China John, Signed (16 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine +. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine+. 1st Edition/2nd Printing. SIGNED by author on title page (signature only). 402 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.

Condition: Very Good. Signed Copy . Very Good dust jacket. Signed by author on title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Inscribed by author on endpaper. Dust jacket has some wrinkles. Grey cloth cover and pages as new, no marks, solid binding. Inscribed by Author(s).

PAPERBACK, very good, probably unused. INSCRIBED on title page to recipient with first name only, above title, and SIGNED in blue ink by John Hanson Mitchell. MITCHELL, JAMES ARCHIBALD. Travels in a vanishing empire: China 1915 to 1918 : the journals of James Archibald Mitchell. Illustrated with photographs by the author. Edited by John Hanson Mitchell and Hugh Powers Mitchell. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Komatik Press, 2017, xvii, 171pp., . 1915 to 1918 was a tumultuous period of Chinese history. In 1912, the 250-year-old Qing dynasty had been overthrown and powerful generals and political leaders were vying for power. Warlords and rebel armies were ranging the countryside; there was no effective central government, and foreign businessmen and missionaries were walled in well-defended compounds. In the midst of this chaos, a twenty-four-year-old college graduate named James Archibald Mitchell, landed in Shanghai to teach English at St John's University, the so-called Harvard of the East. Mitchell was an avid diarist, a skilled photographer and an acute observer of local customs, and whenever he had time off he set out to explore the country, the presence of warring armies and travel difficulties notwithstanding. Arch, as he was known, was brought up in Centreville, Maryland, the son of a popular Episcopalian minster, and was educated at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. He was essentially a country boy, a dyed-in-the wool American with no international experience, and the storied Orient was both an inspiration and a shock to him. But as he makes clear in an early journal, his intention was to record what he saw with an objective, eye --- not an easy task for one so deeply schooled in Christianized Western culture. What emerged over the course of three years, is a very personal account of his time in China during the Warlord Period in both words and photographs, a record of peasant life, boat families, climbing and hunting expeditions, and above all, exquisite images of the Chinese people and their land. Apart from being a good, entertaining read and visual documentation, Travels in a Vanishing Empire is record of everyday Chinese life, an aspect of history that is not well covered in books about this period. It is also, although unstated, an account of the moral growth of an individual. Mitchell's travels reinforced his earliest feelings about people different than himself. He told one of his nephews after he returned home that he would now look at a person and see only another human being. After his return from the East, he joined the ministry and went on to become an early civil-rights activist. ISBN 9780998711300.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Paperback. Binding sound, text clean, light shelfwear. 160 pages, oversize, illustrated. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Heavy book: priority or international shipping may require a surcharge. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First UK Edition, Third Printing. 8vo; pp.335; frontispiece; original illustrated cloth, lettered white on front and spine,off setting to end pages else clean and tight binding, Signed by the author to the front end page [ From the Author, with best wishes, Aug 19.11 ]. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. pages 361-431 : 22 cm. original worn paper covers. From the 'Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland', 21, 1889. Inscribed by Author(s).

Condition: Good. Post Card 6" x 4" Oblong, Color Photograph, Very Good.Herb Yellin (1935-2014) was the highly respected publisher and founder of Lord John Press, considered by many to be one of the most important small presses of the 20th century. His close personal relationships with many significant writers resulted in an impressive number of unique, collectible, signed limited edition books. Working with some of modern literature's biggest names?Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, John Updike, Eudora Welty, and Joyce Carol Oates among them?and entertaining his personal fascination with Hollywood, Yellin was able to create a new realm for Lord John Press combining the two fields; several books, including The Lord John Film Festival, were the result.

First Edition.8vo.pp.xiv+ 225,illustrations.a couple of marks of use ,map endpapers.Signed inscription on the free endpaper and a signature on the title page both from the Author. The incredible escape from a Japanese pow camp with a New Zealand pilot and an army medical officer.The perilous journey to safety.No novel could be as exciting.

No Binding. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. This is an interesting Victorian era postcard written by John Randall of Madeley Shropshire, addressed to Joseph Slater of Ironbridge, Joseph Slater was a local newspaper publisher. The letter complaining about the running of an advert in the newspaper. The postcard measures 4.75 inches by 3 inches approx., some marking and a centre hole where the card had been placed on a letter spike, else in good general condition. Signed by Author(s).

