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1878170947Shanghai.: American Presbyterian Mission Press. 1878. Pebbled cloth covered boards with title label pasted down. pp48. Front label chipped with loss to the upper edge some faint age browning to text block but in good order. 21.3 x 12.8cm A Christian-based analysis of Ancestral worship in Chinese Society. <br> <br>Matthew Tyson Yates was a Baptist Christian missionary who served with the American Southern Baptist Mission during the late Qing Dynasty in China. He was also a distributor of Chinese language Christian literature in Shanghai and region from 1847. <br> <br>At the General Conference of the Protestant Missionaries of China held at Shanghai May 10th to 24th 1877 he presented this work which was then published in a revised edition in 1878. There exist images of the Members of the Missionary Conference in two group photographs those engaged in Mission work for over ten years and those engaged in Mission work for under ten years which is reproduced in 'History of Photography in China Western Photographers 1861-1879' by Terry Bennett Quaritch 2010 on page 135 the Reverend Yates is not present but his wife is. . American Presbyterian Mission Press. hardcover
1879068TR1Walden and Stowe; Phillips & Hunt Cincinnati; New York: 1879. 1879 548p. Frontis. Illustrated with numerous full page engravings. Title page ruled in red and printed in red and black. Paper beginning to brown at edges. Some soiling. A few leaves torn without loss. Inner hinges cracked. 8vo. Original full green cloth binding decorated and lettered in gold and black. Binding very worn. Hardbound. The author Isaac W. Wiley was a pastor medical and educational missionary and influential bishop of the former Methodist Episcopal Church. Wiley College founded in 1873 by the Freemen's Aid Society to educate newly freed slaves was named for him. He served as a missionary for some years in China and returned to organize missionary activity in the Far East. This account of his travels makes interesting reading. He visited and describes many places customs sights religions. In China: Shanghai; Peking; Kiukiang; Foochow; Hong Kong; Canton - in Japan: Yokohama; Nagasaki; Tokio Tokyo; among other places. Scarce. PRICE JUST REDUCED! TRAVEL/3 Language: eng. Full Cloth. Hardcover. Good. Walden and Stowe; Phillips & Hunt, Cincinnati; New York: (1879). 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
184454368Paris Imprimerie Royale 1844. Contemp. hcloth. Gilt lettering on frontboard. Stamp on title-page. 232 pp. Some yellowing to title-page. Clean and printed on good paper. Offprint from "Des Annales Maritimes et Coloniales". hardcover
186355297Paris Imprimerie Administrative de Paul Dupont 1863. 8vo. Clothbacked boards. Orig. blue printed frontwrapper pasted on upper board. Stamp on title-page. 28 pp. Offprint/Extrait from "Annales hydrographiques. 1863". On thick paper. Clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>Depot des Cartes et Plans de la Marine. No 359. </em> hardcover
1842170558At sea & China: 1842-48. This ground is under English control though their authority is might makes right An American second mate's illustrated eyewitness account of China in the immediate aftermath of the First Opium War. Sailing east on a Jardine Matheson specie and opium runner he becomes an old China hand and a sharp observer of early colonial Hong Kong and Shanghai coastal trade and maritime life. The opening section consists of diary entries kept during the outward voyage from the United States describing a life of adventure entered almost by accident. "On the 1st of Sept. 1842 being in Boston and out of employ I shipped in the Schr Gazell" p. 1. The Gazelle - an Aberdeen-built schooner illustrated in watercolour at the front of the manuscript - sailed on 19 September 1842 with guns muskets and nine boxes of specie. Some 30 pages trace the passage with detailed daily entries including latitudes and longitudes weather hazards marine life shipboard routines and the rituals of crossing the Equator. After rounding the Cape the vessel encounters American traders off China and reaches Macao on 22 February 1843. The remainder of the manuscript comprises reflective recollections written later in the 1840s. Macao is judged healthy and pleasant but eclipsed after the war by Hong Kong now the hub of British trade. The Gazelle is reassigned to opium running along the coast bringing higher pay and extended travel. The author recalls Hong Kong in 1844: the nightly curfew gunshot the opium fleet at Whampoa and the crowded Pearl River illustrated with pencil sketches of local craft. His view of the Chinese population is unsympathetic though he offers a vivid portrait of "Boston Jack" a wealthy comprador and indispensable intermediary to American ships. Further chapters describe Canton the forts of the Bogue Amoy and its junks and Chusan praised for its industry and abundance. Shanghai emerges as a newly important centre of opium exchange its foreign settlement firmly under British control. The author sketches the harbour notes the thousands of junks and contrasts the city's "civil and obliging" inhabitants with those of Canton. The manuscript breaks off mid-sentence on page 50 leaving the writer's later life unknown but preserving a detailed first-hand record of a China on the threshold of colonial modernity. Octavo notebook 252 x 165 mm. Opening full-page watercolour 12 illustrations and plan in pencil. Original blue linen pink patterned endpapers edges sprinkled blue 49 pages neatly written in black ink 38 unused blanks. Notebook worn and shaken with sewing loose a few closed tears internally touching a few letters only. A very good example. unknown
