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107884GILES 2018-06-05. Hardcover. Like New. 11x9x0. Brand new still in publisher's shrink wrap. Large format hardcover in jacket. oversized and overweight. Please email for photos. GILES hardcover
1812137350Paris 1812. Fine detailed nineteenth century map of China by Dano-French geographer Conrad Malte-Brun. One page. In near fine condition. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 18 inches by 14.75 inches. Dano-French geographer and journalist Conrad Malte-Brun sometimes referred to simply as Malte-Brun is perhaps best remembered for coining the name for the geographic region Oceania French Océanie around 1812 as well as the name Indo-China. He was the founder of Les Annales des Voyages in 1807 and Les Annales des Voyages de la Géographie et de l'Histoire in 1819 which encouraged observations and reports as a basis for research. He became well known after contributing Tableau de la Pologne a treatise on the geography of Poland in 1807 as the First Empire troops established French tutelage in the region. In 1822-1824 he served as the first general secretary of the newly founded Société de Géographie. unknown
201135113Burton MI: Subterranean Press 2011. Limited edition. Head of spine bruised a fine copy in a fine dust jacket with slight crease to head of spine. 35113. Octavo cloth. One of 376 copies of which this is one of 350 numbered copies signed by Miéville. The author's well-received second novel preceded by KING RAT 1998 "the first of three independent works set in the fictional world of Bas-Lag a world where both magic referred to as 'thaumaturgy' and steampunk technology exist . In an interview Miéville described this book as 'basically a secondary world fantasy with Victorian era technology. So rather than being a feudal world it's an early industrial capitalist world of a fairly grubby police statey kind!'"- Wikipedia. "Extremely complex fantasy with strong surrealistic dystopian elements." - Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1986-2009. The novel won the British Fantasy Society's August Derleth Award in 2000 and the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2001. It was a Hugo and Nebula nominee. Reference: Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-763. Broderick and Di Filippo Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels 1985-2010 #62. Subterranean Press unknown
1920180565China: c.1920s. An attractive handmade gift for the tourist market the delightful papercuts depicting rural scenes and figures. The large example on the first page incorporates the motif "double happiness" within a setting of birds flowers and foliage. Landscape octavo. With 20 handmade papercuts some embellished with colour pieces of textile on 10 leaves glassine guards. Original black brocade boards with black and red embroidered decoration tied with black chord through three holes. Binding smart small mark on read board occasional spotting internally: near-fine. hardcover
1902220266Japan. No date. Circa1902. Two very attractive colour folded manuscript maps one showing China and the other Korea. <br> <br>Map of China: Watercolour map 48 x 63.5cm. Closed tear now professionally repaired. <br> <br>Map of Korea: Finely detailed watercolour map a few tiny holes very neatly repaired on the verso with archival washi. 33 x 24.5cm Two delicate hand-painted maps one of China and one of Korea produced by a Japanese student cartographer named Koike Tokushige 小池徳重. <br> <br>The undated map of China appears to have been produced in the first five years of the twentieth century: a time when Japan had recently colonized Taiwan and when Japanese economic and political interest in the region was rapidly expanding. The inscription on the map suggests that it was a third year college project. But the high level of detail suggests that the artist had considerable experience of map making. The map of China shows the main provinces rivers major transport routes the Great Wall and the location of key cities although the names of the cities are not included. It also shows outlines of the Korean Peninsula Taiwan and the Japanese island of Kyushu but not the rest of Japan. <br> <br>The map of Korea is more detailed. It provides an accurate outline of the Korean Peninsula with careful hatching indicating changes in elevation. Rivers and major road routes are shown on the map and the locations of major towns are marked though only Busan and Incheon are named. Dotted lines show coastal sea routes and routes