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1858180046London.: The Illustrated London News. June 261858. Two half page engravings: 14.8 x 23.5 cm on a single newspaper leaf complete explanatory text neatly sealed marginal tear to a lower corner not affecting the image sheet toned and creased a few marginal spots good condition. Engravings prepared for a Supplement to "The Illustrated London News" following the Battle of Canton during the Second Opium War. <br> <br>From the Estate of the late artist collector historian and scholar Arthur Hacker. . The Illustrated London News. 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
187014615Chicago: The Western News Co 1870. First edition first printing. Paperback book. Very good condition. Harte celebrated satire in anti Chinese feeling which was perverted into a war cry against 'Chinese cheap labor". Very important and scarce this is the original version with original printed envelope. A satiric look at race relations which established Bret Harte's literary reputation. All housed inside a second envelope with the name C.S. Rackemann in ink on cover and in small pencil script at the base '11/9/73 Goodspeeds' the noted Boston Book and Print Seller.<br /> <br /> 9 cartoon series in the original envelope with story by Bret Harte and cartoons by Joseph Hull. Numbered cartoons with text below depict a card game between 2 western miners "Truthful James" and "Bill Nye" and a Chinese "Ah Sin" in which the Chinese is more proficient at cheating at cards and for which he is beaten by a mob. With the line ""Can this be We are ruined by cheap Chinese labor". <br /> <br /> 5 x 7 1/4 in cards in original envelope with ink inscription with a small bookseller's stamp laid in "Burnton's 92 Fourth Av" and with an inscription at the upper right 'Charlie Rackemann from Uncle Ell'. Original envelope dusty with short tears at edges cards themselves clean very good condition. BAL 7248. The Western News Co paperback
1856177303London.: The Illustrated London News. December 271856. Engraving 23.5 x 34.5 cm plus caption from "The Illustrated London News" uncoloured as issued marginal staining and browning paper adhesions at the lower edge small edge tears and a few chips but an uncommon image in good condition. View towards Hong Kong Harbour published in "The Illustrated London News" by Richard Principal Leitch signed by him lower left. A most interesting composition overlooking Government House the formal gardens with a gardener at work the officers’ quarters with officers on parade the town of Victoria and a view across the harbour to Kowloon. <br> <br>From the estate of the late collector and scholar Arthur Hacker. . The Illustrated London News. unknown
1829168689London.: Oriental Translation Fund. 1st thus. 1829. 2 volumes. Volume I: black & white frontispiece "Fac-simile of the Title-Page to Haoukewchuen or the Fortunate Union". A further page with borders decorated and printed in blue announce: Oriental Translation Fund Instituted 1828 under the patronage of His Most Gracious Majesty George the Fourth and states that 'This copy was printed for the Most Noble the Marquess of Anglesey A subscriber to the Oriental Translation Fund.' Some foxing preliminary leaves one gathering loosening. xxiv 258pp and errata. <br> <br>Volume II: Frontispiece map showing "the Route of the Embassy in 1816 from Peking to Tengchang Foo along the Grand Canal" vi 262pp appendix and bound together with 31pp 'Report of the Proceedings of the Second General Meeting of the Subscribers to the Oriental Translation Fund with the Prospectus A list of the Oriental Translation Committee a Report of the Committee and Regulations and a List of Works in the Press. <br> <br>Generally very clean and sound. Contemporary dark green cloth expertly rebacked with the original cases repaired and new endpapers of Bemboka hand-made paper. The original spines have been re-laid together with the original paper title label. A very pleasing copy of a scarce set. 25.5 x 16cm. Hao-ch'iu chuan "The pleasing history" or "The fortunate union" is a Chinese "caizi jiaren" talent and beauty novel published in the 17th Century. The author is known only under the name "Man of the Teaching of Names" The identity of the author and exact date of publishing are not known. According to Philippe Postel author of "Les Traductions Françaises du Haoqiu Zhuan" the most commonly stated date of authorship is 1683 at the beginning of the Qing Dynasty. <br> <br>The translator John Francis Davis was Governor of Hong Kong in the period 1844 - 48. At the beginning of his career he served on Lord Amherst's Mission to China and after spending the best part of his career in the service of the East India Company he succeeded Lord Pottinger as Governor of Hong Kong. A scholarly man he did not fit into this role his knowledge and appreciation of Chinese culture and life being very unpopular with the European community. The frostiness was such that when he finally departed Hong Kong the European community showed their displeasure by not acknowledging his departure in any way. . Oriental Translation Fund. hardcover