1895182165Shanghai: Published at the Statistical Department of the Inspectorate General of Customs 1895-1905. I believe the Inspectorate aided by its Medical Officers can do good work A lengthy run of this valuable specialist compendium. Each issue had a circulation of around 500 copies only the majority sent to customs stations and libraries as well as diplomats and naval officers and copies are therefore rare in commerce. The Chinese Maritime Customs Service was founded in 1854 by Britain and other foreign powers to collect taxes on maritime trade for the Chinese government but its remit quickly expanded to include domestic customs administration the postal service waterway and harbour management and scientific research. In 1870 Inspector-General Sir Robert Hart instituted this series information to be provided by the medical officers assigned to customs stations. Issues were issued on a yearly or half-yearly basis sometimes in double numbers. "This network of epidemic monitoring and ecological investigation which was gradually built up by the medical officers and medical missionaries extended throughout East Asia and created a huge medical database" Gao p. 54. 17 works bound in 3 quarto 271 x 220 mm. With plates charts maps and diagrams throughout some folding and a few in colour; occasional text in French. Contemporary blue library cloth spines lettered in gilt top edges sprinkled brown other edges untrimmed original yellow wrappers bound in. Ex-Bodleian Library with its shelf labels on spines pencilled pressmarks and accession and cancellation ink stamps. Bindings lightly worn and rubbed one spine with abrasions to cloth occasional short closed tears internally the odd repair and loss but a very good usable collection. Gao Xi "Discovering Diseases: Research on the Globalization of Medical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century China" in David Luesink William H. Schneider and Zhang Daqing eds China and the Globalization of Biomedicine 2019. hardcover
1899006605Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh Limited 1899. Book. Very Good. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. RARE in the 1899 First Edition. Very Good sticker abrasion bottom front and rear wrappers rubbing and a few small stains to wrappers. From the collection of the Richard M. Dorson Memorial Library Folklore Institute Indiana University its bookplate namestamp half-title page and blindstamp title page and a few interior pages with blindstamp as well. 48 pp. A Lecture delivered at the request of the Senate of University College Liverpool. Edward Harper Parker 1849-1926 was a barrister and noted China scholar and although not a trained linguist his greatest contribution historically may well be his unusual outlook on colloquial Chinese language. Kelly and Walsh, Limited Paperback
1900175232Tokyo. circa1900. Two collotype portraits 25.3 x 19.5 cm and 25.3 x 18.7 cm both on sheets approx 39.2 x 28.7 cm edges of the sheets chipped with tears but the images very good; together with the remains of the original stab sewn back wrapper "Collotype by K. Ogawa. Tokyo Japan" printed at the foot tissue guard with letterpress "Plate IV." and wrapper with an epigram by Sir Samuel Tuke. Striking pair of photographic portraits of Chinese women in costume by Ogawa Kazumasa 1860-1929 a "pivotal figure in Japanese photography.and arguably the most complete Japanese photographer of the Meiji era." see Terry Bennett "Photography in Japan 1853-1912. He refined and popularised the collotype process early recognising its commercial potential. . unknown
1900176895Shanghai: Brewer & Co. c.1900. From the Chefoo Bluff to Lamtong Head Sole edition untraced institutionally the copy of Vice-Admiral Seymour's chief of staff in Tianjin during the Boxer Uprising. This photographic guide is designed for "the navigator of this changeable and frequently foggy locality" preface. We have traced only one other copy which appeared in commerce in 2017. Navigators in the late Qing period could rely on only a small network of lighthouses and fixed navigational aids when sailing the Chinese coast. "In thick weather even a person familiar with the coast is at a loss to identify a well-known Islands with its summit" preface. The thirty views include the Chefoo Bluff in the Pechili Gulf the waters near the Hieshans Light House Zhejiang and Hong Kong's Lamtong Head. A concerted period of lighthouse-building