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193324472Shanghai 1933. Very good condition. An amusing letter written by Adeline in Shanghai to her sister Dorothea back home in the United States describing Chinese celebrations and rituals and commenting on the Depression and its "direst calamities".<br /> <br /> Adeline vividly describes the Chinese "Mid Autumn Festival" including paying homage to the moon stories from the Tang Dynasty how the Emperor Tang Min-huang traveled to the moon the exchange of moon shaped cakes and moon viewing rituals.<br /> <br /> She also describes in great detail the important seventh week Buddhist memorial services for a deceased Chinese friend. She describes the elaborate Temple altar decorations of dwarf pine and evergreens tea ceremony attendant monks and priests and the burning of large gifts to the deceased made of paper and bamboo.<br /> <br /> Adeline concludes with a lament about the "business situation" and a wish that "Roosevelt will be able to swing things into line soon but think that he has bitten off almost more than he can chew". <br /> <br /> Three sheets writing paper 10 x 6 1/2" the first 2 written in ink on front and back. Original folds flattened. unknown
185915140Liverpool England: Benson & Mallett 1859. Price list with shipping rates for coal railroad equipment & salt. Destination cities in the coal shipping table include Ceylon Bombay Calcutta Singapore Hong Kong Shanghai and Rangoon among others. Also a table for Railway Iron and Fittings to Calcutta Bombay and Ceylon; and Salt to Calcutta. Includes an "East India Freights" shipping price table. Two color printed circular on shaded background. Self folding mailing form with hand lettered address to Daniel W. Lord Esq. in Kennebunk Maine & canceled one penny stamp. Self mailing folds o/w very good. Benson & Mallett unknown
194615182New York: Board of Education City of New York 1946. Pamphlet. Very good. One page mimeographed flyer advertising public forum with text "Paul Maurice Youth Director of "China Today" Wed Jan 12 9:00 PM 'China Resists'. This is one of a series of forums held in cooperation with the forum division W. P. A. Adult Education Program of the Board of Education City of New York. Free Public Forum". 8 1/2 x 11" Board of Education, City of New York unknown
191419940China 1914. Very good condition. Oblong 8vo. Folding card stock with printed Christmas greeting in both Chinese and English on inlaid sheet. The original cut stamp post card laid inside the open cut front cover. The stamps form Chinese junk with three sails with two men and mountains in distance. Ribbon tie. 7 1/2 x 5 3/4" unknown
190519942China 1905. Very good condition. Oblong 8vo. Folding card stock with printed Christmas greeting in both Chinese and English on inlaid sheet. The original cut stamp post card laid inside the open cut front cover. The stamps form Chinese junk with three sails with two men and small mountain in distance. Ribbon tie. 7 1/2 x 5 3/4" unknown
190519943China 1905. Very good condition. Oblong 8vo. Folding card stock with printed Christmas greeting in both Chinese and English on inlaid sheet. The original cut stamp full back post card laid inside the open cut front cover. The stamps form a Chinese fisherman standing on his boat pulling in a fish in his net. Ribbon tie. 7 1/2 x 5 3/4" unknown
190519939China 1905. Very good condition. Oblong 8vo. Folding card stock with printed Christmas greeting in both Chinese and English on inlaid sheet. The original cut stamp post card laid inside the open cut front cover. The stamps form people and 2 junks sailing on a water colored water scene with hills in the distance. Post card with space for address only. Ribbon tie. 7 1/2 x 5 3/4" unknown
190519941China 1905. Very good condition. Oblong 8vo. Folding card stock with printed Christmas greeting in both Chinese and English on inlaid sheet. The original cut stamp post card laid inside the open cut front cover. The stamps form Chinese junks with sails with two men and background outline of Hong Kong in distance. Ribbon tie. 7 1/2 x 5 3/4" unknown
1920159291920. Twelve hand-colored cards depicting various Chinese trades and scenes. Not dated 20th century. Watercolors of indeterminate age with captions in English. Cards depict trades such as "Barber" "Knife and Scissor Sharpener" "Yellow Rice Cake Seller" "Dealer in Chicken and Ducks" "Waste Watter Arrier" sic & "Vegetable Vender" sic. Others show scenes or methods of transport including "Chinese Wedding Chair" "Peking Cart" "Transport Outside the Great Wall" "Chinese Donkey" "The harrier" & "Chinese Meal Grinding." These cards were certainly produced by amateur artists to be sold to tourists in China. Manila stock each approximately 3 3/4 x 2 1/4". Clean and fine. unknown
