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1900454561900. Selten Karte mit geringen Gebr.spuren, gelaufen, beschrieben, sonst gut
18080587-15Wien, A. Doll 1808. Orig.-Kupferstich v. Blaschke aus "Schütz, Allgemeine Erdkunde..." ca. 8, 5 x 15 cm. (Bildausschn.); 11, 5 x 19 cm. (Blattgr.).
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
1866027042Nördlingen., Verlag der C. H. Beck'schen Buchhandlung., 1866. 168S. "Diese Vorträge sind vorerst während des Winters 1864/65 in dem Museum zu Carlsruhe in freier Rede gehalten und nachher für den Druck ausgearbeitet worden". Aus dem Inhalt: Die Brahmidee und die Entstehung der indischen Kastenordnung. Brahmanismus und Buddhismus. Der mosaische Gott und der jüdische Staat. Kong-fu-tsu und der chinesische Staat. ; Zustand: Halblederband, die Einbandkanten sind leicht berieben, Vorsätze am oberen und unteren Innengelenk mit Abklatschflecken (verursacht durch die Bindung). 8°. Halbleder.
18581504161858. In der Platte betitelt und bezeichnet "E. Bendemann inv. / H. Bürkner sc.". Druck auf aufgewalztem China. 22,7 x 19,7 cm (Darstellung). Blattgröße: 40 x 29,5 cm.
1898178920China Japan and at sea: 1898-99; 1911-13. The "scramble for China" An important visual record of Germany's empire-building in China and naval life in East Asia before the First World War including early views of Qingdao. It was assembled by Hermann Mörsberger a future rear-admiral who served at Kiautschou Bay during the 1897-8 crisis and commanded the East Asia Squadron's SMS Nürnberg between 1911 and 1913. The murder of two missionaries in Shandong in 1897 offered Germany an excuse to deploy troops to Kiautschou Bay and press its case for a concessionary area - and strategically positioned port - on Chinese soil. Attached to the Matrosenartillerie-Detachement Kiautschou as a leutnant zur see Mörsberger 1872-1940 shipped out to China in late 1897 on the screw steamer Darmstadt. The ship's arrival off Qingdao in January 1898 and the rapid deployment of its marines confirmed Germany's de facto control of the territory and left the Qing government with little option but to grant a concession. The first album opens with a photograph of Darmstadt and superb photographs of the cruiser SMS Kaiserin Augusta - ordered to China to brandish its dozen guns - and other powerhouses of the squadron including Cormoran Irene and Prinzess Wilhelm. Images show the parade on 27 January 1898 to welcome the future governor Rear-Admiral Ernst Otto von Diederichs 1843-1918 and Qingdao's artillery dump and yamen. Missionaries were hot on the navy's heels the album containing a group portrait of Joseph Freinademetz and other visiting Catholic missionaries in February 1898 as well as several pieces of red paper with their Chinese and Western signatures. After the legal takeover of the concession Mörsberger transferred to Kaiserin Augusta visiting Shanghai Hong Kong and Tokyo. More standard tourist views of Shanghai including a nicely composed image of a junk moored in the river are arranged alongside photographs of the unveiling of the city's ltis Monument on 21 November 1898. In a more relaxed moment Mörsberger poses playfully with other junior officers. German power did not take long to bed in. Within a decade and a half Mörsberger - now a fregattenkapitän - returned to Qingdao with Nürnberg a Königsberg-class light cruiser and the squadron's newest member. A panorama shows the armoured cruiser SMS Scharnhorst the flagship of squadron commander Count Maximilian von Spee docked in newly built facilities the recently christened Prince Heinrich Hill in the background. Nürnberg moves between ports as part of its Yangtze patrol duties Mörsberger obtaining panoramas taken from the river of Shanghai Zhenjiang Jiujiang Nanjing and Hankou as well as shots of other squadron vessels. Alongside official events including the welcoming of official dignitaries and the parade to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Kaiser's coronation there is time for tourism parties and an international rowing contest. Four unusual photographs capture the illuminated buildings of Shanghai at night. A small proportion of material concerns Japan Thailand Honolulu and Mexico. Many of the professionally executed photographs concerning China were clearly circulated only within the German military and in small numbers. 