Worswick Clark, Spence Jonathan:Livre Rare Book
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197915164London, Scolar Press, 1979. In-4 à l'italienne, cartonnage noir sous jaquette photographique. Infimes défauts à la jaquette, pour le reste en belle condition.
1915176119Qingdao: Mifune Shashinkan 1915. Second edition first printing of this album of photographs of Qingdao in the First World War. It contains many shots from the only major land battle of the war to take place in China including of heavy weaponry soldiers on the march encampments and local infrastructure. As part of the succession of unequal treaties imposed upon the Qing Dynasty in the late 19th century the German Empire leased Jiaozhou Bay in 1898 and used it to build the city of Qingdao. This became its primary naval base in the region and therefore a major target in the First World War. Under the terms of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance of 1902 Britain requested help from the Japanese Empire to dislodge the German forces. The Imperial Japanese Navy proceeded to blockade the port and land their troops putting it under siege in September 1914. The garrison held out for two months but was overwhelmed. This was the only major land battle in the Asian theatre of the First World War the second air-sea battle in world history and the second time that the Japanese had defeated a major Western power. This volume is a collection of photographs taken during the preparation fighting and aftermath of this battle. The photographer was Mifune Shuko who "accompanied the soldiers through thick and thin running through a rain of bullets facing rain and wind hunger and frost putting his body on the line to photograph the war" p. ii. The volume opens with a colour photograph of Lingyan Temple near the city of Tai'an followed by hundreds of black and white photographs showing not just the battle itself but also the city of Qingdao and its people. This second edition was released 10 days after the first edition on 25 April 1915. Octavo. With 121 pages of half-tone photographs one colour photograph of Lingyan Temple; text in Japanese and English. Single page of publisher's advertisements to rear. Original black ribbed cloth boards light green thread binding spine ends capped in purple cloth blind vertical rule to both boards front board lettered in gilt. Signature to title of "Hermann Walter 1. Nov. 1914". Boards worn a few tidemarks gilt tarnished title page with one chip to top left corner and one closed tear repaired with tape light offsetting plates bright: a very good copy. hardcover
2000x-1852332964Springer Verlag 2000. Paperback. New. 998 pages. 9.00x5.75x2.00 inches. Springer Verlag paperback
1996512881 vol. 4to. softcover, black & white maps and graphics, Word Wide Fund for Nature International - WWF, Hong Kong 1996, 529 pp. Text in English
1 vol. 4to. softcover, black & white maps and graphics, Word Wide Fund for Nature International - WWF, Hong Kong 1996, 529 pp. Text in English Very nice copy. Scarce, nowadays. Anglais
194758838ABShanghai, Statistical Department of the Inspectorate General of Customs, 1947. 4to. XXVIII, 245pp. With 85 plates, maps and plans and 17 textillustrations. Orig. green cloth. (China. The Maritime Customs. II. Miscellaneous Series: No. 53).
10569Hong Kong, Vetch & Lee, 1970. 1 volume in-4, 90 pages, hard cover in blue cloth, picturial dust-jacket, slightly rubbed at edges, some edge tears and creases, a small chunkout of lower spine end, internally very good. A nice and clean copy, illustrated with 37 of the author's original drawings.
191318723London, Routledge, (1913). XX (Inserate), 781 SS. 1 Porträt, eine Faltkarte, eine ausfaltbare Tabelle. 8°, Orig.-gelbe Leinwand, ohne den Schutzumschlag.
193613352Shanghai, North-China Daily News, 1936. XXIV, 511 Seiten. Gr.-8°. Original Leinwand.
19256045277Tientsin, Tientsin Press 1925. 8°. XXXIII, 1253 pp, mit Faltkarte China (Eisenbahnnetz). Original Leinwand. Stempel verso. Kleine Schattierung vom Signaturschildchen auf Rücken.
1936WIRT0087Shanghai, North China Daily News & Herald 1936. XXIV, 510 S., OLn. mit OUmschl., sehr gut erhalten.
1925168389London.: Hurst and Blackett. circa1925. Portrait frontispiece 287pp appendix first and last leaves are faintly foxed neat written name of a prior owner on the half-title spine a little sunned but a firm and tight copy. "In the following pages an attempt is made to reveal the facts regarding the more important issues which have arisen between China and the Treaty Powers as a result of the recent disturbances in that country. It seems to be the fashion nowadays in some circles to regard every claim made or right exercised by the foreign Powers in China as "imperialistic" or unreasonable. It does not seem to be generally understood that the so-called "unequal Treaties" constituted the only means at the time at which they were imposed of securing for foreign residents in China reasonable security for their persons their property and their trade. . . . This work was written with no feeling of hostility towards the Chinese among whom the writer is proud to number many close friends. He believes that it is essential that the truth about the more important of China's international problems should be widely known and that no real service would be done to China by ignoring stubborn and irrefutable facts when the question of treaty-revision is seriously taken up. The labour expended upon writing this volume during a brief furlough will be amply rewarded if it contributes to the discussion of China's problems on a basis of reality. It is easy enough for the arm-chair critic or the sentimentalist at home to urge the scrapping of existing Treaties and the relinquishment of the privileges certain foreigners at present enjoy. These people would probably take a very different view if they had lived for any length of time in China and acquired a first-hand knowledge of the actual situation in that country. And I cannot believe that they are doing any real service to China or to their own countrymen by creating the impression that the British and American publics have completely succumbed to Chinese nationalist and Bolshevik propaganda." From the preface. . Hurst and Blackett. unknown
9464Tientsin, Printed, Published and Bound in China by The Tientsin Press, Limited, 1924. 1 thick volume 8vo, original cloth binding, xxxvii-1241 pp., with many advertisements, a very good copy. With a frontispice of His Excellency Li Yuan-Hung, President of the Re[ublic of China.
