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1989177398Taibei Shi: Guo li li shi bo wu guan 1989. Hardcover. VG/VG. Tan boards with gilt lettering on front cover and spine tan illustrated dust jacket with black lettering purple spine with black lettering 92 pp illustrated in color and bw. Text in Chinese and English. At head of title: The graphic ballet of the writer:s brush = Fei yue ling dong huan hua wan qian di. Guo li li shi bo wu guan hardcover books
1952008983Wiesbaden Germany: Otto Harrassowitz 1952. Vols. I and II published 1952 Vol. III 1955. Hauer's classic Manchurian-German dictionary RARE in the First Edition. Three volumes in original printed wrappers Very Good small tears and wear ay spines. pages uniformly browning chips at wrapper corners of Vol. III. . First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Otto Harrassowitz paperback books
19754870Stanford: Stanford University Press. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1975. Hardcover. 0804708878 . First edition. Light foxing along top edge else fine in a fine dust jacket. . Stanford University Press hardcover books
698117 of 36 folding black & white woodcut plates each with fine contemporary hand-coloring. Printed in red & black zhu mo tao yin ben. 51; 50 folding leaves. Two vols. 8vo 265 x 166 mm. modern brown wrappers new stitching. Beijing: Wu ying dian the Imperial Printing House Preface dated 1711 Afterword dated 1712 completed 1713. First edition Chinese issue of this famous and beautifully illustrated book ordered by and overseen by Kangxi 1654-1722 Emperor of China. It was printed in 400 copies on superior paper 200 in Manchu and 200 in Chinese. The Chinese edition is quite remarkable for having been printed in both black and red ink zhu mo tao yin ben an invention from the Yuan Dynasty requiring two runs through the press. The book is a collection of poems written about 36 remarkable sites which include gardens landscapes and buildings at the emperor's summer palace a mountain estate in Rehe now Chengde Hebei; it is today a UNESCO World Heritage Site. For each poem a magnificent folding woodcut plate is provided depicting the associated site. While our copy has 17 of the 36 folding plates they have been beautifully hand-colored at what appears to be an early date and have large margins at the bottom. The difference between the black & white plates and those hand-colored is remarkable and dramatic. In each case the plates - which are extremely fragile - have been expertly backed with new paper margins strengthened and reinserted into the volumes on stubs. The plates clearly come from another copy. On several of the plates there is some small loss of image. Our copy has plates 2 3 7 8 9 11 14 15 16 19 21 24 25 27 29 32 and 35 as established by Whiteman see below. The result is a perfect match of poetry and landscape painting with strong literary and artistic characteristics. Kangxi's own Preface dated 1711 is followed by the impressions in red of his two seals: Ti yuan zhu ren his style name used on his seals and Wan ji yu xia "Brief leisure". This work "offers a virtual tour framed by images and the emperor's own poetry the garden placed in the palms of one's hands. Created in parallel painted which no longer survives woodblock printed our first edition and copperplate engraved versions the album's multiple iterations resonated with each other and with the park itself."-Stephen H. Whiteman Where Dragon Veins Meet. The Kangxi Emperor and His Estate at Rehe 2020 p. 6-& see the entirety of this wonderful and beautiful book especially pp. 151-88. The scenes of the imperial gardens and landscapes offered in this book allowed unprecedented access to the private life of the emperor. In 1702 Kangxi ordered the construction of the palace and landscaping of the considerable parklands at Rehe in order to support his annual tours north amongst the court's Inner Mongolian allies. The palace served as a second capital at which Kangxi resided from late spring to early autumn. When in residence the emperor oversaw garden tours banquets and entertainments all of which celebrated his rule. In 1711 Emperor Kangxi conceived of a project to celebrate his 60th birthday and 50th year of his reign. He selected 36 major scenic sites within the extensive property and gardens surrounding the summer palace. One poem for each site was written with the emperor's involvement and one painting of each site was created by the court artist Shen Yu b. 1649. The writings and accompanying illustrations were meant to demonstrate the harmony between heaven and humankind through natural landscapes and related architecture. They also served as propaganda: this represents the first time imperial spaces were depicted during the Kangxi court. The collection of poems was annotated by Kui Xu Li Tingyi and others upon the imperial order and prefaced by Emperor Kangxi himself in 1711. Two of the court's most talented woodblock artists Zhu Gui ca. 1644-1717 and Mei Yufeng active ca. 1696-1713 were engaged to prepare the woodblocks from Shen Yu's designs. "Whether derived from or simply correlated to the unique album now lost the woodblock-printed book functions as a surrogate for the paintings. It imitates the album's arrangement and mode of engagement with the landscape pairing image and text in an intimately scaled format. The style of the images evokes Wang Yuanqi but also and more significant the emperor's most important artist thereby marking the book as a work of the court's highest echelon of cultural production and an object clearly commissioned and owned by the emperor. "Kangxi was intimately involved in the minutiae of the book's production from the selection of a specific type of high-quality paper to reviewing and editing the printing proofs to inspecting samples of the finished work. He was kept closely informed about the progress of the project including difficulties in curing the datewood