SIGNED BY AUTHOR with dedication dated 1.10.1996. 235x155mm. XV+381 pages. Hardcover with illustrated dust-jacket. Gilt spine. Jacket edges slightly worn. Jacket rear side slightly rubbed and dirty. Spine edges bumped. Else in good condition. The book is in : English.

Condition: Good. Enlarged edition - Original cloth somewhat stained and worn - Signed by the author - Rel0119 - 138pp. - Sunday School Union of Victoria, Melbourne Australia. 1918. Hardcover. . . . .

First edition of the English translation of the notable biography of the fourth viceroy of Portuguese India, D. João de Castro (Lisbon, 1500 - Goa, 1548). De Castro was a renowned 16th-century Portuguese nobleman, scientist, naval officer, and writer. As a young man, he studied under the famous Portuguese mathematician and cosmographer Pedro Nunes together with Luis, Duke of Beja, the second son of King Manuel I of Portugal. They became lifelong friends and Castro also accompanied Dom Luis to the siege of Tunis in 1535.De Castro sailed with, served under, and was connected to several prominent 16th-century Portuguese (noble-) men. His uncle, Garcia de Noronha, was the third viceroy of India, with whom he first sailed for India in the late 1530s. There, De Castro participated in the relief of Diu, which was besieged as part of the struggle for the possession of Diu and its fort due to its strategic importance as an outpost and dominance in that part of Portuguese India. He was responsible for the overthrow of Mahmud, King of Gujarat, whose interests threatened the Portuguese control of Goa coast. Furthermore, De Castro also served under Estêvão da Gama, second son of the famous Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama, on expeditions to Suez and the Red Sea. Back in Portugal, in 1543, he was named commander of a fleet sent to clear Atlantic Europe of pirates, and two years later was sent with a fleet of six ships back to the East, where he was rewarded with the positions of governor and viceroy of Portuguese India. Unlike previous governors and viceroys of India, De Castro was actively interested in Indian culture and religion. De Castro was possibly also connected to Saint Francis Xavier, who served in the Jesuit mission in Portuguese India in the 1540s, as he was supposed to have died in Xavier's arms in 1548.During his travels between Portugal and India, including the expeditions he undertook with Da Gama along the Arabian coasts and to Egypt, De Castro collected important navigational, geographical and hydrographical information about these areas, which he presented in three "rutters" or itineraries/logbooks (in Portuguese: roteiros): Roteiro de Lisboa a Goa about his first voyage to India in 1538, Roteiro de Goa a Diu (written around 1539, regarding De Castro's rescue fleet relieving the Gujurati-Ottoman siege of the Portuguese fortress of Diu, and Roteiro do Mar Roxo (the Red Sea between East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula was then known as the "purple sea" - Mar Roxo). In his first rutter, De Castro recorded values of magnetic declination in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, which he obtained through experiments with a magnetic needle on board. This early observation of the phenomenon of magnetic declination in the sixteenth century was useful for the study of terrestrial magnetism in later centuries.The hinges are somewhat weakened, the boards are slightly rubbed, both pastedowns have come loose from the inside of the boards, revealing an inscription on the inside of the front board in brown ink "H. 1. 13 [crossed out]" and "C 7. 18", and an inscription in brown ink on the recto of the front paste-down "E F G H". Some occasional, very minor foxing, the foot edge of the 15 leaves is very slightly damages, not affecting the text in any way. Overall in good condition.l ESTC R7129 (17 copies in the UK & US); Wing F 2155; WorldCat 835169356 (1 copy), 1064239444 (1 copy), 643713038 (1 copy), 1378914397 (1 copy); cf. Innocencio III, p. 239 (Portuguese ed.). Contemporary blind-tooled calf, sewn on 5 supports corresponding with the raised bands on the spine, with a manuscript title-label in the second compartment from the head of the spine, gold-tooled board edges. With a full-page engraved portrait of D. João de Castro, the fourth viceroy of India as a frontispiece, signed "W. Faithorne sculp.", one full-page engraved illustration of the shrine of St. Thomas in Meliapor - including its inscriptions in Sanskrit - which already existed at the time of the Portuguese arrival in India, and one double page engraved map (view) of Diu and its fortress. The title is set in a double fillet frame and the text is set in a single fillet frame, with an elaborate ornamental woodcut headpiece and a few detailed headpieces built up from typographic ornaments, with decorated woodcut initials. Pages: [1], [1 blank], [18], 272, [19], [1 blank] pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Octavo,22.8*15.4cm, xxiv,448pp, plus 8 pages of adverts. Volume XVI of the Sacred Books of the East series. Bound in original brown cloth with gilt lettering. Extremities of spine worn and chipped, otherwise a very good copy with firm binding. From John Fryer's private library. Signed by John Fryer, SIGNED twice by Achilles Fang (on Fryer's library label [A. F.] and title page [Achilles Fang]), with Annotations and Marginalia by Achilles Fang on 34 pages. Extremely scarce. Photos available upon request. Signed by Author(s).

