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A Hong Kong Sketch Book
Hong Kong, Ye Olde Printerie Limited, 1931. 1 large volume in-4, 21 pp., rebound in modern leather, endpapers with double maps (Aerial View of Hong Kong and the New Territories), illustrated with a coloured Frontispice (Dragon Boat Festival in Aberdeen) and 13 full page drawings and 29 small drawings in the text, a very good copy.
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A rare copy of this charming Sketch Book on Hong Kong. "This book is not a Guide to Hong Kong in the accepted sense of the term. It gives no more than a few glimpses of Hong Kong, Kowloon and the New Territories but I have endeavored to make the glimpses as illuminating and representative as possible." (Extract from the Preface by Sweet). Contents cover: Hong Kong from the Clouds - Roads and Rickshaws - Bathing and Beaches - Over the Hills - In the Old City - A Heath Robinson Hut - Junks and Sampans - Typhoons and Umbrellas - In the New City.
Fifty Years of Shipbuilding and Repairing in the Far East. The Taikoo Dockyard & Engineering Co. of Hong Kong Ltd. Ship and Engine Builders and Repairers - Salvage Operators in the Far East.
Published by Technical Advertising Service, printed by Waterlow & Sons Limited, London, circa 1954. 1 large volume, 4 vo, 171 pp., modern blue leather binding, illustrated with many black and white photographs. Very good condition.
This scarce document shows Taikoo Dockyard past and present activities and facilities available there for shipbuilding and engineering.
Fifty Years of Shipbuilding and Repairing in the Far East. The Taikoo Dockyard & Engineering Co. of Hong Kong Ltd. Ship and Engine Builders and Repairers - Salvage Operators in the Far East.
Published by Technical Advertising Service, printed by Waterlow & Sons Limited, London, circa 1954. 1 large volume, 4 vo, 171 pp., blue and grey cloth boards, illustrated with many black and white photographs. Very good condition. An other copy with modern blue leather binding.
This scarce document shows Taikoo Dockyard past and present activities and facilities available there for shipbuilding and engineering.
Voyage en Chine - Hongkong - Canton
Hachette, Tour du Monde, 1877. 1 volume in-4, 48 pp., rebound in full modern leather, with many engravings on Hong kong and Canton, a very good copy.
This is an extract of Thomson's travel accounrt in China and Indochina, published in the magazine "Le Tour du Monde". Those 2 chapters focus on Hongkong and Canton and are richly illustrated with engravings
La Chine d'après les Voyageurs les plus récents
Paris, Librairie Furne, Jouvet et Cie, Editeurs, MDCCCLXXXV (1885). 1 volume in-12, reliure ancienne demi-basane, plats cartonnés marbrés, coiffe supérieure usée, très bon état. Ouvrage illustré de 65 gravures sur bois in et hors texte.
Un classique voyage à travers la Chine avec des descriptions de Canton, Hong Kong, Shanghai, du Fleuve Bleu et de Pékin.
TOUR du MONDE - N° 110 - Avril 1969 : HONG-KONG
Revue mensuelle de 72 pages, format 140 x 210 mm, illustrée, brochée, Impr. de Sceaux, bon état
Dossier : Hong-Kong
Phone number : 04 74 33 45 19
Buildings of To-day and To-morrow - A Review of Modern Construction - An Illustrated Review
Trollope & Colls Ltd, London, 1924. 1 volume folio, modern burgundy leather covers, 38*25 cm, 78 pp., with many full page photographic plates of buildings built by Trollops and Calls, all over the world, a very good copy. A very large (105 x 38 cm) folding panorama of "The Bund - Shanghai", large folding map (55 x 51 cm) of Some of the Buildings Erected by Trollope & Colls in the City of London, occasional spot of foxing, all text pages and plates present and attached in sound, tight binding, no tears.
"The object of this book is, in the first place, to review the past and present activities of the firm Trollope & Colls, and at the same time to direct attention to the fact, as will be seen from the following pages, that the scope of the Company's business is not limited to building and public works contracting at home and abroad, but embraces the highest class of decorative work and furnishing, both for ships and for buildings." .Trollope & Colls was one of the premier construction companies of its time, noted for many landmark buildings both in Great Britain and overseas. Some of their London projects were: the Institute of Chartered Accountants (1892), Claridges (1897), the Baltic Exchange (1903), and Lloyds Bank in Lombard Street (1931). They also designed rooms on luxury ocean liners, several of which are illustrated.The section on China is quite impressive, with the large folding panorama of the Bund and 10 additional photographs of significant buildings in Shanghai. The 10 photographs are: Octagonal Hall in the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, Chartered Bank of India, Australia & China, Glen Line Building, Lay-Out of Plant, Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, Main Banking Hall, Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, Interior, Chartered Bank of India, Australia & China, Granite Front Nearing Completion, Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, The Completed Building, Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, Interior, Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, Another View of Interior, Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, The Folding Panorama of the Bund shows the location of these buildings and the Yokohama Specie Bank, which the firm also constructed.
