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1822188322Various cities and architects: c.1918-22. Building Republican China An appealing collection highlighting the role of foreign finance and architectural expertise in the modernization of Republican China's major commercial centres. The blueprints show business premises Western-style houses and apartments and a theatre. Seven were issued by the architectural firm of Henry Charrey and Marcel Conversy. Based in Jinan the firm was employed from 1918 by the Belgian-French company Crédit Foncier d'Extrême-Orient which financed and oversaw construction in Beijing Shanghai Tianjin and other cities with a foreign presence. In Jinan Charrey & Conversy were involved in the laying out of a new post office compound and designing Western-style houses. Also present are blueprints for offices for the Danish outfit Andersen Meyer & Co. which arrived in the city in 1916 and a hong for the Asiatic Petroleum Company. A second group relates to the Tianjin civil engineers Brossard Mopin & Co. Founded in 1910 it specialized in buildings made with reinforced concrete. A large plan shows the imposing front face of a proposed building for the Gongxian Arsenal one of China's main manufacturers of weaponry and ammunition. In Tianjin Brossard Mopin also contracted for apartments and a new theatre and clubhouse for the China Theatre Company the floorplans here accompanied by textual overviews of the projects. Accompanying these two groups are a 1919 plan of Tsinghua University Beijing and seven blueprints for houses in a "Peking model residential centre" which was proposed by the city authorities in the early 1920s. This collection belonged to the engineer G. Gregoire who worked for the Crédit Foncier d'Extrême-Orient in partnership with both Charrey & Conversy and Brossard-Mopin & Co. His signature as the lead architect appears in the seven Charrey & Conversy blueprints and his ink stamp is on nearly all of the material suggesting his involvement in the wide range of projects. 21 blueprints 217 x 255 mm to 625 x 1130 mm; 2 project booklets in French each 6 pp. duplicate typescript and typescript cover sheet fixed with 3 butterfly clips. Various ink stamps numbers and annotations on booklets and verso of blueprints. General browning and light creasing couple of short splits plan of Tsinghua University slightly faded and lacking contrast but generally a well-preserved collection. unknown
191237938Ripon CA: S.i. ca.1912-1913. A small archive of photographs and letters relating to the Marine Corps career 1909-1913 of John P. Treder a Polish-born resident of Ripon California. Includes 26 original vintage photographic prints a few commercial but most apparently vernacular of scenes in China and the Philippines; three pieces of printed ephemera and 9 ALS. A few photographs with marginal creasing or tears and light soil; letters folded in original mailing envelopes; overall Very Good. <br /> <br /> In February 1912 a small occupying force of U.S. Marines was sent to Peking to protect American interests during the brief but violent spate of riots that took place there following the Revolution of 1911 and the subsequent abdication of the Dowager Empress. John born Joannes P. Treder a Private in Company "E" of the U.S. 2nd Marines was part of this occupying force; this small but informative collection of commercial and vernacular photographs would have been collected by him during the brief interval of his Chinese service between February and April of 1912. The photographs include views of Peking; garrisons of both American and Chinese troops; and a few amateur snapshots of what we presume to be Treder in the company of friends including a fascinating series of four photographs of a bloody bare-knuckle fistfight between two soldiers. One commercially produced image depicts a pair of decapitated heads with the printed caption "A Pair Who Paid / Peking." Another - probably a vernacular image - shows an alleyway littered with dead bodies the victims lying face-down in the mud at least one with his hands tied behind his back. As the Marine presence in Peking was small about 200 troops and brief about eight weeks these photographs must be among the very few images of the Peking Riots extant in the West. This sets this collection apart from those assembled during the Boxer Rebellion of ten years earlier - a broader conflict which spawned a profusion of sensationalistic commercial images not dissimilar from the ones collected here and for which we mistook these images at first glance.<br /> <br /> Also present here are several photographic views of Manila and Subic Bay in the Philippines the usual home of the 2nd Marines; three pieces of printed ephemera; and a clutch of letters from various members of Treder's family addressed to him after his return stateside in 1913. In the year prior to his mustering out Treder was stationed aboard the Receiving Ship Saratoga at Mare Island in northern California; the family writes from their farm in Ripon situated about midway between Stockton and Modesto in the Central Valley. The letters touch frankly on family matters including the hardships of farm life; their continued attempts to sell out; and some unspecified financial setbacks suffered by Treder's father. According to genealogical websites the Treder family originally from north Poland emigrated to California from Wisconsin some time around the turn of the century. S.i. unknown
19852092902141202010Chinese book office 1985. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 2 Chinese book office paperback
1976373Arkansas County 4-H 1976. Paperback. Good. No dustjacket as issued. Cover has some wear a slight crease in lower right front corner and slight darkening in several areas. Former book owner's name and date in upper right corner of dedication page. Stated first edition. Arkansas County 4-H paperback
1330069943.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
49906284-nnew. unknown
1976038537The Globe International Corporation 1976. Hardcover. Very Good to Near Fine. CLEAN Very Good to Near Fine 1976 hard cover with Very Good to Near Fine dust jacket. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall The Globe International Corporation hardcover
