1890, ISBN: 5ebb8514a713c9d9e8288cb8d57ba8da

[SC: 32.39], CHINA: SOCIAL SCIENCE, ECLECTIC, ALL SUBJECTS & DISCIPLINES [NO ART]; RARE SINICA, IMPORTANT ITEMS ABOUT DISCIPLINES; YUNNAN PROVINCE, SOUTH PEOPLE, LAND, ETHNOLOGY MINORITIE… Meer...

[SC: 32.39], CHINA: SOCIAL SCIENCE, ECLECTIC, ALL SUBJECTS & DISCIPLINES [NO ART]; RARE SINICA, IMPORTANT ITEMS ABOUT DISCIPLINES; YUNNAN PROVINCE, SOUTH PEOPLE, LAND, ETHNOLOGY MINORITIES;, London 1890, Philip. Blue cloth, very sharp, 302p., index, one fold out & color map, 8 b.w. plates, introduction by A. Little, With note on Opium cultivation, 14.5 x 23 cm.,mostly uncut, top edge dusty, else clean, solid, an excellent copy. The author's narrative cover the years 1882-1884. He was H. B.M. Consular to China, and traveled widely throughout the empire, and faithfully recorded his observations. This text covers his journey up the Yang-tse to Western China, Chungking to the capital of Kue-Chow, harvesting the opium, silk & paper manufactures, bamboo water wheels. Westward to Yun-nan, white wax insects, Miao-tzu houses and women, limestone caves, underground rivers, poverty of the inhabitants, Chinese inquisitiveness. Through North-Eastern Yun-nan to the Yang-tse, opium smokers, exposure of robber's heads, Lolo robber's heads, Lolo bloodshed, to Chun-king, salt wells, of sugar, safflower and beggars. * Through Lolodom & the valley of Chien-Ch'ang, brick tea for Tibet, Sifan language, asbestos cloth, Lolo women. To Ta-li Fu to Yun-nan fu, Tibet, Kwei-Chow, narrow escape, Sacred Mount O-Mei, Chinese insect white wax, its production. Trade of Western & South-Western China. * An excellent and quite primary resource. * THE EDITIONS: This is the FIRST BRITISH EDITION, 1890. The first American edition was 1889, the first British edition was in 1890. * THE MAP: At the end of the volume is a map: 1. Sketch map of South-Western China, to illustrate the journeys of Alexander Hosie, H.B.M. Consular Service, China. This is a large color folding map, 43.5 x 53 cm. * CONDITION: The book is in excellent condition, with very bright end papers front and back, largely uncut, solid, with some old [coal?] dust on the top edge, else excellent, in a thick mylar clear dust jacket. * BIBLIOGRAPHY: H. H. Cordier: BIBLIOTHECA SINICA 353 * [MORRISON, G.[orge] E.[rnest]. CATALOGUE OF THE ASIATIC LIBRARY OF DR. G.E. MORRISON: vol.I, p.361 * Scans can be sent by email.<

1890, ISBN: 5ebb8514a713c9d9e8288cb8d57ba8da

[SC: 25.87], CHINA: SOCIAL SCIENCE, ECLECTIC, ALL SUBJECTS & DISCIPLINES [NO ART]; RARE SINICA, IMPORTANT ITEMS ABOUT DISCIPLINES; YUNNAN PROVINCE, SOUTH PEOPLE, LAND, ETHNOLOGY MINORITIE… Meer...

[SC: 25.87], CHINA: SOCIAL SCIENCE, ECLECTIC, ALL SUBJECTS & DISCIPLINES [NO ART]; RARE SINICA, IMPORTANT ITEMS ABOUT DISCIPLINES; YUNNAN PROVINCE, SOUTH PEOPLE, LAND, ETHNOLOGY MINORITIES;, London 1890, Philip. Blue cloth, very sharp, 302p., index, one fold out & color map, 8 b.w. plates, introduction by A. Little, With note on Opium cultivation, 14.5 x 23 cm.,mostly uncut, top edge dusty, else clean, solid, an excellent copy. The author's narrative cover the years 1882-1884. He was H. B.M. Consular to China, and traveled widely throughout the empire, and faithfully recorded his observations. This text covers his journey up the Yang-tse to Western China, Chungking to the capital of Kue-Chow, harvesting the opium, silk & paper manufactures, bamboo water wheels. Westward to Yun-nan, white wax insects, Miao-tzu houses and women, limestone caves, underground rivers, poverty of the inhabitants, Chinese inquisitiveness. Through North-Eastern Yun-nan to the Yang-tse, opium smokers, exposure of robber's heads, Lolo robber's heads, Lolo bloodshed, to Chun-king, salt wells, of sugar, safflower and beggars. * Through Lolodom & the valley of Chien-Ch'ang, brick tea for Tibet, Sifan language, asbestos cloth, Lolo women. To Ta-li Fu to Yun-nan fu, Tibet, Kwei-Chow, narrow escape, Sacred Mount O-Mei, Chinese insect white wax, its production. Trade of Western & South-Western China. * An excellent and quite primary resource. * THE EDITIONS: This is the FIRST BRITISH EDITION, 1890. The first American edition was 1889, the first British edition was in 1890. * THE MAP: At the end of the volume is a map: 1. Sketch map of South-Western China, to illustrate the journeys of Alexander Hosie, H.B.M. Consular Service, China. This is a large color folding map, 43.5 x 53 cm. * CONDITION: The book is in excellent condition, with very bright end papers front and back, largely uncut, solid, with some old [coal?] dust on the top edge, else excellent, in a thick mylar clear dust jacket. * BIBLIOGRAPHY: H. H. Cordier: BIBLIOTHECA SINICA 353 * [MORRISON, G.[orge] E.[rnest]. CATALOGUE OF THE ASIATIC LIBRARY OF DR. G.E. MORRISON: vol.I, p.361 * Scans can be sent by email.<

1897, ISBN: 5ebb8514a713c9d9e8288cb8d57ba8da

[SC: 9.0], [PU: George Philip & Son, London], CHINA - TRAVEL, Second edition. Octavo. Hardcover. Very good. 290 Pages, Image of a Chinese junk opposite title page, large folding map. A ve… Meer...

[SC: 9.0], [PU: George Philip & Son, London], CHINA - TRAVEL, Second edition. Octavo. Hardcover. Very good. 290 Pages, Image of a Chinese junk opposite title page, large folding map. A very interesting account of the authors travels in 1882,1883 & 1884, which starts by going up the Yangtze River. Hosie well describes all that he encounters during these trips: nature, trade, meeting natives of the various areas and a large number of every day professions such as how pith paper is made, mining of various materials etc. A truely fascinating book!<