193019840Shanghai 1930. Otherwise very good condition. Broadside advertising the Shanghai silk company with text in Chinese and English illustrated with woodcut of the silk company at the upper right. Chinese silk production for foreign markets had benefited from the near collapse of the European silk industry caused by the silkworm disease pebrine during the 1850s and 1860s; Nanjing Road became the earliest shipping street in Shanghai and over time the premier shopping street in China. Text and border printed in red on thin brown paper. Paper size: 10 1/2" x 16. Original folds cracked on fold lines tears to the left edge with some marginal loss ruffled. Image complete. unknown
1950167221950. Paperback. Very good condition. A collection of nine color illustrations depicting happy Chinese people at work including: a smiling grandmother making a bed; a teacher explaining a sculpted monument to a group of children; workers with machinery; smiling women collecting water; a landscape of terraced agricultural fields; a woman spinning yarn; a group of workers at a forge; happy family in the snow; and a happy family with young girl on bicycle. All captioned in Chinese. In a folding cardboard sleeve. Sml 8vo red title in Chinese characters on front of sleeve. paperback
192418192Worcester Mass 1924. Very good condition. Scarce die cut miniature calendar for 1924 with an embossed chromolithograph illustration of child placing Christmas wreath on door and the year 1924 in gilt. The miniature calendar is complete; the calendar with the word "China" printed below it. The larger illustration of a small Chinese girl in with butterfly patterned jacket white cap and long pigtail. Whitney Made Worcester Mass printed on verso. 3 1/4 x 5" unknown
1933255251933. Very good condition. Adeline writes a newsy letter to "Dear Sister Anna and My Dorothea" from Shanghai commenting on the number of Catholics in China "there are two large convents and several churches." with the bulk of the letter describing Jessfield Park now Zhongshan Park the "Sukiyaki feeds' eating in the Japanese style and how the food is prepared. "I don't know how those B.C. eggs taste. they looked dark and the white looked mottled . I could not bring myself to taste them." She is clearly enjoying herself and asks for more letters from home "You see I'm so full of what I see I can't write fast enough to tell all I want to." <br /> <br /> 4pp on 2 folded sheets 9 x 7" written in ink on both sides short splits at some folds. unknown
1880178551880. Very good condition. A charming color panorama children's magic lantern glass slide showing a series of four scenes of Chinese people in traditional garb in natural settings. From a series of slides for children illustrating different peoples of the world. From left to right the first illustration is of a standing child holding a banner next to a seated gentleman holding a fan; two Chinese men holding Chinese umbrellas and rickshaw driver; Chinese gentleman with pipe and kneeling figure; and an elegant Chinese woman and rickshaw driver. A pagoda and Chinese buildings can be seen in the background with blue sky above. Edges of slide bound with pale blue paper. 11 3/4 x 4" unknown
187323348Hong Kong 1873. Ephemera. Very good condition. A three page manuscript letter dated March 12 1873 from 'Charles' in Hong Kong to his sister 'Anna' in the United States. The letter was sent via San Francisco and the SS Colorado. Charles seems to be a young bachelor making his way in the Orient and he paints a detailed picture of daily events from a Westerners perspective but no real indication of why he is there.<br /> <br /> Charles and Anna were avid letter writers this one "No. 6" for the year. He refers to Anna's letters of Dec. 29 Jan. 5 19 that were just received. He talks of his lack of a Christmas and that most people who live in Hong Kong celebrate by getting "boozy" a sport he did not relish. He "would give more for 1 pound of good tobacco than 1 barrel of the best liquor."<br /> <br /> "For a young man who has not much determination this is the worse sic place in the world. There is nothing for him to do but play billiards & drink." <br /> <br /> He responds to Anna's questions about paper suits which were made in Japan a Joss house and the custom to accept an offer of tea 'you will have one of these little cups 7 saucers handed to you.' that he will send the 'Ivory letters to you for Miss Harrington' and refers to Anna's husband George other family and an acquaintance Wiliam Blanchard a pilot who lived in Shanghai as well as the 'great fire'. "The only thing I can say of the great fire is that it is too bad - but it may improve Boston by having different planned building and streets." The Great Boston fire of 1872 was Boston's largest and one of the most costly fire-related property losses is American history. He ends by sending his love to other family members and a request for a letter from George.<br /> <br /> The SS Colorado was the largest San Francisco-Panama route liner ever to sail the Pacific. She was originally brig-rigged but was altered in San Francisco in 1866 to enter the China service. In 1867 the Pacific Mail founded the first regular steamship service across the Pacific Ocean and the Colorado became the first American liner to carry mail across the Pacific to the Orient which helped pave the way for a rapid expansion of trade between California and the Orient. <br /> <br /> 4 page folded letter on watermarked paper "Hodgkinson & Co" with writing on 3 sides 8 3/8 x 10 1/8" with original fold marks. unknown
