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[004756] . REPORTS FROM THE CONSULS OF THE UNITED STATES. MAY- AUGUST 1890. ill. Tables, Foldout. Washinton: Government Printing Office, 1890. Size: Approx. 5 3/4" x 8 1/2". Black Cloth. American History. Good Four monthly reports, May-August 1890, from the U.S. Consulates around the world.No. 116-119. Each one with Index of Subjects covered. Historical data. 734 pp. Issued from the Bureau of Statistics, Department of State. "All requests for these reports should be addressed to the Secretary of State". Some of the subjects covered: The Forth Bridge with drawing; Labor Laws of Europe; Russian Petroleum Trade; British Soda-Ash and Chlorate of Potash; Silk-Worm Raising in China; Mexican Central Railroad; Australasian Wool Season of 1889-90, South African Progress; Liverpool with large foldout of Artisans' Dwellings, Victoria Square Liverpool and 5 pages of illustrations relating to Manholes/Sewers; Australasian -American Trade; Railways in Syria with foldout map of Projected Railroad from Acca to Damascus; Jamaican-American Trade; Trade and Industries of Germany; The Leper Hospital at Maracaibo; Commerce of Guaymas and much more on different countries throughout the world. Index for Subjects for each month. Historical Data. Black cloth with calf corner tips. Spine rebound in black tape-like fabric? Corner rubbed to boards and rubbed along edges. Scuffed. Overall covers are Good. Hinges reinforced with white tape at endpapers. Front endpapers with ex-library stamps and circular sticker. ex-lib. stamp on front endpaper, and once on back of foldout. Doesn't show through on foldout illustration. Pages 595-end watermark on right side margin and upper corner. Never on text. Hinge broken on title page. Otherwise interior is tight, clean and Very Good+. Thick book. May need extra postage. $75.00

[004379] . HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. NOVEMBER 1868. ill. Engravings, Drawings,. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1868. Size: Approx. 6 1/2" x 10". Paper Covers. Harper's Magazine. Good- to Fair November Issue. Volume 37, Number 222. Some articles written or about FAMOUS AMERICANS: J. ROSS BROWNE:Explorations in Lower California (Second Paper) pp.740-752 with illustrations; Fish-Culture in America, pp.721-739 with illustrations- one of SETH GREEN; The Handel Festival at the Crystal Place, 1868, pp.753-759 with illustrations-one of CHRISTINE NILSSON; and Democracy of the Chinese by REV. WILLIAM SPEER, pp.839-848. Soiling to front cover. Ink "blottish" from spill? on lower spine on to front lower cover, widest area 1/2". One inch tear, side edge chipped. "Duplicate" stamped.Cover is Good- to Fair. pp.721-744 one or both side corner edges creased/folded. Last 2 pages side top corner also creased/folded. Otherwise interior is tight and clean and Very Good. Many engravings. $20.00

[003183] . SCIENCE, August 7, 1885. Volume VI. No. 131. ill. Etchings, Maps,. Cambridge: The Science Company, 1885. Size: Approx. 7 1/4" x 10 1/4". Paper Wraps. Science. Good+ From Famous Americans in Letters to the Editor: JOSEPH F. JAMES "An abormal Rudbeckla" with an illustration; and WM. H. BREWER "The ginkgo tree"; also under Letters to Editor: "The swimming-habits of the sunfish" by John A. Ryder with an illustration of "Mola Rotunda". Other articles: "Exploration in Indo-China" with 4 illustrations including a map of proposed railways; "The Telephone in Paris" with a map "showing Paris and the distribution of telephones"; "Around Africa" with 2 head "portraits" of "Natal Caffre and Sulu Maiden". ex.mus. stamp on front cover. Tiny chipping around bottom edge. Overall covers are Good+. Interior is tight, clean and VG. $40.00

[002043] . ECHO OF CHINESE, Special Issue of West & East Monthly . West & East Monthly , 1966. Paper Back. China. Very Good+ $6.00

[000994] . FORTUNE MAGAZINE, October 1947. New Jersey: Time, Inc, 1947. Size:10 1/2" x 13". Wraps. Fortune Magazine. Very Good Volume XXXVI, Number 4. Contents: THE FARMER GOES TO TOWN...with a lot of money, and brings home many urban amenities.; GENERAL CABLE, Recharged with novel ideas, this biggest of wiremakers cuts prices, raises wages, and holds profits.; TURKEY: AID FOR WHAT? by Max Weston Thornburg, Business criteria for helping a nation help itself. MR. O'HARA'S NICKEL DRINK, After sixty-three snug years in the South, Dr. Pepper wants national distribution-cheap.; NORTHROP WING, Long an aerodynamic ideal, the airplane without fuselage or tail is a giant jet-propelled reality.; HONG KONG, Britain's commercial crown jewel shines brighter than it did before the Japanese seized it. A report and a portfolio of pictures.; WORLD SHORTAGE OF PULP, One of civilization's basic fibers will be scarce and high until Europe recovers.; LOCK, STOCK & BARREL, A portfolio of fine modern shooting irons, with some notes on an ancient sport.; THE RIGHT TO MOVE, by Herrymon Maurer. Migration, once free, has been planned to a standstill., Cover art by Edmund D. Lewandowski. No tears. Spine faded and rubbed otherwise Very Good+. Interior is also Very Good. +. 208 pp. $35.00