1853179541London.: Illustrated London News. November 5.1853. Eight engravings the two largest 12 and 13.5 x 23 cms complete descriptive text running oveleaf on two consecutive newspaper leaves the leaves spotted with a few small edge tears but in very good condition. Detailed coverage of the visit of the British vessel H.M.S. Hermes at the time of the Taiping rebellion by a sailor on board. The lengthy commentary includes excerpts of his diary notes and the engravings are after sketches by him. The two main engravings are of "Nankin Chiefs and insurgents" and "H.M.S. Hermes shelling the heights of Chin-Kiang-Foo". <br> <br>From the Estate of the late collector and scholar Arthur Hacker. . Illustrated London News unknown
1875160133Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press 1875-78. The most important interdenominational missionary journal of the time A collection of four scarce early volumes of this Shanghai-based periodical which served as the expatriate missionary community's premier forum for sinological exchange including contributions on philosophy social history linguistics literature and religion. Early volumes are now seldom encountered in commerce. The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal was first published in 1868 in Fuzhou under the editorship of Stephen Livingstone Baldwin and then Justus Doolittle. In 1874 editorial responsibilities were passed to Alexander Wylie 1815-1887 the agent of the British and Foreign Bible Society in Shanghai with the city's American Presbyterian Mission Press taking over printing and distribution. Issued every two months the journal featured articles by leading missionary-sinologists including Emil Bretschneider Henry Yule Timothy Richard and Samuel Wells Williams. 24 parts in 4 vols octavo 235 x 153. With 4 folding plans and maps 3 woodblock and printed on delicate rice paper illustrations in text. Vol. VIII bound without the index. Contemporary black half sheep A. H. Chen Shantou recently rebacked with original spines laid down red spine labels purple wavy-grain cloth sides. Bindings somewhat worn and faded small piece of leather reglued at head contents generally fresh folding plans with occasional creasing and stub tears. A very good set. Francesca Torocco The Cultural Practices of Modern Chinese Buddhism 2007. hardcover
1896184604Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press 1896. China in your hand First edition rare in commerce commercial records showing only one other copy in the last two decades. The publication was effusively welcomed by the Chinese and religious periodical press for it satisfied long-standing demand for a comprehensive and easily accessible survey. The contents offer textual and statistical descriptions of the state of missionary work in different Chinese provinces and cities alongside articles by Timothy Richard and other missionaries on secret societies and on Buddhism Taoism and Islam. Part II the survey of recent progress is subdivided into the dozens of Western groups proselytizing in the country by century's end. Emphasis is placed on educational and medical work and where applicable the operations of printing presses. Octavo 245 x 160 mm. With 2 large colour folding maps 12 full-page maps printed in black and red 3 folding tables tables in text errata slipped tipped in facing p. 335. Contemporary dark red half roan raised bands spine tooled and lettered in gilt black cloth sides marbled sides. Ex-Central Baptist Theological Seminary Kansas City with bookplates title-page ink stamp and traces of removed record card holders. Binding worn and recently repaired folding map at page 56 now detached from stub and repaired with tissue a few ink marks in printed area other maps well preserved: very good. hardcover
1884174187London.: Hodder & Stoughton. 1st Edition. 1884. Fold-out map and black & white woodcut illustrations throughout. Original gray cloth covered boards decorated in light and dark blue and gilt some marks spine lightly sunned head & tail slightly frayed. Brown endpapers with inner front hinge cracked edges and corners rubbed page edges age toned some light foxing. Yet still a good firm copy.All edges gilt. 312pp. By Annie W. Marston "old Friend The author of "The Children of India" dedicated to 32 English children who asked for a book on Chinese children. Annie Wright Marston daughter of Dr. C. H. Marston of Devizes Wiltshire was a missionary born at Uley Gloucestershire in 1852. There are gritty descriptions of the treatment of baby girls in China and of women in general. The final chapter of the book asks for help to raise money for Chinese Missionary Societies. . Hodder & Stoughton. hardcover
