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197286272Columbia South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press 1972. First Limited Edition. Octavo. 23.5cm. Unnumbered copy from a limitation of 999. Publisher's black cloth spine over red marbled paper boards titled in gilt and red to spine. 226pp. 1. Very light wear a little scuffing to the spine housed in a matching marbled slipcase; internally clean and fresh from the library of noted translater oand poet Nathaniel Tarn bearing his bookplate; page edges stained red; in a strong clean slipcase with a little light edgewear. A very good copy indeed. <br /> <br /> An academic history of the Uighur Empire and its relations with larger Chinese cultures between the 8th and 9th centuries. University of South Carolina Press unknown
183115103London: Thos. McLean 1831. Very good. Hand colored lithograph by the artist John Doyle. A satirical look at the state of "John Bull" the personification of Britain during an intense period of political reform in Britain. John Bull is dressed in Chinese attire a long striped jacket and enormous gray waistcoat and wearing a pointed black cap sits sprawled in an armchair and addresses Lord Grey. Bull says to Grey "I can't say that my bodily health was ever better or that I ever felt stronger tho' to be sure I am not growing younger; but then every one is telling me how deformed I am grown of late & this tumour which I have had from my infancy is all a Mass of Corruption". Lord Grey responds "" This deformity is quite inconsistent believe me with the nature of your Constitution and therefore must be got rid of . ". Lord Grey was in the process of attempting to push through parliamentary reform at the time and a Reform Act was finally passed in 1832 which increased the male electorate substantially. Grey's colleagues depicted are Althorp Russell Peel and Wellington. With the initials HB at lower left and "HB Sketches 124" at the upper right. 15 1/4 x 11 1/4 in. Slt chipped at corners with short crease at lower right corner o/w very good. Thos. McLean hardcover
193123260Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh 1931. Hardcover. Very good condition. A presentation copy of a scarce volume celebrating the 25th anniversary of a Danish engineering company that brought western technology to the industrial development of 1900s China and secured the exclusive right to represent General Electric in China. <br /> <br /> Andersen Meyer first worked on a joint basis with an American import export firm based in Shanghai named Fearon Daniel & Company to set up an engineering firm in China. In 1907 it won the right to represent G. E. in China and in 1908 secured its first large contract with the Mukden Electric Light Works. <br /> <br /> The firm quickly diversified from the construction and engineering fields to partner with American makers of textile machinery and equipment selling the first cotton mill entirely equipped with American machinery. It also expanded into power plant machinery electrical machinery including Xray equipment plumbing and heating equipment agricultural machinery and drugs and chemicals. Offices were located in Tientsin Peiping Harbin Mukden Hankow Tsingtao Tsinan Hong Kong and Canton. Meyer Andersen represented the major American manufacturers of the day from G. E. American Radiator International Harvester Masonite Parke Davis once America's oldest and largest drug maker Sherwin Williams and more.<br /> <br /> This is a signed presentation copy to a long term business associate who was the principal of a company acquired by Pittsburgh Coal Co. from the founder Vilhelm Meyer and signed below Meyer's frontispiece portrait: "F. L. Robbins with thanks for your long and loyal cooperation. From your old friend Vilhelm Meyer. March 1931".<br /> <br /> The first section is written in English; the second section in Chinese translated and prepared by Kuang Chao Lee with a special title page and separate pagination with Chinese numerals. The volume is impressive for its wide array of b&w photographic illustrations in all the areas in which the company operated including staff portraits showrooms of the various departments interior views of factories including cotton & silk mills power plants lighting of Shanghai buildings railway and locomotive equipment and workshops and bridge construction. There is an unusual double spread photograph of the Bund in Shanghai with 29 numbered buildings and a chart below listing all the heating supplies provided by Andersen Meyer to the prominent landmark buildings all along the waterfront! pp92-93. The many images in a broad range of fields provide a vivid sense of the tremendous impact of western technology on China's industrial growth.