A vintage, publicly distributed copy of a letter / petition dated June 9, 1950, addressed to the Occupying Allied Forces, requesting that, in accordance with the Potsdam Declaration, the Allied Occupational Forces stop purging Japanese Communists from the Central Committee. The first part of the letter reads:

***************************** PETITION

June 9, 1950

To: Lt. Gen. K.N. Derevyanko, Member of the Allied Council for Japan, for the USSR.

From: Karoku Hosokawa, Chief, Communist Members of the Diet,

Dear Lt. Gen, Derevyanikos

To the Allied Council for Japan, which is set up to advise the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers in accordance with the provisions of the Potsdam Declaration that "The Japanese Government shall remove all obstacles to the revival and strengthening of Democratic tendencies among the Japanese people," we request that the Council pay profound attention to the purge of the Central Committee members of the Japanese Communist Party, which was conducted by the Japanese Government in accordance with the letter of the Supreme Commander to Fremier Yoshida.

The same letter orders the removal from public posts of all the members of the Central Committee of the Japanese Communist Party, charging that they have sought... ***************************** Two page printed typescript letter / petition, printed on onionskin paper, 8x11 inches (20x28 cm), single corner staple.

GOOD condition, folded horizontally, lightly age toned, additional staple holes around the current staple.

An unusual and historic item related to Japanese communists in occupied Japan.

THE PHILIPPINE INSURRECTION AGAINST THE UNITED STATES: A Compilation of Documents. By John R.M. Taylor.

Five Volume Set, complete in these five volumes.

PASAY CITY, PHILIPPINES: Eugenio Lopez Foundation, 1971-1973 (Note that all 5 Volumes show 1971 on the title page.) First and Limited edition, as stated in the Publisher's Notes in Volume V: "It took four years to complete the publication of this set. The first volume was finished in 1971 and publication of the other four volumes continued up to 1973. // Only a limited number of copies have been printed for this first edition...This set is among the few remaining copies which are being offered for sale..."

(All five volumes of this first edition state 1971 on the title page, however the Publisher's Note of Volume V states: "It took four years to complete the publication of this set. The first volume was finished in 1971 and publication of the other four volumes continued up to 1973. // Only a limited number of copies have been printed for this first edition...")

The Philippine Insurrection Against the United States is a foundational 5 volume collection of captured Philippine insurgent records. Covering 1896-1903, it documents the Philippine - American War, highlighting the struggle of the First Republic against U.S. occupation. Early in the 20th century it was twice withheld from publication by the U.S. government due to its sympathetic portrayal of the Philippine side.

Compiled by Capt. John R.M. Taylor of the U.S. Army, who, from 1901-1906, reviewed and supervised the translation of over 200,000 captured documents to create this archive.

The five volume set contains 1,534 selected documents, including telegraphic correspondence of Emilio Aguinaldo, official reports, and proclamations from 1898 to 1903. While titled an "Insurrection" by the U.S. government, the documents illustrate the intense Filipino resistance and desire for independence.

FIVE HARDCOVER BOOKS, blue cloth covered boards, titled in gilt on the front covers and spines, 6x9 inches.

The five volumes are:

Vol. I: 1571 to May 19, 1898, xxii, 525 pages;

Vol. II: May 19, 1898 to July 4, 1902, xii, 524 pages; Vol. III: May 19, 1898 to February 4, 1899, viii, 672 pages; Vol. IV: February 5, 1899 to November 13, 1899, xiii, 809 pages; Vol. V: November 13, 1899 to July 4, 1902, xviii, 829, 129.

CONDITION: The covers of all the volumes have light shelf rubs and a bit of wear to the spine folds, otherwise they are solid, sharp cornered, and attractive. All the volumes are foxed on their top page edges and only lightly so on the other page edges (page edges of the closed books). Internally, Volume I has the bottom-of-a-coffee-cup size brown stain to its front pastedown that has soaked through to some subsequent prelim pages, growing lighter on each page until it has fully disappeared (at least to my eyes) on page xiv. Otherwise all the pages of all the volumes are bright, clean, clear and unmarked. A very presentable set of this important work.