2 albums landscape folio. With 195 mounted albumen platinum and gelatin silver photographs including 31 large portraits and views c. 145 x 205 to 205 x 280 mm 26 panoramas c. 90 x 290 to 110 x 340 mm and 138 small photographs c. 55 x 80 to 145 x 210 mm. Together with other laid-down material: 17 items of printed ephemera documents menus etc. 14 ms. items some in Chinese ms. map watercolour 110 x 140 mm. With 4 ms. maps printed map photographic panorama and printed passport loosely inserted. Neat German captions. First album: original black half sheep green cloth sides decorative linings card leaves hinged with black cloth. Second album: original green cloth lettered "S.M.S. Nürnberg" in gilt on front cover decorative linings black cloth rear pocket card leaves hinged with black cloth. Material well preserved occasional offsetting fading and yellowing to some photographs but detail still readily discernible one photograph splitting along old horizontal fold binding of first album worn second sunned and with a few abrasions: very good. hardcover
188115127Gotha, Perthes 1881. Kolorierte, gefaltete, lithographische Karte aus Petermann´s Mittheilungen aus Justus Perthes´ Geographischer Anstalt. Bd. 27, 1881. Größe ca. 26 x 50 cm. Lediglich im Rand stellenweise gering stockfl.
18791832ABNew York, Harper, 1879. 421 S., viele Holzschn. Ln, Titelbl. geklebt, guter Zust.
188064107New York: Harper & Brothers 1880. Tall 8vo. 421 1 pp. plus 2 pp. publ. ads. Colour chromolithograph frontisp. reproducing a Japanese Ukiyo-e woodcut swimming scene over 300 text engravings & woodcut engraved plates most with tissue guards. Pictorial red publisher’s cloth illustrated & decorated in black silver gilt & red illustrated gray clay-sized endpapers minor rubbing dustsoiling slight rubbing to lower fore-edge front cover still VG bright copy. First edition of this title in the Boy Travellers series. Of particular interest are the historically accurate descriptions of social customs history and travel details including overland trip to California participating in a whaling voyage climbing Mt. Fuji studying the culture and habits of Japanese women before trekking onto China. After surviving a Typhoon the pair experience the Tai-Ping Rebellion and travel to Shanghai Peking the Great Wall of China Hong Kong Canton and beyond. Knox 1835-1896 famed Civil War correspondent for the New York Herald later worked for the Russo-American Telegraph Company which inspired his Boy Travellers series featuring an industrialist father and two sons traveling the world. Harper & Brothers, hardcover
188342427ABLondon, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1883. XXX, 420; XVI, 408pp. With 3 maps, 30 facsimiles of native drawings and 300 illustrations. Later dark-blue half cloth with gilt-stamped label to spine.
1861120118Basel, Verlag des Missionshauses 1861. * Mit 5 lithographischen Tafel, 3 Textabbildungen, 1 Doppelseite mit Schriftzeichen und 3 Notenbeispielen. IV Seiten, 1 Blatt, 210 Seiten. 21 x 14,5 cm. Einfacher Halbleinenband der Zeit (stärker berieben und beschabt, Innengelenke angeplatzt). [5 Warenabbildungen]
1803ST15927London: Cadell and Davies 1803. ONE OF 60 LARGE PAPER COPIES of the "considerably enlarged" Fourth Edition ours a variant retaining the date of 1803 on the title-page rather than 1804. 330 x 252 mm. 13 x 9 7/8". xviii 4 xix 1 380 pp. Two leaves usually bound at the end and containing the "List of Principle Books Referred to in this Work" and "Works by the same Author" bound between pp. xvii and xix here. <br/> VERY FINE CONTEMPORARY SPRINKLED CALF raised bands flanked by plain and decorative gilt rules and chain roll spine panels with star centerpiece red morocco label marbled endpapers. With six engravings: five maps two folding and one view. A Large Paper Copy. Front pastedown with engraved armorial bookplate of Marcus Gage; title page with ink inscription at head: "M. Gage's Book got from Mr. Asperne London April 15th 1805." Lada-Mocarski 29 note; Howes C-834; Sabin 17309; Streeter VI 3501; Cordier Bibliotheca Sinica pp. 2447-48. ◆Small chip to tail of spine corners a bit rubbed flyleaves somewhat foxed the usual minor foxing to plates and a bit of offsetting to adjacent pages otherwise A VERY FINE COPY OF AN ESPECIALLY DESIRABLE EDITION clean and fresh internally with vast margins and the binding firm lustrous and with only very minor wear to the joints.