Edition : First or 1669 Edition in English., Contemporary mottled full calf, rebacked expertly saving the original spine, spine with seven raised gilt bands; compartments densely gilt ornamentated; with gilt lettered title on brown morocco label on two and three. Blind dentelle pattern tooled on edges of covers; pasted and free endpapers marbled. , John or Johann Nieuhof, 1618 ? 1672 is best known for the account of his journey from "Guangzhou"Canton to Peking in 1655-1657, which enabled him to become an authoritative Western writer on China. The book was first published in Dutch in 1665 by Johan's brother Hendrik and the Amsterdam based publisher and printer Jacob van Meurs. The publication was successful, several edited editions followed, geared towards commercial interests, also translated into French, German, Latin and eventually into English. The English version was not published by Van Meurs, but by John Ogilby instead. The book consists of the notes and illustrations that Nieuhof made in his position as a steward on Peter de Goyer and Jacob de Keizer's embassy to the emperor of China. The work itself is split into two parts. The first part contains the written account of the embassy led by Peter de Goyer and Jacob de Keizer to the emperor of China. It details the entire journey from "Guangzhou"Canton to Peking and back again. This part also contains descriptions and depictions of all that the embassy came to pass on its trip. The second part consists of an overview of China, describing bridges, mountains, temples, customs and costumes supported by illustrations. Prior to this period, the image of the Chinese in Europe was dominated by fantasy illustrations. Many subsequent artists and architects based their work on Nieuhof's pictures. The present copy John Ogilby?s translation and the first Edition in English. Apart from 'An embassy from the East-India Company??, Nieuhoff?s account of his journey, it also includes ?A Narrative of the Success of an Embassage sent by John Maatzuyker's de Badem, General of Batavia?? and Kircher?s ?An Appendix or Special Remarks taken at large out of Athanasius Kircher/ His / Antiquities of China.?, Size : Folio (418 x 270mm.), engraved frontispiece portrait of John Ogilby by Lilly and engraved by Lombart; engraved illustrated title signed and dated by ?W.[enceslas] Hollar, 1668.?; printed title in red and black ink; map of China signed by Hollar [double page], dedication leaf to King Charles; with 17 full-page and 2 double-page plates. 121 in-text illustrations throughout, as well as head-piece vignettes and rubricated, historiated initials at openings of dedication and sections; one endpiece.Wide margined, large paper copy; main text jumps from 184 to 205 without loss of content. , References : Cordier (Sinica) II, 2347; Lust 536; Wing N1153, John Ogilby?s Englis, PP. illustrated title, blank, printed title, blank, map; dedication leaf to King Charles; 327, bl.; 1-18; appendix 1-106, [19 ill.]. A fine, attractive and handsome copy with text and plates clean and crisp.

See the two men's entries in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, 12mo. On first leaf of a bifolium, the second docketed 'Mr. Delane / April 6/59 / Introd. Mr Wimpore Cooke - Times Correspt in China -'. In good condition, lightly aged and folded for postage. Addressed to 'The Earl of Clarendon' and signed 'John T. Delane'. Reads: 'My dear Lord, / I should be much obliged if you would receive the bearer, Mr. Wingrove Cooke who is going out to China as Special Correspondent tomorrow and who would be glad to have the advantage of any suggestion you could give him as to the course to be pursued there.' See Wikipedia for Cooke, "special correspondent in 1857 during the Second Opium War".