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1873312749Shanghai: Printed at The "North China Herald" Office 1873. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed from the author to Douglas Jones on first blank. Title-page printed preface and text with holograph manuscript by Jones on the Index and Game Register. Pp. vii 116 Diary & Game Register accomplished in ink 4 pages unused; 1-50. 1 vols. 4to 10-1/8 x 8 inches; 257 x 203 mm. Contemporary full brown roan upper cover titled in gilt. Spine neatly rebacked notes on front endsheets. Quarter black morocco slipcase and cloth chemises. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed from the author to Douglas Jones on first blank. Title-page printed preface and text with holograph manuscript by Jones on the Index and Game Register. Pp. vii 116 Diary & Game Register accomplished in ink 4 pages unused; 1-50. 1 vols. 4to 10-1/8 x 8 inches; 257 x 203 mm. "The immense tracts of country available for purposes of sport and well stocked with game the entire absence of game laws and the friendly disposition of the natives combine to render Keang-soo and the adjoining provinces a very Paradise for sportsmen ." Groom from the Preface. <br/><br/>Early work on hunting in China with a partly printed dairy and "Register of Game Bagged" here accomplished with an extensive and detailed manuscript of expeditions from 1878 to 1892 recounting trips on the Merlin and other boats after deer waterfowl and other game listing participants names of dogs and game bags. The manuscript is followed by the printed text with notes on boats guns and kit "The Medicine Chest" cookery and chapters on various types of game pheasant snipe wild pig and a printed Vocabulary with Chinese/English translations and phonetic transcriptions.<br/><br/>Among the hunting companions of Jones in the 1885 season was Bell-Irving author of Diary of the Ewo Party 1890. Both Jones and Bell-Irving are quoted frequently in Wade's With Boat and Gun in the Yangtze Valley 2nd ed. 1910.<br/><br/>Some interesting ephemera has been preserved including printed Chinese broadside shooting permits for Jones for the years 1884 and 1885 a shooting permit for Hong Kong and the New Territories 1894; fivee sketch maps of Kiang Su Le Yang and Kashing; four small photographs of Hong Kong mounted on the verso of a Victorian photographic portrait of Douglas Jones; a manuscript translations of Chinese verse by one of Jones' companions and four autograph letters on sporting topics or introductions and requests to assist Jones in his up country trips; and a stray sheet of printed letterhead of the Union Insurance Society of Canton Shanghai where Jones was Secretary.<br/><br/>A UNIQUE AND SUBSTANTIAL RECORD OF SPORT IN CHINA. Czech Asia p. 93. Not in OCLC Printed at The "North China Herald" Office unknown books
197916393Beijing: Foreign Languages Press 1979. First English Language Edition. 12mo. Original pictorial card wrappers; 64pp 10 leaves of photographic plates halftones. Covers slightly rubbed with spot of sticker residue at head of front wrapper else Near Fine. Collection of poems produced during the first state-sponsored Tiananmen Incident in April 1976 when hundreds of thousands of Chinese citizens rallied to commemorate the late premier Zhou Enlai and to effect the state-ordained downfall of the Gang of Four. Includes ten leaves 20 pages of photographic illustrations. Foreign Languages Press unknown books
2015158585New York: Del Rey 2015. Octavo decorated wrappers. Advance copy uncorrected proof of the first edition. Twenty-eight stories ten published here for the first time. A fine copy. #158585 Del Rey unknown books
197114367Peking: Foreign Languages Press 1971. First Edition. 12mo 18.5cm. Staple-bound pamphlet. Original printed wrappers; 68pp. Minor wear; Near Fine. Appreciations by various contributors including Hung Cheng Tang Ho others of the revolutionary opera Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy one of the eight "Approved Plays" during China's Cultural Revolution. Foreign Languages Press unknown books
200123143NY: Viking. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2001. Hardcover. 0670892920 . First printing. Remainder mark on bottom edge else fine in a fine dust jacket. . Viking hardcover books
1992168387Beijing: New World Press 1992. 331p. profuse captioned color exhibit photography in 14x10 inch folio boards and dust jacket and decorated cardstock slipcase. A very good copy in every respect. New World Press unknown books
