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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

New York: M. I. T. Press. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1969. Hardcover. 262080354 . Originally published in 1937; Ex-Library; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall .

Doylestown PA / New York: The Bucks County Historical Society / the John Day Company, 1937. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. A little wear around the edges. ; Previous owner's name in ink on inside front cover and small stamp at top of title page with his name. Priority and international shipping will be extra, please inquire. ; 8 1/2 x 11 "; 366 pages.

Cambridge, Mass.: The M.I.T. Press, 1969. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. 10 1/4" x 7". 366 pages, some 535 black and white figures and photographs. Records the primary tools examined and recorded by Hommel and Henry Chapman Mercer, on their 1921 expedition into China. Chapters on 'Tools to make tools', 'Tools for procuring food', 'Tools for making clothing', 'Tools for providing shelter', 'Tools for enabling transport'. Comprehensive and fascinating..

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.