Shanghai 1926 Kelly & Walsh, Limited Full-Leather (Hardcover) 1st Edition Signed by Author
Full-Leather (Hardcover), 25 x 17 cm, 540 + 48 pp., English, Signed by Author, 1st Edition, Illustrations. This is a seminal technical study of the Chinese monetary system. Written by Eduard Kann, an Austrian banker with decades of experience in Shanghai, the book was designed as a professional manual for bankers and bullion brokers rather than a casual history. . Section I: Silver (The Monetary Backbone)rnSycees & Taels: Provides minute detail on silver ingots (sycees) and the tael, which served as both a weight and a unit of account. It analyzes various regional taels (like the Haikwan and Shanghai taels) and their specific exchange complexities.rnForeign & Domestic Dollars: Technical specifications of silver coins, including the Mexican Peso and early Chinese Republican dollars, detailing their exact weight, silver fineness, and "assay" (purity tests).rnSection II: Gold (The Trading Commodity)rnGold Bar Market: A detailed account of the Shanghai Gold Bar Market, where gold was treated primarily as a commodity for international settlement rather than a circulating currency.rnGold Standard Efforts: Documents the technical and political hurdles that prevented China from successfully transitioning to a true gold standard during the early 20th century.rnSection III: Copper (The People's Currency)rnMinting & Seigniorage: Examines the overproduction of copper "cash" and cents, the technical output of provincial mints, and how the resulting inflation affected the general population. rn
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Bonechi 1992 128 pages 1992. Broché. 128 pages.
Très bon état - légères marques de lecture et/ou de stockage mais du reste en très bon état- expédié soigneusement depuis la France
Shanghai 1926 Kelly & Walsh, Limited Hardcover 1st Edition
Hardcover, 24 x 16 cm, 18 + 2 + 540 +19 + 48 pp., English, 1st Edition, Illustrations, book condition: Good. [publisher: Kelly & Walsh, Shanghai] Hardcover First Edition First edition, 8vo, pp. xviii, [2], 540, [xix]-xlviii; color frontispiece and 5 illustrations on rectos and versos of 3 plates and a folding table; original blue cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine : faded and bumped, inside a very clean copy, overall a good copy
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1930 in-4, 137pp., illustré, br. Paris Andrieux 1930,
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Short description: In Russian. Kann-Novikova, Elizaveta Isaakovna. Stories about songs. Moscow: Muzgiz, 1963. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKU6291328
paula-modersohn-becker-wolfgang-werner-kunsthalle-bremen-anne-rover-kann
Reference : M1545KLWPM
ISBN : 3922516475
Broché bon état .Contenu propre.Couverture jaunie . 1985.PHOTOS SUR DEMANDE
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Short description: In Russian. Kann, Pavel Yakovlevich. Squares of Revolutionary Uprising. Leningrad: Lenizdat, 1955. Ploshchadi revolyutsionnykh vosstaniy. In Russian /Squares of Revolutionary Rebellion . The image is provided for reference only. It may reflect condition of one of the available copies or only help in identifying the edition. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKU5883081
"Short description: In Russian. Kann, Genrikh Iosifovich. A Practical Guide to Watchmaking. Moscow; Leningrad: Ogiz - State Scientific and Engineering Publishing House, 1932. Prakticheskoe rukovodstvo po chasovomu delu. In Russian /A Practical Guide to Watchmaking. The image is provided for reference only. It may reflect condition of one of the available copies or only help in identifying the edition. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKU8985257"
Short description: In Russian. Kann, Genrikh Iosifovich. A Brief History of Watchmaking. Leningrad: Heinrich Kahn, 1926. Kratkaya istoriya chasovogo iskusstva. In Russian /A Brief History of Watchmaking. The image is provided for reference only. It may reflect condition of one of the available copies or only help in identifying the edition. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKU9144597
Short description: In Russian. Kann, Genrikh Iosifovich. Practical Guide to Watchmaking. Volume 1-4. Leningrad Moscow: Onti. Editor-in-Chief of the License for Mechanical Engineering and Metal Processing, 1937 (Leningrad: type named after Yevg. Sokolova). Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKU5165863
Paris Andrieux 1930 In-4 de 136 pp., br.
377 numéros, 36 planches h.t.
4. New York, Mint Productions Inc., 1966, thick in-8°, (6)nn pp ( frontispiece portrait of author ) +476 pp + 221 full page plates (numbered 3-224). Publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering. With original illustrated dust wrapper ( wrapper with some tears, repaired with tape). This is the second edition of Kann's opus magnum on Chinese coins. The preface to this second edition is written by Russell Rulau of Sidney (Ohio) and contains a short biographical notice on Kann which had died in 1962.
Paris, typographie et héliogravure de l'imprimerie F. Paillart, 1930, in-4°, 138 p. (377 nos) + 36 planches (riche reliures et autres), (Prix marqués au crayon) brochure originale illustrée.
Précieuses reliures aux armes, manuscrits et coffrets anciens, mémoires de Saint-Simon annotés par Stendhal. Dessins originaux. (Expert: Georges Andrieux).
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Paris 1930, In-4 Paris 1930, In-4 broché, couverture à rabats. 135 pages. Photos. Trés bon état.
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Hamburg, Felix Meiner Verlag, 2001.
VIII,256 p. Hardbound 23.5 cm (Habilitationsschrift, Uni. Paderborn; Paradigmata 23) (Investigates Whithead's famous quote that, 'The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato')
In Russian. Kann-Novikova, Elizaveta Isaakovna. I want the truth. Moscow: Music, 1971. All images are for identification of editions only. Several books of the same edition may be available. Please feel free to request photos of available books. SKU7389937
University of washington press 1984 559 pages 23 876x3 81x15 494cm. 1984. Relié. 559 pages.
Bon état bonne tenue bords jaquette un peu frottés intérieur propre
Henri Charles-lavauzelle 1909 133 pages in8. 1909. Broché. 133 pages. Livre contenant des tampons et étiquettes de bibliothèque de garnison couverture usagée intérieur bon
Etat Passable
Paris, Éditions Calmann-Lévy, 1905. Broché, 12 cm x 18,5 cm, 374 pages, 26 planches photographiques hors-texte, 2 cartes dépliantes hors-texte – Texte de Réginald Kann. Dos restauré, traces d’adhésif sur la couverture sinon bon état intérieur