[001746] Ando, Hikotaro. Peking. 1971. Travel Guide. Very Good / Clear Protective Cover. plastic covering missing upper right corner/flap. owner's name on free endp. $5.00

[003133] Hibbert, Christopher.. THE EMPERORS OF CHINA: TREASURES OF THE WORLD . Chicago: Stonehenge Press, 1981. First Printing. China. Very Good+ to Near Fine ISBN: 0-86706-003-4. Beautiful book, filled with color plates and photographs. Red silk decorative covers. Back cover mildly soiled-minor. Otherwise the Book is Near Fine to Fine. $8.50

[004020] House of Representatives. CHINA. Message from The President of the United States (Franklin Pierce) , Transmitting Copies of Correspondence Between the State Department and the Late Commissioner to China. ill. Tables. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1854. Size: Approx. 5 1/2" x 9". Disbound. American History. Very Good 33d Congress, 1st Session., Ex. Document. No. 123. 384 pp. All the official correspondence of Hon. Humphrey Marshall, late Commissioner to China with the State Department. Commences with Marshall voyage to China with stops in Cairo, Egypt, then aboard the British Steamer Malta. Detailed account of his journey and his encounters thereafter: Criminal cases tried, tables with exports/imports from Canton to the U.S., Correspondence with Commodore M. C. Perry,Commander-in-Chief of the United States Naval Forces in the East India, China and Japan Seas, Tables of American Vessels arriving and departing from ports in China, History and Cultural Differences-lists official titles "in the great peaceful empire in the second year of the dynasty", Book of instuction of the Tae Bin dynasty including rules and regulations, The Fall of Shanghai in 1853, etc. Historical document. $145.00

[002442] Kuznetsova, N. Ya.. Review of the Family Sphingidae of the Palearctic and Chinese-Himalayan Faunas. ill. Fold Out Chart. New Delhi: Amerind Pub. Co., 1972. Size: Approx. 6 1/2" x 9 1/2". Brown Cloth. Natural History. Very Good to Very Good+ / Good+. Translated from Russian. Published for the Smithsonian Institution and The National Science Foundation, Washington D.C. 43 pp. plus fold-out chart. Brown cloth with gilt lettering on front. Exterior is VG to VG+. Front/back endpapers "bubbly" possibly due to pasting down to boards ?, otherwise interior is tight, clean and in Near Fine condition. Dust Jacket's back cover with museum mailing label. Several small rubbings to front cover and tiny chips to top spine end. Otherall Good+. $42.50

[003169] National Geographic Society. Journey into China.. Washington: National Geographic Society., 1982. Red Decorative. China. Near Fine to Fine 518 pp. with Index. 412 color photographs. Tiny bit of rubbing at spine top gutters otherwise Fine exterior and interior.Beautiful book. Gilt design on cover and gilt lettering on spine. All edges gilt. $28.50

[003170] Organization Committee Of The Exhibition Of Archaelogical Finds Of The People's Republic Of China.. The Exhibition of Archaelogical Finds of the People's Republic of China.. Size: Approx. 8 1/4 " X 9 1/2". Soft Cover. China. Very Good+ no actual date. Probably 1975 as dates of Exhibitions in U.S. are stated in the front. Laid in "program" from the exhibition in San Francisco. Pictorial covers. Slight rubbing at top edge, otherwise exterior is Near Fine. Interior is Fine. $15.00

[004653] Tenri Museum. ETHNOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS. ill. Photographs. Japan: Tenri University Press, 1958. Size: Approx. 6 " x 8 1/2". Soft Cover. Ethnology. Good+ "With the establishment of the Foreign Language School in 1925, the Predecessor of the present Tenri University, which aimed to educate and train young Tenri followers for overseas missionary work, the Rev. S. Nakayama, the Shimbashira had planned to collect various ethnographical objects relating to social life and religious customs in the Near Asian countries to study their life and customs. At first he started collecting many instruments and utensils used by the natives in their daily living during his travel through Korea and China. When the Tenri Missionary Centers in Korea, Formosa and China, and others had co-operated with his planning and dedicated various articles from those areas, they accumulated the nucleus of the collection....In no time a museum was born and called Tenri Sankokan for the purpose of study of foreign culture and customs." unpaginated (24 pp.) Each page filled with photographs of the "objects" used by the different tribes and groups. Countries covered: African Continent; American Continent; South Pacific Islands; South Asia-India; China; Central Asia; Korea; North Asia; and Japan. Glossy covers. Faded? strip on front cover. ex.mus. stamp. Mildly soiled/creased side edge area. Overall covers are Good+. Title page and one other page with ex.-mus. stamp. Doesn't interfer with text. Otherwise interior is tight, clean and Very Good+. $45.00

[004013] Yen, Wei-Ching W.. THE FISHERIES OF CHINA. 1910. Size: Approx. 7 3/4" x 11". Stiff Covers. China. Very Good Address before the Fourth International Fishery Congress held at Washington, U.S.A., September 22 to 26, 1908. From Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries, Vol. XXVIII, 1921-22. Document No. 664. pp 367-373. Author was the Second Secretary Imperial Chinese Legation, Washington D.C. " The more common of the edible fishes in our country are the perch, mackerel, sturgeon, goby, pomfret, eel, gudgeon, shad, sole, mullet, flounder, herring, carp, bream, etc. With our dense population it is a matter of necessity that we seek our food from the waters as well as from the air and the land." ex.mus. stamp and numbers on front cover. Otherwise covers are Very Good+. Interior is tight, clean and VG+. $25.00