between Kyushu and Busan and between Incheon and China. The map shows the Gyeongin railway line between Seoul and Incheon which was completed in 1899 and route of the Gyeongbu railway line between Busan and Seoul whose construction started from both ends in 1901. But the map depicts only small sections of this line close to Seoul and Busan as being completed with the rest more lightly outlined to show the projected route implying that the map was drawn around 1901-1902 and certainly before the Gyongbu line was opened in 1904. <br> <br>Inserted text gives the land area and population of Korea. Rather strangely though the figure given for the Korean population is vastly underestimated. Ikeda gives this as 5.7 million when in fact at that time is was around 18 million. . unknown
1833199435Paris.: Arthus Betrand. 1833-1835. Aquatint with handcolour 22.1 x 32 cms; 32.2 x 46.4 cms sheet including platemark "La Favorite" blindstamp at the foot light cockling to paper edge-toning the image a fine dark impression in very good condition. A fine view of the Fort of Bocca-Tigris in the Pearl River delta just downstream from Canton Guangzhou; one of the many fortifications protecting this strategic route of the China Trade to Canton. This atmospheric image of the fort with a junk and a yacht sailing in the river in the foreground is from the official account of the Laplace voyage in the Favorite 1830-32 by voyage artist François-Edmond Pâris 1806-1893. The strait is now crossed by the Humen Pearl River Bridge . (Arthus Betrand). unknown
1797223222London.: Printed for John Stockdale Piccadilly. 1797. 2 folding maps 30 copper plate engravings including engraved title page 6 xv 475pp 2 Errata and Directions to the Binder 3 publisher's advertisements; recent half calf early mottled-papered boards spine gilt decorated and lettered to style flecked fore edges 22 x 13.5cm boards a little rubbed the text age-toned and the plates with marginal foxing previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown and the neat inscription of three others to the prelims a very good copy of the octavo edition. Handsome copy of the abridged octavo edition of Lord Macartney's voyage and embassy to China 1792-4 by his secretary and "Minister Plenipotentiary in the absence of the Ambassador" George Staunton. Many of the illustrations are after drawings by William Alexander whose "views remained unrivalled until the era of photography" Lowendahl. . Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly. hardcover
1879168207Shanghai.: American Presbyterian Mission Press. 1879. xx 259pp the original wrappers have at some stage been resewn and bound into a quarter leather binding with linen spine the inner edge has been re-enforced and is discoloured. Additions & Corrections have been bound in. New endpapers one page has an archival tape repair to the inner hinge. Paper slightly browned and a little dusty in places rough cut edges corners rubbed but a very good firm copy. 25 x 16.5cm. Thomas Watters 1840 - 1901 was a noted scholar-consul of his day. He spent over 32 years in China serving in Taiwan Fuchow Swatow Ichang Canton and elsewhere and was acting Consul-General in Korea 1887-1888. . American Presbyterian Mission Press. hardcover
2000AIB213_ZA8522_213China Press 2000-01-01. hardcover. New. Ship out in 2 business day And Fast shipping Free Tracking number will be provided after the shipment.Language:Chinese.2010. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. This edition of the Pharmacopoeia of the Peoples Republic of China known as Chinese Pharmacopoeia 2010 or in abbreviation as ChP 2010 has been prepared in accordance with the principles and requirements recommended by the Ninth Pharmacopoeia Commission and accomplished with the effort made by Commission members and its Secretariat and with collaborated support of relevant institutions and organ. Satisfaction guaranteedor money back. <br/><br/> China Press hardcover
1916007165New York: A.A. Vantine & Co. Inc. 1916. Magazine. Very Good Plus. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A RARE catalogue and in lovely condition of the major importer of Oriental goods into America from 1866 to 1921. Very Good Plus in original full color pictorial wrappers 120 pp. plus 2 order pages at rear pre-addressed envelope tipped at page 106. numerous black and white and color photographs throughout small tears at spine ends small spot rear wrapper else Near Fine. In 1916 Vantine's was located at Fifth Avenue and 39th Street. Clothing furniture housewares fabric toys and other merchandise imported from China and Japan are described in the catalogue and merchandise from Vantine's has been avidly collected over the years. Worldcat locates no copies of the 1916 edition. A.A. Vantine & Co., Inc. Paperback