De Hanoi au Quang-Si
Paris, Hachette, Le Tour du Monde, Décembre 1904. 1 volume in-4, 24 pp.,(589-612), reliure moderne plein cuir, ouvrage enrichi de nombreuses gravures et reproductons photographiques d'après des photos de l'auteur, très bon état. Réunion de 2 compte-rendus de voyages, au Kouang-Si (12 pages) et à Hong Kong (12 pages)
Ensemble de 2 relations de voyage dans la Province du Quang-Si, en Chine méridionale et à Hong Kong. Nombreuses illustrations sur Hong Kong ainsi qu'une petite carte.
Gardening for Hong Kong
Hong Kong, Ye Olde Printerie Ltd, 1964 (fourth edition). 1 small volume 8-vo, 91pp-iv, green cloth cover, fine copy of this scarce book.
First published in 1906, "these notes are not intended to be exhaustive in any way, but only of sufficient value to give amateurs an elementary knowledge of gardening in the Colony"(introduction). Everything you want to know on tropical plants and exotic flowers.
Adventures and Perils - The First Hundred and Fifty Years of Union Insurance Society of Canton
Hong Kong, Produced by Ogilvy & Mather Public Relations (Asia) Ltd., 1985. Text by Alan Chalkley, Additional Material by Robin Barrie. 1 large volume in-8, 54 pp., hard covers with a clean pictorial dust jacket, profusely illustrated with period photographs, a very good copy.
Hong Kong, Produced by Ogilvy & Mather Public Relations (Asia) Ltd., 1985.
WAY (Denis) - NIELD (Robert)- [HONG KONG] [PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS] -
Reference : 10987
Counting House: The History of Pricewaterhouse Coopers on the China Coast
Hong Kong, Published by PricewaterhouseCoopers, Printed by The local Printing Press, Ye Olde Printerie, 2002 (limited edition). 1 volume in-folio, hard covers with an illustrated dust-jacket, 276 pp. + [30] pp. (Acknowledgements-Bibliography-Index), with numerous illustrations, some light foxing on end-pages, overall a very good copy.
The History of PricewaterhouseCoopers on the China Coast."In addition to covering PwC's history as a firm in what is today a reunified China mainland, Counting House describes that broader evolution, and introduces those who played a role in it. Here is a story of, at times, personal and professional struggle, of internment and malady, inquiry and litigation - compensated for by ultimate triumph." A very scarce copy of this internally distributed document.
The Philatelic and Postal History of Hong Kong and their Treaty Ports of China and Japan - Scarcity and Valuation Guide
Hong Kong, The Postal History Society, 1960 (Edition limited to 500 copies for sale). 1 volume, soft printed blue covers, stapled, with paper spine, 37 pp., a good and clean copy.
A comprehensive guide to scarcity published as a Supplement to the classic handbook on the postage stamps and postal history of Hong Kong and the Treaty Ports. "Philatelic and Postal History of Hong Kong and the Treaty Ports of China and Japan", written and published by the same author.
Scènes d'un monde flottant - Scenes of a floating world
Lausanne, Alfred Eibel, Editeur, 1976. Imprimé par Local Property & Printing Co, Hong Kong. Première édition limitée à mille exemplaires numérotés, celui-ci No 841. 1 plaquette in-4, couverture souple imprimée rouge, non paginée, cousue à la chinoise, bon état. Edition bilingue, bilingual edition. Première édition, plus rare que la réédition de Grasset de 1983.
Recueil de 15 poèmes en anglais et en français sur la vie à Hong Kong. Collection of poems in french and english about Hong Kong life.
Scènes d'un monde flottant - Scenes of a floating world
Lausanne, Alfred Eibel, Editeur, 1976. Imprimé par Local Property & Printing Co, Hong Kong. Edition limitée à mille exemplaires numérotés, celui-ci No 979. 1 plaquette in-4, couverture souple imprimée rouge, non paginée, cousue à la chinoise, bon état. Edition bilingue, bilingual edition.
Recueil de 15 poèmes en anglais et en français sur la vie à Hong Kong. Collection of poems in french and english about Hong Kong life.
Sweet & Sour - Dollars Billets Doux
Hong Kong, Publisher Lorraine Langridge, Printed by The Wishing Printing Co., [1967]. 1 booklet, in-8, soft illustrated covers, 85 pp., fiully illustrated with black and white cartoons on Hong kong life ans style, with captions in english and french.
Zabo is a french cartoonist who lived in Hong Kong in the sixties and drew cartoons for the South China Morning Post. Here is a collection of his satirical cartoons on Hong Kong life in the sixties. They were originally published in SCMP. Delightful!
Chinese Potpourri
Hong Kong, The Oriental Publishers, 1961 (3rd edition). 1 volume in-8, 340 pp., hard covers, in publisher's cloth binding, a very good copy, fully illustrated with black and white photographs.
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Panorama of chinese life, customs and arts.