12073ARTS AND CRAFTS OF CHINA. Peking: The All-China Federation of Handicraftsmen's Co-operatives 1959. 4t Cloth dust jacket. 258 plates and text. First edition. With text in Russian French and English. Inner front hinge strengthened du jacket worn. With many plates in color and some folding. unknown
19742090502113715857Not Available 1974. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
19702090502113709369Not Available 1970. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
2090502113714334Not Available N.A. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
19722090502113714902Not Available 1972. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
20022090502113717766Not Available 2002. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
1730171311730. Very good condition. An early copper plate engraved b&w map extending from Egypt and the Middle East to southeast Asia with Australia at the extreme lower right "New Holland" and below that "Incognita". To the northeast is Nova Guinea drawn attached to Carpentaria. A rather crude general map of southeast Asia. Heraldic shields with author and title at the lower left. Desing was a Benedictine monk from Ensdorff & member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. 5 1/4 x 4 1/2" unknown
1918170035New York.: Asia Publishing Co. 1918. Numerous maps and colour and black and white illustrations throughout all issues. Bound together in blue cloth covered boards Andover Newton Theological Library 1931 library label pasted down on the upper paste down. Lacks the original wrappers and the August issue but extremely clean and firm. 29 x 21cm. Very good. The Journal of the American Asiatic Association began in 1898 an American publication with the aim of promoting commerce and cultural exchange between the US and eastern Asia and Oceania. In 1917 Willard Straight who had been involved in promoting American trade and investment in Korea and China since the turn of the century and his wife Dorothy Payne Whitney Straight bought the magazine and renamed it Asia. <br> <br>An editorial in the Journal explained: "The ignorance of our people in regard to the countries of the Far East is unquestionably a serious obstacle to the legitimate extension of American influence." Unsurprisingly racist sentiments are prevalent throughout! <br> <br>The April issues features striking illustrations of Boat-Life in Kashmir from the original lithigraphs of Brunhilde Chesney. Other articles in this bound collection include: Beyond the Great Wall of China - Olive Gilbreath; What Asia Thinks of Missionaries - Tyler Dennett; Can the Filipinos Protect Themselves - Carl Crow; Why Japan's Army will Not Fight in Europe - Adachi Kinnosuke; Japan's Menacing Birth-rate - Walter E. Weyl; Eight page pictorial essays - "Some Men of East Asia: From the Original Water-Colors by Willard Straight; "Gardens of North India: From the Original Lithographs by Brunhilde Chesney; The Kirghiz of the Steppes - E. Nelson Fell; The Coolie Ship - Olive Gilbreath Chinese in France 1918; Emancipating the Women of Asia - Tyler Dennett. . Asia Publishing Co. hardcover
186014456Paris: Ancien Maison Basset 1860. Children's jigsaw puzzle game of Asia. Ca. 1860. 9 .25 x 10.5". Steel engraving period hand color mounted on card. From the Middle East to the Pacific Ocean including Arabie Turquie; Armenie Armenia Georgie Georgia Perse Beloutchistan Tatarie Kirghiz-Kasak Russie Empre. Chinois Indostan Thibet Indochine Empire du Japon. Top margin states "Atlas B. de B pl IV." Very good condition. Ancien Maison Basset unknown
2005Q-0812974417Modern Library 2005-06-14. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Modern Library paperback
A122-10-16-2021-STAZPaperback. New. paperback
95253701Beijing 1980 Science Press. Tan boards very good 174p. 286 color photos 56 maps 2 ep maps pictorial d.j. SUBTITLE: cont. Academy of Sciences. A positively fascinating compilation of paleoanthropological research in China detailing the human fossils & paleolithic stone artifacts discovered in China over a 50-year period. Includes photos and discussion of human and animal fossils stone artifacts bone implements ornaments and traces of the use of fire. The maps show the distribution of major sites of various fossil and artifact findings paintings that depict the life and work of primitive man give the reader a fuller sense of the society and environment of an- cient cultures. unknown
1994N1504Beijing: White Lotus 1994. Paperback. Good/no dj. 1.00. China Environmental Science Press. Atlas of Soil Environmental Background Value in the People's Republic of China The White Lotus paperback
7800892271.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
Q-0835123197China Books & Periodicals. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! China Books & Periodicals hardcover
102096264X.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1920180565China: c.1920s. An attractive handmade gift for the tourist market the delightful papercuts depicting rural scenes and figures. The large example on the first page incorporates the motif "double happiness" within a setting of birds flowers and foliage. Landscape octavo. With 20 handmade papercuts some embellished with colour pieces of textile on 10 leaves glassine guards. Original black brocade boards with black and red embroidered decoration tied with black chord through three holes. Binding smart small mark on read board occasional spotting internally: near-fine. hardcover
1920180564China: c.1920s. An attractive handmade gift for the tourist market the delightful papercuts depicting rural scenes and reproducing the Chinese characters for "luck" and "joy". This example contains 18 pages for inscriptions each with a papercut in the bottom corner. Landscape octavo. With 20 handmade papercuts on 10 leaves glassine guards. Original dark blue brocade with embroidered patterns blue silk xianzhuang stitching Rear cover with couple of marks toning and offsetting internally first glassine with loss at foot: near-fine. unknown
