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48 original photographs of mining activities in northern China, and transport there on the Trans-Siberian Railroad and through Manchuria. Anon.

RARE PHOTOGRAPHS OF NORTH CHINA

48 original photographs of mining activities in northern China, and transport there on the Trans-Siberian Railroad and through Manchuria.

c.1908. RARE PHOTOGRAPHS OF NORTH CHINA. An excellent group of images documenting a tour though the little known, and rarely photographed, mining districts of northern China. The photographer was likely attached to the Anglo-French Quicksilver and Mining Concession which had claims in the Guizhou province. Among the photographs is an... Read More

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Indiscreet Letters from Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-witness, which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900--the Year of Great Tribulation. Boxer Rebellion, B. L. Putnam Weale, ed.

Indiscreet Letters from Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-witness, which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day...

New York: Dodd, Mead, 1908. Later edition. Original published March, 1907. An account of the siege of Peking by Bertram Lenox Simpson (1877-1930), under the pen name B.L. Putnam Weale. Simpson was born in China, later worked at the Imperial Maritime Customs, from which he was sacked in 1901. Robert... Read More

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The Government of India. CHINA, John Malcolm.

FROM THE CANTON READING ROOMS

The Government of India.

London: John Murray, 1833. First edition. FROM THE CANTON READING ROOMS. A copy from the Canton Reading Rooms, the library of the 13 factories at Canton, China which existed until the factories were destroyed during the Second Opium War. With bookplate of the Newburyport Public Library stating that the book... Read More

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Gwoyeu Romatzyh Pin in Farshyh [National Language (i.e., Mandarin) Romanization System]. Gwoin-tzyhmuu dih ell shyh. Gwoyeu Toongi Chourbey Huey jyh. Jonghwa Min Gwo shyrwuu nian shyri yueh. Chinese Romanization.

Gwoyeu Romatzyh Pinin Farshyh

Gwoyeu Romatzyh Pin in Farshyh [National Language (i.e., Mandarin) Romanization System]. Gwoin-tzyhmuu dih ell shyh. Gwoyeu Toongi Chourbey Huey jyh...

[N.p: 15th year, 11th Month of the Chinese Republic, (i.e., 1927)]. Gwoyeu Romatzyh Pinin Farshyh. The introduction mentions T. E. Wade and his system of representing Chinese characters, as well as the Postal (Telegraph) coding system, which employed supplemental characters to represent the different tones. The pamphlet is an explanation... Read More

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Le Chou-King, un des Livres Sacrés des Chinois. Qui renferme les fondements de leur ancienne histoire, les principes de leur gouvernement & de leur morale; ouvrage recueilli par Confucius. Traduit & enrichi de notes, par Feu le P. Gaubil, missionaire à la Chine. Revu & corrigé sur le texte chinois, accompagné de nouvelles notes, de planches gravures. Confucianism, Antoine Gaubil.

Le Chou-King, un des Livres Sacrés des Chinois. Qui renferme les fondements de leur ancienne histoire, les principes de leur...

Paris: Tilliard, 1770. First edition. This is the first European translation of the Book of Documents or the Book of History, the first tract of the Five Classics on Confucianism to be published anywhere in the West. Also includes at the end: "Notice du livre chinois nommé Y-king, ou livre... Read More

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