blocks Zhu Gui and Mei Yufeng used as well as the need for more artisans given the scale and intricacy of the work. The order for four hundred copies two hundred in Chinese and another two hundred in Manchu came directly from the throne. In comparison to other contemporary projects with print runs of one thousand or more this number suggests that the emperor had a clear sense of the exclusive audience he intended to reach. "There is no record of the deadline against which the block-cutters printers and binders all labored. Given the timing of the project and the flurry of reports around printing and binding that appear from the intercalary fifth through the seventh months of 1713 however it seems most likely that the volumes were meant as gifts for the emperor's sixtieth birthday celebrations that year. The scale and lavishness of production accords with this hypothesis as four hundred copies indicated intended distribution among a relatively small circle of imperial clansmen steppe elites senior officials and others close to the throne."-ibid. pp. 182-83. Shortly thereafter in the years 1712-14 another edition was produced with engravings instead of woodcuts. It was overseen by the Jesuit Matteo Ripa and two Qing artists. In fine and fresh condition. Minor worming to text leaves but not the plates. Preserved in a chitsu. unknown books
1996WN340291Mystic CN: Mystic Seaport Museum 1996. Original red paper over boards gilt on spine. Blind stamped upper cover. Book and pictorial dust jacket condition very good. Former owner name on last postliminary. The Canton-Boston correspondence of Robert Bennet Forbes from 1838 to 1840. First Edition. Paper Covered Boards. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Trade. Mystic Seaport Museum Hardcover books
1987279722San Francisco: Chronicle 1987. hardcover. Frontispiece and profuse illustrations in color and black & white. 4to brown cloth dust wrapper. San Francisco: Chronicle 1987. Fine.<br/><br/> Chronicle unknown books
1928291920New York: Manger Hughes & Manger 1928. hardcover. very good. Illustrated with 14 black & white portraits. Printed on double leaves in Japanese style and measuring 12 x 9 inches bound in original pictorial printed boards lightly rubbed a base of spine. New York: Manger Hughes & Manger 1928. Number 411 of a privately printed edition. A very good copy.<br/><br/> Manger, Hughes & Manger unknown books
1986S13017Armonk NY; London:: M. E. Sharpe 1986. 1986. 8vo. xxii 98 pp. Printed wrappers. Fine. ISBN: 0873324102 M. E. Sharpe, 1986. unknown books
1933709351933. Macau: Imprensa Nacional 1933. Macau: Imprensa Nacional 1933. Rare 1933 Digest of Laws Regulating Macau's Sex Trade Macau. China. Prostitution. Regulamento das Meretrizes Aprovado pelo Portaria Provincial No. 1:093 De 7 de Abril de 1933. Macau: Imprensa Nacional 1933. 22 pp. Text in Portuguese and Chinese. Stitched pamphlet in printed paper wrappers. Some edgewear a few chips and minor tears to wrappers early annotations to front wrapper light toning to interior. $950. Only edition located. Laws governing prostitution in the Portuguese colony of Macau 1557-1999 were first enacted in the mid-nineteenth century. By the 1930s the government administered the trade directly through the Regulamento das Meretrizes. No copies located on OCLC. unknown books
1940006910Helsinki Finland: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura 1940. Two volumes in original dustjackets. Both volumes are Fine Vol.I dustjacket Very Good 1 1/2" triangular chip bottom edge at spine tears at spine folds and 2 tears horizontally at spine Vol. II jacket Near Fine small chips bottom edge of spine. List of donors laid in. One folding plate map index 15 folding maps at rear Vol. II. Numerous black and white photographs in text. A classic scholarly text ''In the spring of 1906 I received orders from the Russian General Staff to undertake a journey from Russian Turkestan through Chinese Turkestan and Western China and the provinces of Kan Su Shensi and Shansi to Peiping as the final goal. The object of this expedition was to study the conditions in the interior of Northern China collect statistical materials and perform various tasks of a military nature'' Preface. Mannerheim also collected archaeological and ethnographic materials and manuscripts and studied little-known peoples and tribes in Norther China. Mannerheim later became the 6th President of Finland after serving as Commander-in-Chief of the Finnish armed forces during WWII. . First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura Hardcover books
16665Photo Archive Mao Zedong. Chinese communist revolutionary Leader. 3 originalGelatin silver print black and white press photos of various sizes from 5 x 6.5 in. to 8 x 10 in. Images date from 1966-1977. Including a photograph of US President Richard Nixon on his historic 1972 state visit to China. Mao and Nixon are shown seated in the middle of an office; Henry Kissinger is the only other American in the image seated next to the President. Nixon's trip ended 25 years of no communication or diplomatic ties between the two countries and was the key step in normalizing relations between the U.S. and China. Original press caption printed above 1966 image: "Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-tung L appearing in a military uniform for the first time in years stands beside Red China's Defense Minister Lin Piao Biao during rally in Peking 8/18. Lin's appearance beside Meo heightened speculation hat he has become the number two man in the Chinese Communist hierarchy and Mao's heir-presumptive." Third photo reports on 11th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and includes press caption in Spanish adhered to verso likely from Cuba or South America. Very good condition. unknown books
2017222169Oakland: PM Press 2017. Paperback. 237p. 7x10.5 inches trade paperback New. Anthology of the 14 issues of The Future Generation zine originally published between 1990 and 2005. PM Press paperback books
