747. Text and captions in Chinese and English. An important sale from this auction house which only began offering books in 1996. Zhongguo jia de guo ji pai mai you xian gong si unknown books
2005229939Beijing: China Intercontinental Press 五洲传æ’Â出版社 2005. Paperback. 224p. profuse b&w captioned period photography and some contemporary color photos scattered texts in Chinese and English well-organized production in a sewn textblock on alkaline clay-coated paperstock throughout. Softbound a substantial 11.5x9 inch paperback in photo-decorated wraps some abrasion to lower joint with clear tape repair mild general edgewear perfectly clean and sound within. A very good copy. Minimal atrocity shots many portrait photos much journalistic photography from trialrooms and other sites photos of groups of the prisoners enjoying recreation periods photos of repentant confessions being made following acceptance of guilt. The Management Center was formerly the detention facility for 982 Japanese prisoners those considered to be the worst offenders against the Chinese people in World War II. This book traces their later paths after release including many who expressed atonement. China Intercontinental Press 五洲传æ’Â出版社 paperback books
WALTER-FILM000433No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Vintage original set of eighteen 18 13 x 10 "" 33 x 27 cm. lobby cards China. Jimbo Shen Xiangling Tong; dir: Tieli Xie; China Film Distribution and Exhibition Corporation. A classic of the Chinese Cultural Revolution -- a revolutionary ballet film with a very strong dose of propaganda intertwined with its storyline produced at the Beijing Film Studio and performed by members of the Peking Opera Troupe of Shanghai sic. A famous and probably equally infamous cultural relic of Mao's Cultural Revolution -- and needless to say an extremely rare one. This original set of Chinese lobby cards were printed for export to other countries. Slight scattered creasing ABOUT FINE. unknown books
16887Bellin: Original Engraving Print China Emperor´s Palace Circa 1750. Original engraving from: Bellin and Prevost: Histoire Generale des Voyages. Published circa 1750. Sheet size: approx. 32 x 25 cm.The Engraving shows the center of the Forbidden City as the palatial heart of China. Constructed in 1420 during the early Ming Dynasty it is China's best-preserved imperial palace and the largest ancient palatial structure in the world. We see the huge royal courtyard in the center and the emperors palatial buildings surrounding it. This plate has been published in the First French edition of Abbè Presvost's "Histoire Générale des Voyages" published by Didot at Paris 1746-1758.Source: The Histoire Géneral des Voyages was a monumental eighteenth century general history divided according to geographic region. The original volumes were written by Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles. unknown books
197114367Peking: Foreign Languages Press 1971. First Edition. 12mo 18.5cm. Staple-bound pamphlet. Original printed wrappers; 68pp. Minor wear; Near Fine. Appreciations by various contributors including Hung Cheng Tang Ho others of the revolutionary opera Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy one of the eight "Approved Plays" during China's Cultural Revolution. Foreign Languages Press unknown books
1992168387Beijing: New World Press 1992. 331p. profuse captioned color exhibit photography in 14x10 inch folio boards and dust jacket and decorated cardstock slipcase. A very good copy in every respect. New World Press unknown books
1992289080Beijing: China Cartographic Publishing House 1992. Map. Lithograph. 29" x 41 1/2". Good condition with original cover<br/><br/> Detailed modern map of China from 1992. Shows the entirety of the country as well as Mongolia parts of Russia Korea Japan the Philippines Thailand Laos Vietnam India Bangladesh Bhutan Nepal Pakistan Afghanistan Tadzhikistan Uzbekistan Kirghizstan and Kazakhstan. There is an inset in the lower right corner showing the South China Sea with labeled islands. A legend in the lower left explains the icons and lines in the map showing roads borders cities highways rivers etc. Everything is labeled in both English and Chinese. Comes in a pamphlet very interesting.<br/><br/> China Cartographic Publishing House unknown books
1936318267N.p. China 1936. illustrated from photographs. 50 pp. 1 vols. Square 12mo. Green cloth titled in gilt. Very good plus minor wear and soiling to cloth. Chinese bookseller's ticket at back. illustrated from photographs. 50 pp. 1 vols. Square 12mo. Only known copy. Only known copy of this engaging account of the month-long cruise of the Lark in the Woosung mudflats in November and December 1935. The party comprised four sportsmen Len Biggs the chronicler Bob Biggs Bob Whitmore and Dick Martin and a crew of four and their bag was more than 200 birds shot and retrieved chiefly duck and teal. The party travelled on the motor cruiser Lark with a sailing sampan Victor and converted lifeboat Marion in tow. The book takes the form of a diary with notes on expenses and other practical aspects of organizing the outing. Biggs acknowledges H.T. Wade's With Boat and Gun in the Yangtze Valley 1895; 2nd ed. 1910: "Although the enormous flocks of geese swan and duck that used to be a really wonderful sight seem to have decreased in numbers considerably there are still ideal spots for the wildfowler to shoot from still so many bird ." <br/>The typesetting and paper points to a local Chinese production and a handful of typographical errors are lightly corrected in pencil.<br/>RARE and interesting. Not in OCLC 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
196833417Taibei: Zhonghua xue shu yuan 1968. First edition. Blue vinyl boards loose leaf with ribbon ties. A few leaves ragged else very good. Sections individually numbered. Illus. with b/w photos. 4to. In Chinese and English. In addition to summaries short biographies and photos of the participants numbering about sixty. Zhonghua xue shu yuan hardcover books
15383China WOMEN October League Marxist-Leninist. Chicago: October League 1976. 16 pages. 5.5" x 8.5" illustrated with black and white photos of Women's Day marches the woman are all performing tasks at work on the image. Minor soiling good copy in stapled pictorial wraps. unknown books
197353374Millbrae CA: Celestial Arts 1973. First Edition. Small square quarto. Pictorial card wrappers; 64pp; illus with 7" LP record in rear pocket as issued. Mild cover wear and soil; internally fine; vinyl record apparently unplayed NM. Illustrates a series of eight basic exercises approved by Mao to "Promote Physical Culture and Improve the People's Health." With LP record of original cadences and music performed by the Central China Philharmonic Society. Celestial Arts unknown books
196716838Urumqi 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. <br/><br/>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. In any case the precise manner in which these banners left China will likely never be known; they surfaced at a New England antiques show in 2011. Cultural Revolution Committee of Urumqi / Xinjiang Army Divisioni unknown books