<br/> <br/> This is an extremely well-preserved copy in an elegant contemporary binding of the most sought-after edition of a key source on Russian exploration and that country's efforts to expand trade with China and Alaska. Eminent historian William Coxe 1747-1828 studied the voyages and exploration by Bering and others to the regions of Kamchatka the Aleutian Islands and Siberia to prepare this overview of the geography and cultures of the lands between Russia and North America and to analyze the economic potential of trade--particularly in furs--with the region. According to Sabin "Mr. Coxe's book contains many curious and important facts with respect to the various attempts of the Russians to open a communication to the New World." The 1780 first edition of this work covered Russian voyages of discovery between 1740 and 1769; the 1787 third edition added a supplement comparing these explorations to those of Captains Cook and Clerke. Our much-expanded fourth edition gives in the words of the Preface "a complete series of voyages from 1711 to 1792 comprising all that is known on the subject." Some of this supplementary information was gleaned from earlier accounts by German historians G. F. Muller and P. S. Pallas and some from Coxe's own travels in Russia. According to Lada-Mocarski Coxe "also succeeded in securing additional material: for instance the narrative and maps of Krenitzin and Levashev's 'secret' expedition the first official Russian government expedition since Bering's 2nd expedition of 1741. He was able to secure this particular information not widely known at the time even in Russia from Dr. Wm. Robertson who in turn obtained it through his friend Dr. Rogerson first physician to the Empress Catherine II. . . . In view of the above additions one should consider the fourth edition of 1803 as the most desirable." He concludes: "Coxe's work particularly the fourth edition is a result of contemporary and authoritative sources translated into English not to be overlooked by scholars and collectors alike." There are also distinct aesthetic advantages to the present Large Paper version over the octavo printing. Not only is the type beautifully re-set and laid out as well as surrounded by vast margins but as Streeter notes there are two charts here that are not included in the octavo issue of 1803. The original owner of this volume Marcus Gage is known to have assembled a substantial library of beautifully cared-for books on travel and discovery see for example "Exploration & Discovery 1576-1939 Books from the Library of Franklin Brooke-Hitching" passim. Gage notes that he got the book from "Mr. Asperne"—no doubt the London publisher and bookseller James Asperne 1757-1820. ABPC and RBH find just four other Large Paper copies at auction in the past 45 years two of which had condition issues. One could wait a considerable time to find a copy as attractive and desirable as the present one. Cadell and Davies unknown
183519740ABParis, printed for the Oriental Translation Fund, sold by Richard Bentley, London, 1835. XVI, 531 S., 4 Bll. Verlagsanzeigen. Späterer Leinwandband mit Rückenschild.
181093954Nürnberg, 1810. XX, 248 S. Mit 16 (von 18) handkolor. Faltkupfern. 20 cm. HLdr d. Zeit m. (matter) Rückenvergoldung.
186822781Jena, Costenoble, 1868. XVI, 412 S., 2 Bll. (Anzeigen). 8°. HLdr. der Zeit (Rücken beschädigt, etw. bestoßen). [3 Warenabbildungen]
180621219London, Cadell and Davies in the Strand, 1806. XVII(I S., 1 Bl., 447 S. 2 gefalt. kolorierte Kupferstichkarten und 19 (1 mehrfach gefalt.) kolorierten Aquatinta-Tafeln. Kl.-4°. HLdr. des 19. Jahrhunderts mit Rückenschildern und Rückenvergoldung (etw. berieben und bestoßen). [5 Warenabbildungen]
18555563ABNew York, Putnam, 1855. Mit gestochenem Frontispiz und 1 gestochenen Titel mit Titelvignette. 539 S. OLwd.
