Published and distributed by the East Asian Research Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, December 1963. 1 volume in-quarto, 252 pp., hard covers with cloth binding, typed text, a very good copy. Stamp of Irwin Hyatt Jr from the Harvard-Yenching Institute.
This volume (No 17) includes papers by: A. B. Woodside: Early Ming Expansionism (1406-1427): China's abortive Conquest of Vietnam - Edward L. Farmer: James Flint versus the Canton Interest (1755-1760) - Irwin T. Hyatt: Protestant Missions in China (1877-1890): The Institutionalzation og Good Works - Leong Sow-Theng: WAng T'ao and the Movement for self-strengthening and reform in the Late Ch'ing Period - Mark Elwin: THe Mixed Court of the International Settlement at Shanghai (until 1911) - A.B. Woodside: T'ang Ching-sung and the Rise of the 1895 Taiwan REpublic - Vincent S.R. Brandt: Landlord-Tenant RElations in the Republican China - R. Randle Edwards: The Attitude of the People's Republic of China toward International Law and The United Nations.
Peking, Editions en Langues Etrangères - Foreign Languages Press, 1956. 1 large folio album, 4 pp., illustrated with 37 full page plates of woodcuts by modern Chinese artists (3 plates missing). The loose plates are protected by a hardbound portfolio attached with strings, a very good copy of this rare work but incomplete
A large collection of works by famous artists: Li Chun - Niu Wen - Ku Yuan - Shih Lu - Chiang Ping - Chu Ming-Kang - Li Shao-Yen - Li Pang-Fan - Li Hua - Ku Hung - Wo Cha - Lin Chun - Huang Yen - Liang Yung-Tai - Chi-Tan - Chen Wang - Chang Chien-Wen - Chang Yang-Hsi, Huang Yung-Fu - Huang Chao-Chang - Tseng Ching-Chu - Yang Na-Wei - Chao Yen-Nien - Chao Tsung-Tsao - Liu Kuang.
Pékin, 1930. 1 volume in folio (40 * 28 cm), reliure moderne plein cuir, full leather modern binding, 676 pp.+ 35 pp., couvertures imprimées en bichromie, illustré de centaines de photos d'obets d'art des magasins d'antiquités de Houo-Ming-Tse, très bon état, a very good copy. Very heavy volume, extra-postage required.
Houo Ming Tse, orphelin élevé et éduqué par les prêtres de Tien-Tsing, devint le riche propriétaire des galeries de curios les plus renommées de Pékin, où il rassemblait tous ses trésors. Ce volume fut composé par l'antiquaire à 51 ans. Il présente ainsi ses fabuleuses collections de livres, d'armes, de jades, d'instruments de musique...
Published by the Intelligence and Publicity Department - Ministry of Foreign Affairs - National Government - Republic of China, 1929. 1 volume in-8, VII-90 pp., reliure moderne plein cuir, couvertures illustrées conservées mais restaurées, texte en chinois et en anglais.
Contents: Tariff Treaties between China and the following countries: United States Of America - Kingdom of Norway - Kingdom of Netherlands - Kingdom of Sweden - Great Britain - France. - Preliminary Treaties of Amity and Commerce with The Union of Belgium and Luxumburg - Kingdom of Italy - Kingdom of Denmark - Republic of Portugal - Kingdom of Spain - - Treaty between China and Germany.
Paris, Centre International d'Edition et de Documentation, 1957. 2 volumes in-8, brochés, couvertures souples imprimées, 317 pp. (volume I) - 476 pp. (Volume II), feuillets jaunis en marges, bon état d'ensemble.
Livre Blanc sur le Travail Forcé dans la République Populaire de Chine publié par la Commission Internationale contre le Régime Concentrationnaire. Tome I: Les Débats - Tome II (Le Dossier) - Session de la Commission Spéciale d'Enquête sur le Travail Forcé dans la République Populaire de Chine, tenue à Bruxelles du 20 au 30 avril 1956. Rapporteur de l'Instruction Me Théo Bernard.
Shanghai, China United Press, 1935, gr. in-8vo, 1 portrait + 238 p., non rogné, brochure originale, rel. détachée.
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Paris, Editions Pierre Bossuet, 1937. 1 volume in-8, broché, non coupé, 232 pp., très bon état. Bel envoi de l'auteur au Professeur Des Retours.
Préface de M. H. Hitier, Secrétaire Perpétuel de l'Académie d'Agriculture de France, Professeur Honorairer à l'Institut National Agronomique. Table des Matières: L'Agriculture chinoise - Aperçu sur l'Enseignement agricole et rural en Chine, à travers les âges -L'enseignement agricole et rural en France - L'Enseignement agricole actuel en Chine - L'enseignement rural actuel en Chine - Possibilités de réforme de l'Enseignement agricole et rural en Chine - Conclusion.
