China at Work by Rudolf P. Hommel

Cambridge [1969], M.I.T. White cloth, 366p., index, 535 b.w. photos, very good, clean copy, dj., 18 x 26 cm., very solid excellent copy. This is an important source for Chinese technology, trades- men and industry. Covering in great detail, with copious photos to make following tools: tools for procuring food, making clothing, to provide shelter, for enabling transport. Each section consists of a lengthy essay, with photos of the actual objects, size and its use carefully described. Mining and metalurgy, blacksmithing, wire drawing, iron casting, brassmithing, plows, rice planting & irrigation, oil making, mills, animal power, water, salt supply, traps, kitchen sto- ves, looms, spinning, weaving, dyeing, washing textiles. The domestic objects around the home: tree felling, log use, ba- mboo works, saws, carpenter's tools, lathe, history of dow- els, lime burning, locks, brooms &c. Transport: roads, wheel barrows, horse furniture, boat building, compass, earthen- ware withuot potter's… Read More

Cambridge & London: M. I. T. Press (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), 1969. First Thus. Hardcover with dust jacket. Fine/Very Good. 8vo. Pp. xii, 366. Illustrated throughout with black & white photography and illustrations. Index. Bound in cream cloth with black lettering stamped on spine. Clean throughout, binding tight. In the illustrated dust jacket that shows edge-wear. First published in 1937, based on research initially conducted with the Henry Chapman Mercer Expedition. Among those credited by Hommel are E.C.T. Werner and H.A. Giles. Dust jacket is now preserved in a clear, removable archival sleeve.

John Day/The Bucks County Historical Society, 1937. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to, hardcover. No dj, red cloth. Vg condition. Covers and contents clean, unworn, no marking or writing. Binding square and tight. 366 pp., illus. A fascinating and detailed work covering Chinese daily life, on the eve of the enormous changes to come for that country.

N: THE BUCKS COUTY HISTORICAL SOCI8ETY, 1937. Hardcover. near fine.