Search results for: 'SHANGHAI'
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AH FONG PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIO. The Sino-Japanese Hostilities 1937; [together with:] The Sino-Japanese Hostilities Shanghai 1937. Index.
Shanghai & Wei-Hai-Wei : 1937
First edition of the complete set of 200 silver gelatin photographs issued by the Ah Fong Photography Studio, recording the brutal siege and conquest of Shanghai by the Japanese at the opening of the Second Sino-Japanese War. Japan's failure to defeat China in this war became the key dynamic for what happened in Asia during the Second World War. In... Learn More£8,500.00Stock Code: 111970
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NAKAFUJI, Takehiko. Street Rambler.
Tokyo : 2015
First edition, first printing. Edition of 1000. No 37 of 45 copies signed by Nakafuji in silver pen on the front free endpaper. Street photography from New York, Havana, Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Shanghai, Berlin, Paris and Tokyo. Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 139771
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INDIA & TIBET - GODWIN-AUSTEN, H. H. Journal of the Asiatic Society [drop-head title].
Calcutta : 1865
First edition. The key contribution among the five papers printed here is "Description of a Mystic Play, as performed in Ladak, Zaskar, &c." by the explorer and geologist Captain Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen (1834-1923), "the chief authority in his day on the structure of the Karakoram and other ranges beyond the great Himalayan axis" (ODNB). The photographs... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 131333
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SECOND SINO-JAPANESE WAR. Showa 23-nen Shina Jihen shussei kinen shashincho :Hokushi sensen hen [in Japanese: A photograph album in memory of soldiers at the front lines during the China-Japan Conflict of 1937-1938].
Tokyo : 1938
First edition of this uncommon Japanese propaganda piece recording the opening campaigns of the Japanese in the Second Sino-Japanese War. Japan's failure to defeat China in this war became the key dynamic for what happened in Asia during the Second World War. In his award-winning study of the conflict - China's War with Japan, 1937-1945: The Struggle... Learn More£975.00Stock Code: 114232