in the 1910s and 1920s obviated the need for further publications of this kind. Provenance: though unmarked as such this copy was owned by Captain Edward Henry Bayly C.B. 1849-1904 Commander of the International Forces at Tianjin in June 1900. Bayly had a lifelong career in the Royal Navy. He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant in September 1873 commander in June 1887 and captain in January 1894 having served overseas in numerous ships. Bayly captained HMS Pelorus during the fleet review for Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee in 1897 and in 1899 became captain of the armoured cruiser HMS Aurora on the China station. During the Boxer Uprising he replaced the wounded John Jellicoe as chief of staff to Seymour was mentioned by Seymour in dispatches and remained at Tianjin until the withdrawal of naval forces. He retired at his own request in February 1904. Landscape octavo. With 30 mounted collotypes within red frames. Original red cloth front cover lettered in gilt white coated endpapers leaves hinged with white linen as issued. A little shaken binding sunned and stained contents well preserved a little toning at fore edges: a very good copy. hardcover
1865219705Shanghae sic & London.: London Mission Press and Trubner & Co. 1865. Two volumes in one: <br>Volume I. ii Title i-x Advertisement Preface 762 pp including Index of Chinese characters pp 1-99 pagination duplicated for pp 224 & 239. <br>Volume II. ii Title 724pp iv List of the Radicals of the Chinese Language. <br> <br>22 x 15 cms contemporary half calf spine gilt between raised bands expertly rebacked mounting the original spine numerous annotations and underlinings in pencil a handful in ink at the head the final blanks with notes and translation age-toned and worn boards rubbed but a good complete copy of the scarce reprint. <br> <br>Provenance: <br>With the early inked signature of "Hugh Wadell Newchwang 1869" the pioneering missionary whose work laid the foundation for the Irish Presbyterian Church's long-term presence in East Asia. In 1869 Waddell 1839–1901 landed at Newchwang now Yingkou where he established a mission station that included a church school and dispensary. His daughter was Helen Waddell poet scholar and theological novelist. <br> <br>Recent signature of A. Allan Shearer Wellington. Scarce reprint of the second part of Morrison's Dictionary first published between 1815 and 1823 with a notable provenance. The 1865 reprint was issued as a single volume combining the second part of the dictionary with an index of characters arranged according to the Kangxi radicals. <br> <br>"The Second Part of Morrison's Dictionary has been generally commended by experienced Sinologues as the most perfect and useful of the whole. The present is merely a reprint of it with such slight modifications as are mentioned at the close of the original preface." Preface <br>Löwendahl 1334 . London Mission Press [and] Trubner & Co. hardcover
1895188172Shanghai: Jiangnan zhizao ju "Jiangnan Arsenal" 1895. Turning China into an economic powerhouse First edition issued by Shanghai's Jiangnan Arsenal as part of the late-Qing "self-strengthening movement" during which a wave of radical commercial scientific and legal changes aimed to rapidly modernize China's economy. The text was overseen by John Fryer 1839-1928 who translated more Western scientific works into Chinese than any other 19th-century sinologist. In 1868 Fryer was recruited by the Jiangnan Arsenal a hotbed of political and military reform to join its dedicated Translation Office. Over the next three decades he produced dozens perhaps even hundreds of publications for the use of trainee officers and scientists. For the present work Fryer co-operated with the Westernized engineer Zhong Tianwei 1840-1900 and drew inspiration from provisions introduced in successive British parliamentary Acts regulating merchant shipping. Sections discuss systems of signal lights how ships can safely pass alongside each other and best practices for pilots and navigators. Quarto 295 x 175 mm ff. 1 38 25. Illustrations in text; text in Chinese. Near-contemporary brown wrappers renewed xianzhuang stitching Recent bookseller's manuscript ticket on rear binder's blank. Wrappers dust-soiled front cover sometime repaired at foot with repurposed piece of printed paper rear cover with a little worming at head extending into margin of last 2 printed leaves: very good. unknown
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
