China, large format publications – Crane (Louise), China in ...

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£800

China, large format publications – Crane (Louise), China in Sign and Symbol, Shanghai, Kelly & Walsh, 1926, illus. Kent Crane, 4to, xxv + 227pp, coloured frontis and 47 plates, 7 others in monochrome, decorated endpapers, cream boards, embossed gilt titles and spine titles, d. w. (torn edges) with plastic protector; Dorn (Frank, 1901-1981), The Map of Old Beijing, Folklore, Tientsin, Peiyang Press, 1936 folded map 58 x 77cm overall, colour printed in publisher’s colour printed outer protective envelope, lacks booklet; Schiff (Friedrich 1908-1968), Maskee, A Shanghai Sketchbook, hand-coloured signed edition, No. A430, small 4to, numerous cartoons in colour on concertina boards (10 folds 22 panels), royal blue silk brocade covered boards; Mackerras (Colin), Portraits of China, illus. Lunda Hoyle Gill,, Honolulu Press 1990 square 4to, xxiii + 136pp, dedication by artist to title page, colour plates, red boards, silver coloured titles, d.w.; Chinese Atlas of the World, Chinese language only, coloured maps including 3-D ones with red/blue spectacles in cache to front inside board, yellow boards, red cloth spine; Anon 滄桑 : 上海房地产150年 Great Changes: Shanghai Real Estate Turns 150, Shanghai, People’s Publishing House, 2003 reduced folio, 384pp, many monochrome illus., bilingual text, embossed red boards, gilt titles, printed wraparound strip with gilt titles in English, in embossed red front-opening box of issue; Spencer (Jonathan) & Amping (Chou), The Chinese Century: Photographic History, London, Cassell 2002, large 4to, 264pp, many monochrome photographs, card covers; Giles (Professor Herbert A., LLD), Gems of Chinese Literature, Vol. I prose, Shanghai, Kelly & Walsh, 1922, 4to, No. 172 out of a limited autographed edition of 700 copies, xiv + 287pp, autographed frontis portrait of Giles, cream cloth over marbled boards, title on cream reserve; Paludan (Ann), Chronicle of the Chinese Emperors: the Reign-by-Reign Record of the Rulers of Imperial China, London, Thames & Hudson, 1999, 4to, 224pp, coloured plates, brown boards, gilt titles, d. w. (9)