20212081502111903968national library 2021. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. national library paperback
190015592AB1900. ca. 1900 9 : 15 cm. Colour Aquatint Framed under glas. Lovley scene of a woman playing the flute another woman with a child is watching her. Unfortunately this aquatint was not finished. On the reverse side with inscribition. unknown
2013mon0003800279Gingko Press Inc. 2013-10-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 4.8000 13.5000 10.2000. 2 volumes. Gingko Press Inc. hardcover
535481959. 4to. ll. 117. Red cloth gilt lettering to upper board and spine. Numerous captioned photographs including 24 in colour one of which has come loose. Old ownership inscription of "Susann Edgar". Ji Lin lies across the northern border of North Korea. 1959. hardcover
1955186437London: War Office 1955. First edition of this confidential guide for regimental and staff officers untraced institutionally. The many illustrations show the weapons vehicles and equipment employed by the People's Liberation Army. British military knowledge of the PLA widened significantly during the Korean War. This guide was superseded in 1959 by a new publication of which we have located a copy at the National Army Museum. Octavo. Folding regional map illustrations throughout. Original illustrated wrappers wire-stitched as issued. Pencil notation on p. 58. Light toning and foxing more so to a few leaves: very good. unknown
1930186728China: c.1930s. The first postal savings bank in China was established in 1919 with an initial presence of 11 branches across the country. The design of this savings box reflects the Western influences on the country's postal service and the text at the base states that the box can be opened at any local post office. Metal tin 165 x 60 mm painted green raised Chinese characters and decoration front face slit. With key. Wear to green paint lock mechanism working well: very good. unknown
20052081502111900819Kagaku 2005. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 236p Size: B4 hardcover book Kagaku paperback
19862092902139000691Tokyo Industry and Trade Planning and Development 1986. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 50 Tokyo Industry and Trade Planning and Development paperback
19762091502135710097Sankeishinbun-sha 1976. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Sankeishinbun-sha paperback
192053104Shanghai China: Commercial Press Ltd. Minguo 9 1920. Oblong 8vo. 44; 44 pp. With 89 photographic plates & illustrations all identified in Chinese & English. Original printed softcovers black lettering on front covers of both vols. Commercial Press company logo on back covers minor dustsoiling creasing small Merry Xmas labels on left fore-edge of front covers still a VG- set. First edition of this scarce photographic souvenir of China soon while Sun Yat-Sen was attempting to establish the Chinese Republican Party as the ruler of China during the Guandong-Guangxi War which resulted in the Military Government in Guangzhou 1921-1925 and then the National Government 1925-1927. This fascinating photographic survey of China depicts the cities towns villages rivers temples including the Yellow Crane Tower in Wuchang Hubei the Iron Bridge over the Yellow River which was finished in 1907 at the end of the Qing Dynasty the famed railway tunnel of Man-shan on the Peking-Hankow Railway in Hunan Province historic sites as well as images of the Tibetan Himalayas including Mt. Everest as the last photo. Commercial Press in Shanghai printed a number of these “Views of China†from about 1910 to 1925 most with different photo images from each other and varying number of pages and formats. No copies located in Worldcat 1 copy of a 1915 edition with similar pagination located at Univ. of London. Commercial Press, Ltd., paperback