189815037Paris 1898. Hardcover. Very good. 53 issues bound in one volume. With much content on China and Japan such as Chinese and Japanese railways including: 'Le Chemin de Fer de Tientsin a Pekin' La Navigation du Mekong' La Coree & la Question d'Extreme-Orient' 'Les Positions navales de la Mer Jaune' 'Monographie d'un Chef de Pirates au Tonkin' 'Les Chemins de Fer Japonais' and 'Les Chemins de Fer de la Chine'. Sml folio 429pp ills throughout. Dark brown gilt leather raised gilt bands at spine. Covers gently rubbed. Internally sml school stamp at first page pages evenly toned o/w very good. HKD2700. hardcover
1895162826London.: Charles H. Kelly. 1895. Coloured frontispiece with tissue-guard lacks the second coloured plate. Numerous black and white facsimiles of Chinese art and penmanship throughout. Name of prior owner dated 1925 Chefoo and a tipped in letter to her - handwritten by J.L. Smith of the H.B.M Consulate Chefoo on the rear of the frontis. Rebacked in quarter leather presumably by the Chefoo club with their name printed on the lower spine fading. Head & tail of spine starting boards decorated and stamped in gilt. Top edge gilt. A discard label on the front paste-down from the Chefoo Club Library dated 1925. Some age toning but a good firm copy. Series of character sketches reflecting village life in mid 19th century Central China and describing some events in the Taiping Rebellion. . Charles H. Kelly. hardcover
18956708London: Charles H. Kelly. 1895. Hardcover. Very Good. Hinges not tight. Endpapers first and last few pages darkened. Small open tear to top right corner of front free endpaper. Former owner's name on front free endpaper which has also bled through to the half title page; Black boards with gilt lettering and gilt design. Numerous b&w illustrations and two tissue guarded drawings in bold colors; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 479 pages . Charles H. Kelly hardcover
1887221447Paris. Circa1887. Engraving with later colouring signed lower left 10.9 x 16.1 cms; 15.2 x 18.8 cms including caption preserved in a modern window mount 32 x 37.5 cms the sheet a little age toned but the engraving in very good condition. Finely detailed engraving of 1880s Shanghai showing the now demolished Suzhou Creek or Garden Bridge from the International Settlement looking towards the Bund published in "L'Extrême Orient" by traveller writer and later colonial administrator Paul Bonnetain. . unknown
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
1900166942Chicago.: A. Flanagan Company. 1900. Coloured map of China Indochina and Korea and a coloured map of Japan containing insert maps of Formosa Ryukyu Island Ezo and Chishima and an Outline map of Japan. Coloured frontispiece and one other colour illustration together with black & white photographic illustrations engravings and line drawings throughout the text. Original green decorated cloth stamped & lettered in black. 90pp 79pp and 6 pages of book advertisements. Prior owner signature on front free endpaper. A particularly good copy offered together with the 1931 edition which omits any mention of the Boxer Rebellion. <br>The 1931 edition was published by A. Flanagan Company Chicago. 166pp Original tan cloth covered boards with a prior owner bookplate on the front pastedown. Written for intermediate and upper grade American schoolchildren the earlier of these two editions of this textbook published in 1900 contains a description of the Boxer rebellion that has been removed from later editions: <br> <br>" How we have longed to visit this wonderful country! A few months ago such a visit would not have been possible for China was at war with our nation and many of the nations of Europe. Our lives would have been in danger and the journey to China might have been the last we should ever have taken. <br> <br>You have heard of the Boxers of China who killed many foreigners and also many Christianized Chinese in the late revolution in that country. Do you know who these Boxers are They are members of a secret patriotic society. They love their country and want to prevent it from falling into the possession of foreigners. They believe that these foreigners have come to overthrow their government and to destroy their religion. They are opposed to the ruling family in China who are Manchus. These Manchus came from a territory outside of China Proper and Chinese Boxers have always disliked to have the rulers of their country chosen from Manchuria." There is a particularly gruesome illustration of Boxer heads in cages exposed as a warning to passers-by. <br> <br>The 1931 edition omits any reference to the Boxers and the illustration described above has also been removed. . A. Flanagan Company. 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