Wu Lien-teh Classic and Ephemera SOLD!

This lot has now been sold
 
Wu Lien Teh Collection

For Sale

(Substantially Updated - 29th October 2012)

The late Dr Wu Lien-teh (1879-1960), was a trail blazer in medicine generally and particularly in the Chinese community. He was born in Penang, became the first person of Chinese descent to study medicine at Cambridge University, the first Malaysian Chinese to be nominated for the Nobel Prize for Medicine and led a distinguished, but humble, career both in China and at home in Malaya.

The Penang Bookshelf is happy to be able to offer for sale the following items: -

• The Life of Dr Arthur Jackson of Manchuria – Alfred J. Costain (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1911. Second edition. Hardback in Good condition without a Dust jacket. (The blue cloth boards have minor rubbing and the gilt lettering on the spine is still clear, but not bright. There is spotting on the first and last few pages. Mild tanning throughout. 188 pages.) Jackson was a colleague of  Dr Wu in fighting the plague in China at the beginning of the 20^th century.
• Introduction: The Expedition to Manchuria and the Conditions under which the Work was Performed There – Richard P Strong (Reprinted from the Philippine Journal of Science, 1912. 5 pages of text and 6 pages of black and white plates  Very Good Paperback with minor discolouration of the cover and mild tanning throughout.)
• Free School Magazine, 21st October 1916 including a five page article 'Recollections of Twenty Years (1896-1916) written by Dr Wu in commemoration of the centenary of the Penang Free School (The magazine is in poor condition with a damaged and repaired cover and loose pages. There is medium tanning throughout)
• A Treatise on Pneumonic Plague – Wu Lien-Teh (The League of Nations Health Organisation, 1926. 466 pages with a fold out map with 40 black and white and coloured plates and line drawings. Good Paperback with a library sticker on the spine, a former owner’s name and some damp marks on the cover. The binding is tight and pages have medium tanning at the edges and mild tanning of the text.)
• History of Chinese Medicine: being a Chronicle of Medical Happenings in China from Ancient Times to the Present Period written by Dr Wu together with K. Chimin Wong and published by The Tientsin Press, Ltd. Tientsin, China, 1932. 706 pages.) This is the first edition of this classic. (The book is in good condition and was formerly part of Yale Medical Library. The cover, protected in plastic, is worn at the extremities, but the gilt lettering on the front and spine are still visible, the hinges at the front and rear are beginning to loosen and there are two small library plates on the inside front cover. There is mild tanning throughout the book and a map of China has been laid in a pocket attached to the rear cover.)
• Dugald Christie: Pioneer and Medical Missionary –Mrs Dugald Christie (James Clarke & Co Ltd, 1932. Good in red cloth boards. The spine has been sunned, but gilt lettering visible. The book has mild to medium tanning throughout and an owner’s name on a front end paper.) Laid in the book is a 1906 letter from Mrs Christie and her husband and a photograph of Dr Christie, a colleague of Wu Lien-Teh
• Cholera: A Manual for the Medical Profession in China – Wu Lien-Teh, JWH Chun, R. Pollitzer & CY Yu (National Quarantine Service, Shanghai, 1934 In Good+ condition with medium tanning to the end papers and mild tanning throughout the rest of the book. In blue cloth covers with minor rubbing to the extremities.Gilt lettering on the spine has dulled, but bright on the front cover. 197 pages) Signed with a dedication by the author
• Malayan Problems: From a Chinese Point of View –Tan Cheng Lock with a Foreword by Dr Wu Lien-Teh (Tannsco,1947 Paperback in Very Good condition with mild tanning to the end papers. 182 pages)
• Plague Fighter: The Autobiography of a Modern Chinese Physician -  Wu Lien-Teh ( W.Heffer & Sons, 1959 Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Previous owners’ names on front end paper. Medium tanning throughout the book and spotting on the text block. 667 pages)
• Plague Prevention and Politics in Manchuria 1910-1931 – Carl F. Nathan (East Asian Research Center, Harvard University, 1967. 106 pages. Very Good Paperback. Some minor discolouration of the cover, but the text is clear and bright.)
• Past and Present: A Journal of Historical Studies No 90 February 2006 includes a 38 page article by Mark Gamsa entitled The Epidemic of the Pneumonic Plague in Manchuria 1910-11. The Journal is in Near Fine condition
• Two post cards and one letter written by Dr Wu in 1956 to a Miss Austin in Bromley, Kent, UK
• Two Christmas/New Year cards for 1957/8 and and 1958/9. Both cards are from his address in Ipoh before he moved to Penang in the final year of his life. (All the cards and letter are protected in plastic and in very good condition.)

All these items are being sold as one lot. 

RM3,900 (AU$1,240/GBP790/Euro 980/SG$1,560/US$1,280)

All the items are available for inspection in Penang. Further pictures and details can be provided to enquirers. Those interested in this special collection please contact William Knox on +60-(0)12-972-6485 or by email.

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A further selection of pictures of the collection follows below.