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Published by The MIT Press, 1970
ISBN 10: 0262080354ISBN 13: 9780262080354
Seller: thebookforest.com, San Rafael, CA, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. Text block firm and clean, binding unblemished, boards straight, without highlights or underlining. Without dust wrapper. Very clean, very nice example. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. Partnered with Friends of the Library since 2010.
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Cambridge [1969], M.I.T. White cloth, 366p., index, 535 b.w. photos, very good, clean copy, dj., 18 x 26 cm., very solid excellent copy. This is an important source for Chinese technology, trades- men and industry. Covering in great detail, with copious photos to make following tools: tools for procuring food, making clothing, to provide shelter, for enabling transport. Each section consists of a lengthy essay, with photos of the actual objects, size and its use carefully described. Mining and metalurgy, blacksmithing, wire drawing, iron casting, brassmithing, plows, rice planting & irrigation, oil making, mills, animal power, water, salt supply, traps, kitchen sto- ves, looms, spinning, weaving, dyeing, washing textiles. The domestic objects around the home: tree felling, log use, ba- mboo works, saws, carpenter's tools, lathe, history of dow- els, lime burning, locks, brooms &c. Transport: roads, wheel barrows, horse furniture, boat building, compass, earthen- ware withuot potter's wheel, cooper's trade &c. A wonderful perspective into China's creative past. An excellent source. *.
Published by The John Day Co, 1937
HARDCOVER. Condition: Good. Hardcover edition. 366pp, quarto hardcover in red cloth. mild cover wear, light soil spot bottom rear board, minor fading to spine, binding and block solid, light foxing to interior, text clean.
Published by M. I. T. Press (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Cambridge & London, 1969
Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Hardcover with dust jacket. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Thus. 8vo. Pp. xii, 366. Illustrated throughout with black & white photography and illustrations. Index. Bound in cream cloth with black lettering stamped on spine. Clean throughout, binding tight. In the illustrated dust jacket that shows edge-wear. First published in 1937, based on research initially conducted with the Henry Chapman Mercer Expedition. Among those credited by Hommel are E.C.T. Werner and H.A. Giles. Dust jacket is now preserved in a clear, removable archival sleeve.
Published by M. I. T. Press, New York, 1969
Seller: 4 THE WORLD RESOURCE DISTRIBUTORS, Springfield, MO, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Originally published in 1937; Ex-Library; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 262080354.
Published by The Bucks County Historical Society / the John Day Company, Doylestown PA / New York, 1937
Seller: Chequamegon Books, Washburn, WI, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. A little wear around the edges. ; Previous owner's name in ink on inside front cover and small stamp at top of title page with his name. Priority and international shipping will be extra, please inquire. ; 8 1/2 x 11 "; 366 pages.
Published by Cambridge, Mass. M.I.T. Press, 1969
Seller: Books of Asia Ltd, trading as John Randall (BoA), Rye, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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Reprint pp.x, 366, 535 illustrations. A very good copy in original cloth, slightly frayed dust jacket. First published in 1937.
Published by The MIT Press Ltd
ISBN 10: 0262580152ISBN 13: 9780262580151
Seller: BooksElleven, Three Oaks, MI, U.S.A.
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hardcover. Condition: Good. Cover is lightly rubbed along extremities. Previous owner name occurs in prelims. Pages are clean throughout. Binding is secure.
Published by John Day/The Bucks County Historical Society, 1937
Seller: Tiber Books, Cockeysville, MD, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. . . . . 4to, hardcover. No dj, red cloth. Vg condition. Covers and contents clean, unworn, no marking or writing. Binding square and tight. 366 pp., illus. A fascinating and detailed work covering Chinese daily life, on the eve of the enormous changes to come for that country.
Condition: Fine. Number of pages: 576. 8p Size: 22cm.
Published by The Bucks County Historical Society, by The John Day Co. [1937], 1937
Seller: Yushodo Co., Ltd., Fuefuki-shi, Yamanashi Pref., Japan
Association Member: ILAB
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. x, 366 pp. with 535 figures in text. Original maroon cloth, d.j.