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Item #10018 [Historically Important Collection of Thirty-Nine Original Gelatin Silver Photographs...

[CHINA - SHANGHAI] STEVENS, Paul. Lt.

[Historically Important Collection of Thirty-Nine Original Gelatin Silver Photographs Documenting the Battle of Shanghai During the Second Sino-Japanese War and Showing Shanghai (The Partly Ruined Bund and Destroyed North Station, Café de Luxe, streets, houses, etc.), Chapei (The Office of the Mayor of Shanghai Yu Hung-Chun, a Racecourse, Naval Ships in the Wangpou Harbor, the Destroyed Buildings of the Bund and a Girls’ School), and Peiping (A Funeral Procession and Chinese Structures); With Three Pieces of Ephemera and Seventeen Newspaper and Magazine Clippings (Including “The Shanghai Times”) Featuring Articles on the Destruction of the City and Several Jokes about Life as a Marine; the Album is Titled:] Photographs. Shanghai. China 37-38. Stevens, Paul. Lt. The 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment of the US Marine Corps.

Price: $1,750.00

Item #6820 [PRESENTATION COPY, RARE COMPLETE SET OF ORIGINAL PUBLISHERS’ WRAPPERS] Puteshestvie...

[CHINA] KOVALEVSKY (or KOVALEVSKI), Yegor (Egor) Petrovich (1809-1868)

[PRESENTATION COPY, RARE COMPLETE SET OF ORIGINAL PUBLISHERS’ WRAPPERS] Puteshestvie v Kitai [i.e. Travel to China]

Saint Petersburg: Typ. of Korolyov and Co., 1853.

Price: $5,250.00

Item #6667 [FIRST RUSSIAN PLAN OF BEIJING] Dnevnye Zapiski Karavannomu Puti cherez Naunskuyu...

[CHINA] [Lange, Lorenz]

[FIRST RUSSIAN PLAN OF BEIJING] Dnevnye Zapiski Karavannomu Puti cherez Naunskuyu Dorogu ot Tsurukhaitu do Pekina, 1736 godu / [i.e. Daily Notes on the Caravan Travel along the Nenjiang River Route from Tsurukhaitu to Beijing in 1736]. In: Akademicheskiye Izvestiya na 1781 god, Soderzhashchiye v Sebe Istoriyu Nauk i Noveyshiye Otkrytiya Onykh… [i.e. Academic Newsletter for 1781, Containing the History of Sciences and the Latest Discoveries in Them…]

Price: $5,250.00

Item #6851 Iz Krugosvetnogo Plavaniya: Ocherki Morskogo Byta [i.e. From a Voyage Around the...

[HONG KONG, CANTON & SAIGON] Staniukovich, K.M.

Iz Krugosvetnogo Plavaniya: Ocherki Morskogo Byta [i.e. From a Voyage Around the World: Sketches of Everyday Life at Sea]

St. Petersburg: Typ. of V. Golovin, 1867.

Price: $2,750.00

Item #6849 Puteshestvie po Kitayu v 1874-1875 gg. (cherez Sibir, Mongoliyu, Vostochny, Sredny i...

[INNER CHINA - GREAT GAME] [Pyasetsky/Piasetskii], P.Y.

Puteshestvie po Kitayu v 1874-1875 gg. (cherez Sibir, Mongoliyu, Vostochny, Sredny i Severo-Zapadny Kitai): Iz dnevnika chlena ekspeditsii P.Y. Pyasetskogo [i.e. Travel across China in 1874-75 (via Siberia, Mongolia, Eastern, Central and Northwestern China): From the Diary of the Expedition Member P.Y. Pyasetsky]

St. Petersburg: Typ. of M. Stasyulevich, 1880-1881.

Price: $4,500.00

Item #6822 [Attractive Lacquered Album with 112 Original Photographs of Japan, China, Singapore,...

[JAPAN, CHINA & PACIFIC]

[Attractive Lacquered Album with 112 Original Photographs of Japan, China, Singapore, Samoa, and Hawaii, Including Interesting Images of Nikko Temples and Processions, Tea Houses, Villages and Hotels around Lake Hakone, Streets of Tokyo, and Nara, Panoramas of Penang and Hong Kong, Scenes of Execution in Canton, Portraits of “Maoris” and Samoans, etc., Titled]: Around the World, 1900.

Price: $3,500.00

Item #8959 [A Sepia Pen and Wash Watercolour View of Luis de Camões Grotto After the Aquatint...

