Rare books from Asia Medicine and Humanities Books

the very first first edition Koran in Chinese, 3 volumes, published in 1875 in Yun Nan Province. Yun Nan is a minority border province of southwestern China where Islam first arrived at China. binding in the oriental way. Some wear and rebounded in 3 volumes by former owner.Very Scarce, no record at OCLC and at any library.

in English, very rare, OCLC NO records , also No records in any libraries in China.

Hand-drawing Chinese propaganda poster: "Holding highly the flags of Maoism Thought to eliminate leptospirosis thoroughly." 1971. 89cm x 62cm. All of the painting and red Chinese characters are hand-drawing, only the below black Chinese characters were typed on a paper and then adhered to the painting. Have slight fold which probably can be recovered because the fold is formed by whole put together with others.
The soldier, worker and peasant are holding a red books with title "Maoism Thought" . The three banners are captioned with "Ready for Battle, Ready for Famine, For People", "Long Live For the Victory of the hygienism Route of Chairman Mao’s Proletariat Revolution" and "Put the emphasis of the work of hygienism and Health into Rural Area", respectively. The two plates are captioned with "Must Demolish thoroughly the remaining toxin of the hygienism Route of Anti-revolutionary Revisionism" and "Must eliminate leptospirosis thoroughly ", respectively.
At the bottom the adhered small paper was… Read More

Published in c. 1941 in Tientsin, China. A photo commemorative album for B.M.I.C.C.N. (Bataillon Mixte d'Infanterie Coloniale de Chine du Nord ). Inscribed and signed by someone as showed. Printed photos all the album, describing every aspect of the B.M.I.C.C.N. Captions in French.
Extremely rare. No OCLC/worldcat record. No record in any Library or in Google etc. Extremely probably the only one in the world considering the Japanese's occupying the French Concession at almost the same time of the printing of this book.
Because there is pictures number limit for every item, I list the other supplement pictures of this B.M.I.C.C.N. book in the following link:
https://www.biblio.com/book/other-supplement-pictures-bmiccn-photo-commemorative/d/1042741439

Very fine and clean. Bound tight. Printed by The Commercial Press, Ltd. Shanghai - China, 1936. Very Rare.
Sebuah buku antik dari sekolah Tionghoa di Tegal, THHK Tegal Java, yang merupakan buku peringatan THHK yang ke 30 tahun.

Various papers samples as shown. About 1900s. No publishing place. Near Fine. No Worldcat record. (WITH PICTURES).

694p, [38].23cm, Photo plates, tables etc. In Japanese. Good+, bind tight, a little wear. Very rare, NO Worldcat/OCLC record, printed: "Not-for-selling" on copyright page. Involving hospital, plagues, disaster etc. (WITH PICTURES)

Very rare, first edition. Bible for the Lisu nationality who are a minority living in a southwestern mountain area in China. This book is of very interesting because Lisu has only oral language but not written language. This Lisu written language was invented and designed by the missionary writer of this book for the nationality by combining both oriental and western languages. However, this written language disappear after Chinese Communist Government got power in 1949 when they began to spread Chinese Characters in the area.
Title from verso t.p. Has also a Chinese title page as shown because it is published in Shanghai, China.
136 pages ; 20 cm. A little wear on covers, near fine in total.

Very rare, Fine, a little bit wear on covers as shown.

Original rubbing for the Stele of Second Opium War (Arrow War) in China during 1856-1860. Stele erected in 1861 in Canton (Guangzhou City) in GuangTong Province in China.
Very big size on a whole thick rice paper, 152cm X 98cm, The original stone had been demolished long long ago. This rubbing is the only one found in the world. Folded, a few wears at edges. Both text and pictures were fine copied and undamaged, but had some folds.
Rubbing is an ancient Chinese method to copy text and pictures on stone or on bronze wares by hand.

Rare. Size: 147x80 cm. Original rubbing on thin paper (maybe Bible paper because of its very fine quality). was attached to thick paper to make a hanging scroll. Some wear on the thick paper, but very good on the thin rubbing paper. There are two red stamps on middle-right of the scroll, which probably is the stamps of former owners. This stele in 1489 is the first document found and also a very important document to describe the history of Judaism and Jewish people in China. Its contents are in three sections; one explains the origin and history of Judaism, another describes the rituals and worship of Chinese Jews around the time of the stele construction, and the last tells that there were 70 surnames families of the Kaifeng Jewish community, several surnames being the officers of Chinese Emperor, a Zhao surname among them being a past imperial audience. The Zhao surname was also the surname of the emperors of Song Dynasty（AD 960--AD 1279） in China, and can only be bestowed by emperors… Read More

Notice: this is the supplement pictures of B.M.I.C.C.N. in my store, which I list here again for supplements because of the limited pictures number for each item at Biblio. Size: 32cm X 22cm，there are 44 pages copper papers except covers, of them 10 pages are in blank. The book was published in Tientsin Press, probabaly privately printing because of no pagination and some pages are in blank. so the "Tientsin 1940-1941" on cover probably is for publishing place, but not for the troops in Tientsin, for there are also images of the regiment in Peking, Tongkou, Shanhaiguan, ChingHuangDao etc places.The B.M.I.C.C.N. forces disappeared from China thereafter when Japanese take over Tientsin concessions. You can neglect the reflect light which I took.

Very rare. Good condition. Printed in China in about 1934. Privately printed and "for private circulation only" on the title page. The book is integrate. The authors probably were S. M. Talati, etc. as shown in cover and page.Five plates with 5 glued big photos (two photos perhaps are albumen ones) . Among them, three photos showed their Prayer Halls in 1866, 1899, and 1932 respectively. One photo showed their about 150 peoples group photo at the opening of the New Prayer Hall 1932. The last photo showed their cemetery enclosure.A little bit pencil mark is on few page and can be erased.

Including two school badges, one certificate of merit, one diploma, Five textbooks, one VISA of Ecole municipale franco-Chinoise. Ten in total.

58 big silver salt photos dated 1912, the photos size are 17.5x 12.5cm. The album size is 25x19.5cm. 55 photos with captions. Describes the scenes of the sites in the title places and the engineering of the areas. Some regarding to the thermal power company.