<br /> <br /> In 1934 Vilhelm Meyer died and the ownership of the company passed to its main American partner General Electric. In 1949 following the founding of the People's Republic of China many international firms in Shanghai were nationalized including Andersen Meyer. By 1950 it was completely Chinese controlled.<br /> <br /> Large 4to 247pp; 134pp frontispiece b&w photographic illustrations including portraits of staff maps. With the book plate of F. L. Robbins at the front paste down. Dark blue stamped buckram covers title in English at front cover in Chinese at rear cover original titles in yellow somewhat dulled.<br /> <br /> We located four copies at the National Library of Singapore National Library of Australia the University of Hong Kong and Stanford. OCLC: 123199443. Libraries Australia ID 5041194. Kelly and Walsh hardcover
184023526Boston: Dickinson 1840. Good condition. The embossed coated calling card of an American woman in China possibly a medical missionary as the caduceus is embossed at each side of her calling card. There is a vignette within an oval at the bottom of the card showing goods packed in crates at the dock tall-masted sailing ships and a locomotive in the distance. With Mudge's name in elaborate contemporary ink with Chinese characters below. "Dickinson" embossed at lower left corner. 3 3/4 x 2 1/2". Small chip at left edge of card. Dickinson unknown
186915361New York: Harper & Brothers 1869. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. The important work of an American Protestant missionary with much material on missionaries in China: "Missionary Life in China" Different Methods and Agencies Employed in Missionary Work" "Results of Missionary Work" "Character and Experiences of Native Christian and Inquirers" "Roman Catholic Missions in China" and "Influence of the Chinese in California" this is just before the Exclusion Act. Much discussion of missionaries and the Bible. <br /> <br /> Sml 8vo 456pp 8 printed pp of woodblock illustrations along with decorations within text folding map. Stamped blue cloth with gilt title at spine. Covers slt rubbed and marked. Internally sml previous owner name at ffep Moore Butlers Bay. and Contents o/w very good. OCLC: 562019862. Harper & Brothers hardcover
193025446China 1930. Very good overall. An example of student's work from the Oberlin Shansi Memorial Schools an accordion book with the label "Made in China By the students of the Self Help Club of the Oberlin Shansi Memorial Schools J'aiku Shansi China" inside the front board at the back. <br /> <br /> In 1881 the Oberlin Graduate School of Theology decided to form “The Oberlin Band†to do mission work in China’s then remote Shansi Province now romanized as “Shanxi†under the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions ABCFM. In 1900 thirteen of them and many Chinese Christians were killed in the Taiyuan Massacre during the Boxer Uprising. The school continues to this day. <br /> <br /> Accordion book 4 1/4 x 6 3/4" with yellow & red tassel marker and slipcase with yellow & red applied design on the front. A child has illustrated the word "Animal" inside the back page. A rather undeveloped attempt at making a book and case but one must start somewhere. Most likely a fund raising effort. The date of 1930 is a guesstimate which could be wildly incorrect. unknown
1606602014 3/8 x 18 3/8 inches. Fine original hand color; slight split at centerfold fine condition. <br /><br /><p>A brilliant example in rich original hand color of the rare and only English language edition of the earliest printed folio-size western map specifically of China and "the first to show the Great Wall"Nebenzahl. "This map remained the standard type for the interior of China for over sixty years" Tooley. Although 2 pocket-sized English language editions of an abbreviated version of Ortelius' <i>Theatrum</i> entitled <i>Epitome</i> were published previously in 1601 and 1603 with brief texts in English the English text in the present edition runs to 2 large folio pages printed on the back of the map giving an extensive description of China drawn from recent publications of observations by European travelers to the area particularly Jesuits. With its three lushly designed cartouches and many illustrations of indigenous shelters modes of transportation i.e. the famous wind wagons and animals this is one of Ortelius's richest engravings and among his rarest. </p><p>Nebenzahl <i>Mapping the Silk Road and Beyond </i>4.6; van der Krogt 8410:31:051; Tooley <i>Maps and Mapmakers</i> p. 106 pl. 78 p. 108; Walter <i>Japan: A Cartographic Vision</i> 11F p. 186.</p>
