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Firsts: Hong Kong
5th - 7th December 2025
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Peter Harrington

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The genesis of the Three Gorges Dam

HYDRO-ENGINEERING IN CHINA - SAVAGE, John Lucian.

Preliminary Report on Yangtze Gorge Project.

Description

Folio. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, hinges reinforced with brown linen as issued, buff endpapers, text printed in photostat typescript.

Note

Number 4 of a small number of copies of this report, by the engineering mind behind the Hoover Dam, on harnessing the mighty Yangtze River for hydroelectric power generation - a vision finally realized over half a century later. We have traced only four other surviving examples, all found in institutions.

Other Highlights from Peter Harrington

Collection of German Army letterpress newspapers.

Germany’s Beijing Berliner

BOXER UPRISING.

Collection of German Army letterpress newspapers.
£6,000.00
Wujing tu (“Illustrations of the Five Classics”).

Two thousand years of Chinese learning

CONFUCIAN CLASSICS - ZHANG, Da, & others.

Wujing tu (“Illustrations of the Five Classics”).
£75,000.00
Yuan Fu (Wealth of Nations).

Yuan Fu (Wealth of Nations).

SMITH, Adam; Yan, Fu (trans.).

Yuan Fu (Wealth of Nations).
£25,000.00
The Canton Register.

China’s first English-language newspaper

CHINA.

The Canton Register.
£15,000.00
POUND, Ezra.

Rare presentation copy, with a superb modernist association

POUND, Ezra.

POUND, Ezra.
£17,500.00
Shōgun.

“The American consciousness of Japan has grown by a quantum…

CLAVELL, James.

Shōgun.
£4,000.00
“Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”, corrected typescript.

The final changes to his masterpiece

LE CARRÉ, John.

“Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”, corrected typescript.
£20,000.00
Album recording a tour of duty, including 20 dramatic photographs…

“By the breath of my mad typhoon / I swept…

WHITE, Charles. S. R.

Album recording a tour of duty, including 20 dramatic photographs of the 1923 Hong Kong typhoon.
£1,500.00
Extensively signed certificate of appreciation presented to Leo Gershevich.

“An irreparable loss to our community”

JEWISH COMMUNITY IN TIANJIN.

Extensively signed certificate of appreciation presented to Leo Gershevich.
£6,250.00
Typed letter signed, to Elizabeth Gell-Mann.

To the daughter of the particle physicist who coined the…

TOLKIEN, J. R. R.

Typed letter signed, to Elizabeth Gell-Mann.
£7,500.00
Wartime documentation concerning the British Military Mission, training Chinese partisans…

Espionage and guerilla warfare in war-torn China.

WORLD WAR II; CHINA.

Wartime documentation concerning the British Military Mission, training Chinese partisans, and intelligence-gathering.
£6,500.00
Two printed silk programs for meets held on 21 April…

“There are two things an Englishman must have - a…

HORSE RACING IN SHANGHAI.

Two printed silk programs for meets held on 21 April and 11 November 1859.
£5,000.00
Some Unpublished Letters of Justice Holmes.

“My dear Wu”

WU, John Ching Hsiung - HOLMES, Oliver Wendell, Jr.

Some Unpublished Letters of Justice Holmes.
£5,000.00
The Cause of the Riots in the Yangtse Valley.

“Anything more horribly beastly and disgusting than these painted representations…

ANTI-CHRISTIANITY IN CHINA - JOHN, Griffith (ed.).

The Cause of the Riots in the Yangtse Valley.
£12,500.00
The Chinese Classical Work Commonly Called the Four Books.

A scarce early sinological imprint

CONFUCIANISM - COLLIE, David (trans.).

The Chinese Classical Work Commonly Called the Four Books.
£7,500.00
Representacion hecha por el r. procurador general de religiosos menores…

One of three copied traced in commerce in 100 years

TIBET - HERRERO, Antonio Maria (trans.).

Representacion hecha por el r. procurador general de religiosos menores Capuchinos
£15,000.00
Panorama of the Shanghai Bund.

A time capsule of cosmopolitan Shanghai

TAI, Tuck.

Panorama of the Shanghai Bund.
£12,500.00
30 Photographs Taken on Accurate Bearings of Some of the…

From the Chefoo Bluff to Lamtong Head

NAVIGATION IN CHINA.

30 Photographs Taken on Accurate Bearings of Some of the Most Important Headlands & Outlying Islands…
£3,000.00