9465Tientsin, Printed, Published and Bound in China by The Tientsin Press, Limited, 1925. 1 thick volume 8vo, original cloth binding, xxxiii-1254 pp., with many advertisements, a folding map of China, with Railways, a very good copy.
10999Pékin, Albert Nachbaur Editeur, 16 Kan Yu Hutung, 1929. 1 volume in-8 carré, 96-29 pp., reliure moderne plein cuir rouge, couvertures imprimées conservées, cachet de la Chambre de Commerce Française de Chine, feuillets doubles à la chinoise, très bon état. Rare publication juridique d'Albert Nachbaur, journaliste, auteur, éditeur et libraire à Pékin.
11000Pékin, Albert Nachbaur Editeur, 16 Kan Yu Hutung, 1929. 1 volume in-8 carré, 96-29 pp., reliure moderne plein cuir rouge, couvertures imprimées conservées, pages de titre et d'avant propos abîmés, restaurées avec du ruban adhésif, feuillets doubles à la chinoise jaunis et friables, état satisfaisant. Rebound in modern leather, original covers kept, but the 2 first pages have been restaured with scotch, paper yellowed, fragile and sometimes brittle. Sold in described condition. Rare publication juridique d'Albert Nachbaur, journaliste, auteur, éditeur et libraire à Pékin.
4459Tientsin, Printed, Published and Bound in China by The Tientsin Press, Limited, 1928. 1 thick volume 8vo, rebound in modern blue leather, XI-xxvii-14464 pp., with many advertisements, a very good copy.
4458Tientsin, Printed, Published and Bound in China by The Tientsin Press, Limited, 1927. 1 thick volume 8vo, rebound in modern blue leather, XI-xxix-1334 pp., with many advertisements, a folding map of Railway of Manchuria, a very good copy.
1st edition. 8vo, 222 pages, illustrated. Nr fine condition hardback in very good condition dust jacket. 40790. eng
200033718Frankfurt am Main Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verl., 2000. 524 S. 19 cm, Broschiert ,
8vo, br. ed, Paperback. The first treaty ports in China were opened in 1843. Here, for nearly a century, foreign traders ruled their own settlements, administered their own laws, controlled their own police forces and ran the customs service. Despite typhoons, disease, banditry and riots, merchants and missionary families in the treaty ports led as far as possible a foreign life. In 1943 the treaty ports were returned to China and most of their inhabitants interned by the Japanese. Yet the record of their residency remains in Shanghai's solid office buildings, in Tientsin's mock Tudor facades, and in the Edwardian villas of Peitaiho and Amoy. The last inhabitants of the treaty ports are also still alive: through their reminiscences and the accounts of their predecessors Frances Wood recalls a foreign life lived in a foreign land. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
World War I came at an inopportune time for China. The country had joined a number of international organizations and ratified the Hague Conventions, but found its diplomatic efforts hampered by its young, inexperienced leadership, its factional regional divisions, and its foreign-controlled treaty ports and concessions. Unfortunately for the Chinese, representatives of combatant nations navigated a diplomatic tightrope between carrying out their patriotic duty to support war efforts and making sure their "hosts", the Chinese, did not take advantage of the turbulence to upset the colonial pecking order.
8vo, hardcover cloth in dj.,
8vo, hardcover in dj, 283pp., b/w. illus. For centuries, Western writers, historians, and intellectuals have been fascinated by China. In this remarkable book, Frances Wood shows how China influenced literature, memoir, and travel writing from vague Roman tales of silent silk merchants and medieval travelers such as Marco Polo, to Jesuit explorers, French poets, the Bloomsbury Group, and eyewitness accounts of war by Martha Gellhorn, Christopher Isherwood, and J.G. Ballard. What emerges is a fascinating portrait of the role of China in Western literature and culture. Frances Wood is the best-selling author of Did Marco Polo Go to China?, The Silk Road, The Forbidden City, and The First Emperor. About the Author: Frances Wood is the author of "Did Marco Polo go to China"; "The Silk Road"; "The Forbidden City"; and "The First Emperor." She is Curator of the Chinese collections in the British Library.
13028Fontenay-aux-Roses, Sine Sing (Grand Hebdomadaire Chinois) ,1928. 1 volume in-8 125 pp. reliure moderne plein cuir bordeaux,page de faux-titre insolée, bon état général.