184515596London: T. Ward and Co. Paternoster Row 1845. Hardcover. Very good. With content on China tea South Australia the sea elephant and pearl diving. With a chapter at p67 "Notices of China and the Chinese" with an engraved and illustrated table "Emblems of Trade and Religion in China" stating "Tea first brought to England in 1610. Tea brought to England in 1755 about 4000000 lbs. Tea brought to England in 1844 about 40000000 lbs." A chapter entitled "The First College in South Australia" states "South Australia is a new British colony not ten years old . its population already amounts to 18000 souls" p251. The sea elephant description includes an engraving based on an illustration in Charles Medyett Goodridge's volume of 1820 describing his shipwreck in the South Seas. With a four page article on pearl diving p311. 24mo viii 376pp b&w engravings throughout. Three quarter red leather and marbled boards gilt title at red spine. Covers rubbed esp at marbled boards. Internally child's signature and date 1845 at ffep o/w very good. T. Ward and Co., Paternoster Row hardcover
1891175500Hankow: no stated publisher 1891. Anything more horribly beastly and disgusting than these painted representations it would be impossible to imagine Sole edition of this collection of 32 images used by anti-Christian agitators in central China to whip up anti-foreign sentiment. They "appeal directly to the folk and elite traditions of China's classical past. In vivid colours they depict graphic violence. and show graphically the growing conflict between western missionary views of China and Chinese views of the Western presence" Perdue. The treaties signed at the end of the Opium War authorized western missionaries to proselytise in the Chinese hinterland. During the late 19th century when Chinese agriculture and rural life faced steep decline missionaries became popular scapegoats. "The original causes might be a dispute over land or water rights or an inappropriate marriage or an illicit love affair but the conflict could easily metastasize into large scale violence" Perdue. During the 1891 riots hundreds of Chinese Christians and two western missionaries were killed. The editor the missionary John Griffith based this publication on a pamphlet attributed to the Hunanese official Zhou Han 1842-1911 who used a publishing outfit in Changsha to disseminate a large quantity of anti-foreign literature. Zhou's images employ colour allegory and popular folk custom to "attack religious heterodoxy and sexual deviance with violent rhetoric. They portray the Christians as animals who know nothing of the moral codes that define humanity. The pictures portray the Western missionaries as goats and their Chinese followers as pigs. The play on words linking 'Jesus' as 'master' zhu with 'hog' zhu or 'Westerner' yang with 'goat' yang reduced the Christian believers to a bestial level. The use of the color green indicating 'cuckold' in the characters referring to Christians signified the undermining of the family by the alien believers. In a number of these images the animalistic Christians are brought before a god or magistrate who sits in judgement and offers them as sacrifices by having their throats slit" Purdue. Landscape quarto. With 32 full-page colour woodblocks colour Chinese title page. Original printed wrappers recent purple thread xianzhuang stitching front cover lettered in black rear cover with decoration and Chinese text in red black and green. Housed in custom burgundy quarter morocco box. Contemporary manuscript notation on front cover. Wrappers and edges of leaves creased and bumped rear cover rather worn recent adhesive tape repair to Chinese title page verso of final folded leaf sometime laid down onto rear wrapper illustrations bright stab-holes from original binding visible in gutter: a very good copy of a fragile work. Peter Perdue "The Cause of the Riots in the Yantgse Valley 1891 - Introduction" available online. unknown
1860178252London.: The Illustrated London News. June 231860. Black and white full-page engraving on a newspaper leaf 28 x 40 cm related text on the verso one small marginal edge-tear upper corner creased but the image in very good condition. Fine engraving of the combined Expeditionary Force at its encampment at Tsim Sha Tsui Kowloon nearing the culmination of the Second Opium War.The descriptive text notes on the verso : "The expeditionary force is arriving rapidly; every day troop-ships come into the harbour. Probyn's horse Sikhs to the number of five hundred are encamped on the mainland; Armstrong guns also are there. I never saw anything more picturesque than the camp: the scenery is beautiful." see detail in attached image. <br> <br>From the Estate of the late collector and scholar Arthur Hacker. . The Illustrated London News. unknown
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
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
190025847Nanking 1900. Otherwise very good condition. A b&w photograph of stone warriors and a Chinese man standing behind mountains in the background. Hongwu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang ruled for 30 years and was buried at Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum on the Purple Mountain in the east of Nanjing. <br /> <br /> Zhu Yuanzhang ended the Mongol led Yuan dynasty. He is known for rebuilding a country ravaged by war supporting agriculture reducing taxes and establishing laws protecting the property of peasants.<br /> <br /> 4 x 5 5/6" b&w corners/edges slt. rubbed. unknown
