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Auction 37  11-14 Jun 2020
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Lot 3549

Starting price: 20 USD
Price realized: 110 USD
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China Society of Science and Arts, The China Journal, The China Journal Publishing Co., Shanghai, 1939, English text, Volume XXXI, numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, all hardbound together, covers the full years issues, well written articles on a variety of subject matters with many good black and white images, ex. H. F. Bowker Numismatic Library. Howard Franklin Bowker (1889-1970) was a numismatist and philatelist, collecting and specializing in Chinese coins, stamps and banknotes. He created the first bibliography of Western language publications on East Asian numismatics. Wang Yun-wu (1888-1979) was born in Shanghai and was a famous Chinese scholar of history and political science, he was also a politician and invented Shih Chiao Hao Ma, a method of Chinese lexicography also sometimes referred to as the Four Corner Method while he was the editor in chief at The Commercial Press, one of the oldest book enterprises in China.

Estimate: 25-35 USD
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