Shanghai. China United Press. March 16, XXIV,1935. 18pp, original wrappers browned and a trifle marked, some light even browning throughout. A good copy. Includes valuable information on the postal services at the time such as: Rearrangement of postal districts and extensions of Head Office Authority; Extension of postal facilities in..... More
London. HMSO. 1890. Colour folding map, 13pp, original wrappers, quarto, very good copy. P.D. Coates, author of The China Consuls...(Hong Kong, OUP, 1988) states (p. 171) that for a considerable time, consular promotion of British trade seems to have been largely confined to recommendations and hints in the annual trade..... More
London. Fisher, Son & Co., (circa1843). Volumes I & II engraved titles Volume I : 96 + 26 (Part I of Life of Kang-He Emperor of China) Volume II: 72 + 20pp (Part II of the Life of Kang-He). 64 plates drawn by Thomas Allom with steel engravings by various..... More
Colburn, 1844. 2 volumes. Volume I: 2 folding maps, 3 full page engravings, 2 full page woodcuts, some illustrations in text. xvi + 449 + [1]pp. Long largely closed tear with a little loss in one small place in rear map, damp damage lower right corner engravings. Original blind stamped..... More
London. Putnams/Murray New York &, 1900. 1st American edition. Folding colour sketch map of 'The Yangtze Basin showing Mrs Bishop's Route.' 2 volumes: 2 black & white photographic frontispieces and 114 black and white photographic illustrations by the author and numerous illustrations throughout the text. Dark blue decorated cloth, top..... More
New York. Putnams. 1900. 1st American edition. 2 volumes. Folding colour sketch map of 'The Yangtze Basin showing Mrs Bishop's Route', two black & white photographic frontispieces and 114 black and white photographic illustrations by the author and numerous illustrations throughout the text. Dark blue decorated cloth, top edge gilt..... More
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Dritte wohlfeile Ausgabe. 3rd inexpensive edition. Lithographed frontispiece, 111pp. Quarter leather binding with marbled paper covered boards, raised bands, spine gilt. Decorative endpapers. Corners of first and last leaves lightly stained. Binding rubbed at extremities with a little minor loss to leather and marbled paper, paper covered boards a little..... More
London. The Sunday School Union. (nd. c1904.). Fourth Edition. Black and white photographic portrait frontispiece and 9 full-page engravings. Attractive red cloth covered pictorial boards, lettered in gilt on the spine, endpapers browned and with a presentation inscription on the front free endpaper dated 1904. A handsome copy. 144pp. 18.2..... More
London. James Nesbit & Co., 1870. 1st Edition. Engraved portrait frontispiece with tissue-guard, title-page with engraved vignette, viii + 596pp and 8 pages of publisher's adverts, appendix. Maroon coloured cloth boards, sunned on the spine with a small mark where a label has been removed, stamped in blind on front..... More
2 volumes of this classic work translated by M. Bencraft Joly. The first is a modern paperback edition published by Wildside Press in Holicong, PA. This has been bound into a modern maroon cloth binding and is in excellent condition. The second volume is a copy of the edition published..... More
Cambridge, Mass. Houghton Mifflin Company. 1913. Edited by Francis Mannix. Black and white frontispiece with tissue-guard, xviii + 298pp, a prior owner's name is stamped in red on the title-page. Yellow cloth covered boards, soiled and sunned on the spine, inner hinges cracked but the text block is firm and..... More
Shanghai. The Commercial Press, Ltd., 1929. Black & white map of Tsinan Area, a photographic portrait frontispiece of the General and 3 photographic illustrations throughout the text. viii + 107pp. Black cloth covered boards, lettered on the spine and upper front board in gilt. An extremely good copy except for..... More
![初中生理衛生學.[Chu zhong sheng li wei sheng xue]. [Physiology and Science of Health...](/pictures/thumb/169805.jpg?v=1593654359)