Please Note: Many of the provided photos have shadows from my camera and me, the actual pages are all bright and shadowless.

Publication History (from Wikipedia):

******In 1906 Taylor ordered the Government Printing Office to typeset proofs, with two volumes dedicated to his history of US - Philippine relations and three other volumes containing 1,340 supporting papers of original documents. Then Secretary of War William Howard Taft deferred its publication for fear of antagonizing both Americans and Filipinos. In 1909 a second attempt was made to publish the volumes when President Taft's former secretary James A. LeRoy wrote a critique objecting to its publication. The Bureau of Insular Affairs then abandoned the project. It was finally first published in the Philippines in 1971 by the Eugenio Lopez Foundation, with an Introduction by Renato Consantino.******

Please read the JOHN R.M. TAYLOR Wikipedia page for more information.

1707 DUTCH PRINTING of the SEVENTH VOYAGE to the EAST-INDIES by the ENGLISH EAST INDIA COMPANY in 1611, COMMANDED by CAPTAIN ANTHONY HIPPON. With two engraved plates.

TEXT in DUTCH.

Title: SEVENDE REYS NA OOST-INDIEN...Door KAPITEYN ANTONY HIPPON...Dag-Register van Pieter Williamson Floris na PATANE en SIAM...gedaan in het JAAR 1611.

[SEVENTH VOYAGE TO THE EAST INDIES...By CAPTAIN ANTONY HIPPON...Journal of Pieter Williamson Floris to PATANI and SIAM...undertaken in the YEAR 1611]

Full Title: Sevende Reys na Oost-Indien, op kosten van de Engelse Maatschappy; door Kapiteyn Antony Hippon, waar in naauw-keurig worden aangeweesen de hoogtens van de son en sterren, gelegenheyd der dieptens, en sorgel?ke ondieptens, van verscheyde zee-havenen in Indiën, op wat w?se de klippen, stranden, banken en andere gevaarl?kheeden, omtrent dese kusten, z?n te m?den, en de baayen en ree's, veylig konnen werden aangedaan. :, En om dat bysondere voorvallen aan land in de voorsz. reys z?n overgeslagen, so is hier bygevoegt het Dag-register van Pieter Williamson Floris, na Patane en Siam; die voor koopman op dit selfde schip gevaren, en dit alles met een bysondere naarstigheyd heeft opgeteekend; ook een kort verhaal van de op- en onder-gang van Siam, en een voorval des schr?vers met den gouverneur van Masulipatan : gedaan in het jaar 1611 en vevolgens, nu aldereerst uyt het Engels vertaald. Met noodig register en konst-printen verr?kt. Dag-Register van Pieter Williamson Floris na Patane en Siam, met noodig register.

Published by PIETER VANDER Aa, Boekverkoper (Bookseller), LEYDEN [LEIDEN, THE NETHERLANDS], [1707].

Hardcovers, 4to., 9x13.75 inches (23x34.5cm), 24 numbered double columns (12 pages A1-B2) + title page, and 2 page "Register" at the rear. Professionally and beautifully bound in modern marbled paper covered boards with a printed title label on front cover. ILLUSTRATED with two engravings.

VERY GOOD condition: There are two scrapes to the rear panel of the marbled paper covered boards, otherwise the covers are solid and bright; the bound in pages printed in 1707 are in great shape, tight, bright, clean and unmarked. A very presentable, attractively bound copy.

About THE SEVENTH VOYAGE OF THE EAST INDIA CO. TO THE EAST INDIES: (from the Internet):

******The English East India Company's Seventh Voyage in 1611, led by Captain Anthony Hippon aboard the ship Globe, was significant as it was the first English venture into the Bay of Bengal and Gulf of Siam, and established trade in Masulipatam and Patani. Though the voyage incurred many difficulties and a high death rate, it ultimately formed the foundation for later East India Company activities in the region.******

Shaoyang Xian Zhi. A Gazetteer / Chronicle of Shaoyang County, Hunan Province, China.

