Rev j macgowan (18 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: Good. Used - Good. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre.' Ex-library, but has been well cared for. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.

Zustand: Like New. Used - Like New. This is a reproduction of an out of print title. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.…

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

hardcover. Zustand: Good. North China Daily News & Herald 1909 edition. Some foxing to pages, text clean and bright, binsing coming away from back board, minor shelf wear to cover, no dust jacket. NEW EU 3 EURO CHARGE FOR IMPORTS IS INCLUDED IN OUR SHIPPING PRICE. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK, ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.…

1st Ed. Large 8vo. viii + 368pp. 12 tipped in colour plates by Montagu Smyth, 34 other ills. from photos. Some light age toning and sporadic light spotting, f.e.ps. browned, ownership inscription, original gilt lettered black cloth with gilt illus. to upper board, minor rubbing, corners sl. bumped, some unobtrusive light staining to lower board, spine lightly browned and sl. bumped and chipped at head and tail, t.e.g. US$89. …

Hardcovert. Zustand: Fair. 1st edtion. Rebound 622pp, octavo, fold-out map, tight binding, clean throughout, silverfish and wear to the boards, tight binding, mild foxing & silverfish to the pages, unmarked throughout, spine titles have faded away, foxing throughout.

1st Ed. Sm. 8vo. [vi] + 197pp. Light age toning, original gilt lettered green cloth, light fading and marking, spine sl. chipped. US$149.

Hardcover. Zustand: Poor. No Jacket. First Edition. Hardcover; small 4to; 367 pages. First edition. Brown cloth hardcovers with gilt on spine, gilt illustration on upper board. Fraying/torn cloth on corners, head/tail, upper hinge. Bumped corners, exposed boards. Board cloth mottled and spotted. Gilt on top. Yellowing but bright and clean interior, many plates. P/--. Smyth, Montague (illustrator). Book. …

North-China Daily News & Herald LTD. Shanghai. 1910. Hardback. No DW. Original brown cloth boards with embossed vingette. Head and tail of spine bumped. Page edges browned and endpapers foxed and browned. Ownership inscription to first free endpaper. Overall, a remarkably clean copy.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. A smart first edition of Macgowan"s richly illustrated account of Chinese customs, social life, and everyday culture in late Qing China. In the publisher's original cloth binding.First edition.The work offers an exploration of a wide range of subjects including family life, religious beliefs, servants, agriculture, education, street life, officialdom, and travelling through the Chinese countryside.Illustrated with twenty-eight monochrome plates, and twelve colour plates including a frontispiece. With two plates slightly mis-bound but present, the plate facing p. 129 bound instead facing p. 131, and the plate for p. 139 bound facing p. 129. Collated, complete.The Reverend John Macgowan (1835-1922) was a British Congregational missionary who spent many decades in China, particularly in Fujian province.An informative and engaging portrait of traditional Chinese society written by a long-term resident and observer during a period of profound cultural encounter, Macgowan combines anecdotal observation with commentary on the character, habits, and institutions of Chinese society as encountered by Western residents. In the publisher's original cloth binding.Externally, smart. Slight fading, rubbing, and bumping to spine and extremities. Slight rubbing marks with the odd faint spot of damp staining to upper perimeters of boards. Slight loss to cloth at head of rear joint. Offsetting to endpapers with the odd spot. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with the odd spot, heavier to fore edge and first and last few leaves. Very Good. Montague Smyth (illustrator). book.…

First Edition. First edition, 8vo, pp. [8], 240; original brown cloth stamped in black on upper cover and spine; old 1911 gift inscription, some spotting of the endpapers; all else very good, sound, and clean.

First edition. Octavo, pp., 320, with seventy-seven photographs within the text, as called for. Full polished calf by Relfe Brothers, gilt armorials of Bishop Holgate's Grammar School, Barnsley to boards, in a border of floral rolls, ornate rolls to board-edges and inner dentelles in gilt; gilt ornaments within compartments to spine, titled in gilt to black leather spine-label; all edges marbled, marbled end-papers. Prize bookplate dated 1904 to front paste-down, binder's ink-stamp to verso of front free-endpaper. Slight scuffs to board, a little shelf-wear to extremities, slight loss to spine label, binding a little tight. Occasional spots of toning within. Generally, a very good copy. John MacGowan (1835-1922) was a Belfast missionary, who first visited China in 1860 with the London Missionary Society. MacGowan wrote fifteen books on China, and spent the last 50 years of his life travelling and living in the country.…

1897, Shanghai, printed at the Presbyterian Mission Press, ppix + 622, folding map to the rear, complete, black cloth, gilt. Some internal browning, otherwise very good.