189618069New York: Underwood and Underwood 1896. Very good condition. A crowded street scene near the harbour in Hong Kong with street vendors and coolie workers. Very bright. Stereoscopic photo card on tan card stock curved mounts with printed caption. The image shows a congested street scene with men working with bricks in the foreground many workers in the distance. The number 49 is handwritten above the images. The caption is translated on verso into various languages. Approx. 7x3 1/2". Image copyrighted 1896 to Strohmeyer and Wyman. Underwood and Underwood unknown
1873179980London.: The Illustrated London News. May 241873. Full-page engraving: 23.4 x 31.3 cm image only explanatory text overleaf minor edge wear very good condition. Atmospheric and detailed composition engraved by the firm of Joseph Swain Oxford 1820 - Ealing 1908. Swain was one of the finest wood engravers and interpreters of artists' work of the Victorian era noted for his contributions to "Punch" and wood engravings after designs by some of the most distinguished English artists of the time. He is noted for his swirling lines and tonal effects rendering the modulation of light. See Simon Cooke "A Clever Man: Joseph Swain as an Engraver and Interpreter" online at The Victorian Web. <br> <br>From the Estate of the late collector and scholar Arthur Hacker. . The Illustrated London News unknown
1873179510London.: The Illustrated London News. April 121873. Full-page engraving 23.8 x 31.2 cm plus caption on a single newspaper leaf sheet a little toned marginal spotting the image in very good condition. The Shanghai Paper Hunt Club was founded in December 1863. The Illustrated London News' "Special Artist" William Simpson in his commentary overleaf notes that "The 67th Regiment who were stationed at Shanghai about ten years ago introduced it at this place. The character of the country here as well as the breed of Tartar ponies seem well suited to the sport." Membership of the Club remained the preserve of male expats until the late 1920s when it was opened to Chinese membership. As is suggested in the engraving whilst the prey was paper rather than foxes the sport could still be brutal for both horse and rider. Simpson brings his skill and experience as a war artist to the observation of the hunt. <br> <br>William Simpson 1823-1899 Scottish war artist and correspondent joined the 'Illustrated London News' in the 1860s and covered the Abyssinian campaign 1868 Franco-Prussian war Modoc war 1873 and Second Afghan war. He had previously covered the Crimean war on behalf of publishers and lithographers Colnaghi's. <br> <br>From the Estate of the late collector and scholar Arthur Hacker. . The Illustrated London News. unknown
1840217845London. Circa Late1840s. Steel engraving 10.7 x 16.3cms; 17.4 x 25.3cms including caption marginal toning and a couple of spots not affecting the image a fine dark impression in very good condition. Preserved in a modern window mount. Fine engraving showing Singapore river bustling with three-rigged ships junks and smaller vessels. In the foreground a platoon of British soldiers is shown marching down from what is now Fort Canning watched in the foreground by a trio of local Chinese. The Court House with its twin turrets can be seen in the middle ground lower right. . unknown
1897244711897. Photography. Very good condition. Four real albumen photographs of daily life in Shanghai at the turn of the nineteenth century.<br /> <br /> Images include a well-to-do fashionably attired husband and wife with baby; a grandmother and two children seated on the curb next to a vendor with woven basket of goods; rickshaw and sedan chair carriers in conversation next to their equipment; and two small fishing boats pulled up at the shore with the impressive buildings of the Bund visible in the distance.<br /> <br /> 4 x 3". Two of the prints with "Shanghai 1897" in ink in period hand on verso. Bright clean images in very good condition. unknown
1870178194London.: The Illustrated London News. May 281870. Engraving 23.5 x 34 cm image; 28 x 40.4 cm sheet lower edge a little ragged in very good condition Fine full page engraving of the Great Gorge from "The Illustrated London News". <br> <br>From the estate of the late scholar and collector Arthur Hacker. . The Illustrated London News. unknown
1900174874Xi'an China: c.1900. China's "Christian Rosetta Stone" A rubbing of the most famous document of Chinese Christianity. When rediscovered the Nestorian Stele transformed understanding of the cross-cultural history of Tang dynasty China. "The discovery of this monument is what made Westerners aware of the presence of Christianity in China prior to the mission of the Franciscans in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and those of the Jesuits" Nicolini-Zani p. 117. The Nestorian stele was carved in 781 and stands at almost three metres tall. The Chinese inscription in the calligraphy of a local official Lu Xiuyan describes how Christians arrived at the Tang capital of Xi'an in 635 and with official permission founded churches. The stele also introduces in Chinese and Syriac some of the community's senior clergy and the