1920162221920. Otherwise very good condition. Hand made color post card with charming collage illustration of a Chinese junk made of strips of postage stamps. Not mailed with 'Made in China' at the lower edge verso of card. Verso of card evenly toned. unknown
16217Otherwise very good condition. Color post card with charming illustration of a man leading three camels along a very twisting road with a Chinese walled city in the distance. Not mailed with 'China' at the upper left corner verso of card. Verso of card toned with traces of sticky tape at edges. HK581. unknown
190520259Sydney: The Rose Stereographs 1905. Very good condition. A fascinating large image of the train and the bustle on the platform. Number 6209 with the additional text "this railway extends to Peking and belongs to a European company. Travelling on this line is quite up to date". Text at verso explains "this railway which connects Tientsin with Peking was made use of by the Japanese Government to convey soldiers to the front during the war with Russia in 1904 but the Chinese authorities apparently yielding to outside pressure temporarily closed the line to prevent trouble". Visible in the crowd awaiting departure are commission agents "touts" for the various hotels and Japanese soldiers. Card measures 7 x 4" The Rose Stereographs unknown
189816321London: Royal Geographic Society 1898. Hardcover. Important material on China Central India the Yangtse Chiang Tibet and Mt. Everest including: The Fourth Centenary of Vasco da Gama's Voyage to India by Sir Clements Markham; The Yangtse Chiang by W. R. Charles; Through Tibet to China by Captain H. S. Wellby; Tirah by Colonel T. H. Holdich; The Environs and Native Names of Mount Everest by Major L. A. Waddell. All folding maps present. Three quarter black leather and black boards gilt title to red spine label spine rubbed and chipped front and rear boards loose but holding. Royal Geographic Society hardcover
1930162271930. Very good overall. 26 small photographs of the city of Shanghai in a paper envelope stamped 'Good Luck Book Shop - S'Hai Victory Photo' with Chinese characters. Some of the photographs are titled for example: Broadway Mansions North Station Shanghai; Bubblind sic Well of Shanghai; Post's Head Office; Soochow Creek; The Sun Company; Platforms of Three Companies; Yu Ya China Road; Bund Garden; Garden Bridge; Lungmen Road; Willow Tea House; and Race Course. 3 1/4 x 2 1/4" HK1744. 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
194216725Webster Publishing Company 1942. Paperback. Very good overall. A cooperative project between American Council Institute of Pacific Relations and Webster Publishing. Contents include: China and the Chinese; Old China; A Century of Imperialism; and The New China. Sml 8vo 94pp b&w ills maps. Webster Publishing Company paperback
15065China. Very good. Tea chest label 13 x 14 3/4" black & red printed on tissue with black floral border. Text reads "Overland NH P B No. 3. Extra Choicest New Season's First Crop Gunpowder Tea Direct From China". Mounted on foam core & shrink wrapped very good. HKD850. unknown
188015064Paris 1880. Very good. French meat extract 'Veritable Extrait de Viande Liebig' chromolithographic trading card collection with illustrations of Chinese city scenes and with the meat extract pictured in the lower right corner. Paris not dated ca. 1880 4 x 2 1/2" with advertising copy on the back. Colors bright and fresh; matted very good. unknown
90499Liverpool Jabez Vale n.d. circa 1840. . Broadside 31 x 29.5 cm. approx printed in blue ink with a large pictorial vignette surrounded by an ornamental border.<br /> Rare Liverpool printed broadside. The text consists of a quote from Lord Byron followed by a nineteen-line text praising the city and giving details of its topography and features of interest.<br /><br />Nanking porcelain was a major export item and the city would have been of great interest to people in the West. The blue on white of the broadside presumably reflects the distinctive blue-and-white porcelain itself.<br /> Liverpool, Jabez Vale, n.d. circa 1840. unknown
90916London Harrison and Sons 1857. . First edition; 4to 32 x 20 cm; original printed blue wrappers rebacked with a few small tears to spine light stains to covers corner wear internally a very good copy; viii 228 pp.<br /> Scarce parliamentary paper detailing the diplomatic incidents between 1842 and 1856 that precipitated the Second Opium War.<br /><br />After the first 'unequal treaty' was signed between China and Britain following the First Opium War the British continued to exploit the still illicit opium trade and were often targets of hostility from local Chinese inhabitants. The Qing government already highly insulted by the Treaty of Nanking were repeatedly affronted by British officers who would overstep their authority and diplomatic parameters when seeking justice. A large section of the paper is concerned with the attack on the missionaries of the London Missionary Society Press Walter Medhurst William Muirhead and William Lockhart in 1848. Rutherford Alcock 1809-1897 then consul at Shanghai used the diplomatic incident to push for greater protection of missionaries as well as securing trade access to Nanking and diplomatic access to the Viceroy of the region. <br /><br />Some of the other incidents described are: disturbances at Canton and the burning of factories; persecution of Chinese in British employ at Amoy; attacks on British at Foo-chow; and an affray between Americans and Chinese at Whampoa.<br /> London, Harrison and Sons, 1857. unknown