Buchheim Verlag, Germany, 1961. 1 volume in-4, illustrated hard covers, 20 colour prints by Chi Pai Shi and 6 pp. of text by Eugen Skasa-Weis, without the slip case. A very good copy.
A nice copy of this rare publication, with good quality prints of Chi Pai Shih water colors.
Buchheim Verlag, Germany, 1961. 1 volume in-4, illustrated hard covers, 20 colour prints by Chi Pai Shi and 6 pp. of text by Eugen Skasa-Weis, without the slip case. A very good copy.
A nice copy of this rare publication, with good quality prints of Chi Pai Shih water colors.
Buchheim Verlag, Germany, 1961. 1 volume in-4, illustrated hard covers, 20 colour prints by Chi Pai Shi and 6 pp. of text by Eugen Skasa-Weis. A very good copy.
A nice copy of this rare publication, with good quality prints of Chi Pai Shih water colors.
Leipzig, In Insel, no date. 1 volume in-12, 34 pp., paper covered hard boards, with 22 full page colour plates (ink drawings), text in german language, a very good copy. Bel ex-libris de M. Helmuth Krick.
Paris, Librairie Vuibert, 1910. 1 volume in-8, 214 pp., reliure percaline de l'éditeur, tranches dorées, illustré de nombreuses photographies, très bon état général.
Vaste panorama sur la Chine, avec de multiples illustrations photographiques à pleine page de Canton, Shanghai et Pékin. Table des Matières: Premières impressions - La Vie de Famille - La Vie Sociale - La Vie Commerciale - La Chine Artistique, Littéraire, Agricole - La Vie Religieuse
Paris, Librairie Vuibert, 1910. 1 volume in-8, 214 pp., reliure moderne plein cuir, couvertures conservées mais salies, illustré de nombreuses photographies, bon état général.
Vaste panorama sur la Chine, avec de multiples illustrations photographiques à pleine page de Canton, Shanghai et Pékin. Table des Matières: Premières impressions - La Vie de Famille - La Vie Sociale - La Vie Commerciale - La Chine Artistique, Littéraire, Agricole - La Vie Religieuse
Peking, Cultural Press, 1950 (First edition). 1 volume in-12, soft illustrated covers, 195 pp., a very good copy. Attractive woodcuts by Lo Kung-Liu.
Contents: Creative Works of Chao Shu-Li by Chou Yang - Rhymes of Li Yu-Tsai - The Heirloom - Hsiao Erh-hei's Marriage - Old customs. A set of chinese peasants'stories published after the Liberation.
Peking, Cultural Press, 1950 (First edition). 1 volume in-12, soft illustrated covers, 195 pp., a very good copy. Attractive woodcuts by Lo Kung-Liu.
Contents: Creative Works of Chao Shu-Li by Chou Yang - Rhymes of Li Yu-Tsai - The Heirloom - Hsiao Erh-hei's Marriage - Old customs. A set of chinese peasants'stories published after the Liberation.
Paris, Charles-Lavauzelle & Cie, 1922. 1 volume in-8, IX-168 pp., reliure demi-basane, dos lisse, plats cartonnés marbrés, 1 petite étiquette de bibliothèque, bon état général.
Table des matières: De la guerre - de l'armée - Du nombre - De la discipline - Du général - Des qualités du général - Du temps, des lieux, des circonstances - Du moral - Des renseignements - Du secret - Du principe de direction - De la combinaison - Du principe d'économie - Du principe de continuité - Des principes d'union et de convergence - Des ordres - Du combat et de la bataille.
Münster, 1957 ix + 210pp., 21cm., softcover, text in German, Doctoral dissertation (Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung des Doktorgrades der Philosophischen Fakultät der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität zu Münster), stamp at verso of title page, text is clean and bright, X110846
Paris, Editions Euros, 1949 1 ouvrage in folio, 45*33 cm, 16 pp. (title, introduction and titles of prints) + 8 color plates + 1 colored plate on silk, under portfolio, a very good copy. Only 500 copies, this one without number.
A nice set of paintings reproductions on hard paper. Painters represented are: Ju Peon - Tchang Ta Ts'ien - Tsi Pei Che - Sié Che Lieou - Pan Chun K'in - Fou Pao Che - Ou Sogène - Ting Yen Yong.
, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2000 HARDBACK, 356 p., ill., 160 x 240 mm, Languages: English. ISBN 9782503511573.