184814607Concord NH: Rufus Merrill 1848. Wraps. With illustrations and descriptions of the peoples of the world including ''Chinese Children' and 'Chinese Flower Seller'. The text states "it is from China that we obtain tea silk and fine muslin. . the Chinese Empire is very old." 16mo 24pp b&w ills throughout. Yellow paper wraps with title in black within ornately decorated red border with sewn binding. Covers slt marked slit to base of spine. Internally slt fox spotting couple short tears at page edges o/w very good. HKD1125. Rufus Merrill paperback
185314254Concord NH: Merriam and Merrill 1853. Wraps. Children's primer with wood block illustrations and descriptions of the peoples of the world including 'Chinese Flower Seller' 'People of Siam' 'People of Japan' and 'Hindoo sic Idols'. Verso of title page has an illustration of Chinese children with their toys. and the first story describing China as where 'we obtain tea silk and fine muslin.' 16mo 24pp b&w ills throughout. Yellow decorative and printed paper wraps with title in black within ornately decorated black border with sewn binding. Covers slt dusty and worn. Internally some signs of child's scribbles inside front and rear covers light fox spotting internally split at spine repaired with archival tape o/w good . OCLC: 80291556. Merriam and Merrill paperback
19655527Foreign Languages Press 1965. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good/No dust jacket. Peking: Foreign Languages Press 1965 presumed first edition. Oversized paperback in VG- condition; color fade lower corner of front cover minor edge wear. 9 x 10.25 in. unpaginated. Well-illustrated accounts of climbs on Minya Konka Mustagh Ata Shule Mountain Jolmo Lungma Everest Amne Machin & Shisha Pangma. Foreign Languages Press paperback
181038599Canton Guangzhou workshop 1810. Watercolour and opaque body-colour with ink on thick chinese paper depicitng 1. A Temple Compound and 2. An Imperial Pleasure Garden. Sheet size: 16 1/8 x 22 inches. An exceptional pair of Chinese export watercolours rich in architectural detail exemplifying the pictorial conventions developed to frame China for European eyes.<br/> <br/> A fine pair of large-scale architectural fantasy views produced in a Canton workshop for the export trade at the height of the China Trade period. The compositions exemplify the hybrid artistic language developed for Western patrons by Chinese painters trained in native techniques yet attuned to foreign tastes for picturesque and monumental subjects. The first painting depicts a two-courtyard Buddhist or Taoist temple approached through a three-bay shan-men ceremonial gateway flanked symmetrically by drum and bell towers. A painted screen wall in the inner court displays guardian deities in brilliant red while the gilded Buddha presides from an elevated rear hall. The temples architecture is stylized but evocative of southern Chinese religious compounds. Above the gateway a plaque bears brush-written characters reading "Beautiful Hall of Profound Reverence" a fictive name likely invented by the workshop for decorative effect rather than to identify a specific site. The second painting shows a walled palace complex centered around a multi-tiered pavilion rising from a lotus pond filled with sculptural rocks and pleasure boats. Dragon grottoes stone causeways and ornamental bridges evoke the fantastical terrain of imperial parks such as the Yuanmingyuan rendered here in a compressed stage-set perspective. White elephants bearing crimson banners guard the main gate signaling a courtly or ceremonial setting. While reminiscent of northern gardens the details are compositional inventions rather than topographical records. The palette vermilion malachite green gamboge and carbon black and the use of crisp ink outlines are typical of late 18th-century Canton export workshops. Unlike smaller pith-paper images destined for albums these works were painted on thick laid paper of generous dimensions. Loose drawings such as these were often compiled into custom albums in British India where Chinese watercolours were often combined with Indian and Persian material to appeal to the tastes of British collectors. The Persian-Urdu foliation on the verso indicates their inclusion in such a collection likely assembled in Calcutta or Lucknow in the early 19th century. While drawing upon recognizable architectural forms and cultural symbols the views are best understood as imaginary or composite constructions designed to satisfy European curiosity about China. The temple compound reflects generic southern typologies while the palace garden borrows selectively from northern models such as the Yuanmingyuan. unknown
