ALBUM SHANGHAI

Shanghai. [Album with 16 photograph plates].

Shanghai, Max Nössler & Co., [Ca. 1907]. 17.5 x 24 cm. Original decorated clothbacked boards, string-bound. Album with 16 photograph plates, red captions in English and German. - Chinese tea-house - Wheelbarrow - Nanking Road - Girls school - Jinricsha - Chinese dinner - Chinese children - Foochow road - Police-station - Iltismonument - Sikhs - Good appetite - Chinese junks - Yang-King-Pang - Barber - Chinese fisherman. - Several pages with contemporary explanatory text in pencil. Frontside a bit dampstained, else a fine copy of a rare album.

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Book number: 12392

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Keywords: china

BALL, J. Dyer

Things Chinese or Notes connected with China. Fourth edition revised and enlarged.

Hongkong, Shanghai, Yokohama and Singapore, Kelly & Walsh, 1903. 22 x 14 cm. xii,816 pp. Original decorated cloth - An alphabetically arranged reference work with index and glossary. - James Dyer Ball (1847 -1919) was a Hong Kong scholar and author born in Canton. He is noted for his works on Chinese culture. - Small ex libris ticket on upper pastedown, name on endpaper, a small bump top edge, else a good copy

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Book number: 13225

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BARD, Émile

Chinese Life in Town and Country. Adapted from the French of Émile Bard by H. Twitchell. [First edition].

New York and London, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1905. 22 x 14 cm. [4],xiii,[1],285 pp. Original decorated half cloth, top edge gilt. With frontispiece in colour, and 58 b/w plates after photographs. - First English edition. - 'I have seen China and the Chinese with the eyes of a man of affairs; I have attempted to avoid, within the limits of the possible, the exaggerated optimism of certain writers on this country, - chiefly travellers and missionaries, - and I also have been careful not to fall into the spirit of systematic depreciation common to Europeans in referring to the Celestial Empire and its inhabitants.' [Preface]. - Sides a bit chafed, name on upper paste down, else a very good copy

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Book number: 13220

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BOYANG, Wang

Ancient Chinese Architecture - Imperial Mausoleums and Tombs.

Wien / New York, Springer-Verlag, 1998. 36.5 x 27 cm. 190 pp. Clothbound with dustjacket. Illustrated in b/w and colour. - Good copy

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Book number: 32872

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Keywords: 9783211829912

BROWN, C. Campbell

Children of China.

London & Edinburgh, Oliphants, [1909]. 19.5 x 13 cm. 96 pp. Original decorated boards. With 8 coloured plates. - With presentation ticket on first blank from the West Baptist Church - Young Worshippers' League to 'Douglas Summers' - small bookdealers' ticket on upperpastdown 'Robert Inglis [...] Perth' - Good copy

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Book number: 25948

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CROW, Carl

Four hundred million customers. The experience - some happy, some sad of an American in China, and what they taught him. [Seventh edition].

New York & London, Harper & Brothers, 1937. 22.5 x 15 cm. 316,[1] pp. Original cloth [no dustjacket]. Decorated endpapers, and b/w text illustrations by G. Sapojnikoff. - Binding a bit worn; inner hinges loosening, old inscription on first endpaper, else a good copy

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Book number: 13242

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CROW, Carl

Master Kung. The story of Confucius.

New York and London, Harper & Brothers, 1938. 24 x 16 cm. 344,[3] pp. Clothbound. lllustrated in b/w. - First American edition. - Binding a bit sunned, else a good copy

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Book number: 13224

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CROW, Carl

I speak for the Chinese. [Third impression].

London, Hamish Hamilton, [1938]. 19 x 12.5 cm. 135,[1] pp. Original cloth [no dustjacket]. - Spine a bit faded, cloth a it soiled; name on first blank, else a good copy

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Book number: 13240

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FELSING, Otto

China en de Chineezen. Geert Janssen's Reis en Krijgsavonturen. Vertaald onder toezicht van P. Louwerse.