present state of the Nestorian church. "Erecting a stone monument to describe commend and propagate its teachings was no small undertaking for the Tang Christian community. Putting up stone monuments was an expensive exercise because of the price of the stone and the fee of the expert artisan who engraved the text. The monument itself makes an important statement about the place of Christianity within Tang society" Nicolini-Zani pp. 120-1. In 845 Christianity was banned by Emperor Wuzong and the stele was buried. Rediscovered by Chinese antiquarians around 1625 it brought to light a lost dimension to China's history and translations soon appeared in Jesuit sinological writings including Kircher's China Monumentis 1667 which includes the first printed reproduction of the text. The stone now stands at the Beilin Museum in Xi'an and is listed among the small number of protected antiquities that will never be exhibited abroad. Rubbings from the original are no longer permitted. Provenance: the theologian and sociologist Y. Y. Tsu 1886-1986 also known as Chu Yu-Yu. Born in Shanghai Tsu studied at St John's College Shanghai and at Columbia where he was one of the first Chinese students of sociology to study abroad. In 1912 he became Professor of Sociology at St John's and later served as religious director of the Peking Union Medical College. "In 1940 he was consecrated an Episcopal bishop in Shanghai and was named Assistant Bishop of Hong Kong and Bishop of Kunming where he began his Burma Road work. Bishop Tsu was known. as the 'Bishop of the Burma Road' because of his efforts to befriend Allied troops traveling the international highway that ran through his district" obituary in New York Times. In 1931 Tsu held a visiting lectureship at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley California. This rubbing was gifted to the institution by Tsu and displayed there during the 1930s. It is regularly mentioned as a point of interest in contemporary tourist guides to the state. Rubbing from stone on multiple paper sheets arranged soon after execution to form 120 x 320 mm curved headpiece 100 x 588 mm title and 1825 x 870 text body mounted on four long pieces of paper joined to form area of 2338 x 958 mm edges of mount reinforced with old decorative white paper. Rubbing generally sharp and legible a few surface blemishes sectional joins expertly reinforced in places on verso: a very good example of an imposing piece. Matteo Nicolini-Zani The Luminous Way to the East: Texts and History of the First Encounter of Christianity with China 2022. unknown
18041100731804. First Edition. CHINA MASON Major George Henry MILLER William publisher. The Punishments of China Illustrated by Twenty-two Engravings. London: William Miller 1804 i.e. circa 1819. Folio 10-1/2 by 14-1/2 inches contemporary full straight-grain burgundy morocco elaborately gilt-decorated spine all edges gilt. $3200.Later edition of this survey of the punishments of China illustrated with 22 folio engravings each finely hand-colored. A handsome copy in contemporary morocco-gilt.This collection depicts a variety of Chinese punishments for assorted crimes as well as appearing before a magistrate being conveyed to prison and being conducted to trial. This volume originally formed part of publisher William Miller's six-volume series on costume each volume separately issued: The Punishments of China 1801 The Costume of Turkey 1802 The Costume of Russia 1803 The Costume of China 1804 The Costume of Austria 1804 and The Costume of Great Britain 1804. This is a later reprint as is shown by the watermarks text leaves watermarked 1818; plates 1819 of the 1804 edition text printed by Wilson rather than Bulmer. ""The first edition was apparently in 1801"" Abbeyhe had this circa-1819 reprint in his collection. Another edition appeared in 1808. Text in English and French. Abbey Travel 532. Colas 2010-12. Prideaux 317. Lipperheide 1522 1808 edition. Plates clean and fine hand-coloring vivid. Attractive contemporary morocco-gilt binding with expert repairs to joints and corners. An excellent copy. Scarce. unknown
182115385London 1821. Very good. Aquatint from Ackermann's Repository of Arts illustrated British periodical published from 1809-1829. Pl 21 Vol XI. Charming engraving of Chinese Tea Industries workers fashioning sheets of lead to line tea chests. 5 3/8 x 3 1/2" unknown
1879VBF09CHINA<br /><br /><i><b>PANORAMA OF PEKING</b> during the Celebrations of the Sixtieth Anniversary of the Emperor Kang-He's birthday</i>.<br /><br />Shanghai: Tien-Shin-Chai 1879.<br /><br />Profusely illustrated throughout with 292 pages lithographed with images mostly captioned below in English script and on the side<br /><br />Small 8vo measures: 6 1/8 x 3 3/4 inches 155 x 96 mm original gilt pictorial purple silk wrappers front cover dulled.<br /><br />First edition thus.<br /><br />With 6 page Introduction in English explaining that the festivities being described date back to the western calendar year 1721. Six pages of text as introduction in English at the front and in Chinese at the back.<br /><br /><br /> Tien-Shin-Chai, paperback