196716838Urumqi XinJiang Uyghur Autonomous Region: Cultural Revolution Committee of Urumqi / Xinjiang Army Divisioni 1967/8. Two extraordinary hand-crafted parade banners ca. 110" x 84" 9 feet x 7 feet one slightly smaller. Each entirely composed of hook-work with colored yarns on white muslin backing. Slight age-toning and soil; a few threads loose but no significant losses; Near Fine condition overall. Folded and stored in original velvet draw-string carrying bags as found. Both banners bear the inscription "Chairman Mao Reviewing the Great Army of the Cultural Revolution" and depict the August 1966 mass rally at Tiananmen Gate where more than 10 million Red Guards from all over China converged to express their solidarity with Mao and his second-in-command Lin Biao. Additional text on the lower banner reads "Long Live Chairman Mao for ten thousand years" and "Sailing in the ocean requires a helmsman" -- both quotes from Lin Biao. The agencies responsible for the banners are identified in lower right of each: "Cultural Revolution Committee of Xinjiang Army Division 1968" upper banner and "Cultural Revolution Committee of Urumqi 1967" lower. <br/><br/>The presence of Biao the figure to the right of Mao holding the Little Red Book in the top banner is of particular interest. Biao compiler of The Quotations of Chairman Mao popularly known as the "Little Red Book" and coiner of the phrase "Maoism" was probably more responsible than any other figure for creating the cult of personality around Mao particularly at the time of the Cultural Revolution. He quickly ascended Party ranks and was widely seen as Mao's obvious successor. But in 1971 Biao was exposed in the process of an apparent coup attempt the details of the event have never been made public. He died in an airplane crash attempting to leave China and from this point forward was officially condemned as a traitor by the Communist Party; any record of his achievements on behalf of the Revolution was expunged from the official record and any positive image of Biao would have been confiscated and destroyed as a matter of course -- suggesting either that these banners left China prior to 1971 or that they remained out of sight until some later date. The second possibility is plausible given whence the banners issued - both were created by Red Guard branches in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region an extremely remote province in China's northwest corner and for many years the center of a militant independence movement for Uyghur and other Turkic minorities. In any case the precise manner in which these banners left China will likely never be known; they surfaced at a New England antiques show in 2011. Cultural Revolution Committee of Urumqi / Xinjiang Army Divisioni unknown books
1930008986Berlin: Verlag der Akademie der Wissenschaften 1930. RARE. Published 1930-32. "On the Medicine of the Uighurs". Text in German.Two volumes bound in contemporary quarter cloth over marbled boards gilt lettering back beige end papers original wrappers bound in at rear. 2 25 2 plates 2 50 pp. 3 plates wrappers. From the collection of noted Inner Asian Studies scholar Denis Sinor 1916-2011 his bookplate front paste down and his signature at each title page. Sinor founded and directed the Asian Studies Research Institute at Indiana University and served as editor of the Journal of Asian History. Near Fine light wear at head of spine. . First Edition. Quarter Cloth. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Verlag der Akademie der Wissenschaften Hardcover books
1916007165New York: A.A. Vantine & Co. Inc. 1916. A RARE catalogue and in lovely condition of the major importer of Oriental goods into America from 1866 to 1921. Very Good Plus in original full color pictorial wrappers 120 pp. plus 2 order pages at rear pre-addressed envelope tipped at page 106. numerous black and white and color photographs throughout small tears at spine ends small spot rear wrapper else Near Fine. In 1916 Vantine's was located at Fifth Avenue and 39th Street. Clothing furniture housewares fabric toys and other merchandise imported from China and Japan are described in the catalogue and merchandise from Vantine's has been avidly collected over the years. Worldcat locates no copies of the 1916 edition. . First Edition. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A.A. Vantine & Co., Inc. Paperback books
2004209112San Francisco: Self-published by the author 2004. Six-panel folded brochure 3.75x8.5 inches China's statement and statistics two color photos very good blue yellow and black on white thin light stock. Imperial Court of SF campaign brochure. Self-published by the author unknown books
2004209111San Francisco: Self-published by the author 2004. Six-panel folded brochure 3.75x8.5 inches China's statement and statistics two color photos very good blue yellow and black on white heavy stock. Imperial Court of SF campaign brochure. Self-published by the author unknown books
