Shanghai: American Women's Club, 1921, 1922-1923. First Edition. 8vo. [4], 256, [4pp advertisements] pp. Blue cloth & tan paper covered boards, tied with silk ribbon; black lettering on front cover; covering stiff brown wrappers with black lettering. Wera to extremities; spotting & darkening to covers; a very good copy. The..... More
London: Kegan Paul, 1882. First Edition. Original cloth. Small 8vo. 157, [1] pp. Half-title. Frontispiece portrait titled "Houqua", with tissue guard. Publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering & decoration; black endpapers. Spine ends professionally restored; light wear; else a near fine copy of a scarce title, made more so with..... More
Baltimore: Waverly Press, 1941. First Edition. 8vo. xiv, 183, [1] pp. 3 folding maps at rear. Bibliography; Index. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Fine condition. American Council of Learned Societies, Studies in Chinese & Related Civilizations, Number 4. "In this study the primary effort has been directed towards determing the..... More
London: Prepared for the China Inland Mission by Stanford's Geographical Establishment, 1899. 890 x 1070 mm (35 x 42 1/4"). Large folding map, dissected and laid down on linen (as issued), the map folds into a quarto-size green cloth binding, with a printed table ("Area and Population of China Proper")..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1853. First U.S. Edition. Original cloth. Small 8vo. viii, [1], 10-301 pp + 6pp advertisements at rear. Translated from the French, With a Supplementary Chapter, Narrating the Most Recent Events, by John Oxenford. folding map of the Provinces of China Covered by the Insurrection from..... More
New York: Century, 1905. First Edition. Original cloth. 8vo. 306 pp. 22 black & white plates. Illustrations by the author. Yellow cloth with red lettering and decoration. A very good copy (fading to spine; light wear to extremities; small bookseller label for Paul Elder & Co. in San Francisco inside..... More
Berkeley, CA: The Gillick Press, 1944. Hardcover. First Edition, with the author's red chop mark over the copyright date. 120 pp. Cream linen spine over yellow printed boards in publisher's red dustjacket with black lettering. Light bumping to upper corners; wear to extremities; a near fine copy in very good..... More
London: Thomas Cook & Son, 1920. Fourth Edition. Original cloth. 12mo. 159, xxii pp. 6 maps (3 folding, on japon paper); black & white illustrations. Business advertisements. Spine title: Spine title: Peking & the Overland Route. Publisher's green cloth with black lettering; pale green printed paper label to front cover;..... More
Tientsin, China: Chihli Press, 1931. First Edition. ISCRIBED "To my friend and fellow numismatic/Howard F. Bowker/from Arthur B. Coole/Nov. 11, 1949". Under the inscription, the author has written his name in Chinese. 4to. 110 pp. 2 large folding maps (1 loose at rear as issued); numerous photo-illustrations; some text in..... More
New York: Henry Holt, 1909. First Edition. 8vo. x, 531 + 2pp advertisements at rear. Index. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering. Light spotting on upper page edges else a fine copy of the uncommon first edition. "An authorative history and a broad, clear statement of this problem." "...The historical..... More
[Peking?]: Musee Hoangho-Paiho, Tientsin, 1932. Reprinted from the Bulletin of the Geological Survey of China, no. 19, 1932. Large 8vo. 49 pp. Large folding color map titled "Geological Sketch Map of the Wei Chang Area" by the author at rear; illustrations. Erratum tipped in. Publisher's printed wrappers in good condition..... More
Hong Kong: Kai Ming Press, 1966. First Edition. Original boards. Oblong 12mo. 88 pp of 176 classmate black & white photos, each page separated with tissue guard. 3 pp advertisements at rear. Text in English, ads are in Chinese. Black pebbled cloth with gilt lettering and illustration to front cover..... More
London: John Murray, 1817. First Edition. Leather bound. 4to. vii, (1), 526, (2) pp. Engraved frontispiece; 3 engraved maps (1 large folding); 7 color plates. Contemporary full leather; gilt lettering & decoration on spine; marbled page edges and endpapers. Contemporary bookbinder label "Jacques Chichester." A very good copy; some internal..... More