[Taipei]. 正中書局.[Zheng zhong shu ju]. 民國 38 (1949). 9th edition. Chinese Minguo period textbook on physiology and general health, bound in plain light card covers with original wrappers bound in, four-hole stab binding, a prior owner's chop upper cover, orignal wrappers stained and browned, browned throughout, overall good. Text in..... More
![檔案記錄卡.[Dang an ji lu ka]. [1953 Personal File Cards of Two Chinese PLA Officers]....](/pictures/thumb/169762.jpg?v=1601451940)
[Nanjing]. 汽车三十二团政治处.[Qi che san shi er tuan zheng zhi chu]. March1953. Two 1950s Chinese personal file cards of two Chinese PLA officers, original black and white ID photos in military uniforms laid down upper right corner with official seal on the photo, the card has been neatly handwritten in ink..... More
London. Church of England Zenana Missionary Society. No date. (circa1900). Nine printed sheets each printed with people or items and showing the cut lines. Original chromolithograph card box repaired with acid free archival tape along folds. Some occasional light foxing on sheets, card covers browned and worn in places, a...... More
No publication details. (circa1920?). Album of twelve full page hand coloured illustrations on silk laid down on card leaves. Images measure 25.4 x 19.4cm. Silk along upper border of two images a trifle frayed, occasional light marks, some light browning card leaves, minor insect damage silk border of one leaf..... More
[London]. Foreign Office. March,1905. Full page colour sketch map, 15pp, tables, original wrappers with string ties. 24.5 x 15.5cm. Neat stamp of the University Library of Hull upper wrapper. Very good copy. Discusses the history, gives a picture of the industry in China at the time and comments on the..... More
Ho Kien Fou. Imprimerie de la Misson Catholique. 1906. iv + 560pp. Endpapers foxed, occasional light browning in text, chop on title page, worn labels at foot of spine. Contemporary cloth worn at extremities. Good copy. Text in French. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 151369). More
London. Printed by Harrison and Sons. 1877. 33pp, original blue light card wrappers, sewn, opening between gatherings in one place, a little foxing first and last leaves, generally very good. China. No. 2 (1877). Arthur Davenport and his party left from Hankow and travelled for 19 days on the Yangtze..... More
Chicago. SMCL Presbyterian Board. (circa1880). 395pp, upper corner stained, some very light browning, tan cloth very lightly worn and marked. A good copy. Student Missionary Campaign Library. "Tbe object of the story is to give a fair view of woman's life among the lower and middle classes in Southern China."..... More
London. MA Nattali, 1849. [Reprint]. 2 volumes in 1. Volume I: 18 full page black and white full page wood engravings, 9 in text. iv + 395pp, school prize inscription dated 22nd December, 1857 one blank. Volume II: 10 full page wood engravings and many in text, iii + 459pp..... More
London. Murray. 1865. 191pp + 32 page publisher's catalogue bound in at rear, upper section of title page reads "Library of University College/Presented by the author" neatly written in ink, the middle section of the title shows a University College London small oval stamp with "withdrawn" stamped across it. 19th..... More
Paris. Didier. 1867. xi + 692pp, front free endpaper and first blank detached, a little light even browning. 19th century quarter morocco binding, marbled endpapers and boards. Binding worn with loss to paper and leather, upper corner lower cover missing. Text sound and clean. Good. Text in French. (When referring..... More
1885. 4th edition. 2 volumes. Volume I: Foldng colour map, 404pp, 5 black and white engravings. List of contents leaf loose, opening between gatherings in a few places. Volume II: Lacks frontispiece, black and white engravings, 394 + [2]pp, traced drawing on one tissue guard. Both volumes uniformly bound in..... More
Paris. S.E.V.P.E.N., 1964. 3 volumes of text without the album, in original wrappers. 1625pp. Tiny tears to margin of a few leaves at fore edge volume I, neat stamp upper edge of upper cover and front free endpaper volume I only, occasional inoffensive marks wrappers. A good set. Text in..... More