Printed by Da Zhan Letterpress, printing bureau of Shaoyang, 1875 (1st year of Guang Xu, Qing Dynasty). First edition. TEXT in CHINESE.

Six volumes, wrappers, 5.25x8.5 inches (13.5x21 cm). Four of the volumes have several sections, each paginated separately. Pagination: Volume One: 2, 46, 20, 30, 26 pp; Volume Two: 34, 37, 26, 36 pp; Volume Three: 76, 47 pp.; Volume Four: 120 pp.; Volume Five: 108 pp.; Volume 6: 96, 5 pp.

The previous owner left a couple typed notes (with some handwritten additions) that describe the contents of the volume as follows:

Vol. 1: Tome 1: Harvest; Tome 2: Landscape; Tome 3: Construction; Tome 4: School.

Vol. 2: Tome 5: Ancestral Temple; Tome 6: Finance; Tome 7: Officials; Tome 8: Election.

Vol. 3. Political, Academic, and Meritorious Personages.

Vol. 4: Moral Personages.

Vol. 5: Examples, women.

Vol. 6: Miscellaneous.

FAIR Condition: the wrappers are chipped, worn along the edges, and have tears of various lengths; many of the wrappers are disbound, the rest tenderly attached; the front cover of Volume One has been replaced with a blank (same paper as the other wrappers but no printed title), has a long tear, and is detached along with a few of its initial leaves; the spine covering of all the volumes has perished; overall the wrappers are weary and tender but present. Internally, the pages are age toned, have some edgewear, edge chips, tears, and faint dampstaining; some of the early and latter pages of various volumes are disbound but present; the paper is fragile and chips easily, so small fragments come off with handling. Please handle this treasure with care. Despite the flaws, this is a complete and very rare set of these six volumes.

SCARCE original source documents. This is the only 19th century chronicle of Shaoyang County that I have ever seen.

SUNG-LIAO DIPLOMACY in ELEVENTH and TWELFTH CENTURY CHINA: A STUDY of the SOCIAL and POLITICAL, by Melvin Thlick-Len Ang.

This is an "authorized facsimile" printed in 1983 by University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor, Michigan, of the ORIGINAL DOCTORAL / PhD THESIS presented to the UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA in the same year, 1983.

Softcovers, 6.5x8.5 inches, xii + 316 pages. NEAR FINE condition, sunning to the spine, otherwise looks and feels unused, tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked.

Abstract of the Thesis: ****** In the early eleventh-century, geopolitical considerations caused the Chinese government to initiate a system of regular embassies of exchange with the Liao. The inauguration of permanent diplomatic relations between the two Courts represented a significant departure from the Sinocentric model of a China at the center of the social and political order.

This study seeks to determine whether this alteration in the pattern of traditional Sino-barbarian relations led to a permanent institutional change or whether it was treated by the Chinese merely as a temporary if necessary expedient. The investigation moves from the general and theoretical to the specific and quantitative.

The first chapter surveys the major theories of Sino-barbarian relations and traditional Chinese relations with Koryo, Annam, the Hsi Hsia, and the Chin.

The second chapter presents an historical survey of Sung-Liao relations, including in particular the process by which decades of war were replaced by a century of peaceful diplomatic interchange.

The third chapter details the actual process of Sung-Liao diplomacy: The selection of ambassadors; the ranks of appointees; the types of missions; the gifts exchanged; the nature of travel and hospitality.

The fourth chapter presents a number of case studies of Sung ambassadors. An attempt is made to develop profiles of ambassadorial types.

The fifth chapter presents the results of a prosopographical study of the careers of 608 ambassadors to the Liao and 341 military intendants who served in Liao-sensitive circuits. The effects of elite status, educational attainment, regional origin, and experience on the subsequent careers of ambassadors are analyzed. The data suggest that the Liao threat was taken seriously. Significant numbers of men in top policy making positions could boast ambassadorial experience. But these "experienced" bureaucrats did not become "specialists." Nor was any permanent bureau for foreign policy established as a result of the Sung-Liao diplomatic experience.******