121050London Ordered by the House of Commons to be Printed 8 July 1830. . First edition; 4to 34 x 22 cm; numerous tables in text some very light occasional spotting; later half-calf to style marbled boards gilt spine in six compartments with gilt black lettering piece all edges marbled a very good copy; xxiii 500 173 pp.<br /> This was the final large-scale inquiry into the East India Company in China before their monopoly was revoked in 1833. Since the revocation of their monopoly in India twenty years prior the Company's trading power had been more and more heavily relying on tea exports through which they were able to control prices. The six sessions of the parliamentary Select Committee between February 15th and June 3rd clearly laid out the inadequacies of the Company supplying the potential trade on offer with China and more importantly the additional costs upon the British consumer through the inefficiencies associated with the Company. After 1833 the East India Company was a purely administrative body whose army was used as part of the British force in the First Opium War.<br /><br />Opium was one of the issues raised early on in the sessions in particular in regards to its legality and whether it therefore laid under the jurisdiction of the Company: 'is not the opium trade in China. entirely an illicit trade'. Part of the reason for revoking the Company's monopoly was that the stance they had to take in regards to opium that it was a prohibited product precluded both themselves and any other private merchants from profiting from a 'trade which is open to the rest of the world'. <br /><br />The rest of the report is largely concerned with the primary export from China: tea. The charts in the appendices helpfully lay clear the extent of the trade showing that on average the Company exported nearly 130000 tonnes of tea to England and America every year and the duties paid by the Company on tea to the Crown alone exceeded £3000000 a year. In large part the inquiry concerned itself with the high prices for the end English consumer resulting from the inefficiencies and protectionist practices inherent in a monopoly. The difference between the cost of tea in America versus England is highlighted with some teas being double the price in England compared to America as well as costs of ship production when compared with both America and the Crown. One of the witnesses states that 'the Company has been always anxious to promote the consumption of tea' knowing they would struggle to provide 'an adequate supply for any increased demand'.<br /><br />Rare in commerce with none at auction in the last 30 years.<br /> [London], Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be Printed, 8 July 1830. hardcover
193663564Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh Ltd. 1936. 8vo. 6 xvi 251 1 pp. Photo frntsp. numerous plates maps tables text illustrations. Yellow-tinted softcovers minor creasing & wear to spine VG copy. First edition of this installment of the famed journal on Chinese history and culture. The list of Royal Asiatic Society Members provides an invaluable reference. Kelly & Walsh, Ltd., paperback
192853915Philadelphia & Toronto: China Inland Mission Feb.-June 1928. Three vols. 4to. 17-31 1; 47-63 1; 81-95 1 pp. Numerous photo illustrations text illustrations maps self-printed softcovers minor creasing edgewear couple leaves w/ corners worn folded still VG set. First editions of these very scarce China Inland Mission periodicals published for supporters and as fundraiser during the 1920s for the noted interdenominational missionary society originally founded by Hudson Taylor in 1865. The 1920s were a period of great unrest famine and ongoing conflicts between various warlords as reflected in these contemporary missionary accounts. The China Inland Mission actively recruited women missionaries who in turn often proselytized to Chinese women to promote Christianity public health measures increased education and more. These issues have a number of letters and first-hand accounts of the ongoing internal battles between the Nationalist forces of Chiang-kai Shek and Mao-tse-tung’s Communists. China Inland Mission, paperback