[MACAO]

[A Sepia Pen and Wash Watercolour View of Luis de Camões Grotto After the Aquatint from “A Picturesque Voyage to India by the Way of China” (1810) by Thomas and William Daniell’s; Titled:] Camoens Cave, Macao.

Ca. 1810s.

Price: $750.00

Item #8939 [Original Extensive Autograph Letter Signed by a Female American Presbyterian...

[AMERICAN FEMALE MISSIONARY IN CHINA] [NEAL, Elizabeth Blackford, née Simonton] (1859-1939)

[Original Extensive Autograph Letter Signed by a Female American Presbyterian Missionary in China, Written to Her Parents and Talking about Her Recent Missionary Trips around Weifang (Shandong Province), Preaching to Chinese Christians, Staying Overnight in a Village School “with the Heat & the Fleas,” Giving an Eye-Witness Account of the Bohai Sea Earthquake on June 13, 1888, and Discussing or Mentioning Several American Missionaries, including Her Husband James Boyd Neal, Dr. John L. Nevius, Rev. James H. Laughlin and his wife Annie, Lottie Moon, Margaret Jane Hayes, and Julia B. Mateer].

Tang Wu, 20 April 1888; Wei Hien, 19 May 1888; & Tengchowfoo, 16 June, 1888.

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Item #8934 [Historically Important Collection of 108 Large Original Gelatin Silver Photos in Two...

[AMERICANS IN BURMA & INDIA – WW2]

[Historically Important Collection of 108 Large Original Gelatin Silver Photos in Two Albums, Taken by the Members of the U.S. Army Signal Corps in the China Burma India Theatre of WW2; the Photos Show the Recapture of Northern Myanmar around Myitkyina, Construction and Maintenance of the Ledo Road from Assam to Kunming (China), American Military Facilities in Assam and Kolkata, Surgeries and Medical Procedures in Portable and Evacuation Hospitals near Myitkyina and Shingbwiyang, American Military Recreational Facilities in India, American Military Commanders and Servicemen, Native Members of the American Kachin Rangers, &c.].

Ca. April 1944 – August 1945.

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Item #10044 [Historically Important Document of the American Chinese Trade and Chinese Migration...

[CALIFORNIA – SAN FRANCISCO – CHINA - US TRADE]

[Historically Important Document of the American Chinese Trade and Chinese Migration to the US in the 1870s: A Large Purchase Bill for Over Forty Types of Products Ordered by the San Joaquin & Kings River Canal Co from One of the Leading San Francisco-based Importers of Chinese Goods, Tong Wo & Co. Among the Products Purchased for the Chinese Labor Force Are 20 Bottles of Gin, Tobacco, Silk Jackets, Cotton Shoes, Bamboo Brushes, Pills, Shrimps, Etc.].

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Item #6821 [Album with 61 Gelatin Silver Snapshot Photographs and Eleven Large Loose Gelatin...

[CHINA – BOXER REBELLION] MONTGELAS, Pauline, Countess von (1874-1961)

[Album with 61 Gelatin Silver Snapshot Photographs and Eleven Large Loose Gelatin Silver Studio Photos Taken and Collected by Pauline Montgelas, the Wife of German Military Attache in China, during the Country’s Occupation by the Troops of the Eight-Nation Alliance Suppressing the Boxer Rebellion; With a Copy of her “Ostasiatische Skizzen” (München, 1905)].

ca. 1900.

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Item #6852 Rezultaty poezdki po Hulan-Chenskomu Futudunstvu [i.e. Results of a Travel to the...

[CHINA – BOXER REBELLION] Tsererin, A.P.

Rezultaty poezdki po Hulan-Chenskomu Futudunstvu [i.e. Results of a Travel to the Province of Hulan-Chen]

Vladivostok: Typ. of Sushchinsky & Co., 1902.

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Item #6729 [Album with Sixty Photographs, including Fifty-five Albumen, Four Cyanotypes and One...

[FRENCH INDOCHINA]

[Album with Sixty Photographs, including Fifty-five Albumen, Four Cyanotypes and One Platinum Print Compiled by a French Officer During His Service in French Indochina]

Ca. 1890s-1900s.

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[HONG KONG & SINGAPORE] KUBOTA, Beisen (1852-1906)

米僊漫遊画乗 Beisen Manyu Gajo [i.e. Beisen’s China Travel Album]

Tokyo: Jihei Tanaka, 1889-1890.

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