130596Washington DC: Meridian International Center. Softcover. NF. White wraps with color illustration. 74 pp. Color illustrations throughout. In English and Chinese. Held from September 23 2011 to Jan. 15 2012 this exhibition introduces American audiences to developments taking place in Jingdezhen and shows how Chinese porcelain is transcending the classical blue-and-white decorative motifs for which it had become famous. The thirteen artists featured here are at the forefront of this modern movement and together with their colleagues will continue to produce ceramic paintings that advance this art form. Meridian International Center paperback books
2011UMIEEMB00JKNBallantine Books 2011. Fine. Mieville China. Embassytown. New York: Ballantine Books 2011. 1st edition. 346pp. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Near fine. Slight shelf wear. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. Slight shelf wear. In protective cover. Ballantine Books hardcover books
20117157London: Macmillan 2011. First edition first prnt. Signed by Mieville on the title page. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Macmillan Hardcover books
20042203857Del Rey/Ballantine Books 2004. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. A fine copy. Del Rey/Ballantine Books hardcover books
2004155433London: Macmillan 2004. Octavo boards. First edition. One of 1000 numbered and signed copies by Miéville. A novel set in and around New Crobuzon a sprawling realm under London aboard the Iron Council a perpetual train that moves through the desert gathering track from behind and laying it in whichever direction its citizens decide. Winner of the 2005 Arthur C. Clarke Award and 2005 Locus Award for best novel and a 2005 Hugo and World Fantasy nominee. Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-763. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1986-2009. A fine copy in fine dust jacket and slipcase. #155433 Macmillan unknown books
20046166NY: Ballantine Books 2004. First US edition first prnt. Signed by Mieville on the title page. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Mieville's fourth novel and the third of his Bas-Lag novels. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ballantine Books Hardcover books
2004152782New York: Ballantine Books 2004. Octavo pictorial wrappers. Advance readers copy of the first U.S. edition. A novel set in and around New Crobuzon a sprawling realm under London aboard the Iron Council a perpetual train that moves through the desert gathering track from behind and laying it in whichever direction its citizens decide. Winner of the 2005 Arthur C. Clarke Award and 2005 Locus Award for best novel and a 2005 Hugo and World Fantasy nominee. Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-763. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1986-2009. A fine copy. #152782 Ballantine Books unknown books
2004111428NY: Ballantine Books 2004. First US edition first prnt. Inscribed with a quote of Thackeray by Mieville on the title page. "To David 'Your railroad starts a new era' - Thackeray To new eras & with thanks China Mieville." Spine ends pushed. Very Good condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Mieville's fourth novel and the third of his Bas-Lag novels. Inscribed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Very Good/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ballantine Books Hardcover books
1999157654New York: Tor 1999. Octavo gray wrappers printed in black. Advance copy uncorrected proof of the First U.S. edition. A presentation copy inscribed to Tor senior editor David G. Hartwell: "To David / at ICFA 23 / With very best wishes / China Miéville." The author's first novel. A urban fantasy that weds the folk tale to an "almost steampunk vision of an underground realm apparently governing London above." - John Clute SFE online. A fine copy. #157654 Tor unknown books
1999157653New York: Tor 1999. Octavo boards. First U.S. and first hardcover edition. A presentation copy inscribed to Tor senior editor David G. Hartwell: "To David / In the Florida / heat. / With very best / China Miéville." The author's first novel. A urban fantasy that weds the folk tale to an "almost steampunk vision of an underground realm apparently governing London above." - John Clute SFE online. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #157653 Tor unknown books
1999141317New York: Tor 1999. Octavo boards. First U.S. and first hardcover edition. The author's first novel. A urban fantasy that weds the folk tale to an "almost steampunk vision of an underground realm apparently governing London above." - John Clute SFE online. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #141317 Tor unknown books
199881142London: Macmillan 1998. First edition first prnt. Paperback Original. No hardcover issue. Signed by Mieville on the title page. Perfect-bound illustrated wraps. Few shallow corner wrinkles on the front wrap corners slight spine slant. Tight bright copy in Very Good condition. Mieville's first novel. Nominated for both the International Horror Guild and Bram Stoker awards. Signed by Author. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good/Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Macmillan Paperback books
1999120928NY: TOR 1999. First US edition first prnt. First hardcover edition; originally published in the UK by Macmillan as a Pbk original. Signed by Mieville on the half-title page. Above his signature Mieville has also written "All good wishes." Dustjacket with a one inch tear on the front panel fold. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Very Good dustjacket with an archival cover. Mieville's first novel. Nominated for both the International Horror Guild and Bram Stoker awards. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. TOR Hardcover books