192653912Philadelphia & Toronto: China Inland Mission Jan.-Oct. 1926. Six vols. 4to. 15 1; 17-31 1; 33-47 1; 65-79 1; 129-143 1; 145-159 1 pp. Numerous photo illustrations text illustrations maps self-printed softcovers minor creasing edgewear couple leaves w/ corners worn folded still VG set. First editions of these very scarce China Inland Mission periodicals published for supporters and as fundraiser during the 1920s for the noted interdenominational missionary society originally founded by Hudson Taylor in 1865. The 1920s were a period of great unrest famine and ongoing conflicts between various warlords as reflected in these contemporary missionary accounts. The China Inland Mission actively recruited women missionaries who in turn often proselytized to Chinese women to promote Christianity public health measures increased education and more. China Inland Mission, paperback
192753914Philadelphia & Toronto: China Inland Mission Feb.-Dec. 1927. Six vols. 4to. 17-51 1; 153-231 1 pp. Numerous photo illustrations text illustrations maps self-printed softcovers minor creasing edgewear couple leaves w/ corners worn folded still VG set. First editions of these very scarce China Inland Mission periodicals published for supporters and as fundraiser during the 1920s for the noted interdenominational missionary society originally founded by Hudson Taylor in 1865. The 1920s were a period of great unrest famine and ongoing conflicts between various warlords as reflected in these contemporary missionary accounts. The China Inland Mission actively recruited women missionaries who in turn often proselytized to Chinese women to promote Christianity public health measures increased education and more. These issues have a number of letters and first-hand accounts of the ongoing internal battles between the Nationalist forces of Chiang-kai Shek and Mao-tse-tung’s Communists. In addition there are a few special mentions that the “Christian†Chinese are the most resistant to the Communists forces. Of special interest are the inclusion and special centerfold supplements of the Young China magazine which was issued for children in the China Inland Mission and young children in China. China Inland Mission, paperback
192553913Philadelphia & Toronto: China Inland Mission May-Dec. 1925. Eight vols. 4to. 65-191 1 each issue paginated continuously pp. Numerous photo illustrations text illustrations maps self-printed softcovers minor creasing edgewear couple leaves w/ corners worn folded still VG set. First editions of these very scarce China Inland Mission periodicals published for supporters and as fundraiser during the 1920s for the noted interdenominational missionary society originally founded by Hudson Taylor in 1865. The 1920s were a period of great unrest famine and ongoing conflicts between various warlords as reflected in these contemporary missionary accounts. The China Inland Mission actively recruited women missionaries who in turn often proselytized to Chinese women to promote Christianity public health measures increased education and more. These issues encompass a range of topics including depredations by Chinese bandits working to keep girl’s schools open expanding the missionary efforts into Tibet and southeast Asia and much more. Of special interest is the article on the persecutions and killings of Chinese Christians who refuse to cultivate opium poppies. China Inland Mission, paperback
193656738Shanghai China: China Journal Printed by The Mercury Press Dec. 1936. Tall 8vo. A32 4 311-354 A33-60 pp. With photo plates 1 colour plate photo text illustrations illustrated ads including index. Colour-illustrated softcovers Art Deco cover art of pink & yellow blossoms on black background lettering in green & black minor soiling minor chipping head & foot of spine minor tear & creasing to lower corner still G copy. First edition of this installment in the storied journal founded by Sowerby 1885-1954 the naturalist and explorer. Of particular interest in this installment is the first published announcement of Ruth Harkness’ d. 1947 as the first person to bring a living Giant Panda out of China a female named Su Lin. Her husband William Harkness zoologist and adventurer had headed an expedition to capture Giant Pandas but died before he even entered the habitat. Ruth traveled into Wenchuang County of Sichuan Province then onto Baoxing County where she discovered the cub less then 2 kilometers from Jiajin Mountain and was later donated to the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago. China Journal, Printed by The Mercury Press, paperback