151951698Kyoto: n.p. ca. Taisho 1-15 1912-1926. 4to. 20 pp unnumbered illustrated throughout and printed in red & black on gold silk bound in accordion-style format w/ embossed gray silk covers printed label mounted on front cover rounded corners minor shelfwear slight rubbing very minor bowing to covers slight soiling to couple leaves at lower fore-edge imperceptible on image still an excellent copy. First edition thus of this exceedingly scarce and deluxe Japanese production of the famed Song Dynasty painting by Zhang Zeduan 1085-1145 capturing daily life street and river scenes during the Qingming Festival in Bianjing Kaifeng. This painting is considered one of the great treasures of China and the Song Dynasty original and the Qing dynasty originals are preserved as national treasures in Beijing and Taipei respectively. The long sprawling work includes 100s of human figures period boats sedan chairs temples merchants working peddlers jugglers monks and a boat nearly crashing into the central bridge. No copies located in Worldcat; National Library of Australia has an exemplar 6333308. n.p., unknown
191559953Peking China & Brooklyn NY: The Camera Craft Co. The Albertype Co. ca. 1915. Oblong folio. 13 x 10 in. 20 leaves unnumbered. each w/ mounted 5 x 7 in. collotype photograph mounted w/in embossed border on leaf printed text below. Publisher’s illustrated softcovers yapp fore-edges punch-sewn at gutter margin w/ gray silk braid minor chipping & tears some scuffing small loss at left lower corner at foot of spine still a VG- copy w/ all the interior images in excellent original condition. First edition of this rare souvenir Chinese export album documenting architectural wonders and Chinese people in and around Beijing during the second decade of the 20th Century. The photographer has included views of Hatamen Street Arches Views of the Summer Palace including the Marble barge followed by a donkey-drawn cart Chinese Plowmen Peking Bird Man holding cage the Grand Canal the Great Wall of China and more. Zumbrun 1875-1949 was an American photographer who after serving in the U.S. Army set up his Camera Craft Company photographic studio in Beijing in the 16 Legation District in 1910 where he remained until 1929 capturing a China in transition from townsmen to tradesman farmers the Forbidden City Summer Palace Great Wall much of which would later be swept away during the Sino-Japanese War Japanese Occupation of Manchuria and the Communist rise to power. Worldcat locates 2 copies Harvard Brooklyn Museum. The Camera Craft Co., The Albertype Co., paperback
193760087Shanghai China: Post-Mercury Co. 17-21 Avenue Edward VII Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury 1937. 4to. 9 x 12 in. xv 1 88 pp. With 100s of text photo illustrations on gray-blue tinted paper. Colour-illustrated softcovers cover art photo of red & black tinted smoking skyline of Shanghai w/ bomb bursts illustrated on front cover “Shanghai Area War Maps†on endpapers -- surprisingly light interior toning to the XV pp. of text on light-gray tinted paper bumping & wear at covers some dustsoiling chipping head & foot of spine still G copy stapled as issued. First edition 1st printing of this scarce illustrated pro-China work documenting the opening campaigns by the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force and Navy during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Hostilities had increased throughout the 1930s following the first Sino-Japanese War in which Japan had conquered and absorbed Manchuria into the Japanese Empire. Chiang Kai-shek’s nationalist forces joined with the warlords of Hunan and Szechwan provinces to fight the Japanese after a number of provocations in the summer of 1937. Chiang Kai-shek believed that by initially attacking and bombing Japanese naval installations and troops in and around Shanghai he would force the foreign powers to ally with China to fight against Japan to protect their enormous investments in southern China. The Nationalist Chinese armies held out for three months against ferocious bombardment and shelling by the Japanese from planes based in Taiwan and ships on the Huangpu River inflicting huge numbers of casualties on the Chinese and eventually forcing the Chinese to retreat from Shanghai to Nanking with Japanese reinforcements constantly decimating them. These images show victims at the South Station bombings caring for Chinese wounded Chinese women training as soldiers and nurses in the aftermath of the North Station Area shelling and bombing bitter retreat by Chinese soldiers the advances and marching of Japanese forces in Shanghai and beyond. This would later be revised and reissued in March 1938; See: Dorothy Perkins Japan Goes to War: A Chronology of Japanese Military Expansion 1997 pp. 127-135; Crittall in Shanghai -- Some Photos Unearthed December 22 2008. Post-Mercury, Co., 17-21 Avenue Edward VII, Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury, paperback