Realms of the Silk Roads Part 1: New Sources on Inner Asian History N. Sims-Williams, Some Reflections on Zoroastrianism in Sogdiana and Bactria; G. Mikkelsen, Traite/Sermon on the Light-Nous in Chinese and its Parallels in the Parthian, Sogdian and Old Turkish; A.V.G. Betts & V.N. Yagodin, Hunting Traps on the Ustiurt Plateau, Uzbekistan. Part 2: Long Distance Contacts S. Lieu, Byzantium, Persia and China: Interstate Relations on the Eve of the Islamic Conquest; D. Christian, Silk Roads or Steppe Roads ? The Silk Roads in World History; M. Underdown, The Northern Silk Road: Ties between Turfan and Korea. Part 3: Political Life C. Benjamin, The Yuezhi and their Neighbours: Evidence for the Yuezhi in the Chinese Sources c. 220 - c. 25 BCE; K. Nourzhanov, Politics of National Reconciliation in Tajikistan: From Peace Talks to (Partial) Political Settlements; S. Akbarzadeh, Islam and Regional Stability in Central Asia; C. Mackerras, Relations Between the Uygur State and China's Tang Dynasty, 744-840. Part 4: Perspectives G. Watson, Prestigious Peregrinations : British Travellers in Central Asia c. 1830-1914; F. Patrikeeff, The Geopolitics of Myth: Interwar Northeast Asia and Images of an Inner Asian Empire; D. Thwaites, The Road to Urumqui: Zunun Kadir's Lost World; F. Patrikeeff & J. Perkins, National and Imperial Identity: A Triptych of Baltic Germans in Inner Asia. Part 5: Teaching Inner Asian History R. Fletcher & E. Hetherington, The China TimeMap Project: China and the Silk Roads; M. With, Creating Responsible Educational Images of Judaic / Christian / Islamic Relations.
USA, Cambridge University Press, 1965. 1 volume, hard-cover with illustrated dust-jacket, in-8, 256 pp., 2 maps, ex library, very good copy.
Contents: Introduction - Early Life - Dah Sun and Nan-t'ung Industries - Involvement in National Affairs - Chang Chien and Educational Reforms - Land Reclamation and Salt Reform - Controlling the Huai - The Modernization of Nan-t'ung - Chang Chien as a Modernizer.
Hong Kong, Union Research Institute, 1967. 1 volume in-12, 203 pp., paperback, green illustrated cover with geometric patterns, one Chinese stamp on the title page, enriched with several tables of statistics, very good condition.
Shanghai, Chinese National Committee on Intellectual Co-operation (1936), reprinted by Ch'eng-wen Publishing Co., Taipei, 1967. 1 volume in-12, 282 pp.+23 pp. Classified Index, blue cloth hardcover, very good condition.
A very useful and detailed catalogue of cultural institutions in China, with details concerning each cultural body, such as origin and history, membership, finance, activities, publications, etc.
London, Morgan & Scott, Ltd. (MCMXI), reprinted by Ch'eng-wen Publishing Co, Taipei, 1970. 1 volume in-12, 302 pp., 10 pp. appendix, green hardcover with illustrations, very good condition.
London / Leipsic, T. Fisher Unwin, 1912, lg. in-8vo, frontispiece + 4 ff. + 247 p., illustrated with 58 b/w plates + 6 in colours + 2 maps (1 folding), small legacy stamp ‘Guggisberg’, original publisher’s brown pictorial clothbound. Fine copy.
Robert Sterling Clark (1877 - 1956) was an American art collector, horse breeder, philanthropist, and heir to the Singer Sewing Machine fortune. Sterling Clark served in the military on the Philippines and during the Boxer rebellion. At least one source claims he served under General Smedley Butler. He financed a expedition (1909) which sought specimens from the Yellow River into Shaanxi and then to Kansu provinces of China. He recruited the explorer Arthur de Carle Sowerby as naturalist for the trip. Image disp.
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Lausanne, Gonin, 1930. 1 volume in-4, en feuilles, couverture illustrée, sous chemise demi-toile brune avec pièce d'auteur et de titre au dos, sous étui catonné d'éditeur usagé, 98 pp. Ouvrage Illustré de 31 compositions originales et décors en couleurs de Jean Berque, gravés sur bois par Philippe Gonin, dont un frontispice, 6 planches hors-texte et 23 illustration in-texte. Tirage limité à 120 exemplaires numérotés et signés, celui-ci No 43. Bel exemplaire, propre et en très bon état (seul l'étui cartonné présente des traces d'usure).
Très rare exemplaire de cet ouvrage de Paul Claudel, publié à Lausanne. Les compositions de l'artiste Jean Berque ont été gravées sur bois par Philippe Gonin, qui en acheva l'impression sur ses presses le 11 décembre 1930. REMISE POSSIBLE POUR ACHAT DIRECT - DISCOUNT OFFERED FOR DIRECT SALE - PLEASE CONTACT THE BOOKSELLER FOR MORE INFORMATION