's-Gravenhage, De gebroeders van Cleef, [ca. 1905]. 23 x 15 cm. xii,482 pp. Original decorated cloth, skilfully rebound, later endpapers. With 8 b/w plates by Anton Hoffmann. - First published in Germany in 1901, first Dutch edition. - Rebound, else a good copy

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Book number: 12640

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FITCH, Robert F.

Hangchow itineraries. Second revised edition.

Shanghai, Kelly & Walsh, 1922. 19 x 12 cm. [8]55,[11] pp. Original clothbacked boards. With 6 folding maps, and 9 b/w plates of which one folding panorama. Robert Ferris Fitch (1873-1954) was president of Hangchow Christian College [nowadays Zhijiang University]. The city was the capitol of China during the Southern Song dynasty, and was known for the beauty of its West Lake location. An old Chinese saying states, 'Above is Heaven; below are Soochow and Hangchow. [Fitch Family History and Genealogy]. - Chinese sign on first blank, bookblock loosening, maps with tear, and few pencil annotations - a rather used, but still a good copy.

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Book number: 13470

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FITCH, Robert F.

Hangchow itineraries. Describing the chief places of interest with a note on the famous Bore. Third revised and enlarged edition.

Shanghai, Kelly & Walsh, 1922. 17 x 11 cm. [8]55,[11] pp. Original clothbacked boards. With 6 folding maps, and 12 green tinted plates - Robert Ferris Fitch (1873-1954) was president of Hangchow Christian College [nowadays Zhijiang University]. The city was the capitol of China during the Southern Song dynasty, and was known for the beauty of its West Lake location. An old Chinese saying states, 'Above is Heaven; below are Soochow and Hangchow.' The 'bore' referenced in the title is a tidal phenomenon on the Ch'ien T'ang River. On the second and third days after new and full moon, the strong tide and the funnel-shaped river combine to produce a crest of advancing water 15 feet high, with rebounding waves from the built-up walls as much as 30 feet high. [Fitch Family History and Genealogy]. - Cover a bit stained, paper on innner hinges partly broken, maps in mint condition, a good copy.

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Book number: 13471

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FU, Poshek

Passivity, Resistance, and Collaboration. Intellectual Choices in Occupied Shanghai, 1937-1945.

Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1993. 21.5 x 14 cm. xvii,[9],262 pp. Softcover. With map, plan, and few b/w illustrations. - Stamp and ticket on half title, else a good copy

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Book number: 13228

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Keywords: sino-japanese conflict 9780804727969

GONG Jianhua & Zhu HONG [Photographers]

Shanghai Longtang.

Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House, [1997]. 29 x 22 cm. 168 pp. Bound with dustjacket. Illustrated in b/w throughout. - Text in Chinese and English. - Longtang (alley) in Shanghai is a special living style of old Shanghai. Its architecture style adopted the traditional JiangNan (south of the Yangtze River) designs and western architecture décor. It is a unique landscape in Shanghai. The alleys of Shanghai gave birth to a specific Shanghai neighborhood culture that is rich and varied. [...] Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House has made great efforts to publish this book while it is not too late with an aim to leave Shanghai people a precious visual record. The publishing of this book tries to make up for the regret, when longtangs are disappearing. - Good copy

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Book number: 28485

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Keywords: 9787532216055

GRAYBILL, Henry Blair & You-Kuang CHU

Modern China - A civics reader for middle-school students. A revision of 'Modern China'

[No place], [No publisher], [Ca. 1933]. 19 x 13 cm. xi,[1],361 pp. Original cloth. With frontispiece in colour, and b/w illustrations. - Cheap copy of the 1930 edition. - 'Henry Blair Graybill - Formerly professor of education and principal of the Middle School, Lingnan University & You-Kuang Chu - sometime assistant professor of education Lingnan University'. - Cloth a bit worn; inner-hinges loose[ning], lacking frontispiece [?], few pencil annotations. in Chinese and English, else a good copy.

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Book number: 13572

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GUANG, Pan, Compiled and Edited by

The Jews in China.

China Intercontinental Press, 2003. 30.5 x 24 cm. 198 pp. Bound with dustjacket. lllustrated in b/w. - Fine copy

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Book number: 12400

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Keywords: china 9787508501789