18963932New York ; London : G.P. Putnam's Sons ; The Knickerbocker Press 1896 ©1889. 1896. Hardcover. Fair. 3rd edition ; viii 456 pp. ; 20 cm. ; similar to OCLC: 18708885 ; LC: PS3525.P268 ; red-brown cloth with black and gold lettering and designs ; covers much faded and worn ; shaken ; penciled name on front ep ; "In 1875 when I was in the service o f the Japanese Government at Tokio it chanced that my place of residence was located north of the old Yedo castle grounds while my office lay to the south of them thus rendering it necessary for me to pass twice each day through the centre of tha t vast system of feudal fortification. One stormy day as I was trudging homeward in company with an inveterate pedestrian--a young Englishman who persisted in taking 'constitutional exercise' in all kinds of weather--he suddenly halted at the brid ge that crossed the broad moat before the Sakurada gateway and exclaimed: 'Here is the spot where was enacted the most thrilling episode in modern Japanese history. On a day like this about fourteen years ago the de facto ruler of the Japanese empire was attacked at the head of this bridge in the very midst of his guards by a band of seventeen Mito romins and was ignominously beheaded.'.Being deeply interested in his graphic account of the tragedy I eagerly read up all the narratives. .and came to the conclusion that the affair was worthy to be woven into the warp and aoof of a romance."--preface ; stamps of the Department of the Navy and bookplate of the Crew's Library of the U.S.S. New York at this time a CA-2 class armored cruiser laid down in 1893 seeing action in the Spanish American War renamed the Saratoga in 1911 then the Rochester in 1917 decommissioned in 1937 and scuttled in 1941 to prevent capture by Japanese forces; a second U.S.S. New York BB-37 was commissioned in 1914 and after World War I was sent to the Yangtze River as a part of the American patrols which were featured in McKenna's Sand Pebbles novel decommissioned in 1941 and later sunk in 1948. ; an unusual naval and China Service collectible ; FAIR <br/> <br/> New York ; London : G.P. Putnam's Sons ; The Knickerbocker Press, 1896, ©1889. hardcover
188731477New York Jan. 8 1887. 1887. Very good. - Over 75 words penned on both sides of an 8 inch high by 5 inch wide sheet of A.A. Low's personal 31 Burling Slip buff white stationery with attached blank leaf. In his letter addressed to Mr. Davenport at the Garfield Building which was also one of the buildings which A.A. Low developed in Brooklyn Low mentions the possibility of naming the building located at 186 Remsen Street which would house the Franklin Trust Company after that institution: "I have asked Mr. ____ if it would suit him or it will not to have the edifice called 'The Franklin Building'". Signed "Respectfully yours A.A. Low". Folded for mailing with some minor creases to the left edge. Remnants of paper adhere to the edge of the verso of the blank leaf. Very good. <p>The American entrepreneur businessman and philanthropist Abiel Abbot Low 1811-1893 made his fortune from the China trade. His company A.A. Low & Brothers imported teas porcelain and silks from China and Japan. His firm was originally housed on Fletcher Street in New York City. It moved to new quarters the A.A. Low building which he erected on John street in 1849-50. Once established in New York Low went on to invest in numerous other ventures including the first Atlantic cable and the Nickel Plate Railroad.<p>Among A.A. Low's speculative investments were the Garfield Building as well as financial institutions such as the Dime Savings Bank and the Title Guarantee & Trust Company. Another of his projects the Franklin Building is a seven and a half story Romanesque Revival Building. While most were later replaced by taller skyscrapers The Franklin Building which was completed in 1887 by the architectural firm of the Parfitt Brothers survives as one of the oldest buildings in the district. New York, Jan. 8, 1887. unknown
1866009778London: J. Murray / The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London 1866. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SCARCE pp. 128-156 33 pages with fold-out map - "The City of Peking from a Survey by Capt. Bouvier of the French Engineers 1862" . The map is Near Fine 1" tear at right edge. In original dark blue cloth boards gilt lettering at spine Very Good the boards stained and soiled toning at end papers German bookseller's small ticket and prior owner name front paste down. J. Murray / The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London Hardcover
1888172454London.: Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington. First Edition. 1888. Folding map at the rear xvi 316pp index. Original boards re-backed with cloth new head & tail bands spine and new endpapers. The original black cloth covered boards stamped in red & gilt are faded and marked edges worn and corners bumped. The top edge of the title page has a 1.3cm strip removed but the text is clean and sound. Rough cut page edges are slightly dusty. A firm and clean copy of the first edition. Journal written on the 2 month journey up the Yangtse River from Shanghai to Chung-king. . Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington. hardcover
1898165360London.: Sampson Low Marston. Third revised edition. 1898. Black and white frontispiece with tissue guard numerous illustrations. Coloured folding map at the rear xxiv 316pp index. Original yellow cloth pictorial boards lettered in black Top edge gilt. The half-title has been partially glued to the front pastedown and has a 0.6cm loss to lower edge. The bright yellow cloth is lightly soiled the spine only faintly darkened. Chop to title-page. Text block is clean and sound. A very good copy. 19.5 x 13.5cm. Journal written on the 2 month journey up the Yangtse River from Shanghai to Chung-king. . Sampson Low, Marston. hardcover