195014585Hong Kong: s.i. 1950. Very Good. Octagonal collapsible tabletop candle screen composed of white cloth over stiff card stock to which is mounted to each folding panel a 3-D cloth silk and hand-colored paper rendering of the Eight Immortals accompanied by a separate octagonal card paper base. Cloth slightly foxed at extremities perished tape repair visible on the interior but not externally abrasion from removed sticker to base piece significantly affecting the "Made in Hong Kong" rubber-stamp else a Very Good example.<br /> <br /> Attractive example of a popular theme for a tabletop candle screen the Eight Immortals holding the power to banish evil. s.i. unknown
184515596London: T. Ward and Co. Paternoster Row 1845. Hardcover. Very good. With content on China tea South Australia the sea elephant and pearl diving. With a chapter at p67 "Notices of China and the Chinese" with an engraved and illustrated table "Emblems of Trade and Religion in China" stating "Tea first brought to England in 1610. Tea brought to England in 1755 about 4000000 lbs. Tea brought to England in 1844 about 40000000 lbs." A chapter entitled "The First College in South Australia" states "South Australia is a new British colony not ten years old . its population already amounts to 18000 souls" p251. The sea elephant description includes an engraving based on an illustration in Charles Medyett Goodridge's volume of 1820 describing his shipwreck in the South Seas. With a four page article on pearl diving p311. 24mo viii 376pp b&w engravings throughout. Three quarter red leather and marbled boards gilt title at red spine. Covers rubbed esp at marbled boards. Internally child's signature and date 1845 at ffep o/w very good. T. Ward and Co., Paternoster Row hardcover
181519089London: John Murray 1815. First printing. Hardcover. Very good condition. Articles include Dictionnaire Chinois. Pp 56 to 76 in English a Chinese/French/Latin dictionary by M. de Guignes; The Command of Napoleon pp56 - 76; The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa in the year 1805 by Mungo Park; An article on descendants of the Bounty mutineers; 'Journal of a Cruize made to the Pacific Ocean by Captain David Porter in the United States Frigate Essex in the Years 1812 1813 and 1814'; Life of Wellington; Official Accounts of the Battle of Waterloo; and Battle of Waterloo. <br /> <br /> Contemporary owner signature at ffep G. C. Talbot who was private secretary to the Lord Privy Seal. 8vo half calf spine rubbed otherwise very good condition. John Murray hardcover
190515198New York: Cupples and Leon 1905. Twilight Series. Hardcover. Ca. 1905. Charming tale of Aladdin the idle son of a Chinese tailor & the magician and his magic lamp. Sml 8vo 29 pp b&w and 2 color plates. Illustrations by David Brett. Color illustrated boards with title in white on black. Front cover with vertical crease o/w very good. HKD735. Cupples and Leon hardcover
190415534New York: McLoughlin Bros 1904. Very good . Copyright 1894 - 1904. Charming children's volume with fine chromolithographic illustrations of circus acts all with horses and clowns some on stilts and scenes of juggling. Includes verses such as "Dancing Horses" and "The Chinese Juggler" illustrated with a Chinese man standing on a dark horse while spinning baskets on poles above his head. 4to 14pp. Illustrated paper wraps with title in gilt red and blue at front cover no title at spine. Front cover slt rubbed at spine; small inscription at upper right corner. McLoughlin stamp and No. 122 at lower right corner of verso. McLoughlin Bros paperback
1960151101960. Photography. Very good. The Taching Oilfield now called Daqing is the largest oilfield in the Peoples Republic of China and is located between the Songhua river and Nunjiang river in Heilongjiang province; it was discovered in 1959 and is now the fourth most productive oilfield in the world. Ca. 1960 b&w poster size photograph of Wu Chuan-ching wearing helmet & drilling uniform taken at the oilfield. With text in English and Chinese on the verso describing Wu Chuan-ching's dedication: "Wu got wounded three times in protecting the state property and class brothers. After recovery he persists in working together with his mates at the well site". 20 x 15 in. Slt ruffled at corners o/w very good. unknown