1799254690Paris: Chez F. Buisson Imprimeur-Librair rue Hautefeuille no. 20 1799. Seconde édition augmentée d'un Précis de l'Histoire de la Chine par le traducteur et du Voyage en Chine et en tartare de J. C. Huttner traduit de l'allemand par le même Traducteur. Vol.1 : with half-title portrait frontispiece of Macartney clxxxiv 311 pp. Plates 1-6. VOLUME II : half-title 408 pp. Plates 7-13. VOLUME 3 : Half title 414 2 Catalogue "Voyages" de la librairie chez Buisson pp. Plates 14-27. VOLUME 4 : half-title 380 pp. Plates 28-35. VOLUME. 5 : half-title. 350 pp 1 plate 36 and 2 folding maps Plates 37 & 38. 5 vols. 8vo. Nineteenth century brown boards red paper labels some rubbing else Very Good. Seconde édition augmentée d'un Précis de l'Histoire de la Chine par le traducteur et du Voyage en Chine et en tartare de J. C. Huttner traduit de l'allemand par le même Traducteur. Vol.1 : with half-title portrait frontispiece of Macartney clxxxiv 311 pp. Plates 1-6. VOLUME II : half-title 408 pp. Plates 7-13. VOLUME 3 : Half title 414 2 Catalogue "Voyages" de la librairie chez Buisson pp. Plates 14-27. VOLUME 4 : half-title 380 pp. Plates 28-35. VOLUME. 5 : half-title. 350 pp 1 plate 36 and 2 folding maps Plates 37 & 38. 5 vols. 8vo. Cordier Biblioteca Sinica IV 2385 Chez F. Buisson, Imprimeur-Librair, rue Hautefeuille, no. 20 unknown books
197232624Beijing: Wen wu chu ban she 1972. First edition. Paper wrappers. A very good copy. 60 pp. Illus. with 1 color & 29 b/w plates plus numerous in-text figures. 4to. Text in Chinese. Wen wu chu ban she unknown books
197532627Beijing: Wen wu chu ban she 1975. First edition. Paper wrappers. A very good copy with small chip at spine head. 94 pp. Illus. with 1 color & 24 b/w plates 1 folding map plus numerous in-text figures. 4to. Text in Chinese. Table of contents also in English. Wen wu chu ban she unknown books
197232625Beijing: Wen wu chu ban she 1972. First edition. Paper wrappers. A very good copy with tiny tear to spine head. 76 pp. Illus. with 4 color & 27 b/w plates plus numerous in-text figures. 4to. Text in Chinese. Wen wu chu ban she unknown books
197532628Beijing: Wen wu chu ban she 1975. First edition. Paper wrappers. A very good copy with nick to spine. 94 pp. Illus. with 2 color & 31 b/w plates plus numerous in-text figures. 4to. Text in Chinese. Table of contents also in English. Wen wu chu ban she unknown books
197232626Beijing: Wen wu chu ban she 1972. First edition. Paper wrappers. A very good copy with tiny tear to spine head. 66 pp. Illus. with 1 color & 23 b/w plates plus numerous in-text figures. 4to. Text in Chinese. Wen wu chu ban she unknown books
198933267Beijing: Foreign Languages Press 1989. First edition. Cloth. A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket. xx 1126 pp. 4to. Text in Chinese and English. Short biographies of 2185 senior officials in central and local governments the communist party and the army. Foreign Languages Press hardcover books
15382Printed by Highland Park: Internationals Socialists n.d. 49 pages. 5.5" x 8.5" inches. Tables footnotes mildly worn wraps else very good condition. Original wrappers Pamphlet. Argues that the liberation of women in China had become subordinate to the needs of the state and industrialization. unknown books
15383China WOMEN October League Marxist-Leninist. Chicago: October League 1976. 16 pages. 5.5" x 8.5" illustrated with black and white photos of Women's Day marches the woman are all performing tasks at work on the image. Minor soiling good copy in stapled pictorial wraps. unknown books
196323144Peking: Foreign Languages Press 1963. First Thus. Octavo 18.25cm.; original blue and white printed wrappers; 63931pp. A touch dust-soiled textblock uniformly toned else Very Good or better. Collection of seven editorials originally published in Renmin Ribao "People's Daily" and the Hongqi "Red Flag" between December 1962 and March 1963. Foreign Languages Press unknown books
028143Syracuse Nd 1960: The Everson Museum of Art. First Edition. Small Quarto. The Everson Museum of Art hosted the Cermaic Nationals from 1933 to 1993. The major exhibit this year had three stoneware heads by Kenneth John Dirck Ernie Kim's branch bottle which the museum acquired; along with many others nicely photographed in black and white with three in full color. An important catalog of work done in the period 1959-1960. staple bound in pictorial stiff paper wraps lettering black and green. Newr fine. The Everson Museum of Art unknown books
197933317Beijing: Wen wu chu ban she 1979. First edition. Illustrated paper wrappers. A very good copy. 12 7 5 pp. 49 leaves of plates. Illus. with 13 color & 67 b/w plates and one plan folding. 4to. 27 cm. Summer Palace. Text in Chinese. Summary in English with title Yi Ho Yuan. Wen wu chu ban she unknown 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