193064082Chefoo Yantai China: Self-Help Dept. Women’s Bible School Presbyterian Mission ca. 1930. Oblong 4to. 9.25 x 7 in. 18 leaves unnumbered. w/ title leaf promotional explanatory leaf laid-in printed text on tissue papers w/ borders each facing the delicately cut-out silhouette Jianzhi paper designs on the facing leaves of thick paper stock. Pictorial silk flexible covers punch-sewn at gutter margin as issued w/ black silk braid NF copy. First edition thus of this beautiful album of mounted paper Jianzhi silhouette cut-outs prepared and cut from stencil drawings from a pattern. The introductory laid-in leaf details the steps of preparing the pattern sewing down the stencil to ten thicknesses and thereupon using tiny scissors and knives of various shapes to create the subsequent designs. Typically these are good for making ten at a time and then pasted on cards. These were fundraisers for the China Inland Mission Women’s Bible College in Chefoo Yantai and copies would have different stories and designs. This particular copy includes Wen Yen Beh and the Lost Ball; Djang Liang and Whang Hsi Gung; Han Hsien and Hsiao Nine; Outwitting of Wang Shen; The friend who failed; How the frogs got their croak; and finally Story of Si Mah Gwang. These original occupational works enhanced vocational training for Chinese women in developing a skill aided funding for the Women’s Bible College but also contributed to funding the Temple Hill Hospital at the CIM also known as the Yuhuangding Hospital. It later served during World War II during the 1942-43 Japanese Occupation as an internment camp. Worldcat locates 4 similar copies w/ varying supposed dates and frequently different stories or legends Texas A&M Peabody Essex Royal Danish Library & UBC. Self-Help Dept., Women’s Bible School, Presbyterian Mission, unknown
194363876New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1943. First Edition. First printing. Laid-in is a 2-pp ALS dated Dec. 26 1944 on Agnes Smedley's letterhead to Lt. Eugene S. Brewer Jr. see note below. Octavo 21cm. Original red cloth boards titles in gilt on spine; dustjacket; maroon top-stain; viii528xvi pp; illus. Folding map inserted before half-title. A Very Good copy with expected evidence of reading and use; there is a small closed tear in the margin of the folding map which is otherwise clean and complete. In the original dustwrapper unclipped priced $3.50 generally rubbed and soiled with old clear tape reinforcements at flap-folds; just VG. Ownership and bookplate of Eugene S. Brewer Jr.; a 4¢ "Sun Yat Sen" U.S. postage stamp affixed to front free endpaper. Additionally laid-in is a folded circular printing the "Statement of Policy" of the Committee for a Democratic Policy Toward China later the Committe for a Democratic Far East Policy. Jacket design by Jean Carlu. The revolutionary journalist's major work a memoir of her twelve years as a correspondent on the front lines of both the Chinese revolution and the Second Sino-Japanese War from 1929 to 1942. Smedley 1892-1950 was a prolific left journalist and probable spy known for her active support of Chinese and Indian revolutionary causes and for her many writings on Maoist China. <br /> <br /> The laid-in letter of about 250 words is dated Dec. 26 and addressed to a young Army lieutenant from Michigan Eugene S. Brewer. Smedley discusses the recent U.S. Presidential elections stating that she voted for Roosevelt despite disagreeing with "many things Roosevelt has done and still does.but I was afraid of Dewey and his rotten reactionaries. Now I grow more and more afraid of Churchill and it would be a godsend if he'd fall dead or if someone would kindly bump him off." She comments on British policy in India: "As long as Nehru remains in prison I have no hearing for any agent of the British" - and concludes with a description of her work for China relief "raffling off things for 2 weeks to aid cultural workers in Chung King.I'm tired tramping the streets selling chances for 10¢! So much work for so little." <br /> <br /> Eugene S. Brewer 1914-2001 was a 1935 graduate of the University of Michigan. He won a 1938 Avery Hopwood Prize for a proletarian novel apparently never published "Some Brass and No Groceries." After a brief and apparently unremarkable scriptwriting career in Hollywood Brewer returned to his home town of Owosso Michigan where he was for many years a county planner and surveyor. Brewer's connection to Smedley is uncertain but likely dated from his student days at Michigan. Alfred A. Knopf unknown
