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Ex-Library St Thoms Archbishop of Ireland Lib as small stamp to backcover and sign po James L. Connolly to tpg, with usual faults. Ow VG/ndj Ow G/ndj: 467pp. w/ errata. Scarce publication. Signed by prevowner James L. Connolly on titlepg who was born James Louis Connolly [November 15, 1894 – September 12, 1986] born in Fall River, Massachusetts, to Francis and Agnes (née McBride) Connolly. After graduating from B.M.C. Durfee High School in Fall River, he studied at St. Charles College in Catonsville, Maryland, and at the Sulpician Seminary in Washington, D.C.[1] He was ordained to the priesthood on December 21, 1923. He then served as a curate at Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Wellfleet until 1924, when he was sent to further his studies at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium. He earned a doctorate in historical science summa cum laude in 1928 and then returned to the United States, where he was assigned to the Archdiocese of St. Paul, Minnesota.[1] He there served as a professor and… Read More

1stedn; 8vo illuswraps, unread some rubbing to covers ow VG: xii+59pp. index, notes, some fullpg col plates, bw illus

First Edition, second Printing. lg8vo blue cloth, silver gilt spine titles, PO Jack Wills sign to fep ow appears unread NF/vgdj: xxiv, 211pp plus 16 pages of glossy color photos. Inner front flap: "In 1659, a vast and unusual map of China arrived in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. It was bequeathed by John Selden, a London business lawyer, political activist, former convict, MP, and the city's first Orientalist scholar. Largely ignored, it remained etc 8 chapters: 1, What is Wrong with this Map?; 2, Closing the Sea; 3, Reading Chinese in Oxford; 4, John Saris & the Chinese Captain; 5, The Compass Rose; 6, Sailing from China; 7, Heaven is Round, Earth is Square; and 8, Secrets of the Shelden Map, followed by Epilogue and 2 appendices. Exploring the story behind a handpainted 17th century Chinese martine map, donated to Oxford's Bodleian Library in 1654 by lawyer John Selden (1584 - 1654), where it sat undisturbed for some 350 years in 2009. Sinologist Timothy Brook probes the mystery of how this ancient… Read More

The author(1888-1949) spent from 1917 to 1942 in Shanghai; journalist's account which includes his capture by bandits in the 1920's, experiences during the Sino-Japanese War and imprisonment by the Japanese.the years 1917- 1945; Interviews with Sun Yat-sen, Yuan Shih-Kai et al. The autobiography of an old "China Hand" who went to Shang- hai in 1917, and remained there some 25 years. He was the editor of the Shanghai CHINA WEEKLY REVIEW, managing direct- or for the CHINA PRESS and Far Eastern correspondent for American & British newspapers. He was held for ransom by Chinese bandits, covered the civil wars in China, the Japanese invasion of Manchuria was imprisoned & tortured by the Japanese; Author was fa of John William Powell who took over Shanghai newspaper after ww2 and was tried for treason in 1959 after supporting CCP accusations of USA germ warfare in Korea. The final chapters of this detailed and analytical history recount brutal internment at the infamous Japanese Bridge House Prison in… Read More