Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1919-1925. Three volumes. 8vos, original brown buckram with black titles to front covers and spines. Second Edition. Includes Volume II, The Japan Islands, viii, 712 pp, folding map, published in 1920; Volume III, Coast of China, Yalu River to Hongkong Entrance, viii, 514 pp.....
Japan: Circa 1950. Folded leaf measuring 10 3/4 x 15", with photographic illustrations of Christian mission work in Japan on one side and a handwritten letter on the other by Mrs. Yutaka Akichika. The Reverend Yutaka Akichika moved to the USA as a boy, where he met his Nikkei wife.....
Los Angeles: Quon-Quon Company, 1941. A collection of 14 stapled booklets, each measuring 4.25 x 3.74", relating to Chinese history and culture and published by a Los Angeles company. Includes: Kuan Yin, Chinese Festivals, The Romance of Chinese Metal Art, Chinese Proverbs, Chinese Carvings, Chinese Porcelain and Pottery, The Story.....
China: 1948. Single leaf measuring 10.5 x 7.25", printed both sides with advertisements for a theater in China circa 1948. Very good, folded in center, creased and toned.
China: Circa 1910s-1930s. Three unused, one with writing on back, in nice condition with minor soiling and/or wear here and there. Includes the following: Harbor of Hong Kong, China The Peak & Club Germania. Hong Kong. Wyndham Street, where flowers are sold, Hongkong Belilios Garden, Hongkong Peak (with a cancelled.....
Japan: Circa 1890s. Decorative album binding measuring 8 x 6" containing pastoral Asian scenes, containing 48 color tinted albumen photographs, each measuring 5.5 x 4" and bound accordion style. A nice collection of early images of Japan, including photos of geishas, group photos, landscape photos, pastoral images, urban images, hotels.....
Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1923-1924. Two volume set. 8vos, original green cloth with black titles to front covers and spines. Second Edition. Includes Volume One, Island of Java (With Exception of the Eastern Part From Java Head to Batavia), Islands East of Java, South and East Coasts of.....
Circa 1920. Minor toning and rubbing, in excellent condition.
Circa 1930s. Color lithograph print measuring 18.5 x 13 inches (plus border). Very good with creasing, short closed tear to margin.
Rangoon: [American Baptist Mission], 1896. Quarto, 4pp. Vol. IX No 5, November 1896. Creasing, toning, splitting along the folds. Good.
Kyoto: Yamanaka Art Gallery, Circa 1920s. Color pictorial postcard, blank on the back. Hint of soiling, 1/2 inch tear to upper corner.
1890. A collection of eighteen albumen photographs and CDVs, circa 1890, pasted to album leaves. Subject matter includes landmarks mostly in Pakistan (cities of Quetta, Karachi, Abbottabad, Jacobabad) while two photographs depict the well at Cawnpore, India. The album probably belonged to the military officer depicted in the cdvs in.....
Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1844. First Edition. Small 8vo, marbled boards with black morocco spine with gilt bands and gilt spine titles, 234 pp, illustrated with engravings. Mild toning and foxing to pages, shelf stamp to spine, ownership stamps to pastedowns, wear to covers.
New York: Woman's American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, 1943. Accordion style folding leaflet, 8pp, pictorial cover. A scarce leaflet printing an interview with an American missionary to West China. "The following interview actually took place between Miss Bassett and Rev. Frank B. Fagerburg, D.D., over the radio at a station.....
Shanghai: The Commercial Press, Limited, 1914. 9.25 x 6.75", original red cloth with gilt, [10], iii, [3], 644, [2] pp., illustrations and maps, some folding. Staining and soiling to covers, discoloration to two corners of front cover, bit of foxing to text block edges, name stamps (J. Wesley Miller) to.....
London: China Inland Mission/Religious Tract Society, 1925. 8vo, 74, [4] pp, green wrappers. A collection of anecdotes by missionaries in Northwest China, with map frontispiece, two cartoon drawings, and many photographic illustrations. A good copy with fading, staining and chipping to wrappers.
New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1901. 4to, original pictorial boards with yellow cloth spine, 176pp, profusely illustrated throughout. In the original scarce printed dust jacket. A collection of stories, anecdotes and studies of the lives of Children in China, by an American missionary and Science Professor at Peking University.....
Shangai: No Date. 8vo, 298, 378, pale blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, printed on thin paper. Chinese edition of volume 1 of Legge's Chinese classics. Printed no later than 1911, as a gift inscription dated May 28, 1911, at the University of Washington in Seattle, is present. Also with.....
Peiping: California College in China, 1940s. 38pp, pink wrappers. Published at the California College in China. Toned, wrappers chipped, good overall.
Andhra Pradesh, India: Swamy Publications, N.D. [1960]. A book of electoral predictions for 1960, by "Professor K.N. Swamy," Indian Astrologer and self-proclaimed "Super-Seer of Swantantra Bharat." Swamy comments on each candidate's chances based on their astrological signs: "Mr. John Kennady's Solar sign is TAURUS. Stability of character and purpose is.....
Hong Kong: Kee Ngar, 1919. 8vo, black printed boards with cloth spine, 279 pp. Fifth edition. A scarce beginner's guide to the English language printed in Hong Kong. The text begins with simple vocabulary--numbers, telling time, kitchen utensils, etc, before moving on to short phrases, dialogues, letter writing, and short.....
[Peking]: Reprinted from the Bulletin of the Geological Survey of China, 1932. Stapled wrappers, pp. 383-393, illustrations within text. Owner inscription and deaccession stamp to front cover. Very Good. Offprint.