London: Constable and Company, 1925. First Edition. 8vo. xii, 305 pp. Index. Large folding map at rear. Publisher's olive green cloth with gilt lettering. Minor wear to extremities; light fading; spotting to page edges; front hinge cracked; a very good copy. A general account of the economic, commercial and political..... More
Paris: De L'Imprimerie Imperiale, 1805. First Edition. Large paper copy. 4to. xiv, [2], 188 pp. Text in French. Fold-out map depicting the Silk road trade route; engraved plate. With Chinese characters in text. Contemporary black cloth spine over marbled paper covered boards; partial paper title label to spine. Wear to..... More
Shanghai: Commercial Press, 1922. First Edition. 12mo. xvi, 66 pp. Black & white illustrations. Green cloth with gilt illustration of dragons & lettering to front cover. Some fading to covers; minor pencil notations inside front cover; else a ner fine copy. In this work, the author explores the origins and..... More
New York: Eaton & Mains, (1902). First Edition. Original cloth. Octavo; 248pp plus numerous photographs. Near Fine copy in publisher's red cloth illustrated in gold, black and white (fading & spotting to spine; previous owner name of 'S.L. Sommers' (County Surveyor of Alexandria County, VA and creator of Confederate Army..... More
Leiden, Leipzig, New York: Otto Harrassowitz; G. E. Stechert & Co., 1905. First Edition. Tall 8vo. 135, [1] pp. Text in English; some Chinese. Numerous black & white plates. Biographical Notes on some "Chinese Ancient Painters." Blue cloth with gilt lettering; illustrated endpapers. Light wear to boards; a near fine..... More
[London]: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1917-1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Volume II, Parts I - IX and Index, complete. Octavo; 9ii0, 228pp with several front wrappers bound in. Several fold-outs. Illustrations. “Pictographic Reconnaissances: Being Discoveries, Recoveries, etc." was published in nine issues of the JRAS between 1917 and 1928..... More
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio; [4], 18, [1]pp. A Near Fine copy in publisher's gold paper covered boards, lettered in red and black on front cover. 'Of this significant contribution to a better understanding of events now transpiring in the Far East two hundred copies..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1905. First Edition. Original cloth. 8vo. vii, 408pp + [3pp advertisements]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering. Wear to extremities; previous owner name & stamp; minor pencil notations at rear; else a near fine copy. As US consul general in Shanghai, China (1893–1897), the author gained considerable..... More
Philadelphia: Charles Desilver, 1861. Second Edition. 8vo. xii, 13-448, [8 pp advertisements] pp. 2 single page maps of Nagasaki Harbor & City, and of the Pei Ho River; 8 color lithograph plates of portraits of the Embassadors and their principal officials. Later cloth binding with black lettering to spine. Light..... More
Hong Kong: K. Weiss, 1953. First Edition. Original boards. Small 8vo. 151 pp. Bibliography; illustrations. Red cloth spine over grey printed boards in publisher's color illustrated dustjacket. Near fine (offsetting from dustjacket flaps) in good dustjacket (wear to extremities; short closed tear; some paper loss on spine). Includes regulations and..... More
Pullman, WA: State College of Washington Press, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xvi, 176 pp. Black & white photographic plates. Includes List of the Students of the Chinese Education Mission and their subsequent occupations in China. Yellow cloth with black lettering to spine & brown illustration on front cover. Light..... More
New York: Appleton-Century Company, 1913. First American Edition. 8vo. xvii, 447 pp. Black & white illustrations; map. Original rose colored cloth with gilt lettering. Darkening to covers, more so to spine; minor wear to extremities; a very good copy. The author, Special Correspondent at Peking, spent twelve years observing and..... More