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CHINESE EMIGRATION TO AMERICA
U.S. Senate. Report of the Joint Special Committee to investigate Chinese immigration. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1877. 8° (230 x 145mm). Original cloth, titled in gilt on spine (spine chipped at head and foot). Provenance: Worcester County Law Library (blindstamp to title).
William SPEER. The Oldest and the Newest Empire: China and the United States. Hartford, Ct., Philadelphia and San Francisco: 1870. 8° (220 x 143mm). Numerous plates. Original brown/purple cloth, blocked in blind on covers, spine lettered in gilt (spine faded). FIRST EDITION of 'one of the major contributions to the understanding of the Chinese in California': Hansen & Heintz p.120; Cowan p.604.
[R.H. PEASE (Lithographer & Publisher)]. Peter Piper's Tales about China. Albany, N.Y.: R.H. Pease, n.d. but circa 1850]. 4° (227 x 174mm). 8pp. of hand-coloured lithographs. (Some light spotting). Original drab paper wrappers with lithographic decorative title on upper cover (lightly soiled). Provenance: Fanny Maria Newbould (inscription on upper cover).
T.L. STEDMAN & K.P. LEE. A Chinese and English Phrase Book in a Canton Dialect New York: 1888?. 12° (183 x 120mm). Text in English and Chinese characters. Original cloth-backed boards (rubbed). Provenance: Yarlock Lowe (various early ownership stamps, underlinings to text); together with a collection of 22 others on China and Chinese immigration into the United States (including: Justus DOOLITTLE. Social Life of the Chinese. New York: 1865. 2 vols. Cloth; [John Edward JENKINS]. The Coolie His Rights and Wrongs. New York: 1871. Small 8°. Cloth; John R. PETERS. Miscellaneous Remarks upon the ... Chinese. Boston: 1845. 8°. Wrappers). (25)
U.S. Senate. Report of the Joint Special Committee to investigate Chinese immigration. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1877. 8° (230 x 145mm). Original cloth, titled in gilt on spine (spine chipped at head and foot). Provenance: Worcester County Law Library (blindstamp to title).
William SPEER. The Oldest and the Newest Empire: China and the United States. Hartford, Ct., Philadelphia and San Francisco: 1870. 8° (220 x 143mm). Numerous plates. Original brown/purple cloth, blocked in blind on covers, spine lettered in gilt (spine faded). FIRST EDITION of 'one of the major contributions to the understanding of the Chinese in California': Hansen & Heintz p.120; Cowan p.604.
[R.H. PEASE (Lithographer & Publisher)]. Peter Piper's Tales about China. Albany, N.Y.: R.H. Pease, n.d. but circa 1850]. 4° (227 x 174mm). 8pp. of hand-coloured lithographs. (Some light spotting). Original drab paper wrappers with lithographic decorative title on upper cover (lightly soiled). Provenance: Fanny Maria Newbould (inscription on upper cover).
T.L. STEDMAN & K.P. LEE. A Chinese and English Phrase Book in a Canton Dialect New York: 1888?. 12° (183 x 120mm). Text in English and Chinese characters. Original cloth-backed boards (rubbed). Provenance: Yarlock Lowe (various early ownership stamps, underlinings to text); together with a collection of 22 others on China and Chinese immigration into the United States (including: Justus DOOLITTLE. Social Life of the Chinese. New York: 1865. 2 vols. Cloth; [John Edward JENKINS]. The Coolie His Rights and Wrongs. New York: 1871. Small 8°. Cloth; John R. PETERS. Miscellaneous Remarks upon the ... Chinese. Boston: 1845. 8°. Wrappers). (25)
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