London: Printed for S. Bladon, in Pater-Noster-Row, 1765. First edition in English. Novel satirizing European society by depicting... Read More about The Chinese Spy; or, Emissary from the Court of Pekin commissioned to examine into the Present...
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London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1934. First edition. IN DJ. Written by the Curator of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities in Stockholm. Read More about Children of the Yellow Earth: Studies in Prehistoric China
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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 about Bound volume containing 48 original photographs of mining activities in northern China, and...
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New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1912. First edition. Read More about The Chinese at Home or The Man of Tong and His Land
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St Louis: The Round Table, [1908]. A history of banking in China, starting with the history of the monetary system in China and its coinage. Wong Kai Kah was the Vice Commissioner to the St. Louis Exposition in 1903, which is presumably the event during which he gave this paper... Read More about Banking in China: a Paper read December 12, 1903 before The Round Table, St. Louis
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London & New York: Harpers, 1899. Admiral Beresford (1846-1919) devotes a chapter XXVIII to his visit to the Japanese boatyards, etc. Read More about The Break-up of China with an Account of its Present Commerce, Currency, Waterways, Armies,...
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np: nd. RARE SIGNATURE OF PERRY'S PRECURSOR. Commodore James Biddle (1783-1848) made the first attempt to establish formal relations between the United States and Japan in 1846. Biddle, a distinguished naval officer from Philadelphia, and graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, set out from New York with two warships, the... Read More about Signature clipped from a document [with] an engraving of Biddle
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New York: Putnam. London: John Murray, 1899. First American Edition. Her last work. Read More about The Yangtze Valley And Beyond An Account Of Journeys In China, Chiefly In The Province Of Sze...
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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 about Indiscreet Letters from Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-witness, which Set Forth in Some Detail,...
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Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, Ltd, 1922. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Read More about Peking: A Historical and Intimate Description of its Chief Places of Interest
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New York: A John Day Book. Reynal & Hickcock, [1935]. One volume collected edition. INSCRIBED by the author to her secretary, "For Helen H. Shaddinger, with sincere regards Pearl S Buck." Read More about The House of Earth: The Good Earth, Sons, A House Divided
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New York: John Day, [1945]. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author to her secretary’s daughter, Jackie Shaddlinger, "For Jackie [Shaddlinger] Pearl S. Buck." Read More about Yu Lan: Flying Boy of China
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New York: The Press of the Woolly Whale, 1935. No. 93 of 250 copies. Read More about The Estivation of Two Mao Tzu. Being an informal and occasionally frivolous account of our...
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Brookline: High St, Sat. Nov. 10, 1877. Channing was a transcendendalist, social reformer, etc. Son of William Ellery Channing. Read More about ALS. To Mrs. Sargent. Wishing to visit in order to examine a book of records of her honored husband
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Boston: April 20, 1870. Channing quoting Lao-Tse. With on a seperate sheet "some sayings from a ---old patriot, which may open to you the way of faithful service..." The Chinese Sage/ Lau-Tse/ in the Tau Teh Ching says This..." Channing was a transcendendalist, social reformer, etc. Son of William Ellery Channing. Read More about Autograph Letter, signed. Responding for a request for an autograph
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New York: Friendship Press, 1938. First edition. Read More about "Heaven Knows"
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Shanghai: Printed at The "North China Herald" Office, 1873. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed from the author to Douglas Jones on first blank. “The immense tracts of country available for purposes of sport and well stocked with game, the entire absence of game laws, and the friendly disposition of the... Read More about The Sportsman's Diary for Shooting Trips in Northern China
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[Milano]: Franco Maria Ricci, [1980]. First edition, # 523 of 3000 copies, signed by the Publisher. Read More about La Cina. Le arti e la vita quotidiana viste da Padre Matteo Ricci e altri missionari gesuiti....
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Paris: Chez F. Buisson, Imprimeur-Librair, rue Hautefeuille, no. 20, An 7 (1799). Seconde édition, augmentée d'un Précis de l'Histoire de la Chine, par le traducteur, et du Voyage en Chine et en tartare de J. C. Huttner, traduit de l'allemand par le même Traducteur. Read More about Voyage dans l'intérieur de la Chine et en Tartarie, fait dans les années 1792, 1793 et 1794 par...
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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 about The Government of India
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[London: Printed at the Army-Navy Cooperative Society Limited, 1890]. Presentation Copy. A signed presentation copy from the author, John Bell-Irving, to Douglas Jones. Bell-Irving was a Scottish businessman and partner in the Hong Kong trading firm Jardine Matheson, and a director of the Hong Kong Electric Company. Jones was Secretary... Read More about Diary of the Ewo Party Up-Country Shooting Trips in the Yangtse Valley, China. From Season...
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[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 about Gwoyeu Romatzyh Pin in Farshyh [National Language (i.e., Mandarin) Romanization System]....
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New York: Harper & Bros, 1898. First edition. Read More about China in Transformation
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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 about Le Chou-King, un des Livres Sacrés des Chinois. Qui renferme les fondements de leur ancienne...
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