1888149204Paris.: Maisonneuve et Charles Leclerc. 1888. 48pp paperback paper on spine torn with subsequent loss to some letters upper wrapper a little chipped. Scarce work on the Chinese language. . Maisonneuve et Charles Leclerc. paperback
1835170206Paris.: Oriental Translation Fund. 1st Edition. 1835. Black and white engraved vignette on the title page. Green stippled cloth covered boards with paper title label lettered in black on the spine. Yellow endpapers with some slight buckling on the front fixed endpaper and a small chip from the lower corner corners bumped and faint age discolouration to edges but a very good firm and clean copy of the first edition. 480pp. 24.5 x 14.5cm. The chapter headings are in traditional Chinese underlining the point of these morality stories that have been taken from Chinese classic literature but the stories and comments are entirely in French. . Oriental Translation Fund. hardcover
1894001928PHILADELPHIA PA: GLOBE BIBLE PUBLISHING CO. 1894 NICE LOOKING TAN RED AND GOLD COVER. SPINE OUTSIDE MISSING FRONT AND BACK COVERS LOOSE. CLEAN AND TIGHT INSIDE WITH HEAVY PAGES.FRONTISPIECE MAP OF CHINA CONTAINS GEOGRAPHICAL POSITIONS ENORMOUS RESOURCES WEALTH EMPERORS AND COURTS GOVERNMENTS AND PEOPLE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS HOW THE PEOPLE OF THE GREAT NATIONS LIVE AND DIE AND MAINTAIN IN ORIENTAL SPLENDOR THE CHINA AND JAPAN OF TODAY. A SKETCH OF COREA AND THE COREANS AND THE CAUSES LEADING TO THE CONFLICT OF 1894.20 CHAPTERS LARGE NUMBER ILLUSTRATIONS.WONDERFUL BOOK HELPING UNDERSTAND THE GREAT NATIONS AND THE CONFLICT.China Chinese officially the People's Republic of China PRC is a country in East Asia. It is the world's second-most populous country with a population exceeding 1.4 billion. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and borders fourteen countries by land tied with Russia as having the most of any country in the world. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN WHERE HISTORY LIVES. GLOBE BIBLE PUBLISHING CO. hardcover
1881169948Peking.: Typographie du Pei-T'ang. 1881. xx 1 133pp. Original blue paper wrappers as published and inserted without the backstrip into a contemporary library binding with linen spine and marbled boards. A cancelled stamp from the University of Cape Town on the front free endpaper. The text block is loosley inserted having come away from the binding. A dedication copy signed on the half-title by the author. Text in French. 24 x 15.5cm. The familiar instructions of Dr. Tchou Pô-Lou treatise on practical ethics published for the first time with two French translations one juxta-linear the other literal accompanied by a literary and philological commentary ad variorum notes and a vocabulary of all the words in the text. Zhu Yongchu 1617-1689. . Typographie du Pei-T'ang. hardcover
19000006171Chicago & London: Open Court Publishing 1900. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavos; xv 326; x 342 v pages black cloth with pictorial designs in yellow. spines a bit scuffed <br/><br/>Huc was a Vincentian missionary to Beijing and later Hei Shui beyond the Great Wall. Then he travelled to Tibet and opened a church at Lhasa. It was a remarkable journey. His considered remarks on Buddhism resulted in this memoir being put on the Index of Banned Books by the Catholic Church. This work exhibits "for the first time a complete representation of countries previously almost unknown to Europeans and indeed considered practically inaccessible . - publisher's Preface." Folding map 50 woodcuts Open Court Publishing hardcover
1886167266London.: S.W. Partridge & Co. 1st Edition. 1886. 3 double-page black & white maps prepared from the author's notes showing Central Canton Northern Canton and Hainan. Black and white frontispiece and 18 text illustrations two plates 511pp. 19 x 13.2cm. A little light foxing text generally clean and sound. Original grey cloth covered boards a little discoloured cloth rubbed at extremities spine dull and a little worn and faint prior owner name dated November 24/ '86 resewn with the original and new endpapers. An attractive pictorial cover. Interesting commentary on the then little known areas to Europeans in Southern China and the island of Hainan. . S.W. Partridge & Co. hardcover
186166<p>Original rubbing for the Stele of Second Opium War Arrow War in China during 1856-1860. Stele erected in 1861 in Canton Guangzhou City in GuangTong Province in China.</p><p>Very big size on a whole thick rice paper 152cm X 98cm The original stone had been demolished long long ago. This rubbing is the only one found in the world. Folded a few wears at edges. Both text and pictures were fine copied and undamaged but had some folds.</p><p>Rubbing is an ancient Chinese method to copy text and pictures on stone or on bronze wares by hand.</p>
