‎Porcelaine chinoise‎

‎[CHINA YOUTH PUBLISHING HOUSE].‎

‎美帝国主义侵华罪行录 Mei diguozhuyi qinhua zuixing lu. Record of US Imperialist Crimes Against China‎

‎Beijing.: 中国青年出版社 Zhongguo qingnian chubanshe. 1966. Black and white photographic and black line drawn illustrations 149pp text in simplified Chinese characters 18.5 x 13cm paper wrapper. Evenly browned throughout worn and soiled wrappers chipped at corners and head and tail of spine. . 中国青年出版社 [Zhongguo qingnian chubanshe]. unknown‎

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‎[CHINA, Canton School]‎

‎Album of exceptional watercolours of members of the Chinese court and of various tradesmen and occupations‎

‎Canton 1800. Large 4to. 15 x 12 1/2 inches. 141 watercolours on thin paper nearly all captioned in ink in Chinese in the lower right corner each tipped to a sheet of wove paper. Mid-nineteenth century citron half morocco over marbled paper covered boards spine with raised bands in six compartments lettered in gilt in the second compartment the others with a repeat decoration in gilt marbled edges<br/> <br/> Provenance: Annie Pearson Viscountess Cowdray née Cass 1860-1932 Dunecht House Aberdeenshire.<br/> <br/> An extraordinary album of early Chinese export watercolours of the highest quality.<br/> <br/> Beginning in the late 18th century centred on the treaty port of Canton there existed a thriving trade in ethnographical watercolours executed by local Chinese artists and sold to the western merchants and travellers. The best known result of this trade is William Mason's Costume of China first published in London in 1800 which is illustrated with 60 hand-coloured aquatints adapted from a series of original watercolours by Pu-Qua of Canton. It was common for the local artists including Pu-Qua to work from a set series of models. The present album includes a number of compositions that are from the same set of models as those used by Pu-Qua but they include more detail and more of the trade-associated paraphernalia than are shown in the images as published in Mason's work. This suggests that they were not copied from Mason but were after another more detailed source or were unique compositions by the artist based on a similar series of models. Importantly these watercolours are of a uniformly higher quality than usually encountered and represent not only a wide array of occupations but also members of the highest echelon of Chinese society. The detailing on the costumes worn by these members of the royal court is breathtaking with copious use of gilt. Later collections of Chinese export watercolours were routinely executed on less expensive pith paper whereas the present watercolours are on high quality tissue and are larger in size than those typically encountered. The album represents an earlier more prestigious style of export watercolour paintings specifically meant for wealthy Europeans. These are Chinese watercolours of the highest quality designed and executed to the highest standards. The album was once owned by Annie Pearson Viscountess Cowdray Steward of Colchester and wife of Lord Weetman Dickinson Pearson 1st Viscount Cowdray.<br/> <br/> Cf. Crossman The China Trade Princeton: 1972; cf. Clunas Chinese Export Watercolours London: 1984. unknown‎

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‎[China/Tibet]‎

‎The Boundary Question between China and Tibet - A Valuable Record of the Tripartite Conference between China Britain and Tibet held in India 1913-1914‎

‎1940. Hard Cover. Published in Peking China 1940. From the Foreword: The contents of the Tripartite Conference between China Britain and Tibet held at Delhi and Simla India in 1913-1914 have hitherto been kept secret in accordance with the agreement between China and Britain.Here is given a selection of valuable papers including the claims of the Tibetan Plenipotentiary on the boundary line the counter-claims of the Chinese Plenipotentiary the proposal of the British Plenipotentiary under pretext of mediation and the proceedings of the Conference. Publisher's pale brown wrappers. A Softcover. A VG copy page block browned internally light foxing to the wrappers. A solid VG copy. Not issued with a D/W. Uncommon. Photographs/scans available upon request. hardcover‎

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‎[China; Bank Note Printing]‎

‎Compagnie Generale de Chemins de Fer et de Tramways en Chine. . Capital Social: 3000000 de Francs . Action de Deux Cent Cinquante Francs au Porteur‎

‎Bruxelles: J. Verschueren 1900. Very good condition. An early Chinese railroad bond with attractive bank-note engraving and with three Chinese vignettes: a Chinese village a Chinese temple and a railway bridge spanning a large river. Printed in red & black with multiple tax stamps at top of page. Number 05219 with coupon sheet attached dated 1936 through 1944 with the 1936 coupon removed. Complete with statutes printed in red on verso. 14 x 15" J. Verschueren unknown‎

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‎[China; Hong Kong] Heine, Wilhelm‎

‎View of Hong Kong from East Point‎

‎Philadelphia: P. S. Duval 1856. Very good condition. A beautiful view of Hong Kong showing a busy harbor the foreground busy with stonemasons with the British colony of Hong Kong in mid-ground. To the right Kellett Island is visible in Victoria Harbor. Victoria Peak is seen in the background looking over the town. This view drawn from nature by Wilhelm Heine with figures by Eliphalet Brown Jr. appeared in Francis Hawk's 'Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan Performed in the years 1852 1853 and 1854 under the Command of Commodore M. C. Perry'. View 6 x 8 3/4" on sheet 8 1/2 x 11 1/4" P. S. Duval unknown‎

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‎[China; Macao] Heine, W‎

‎Macao From Penha Hill‎

‎Philadelphia: P. S. Duval 1856. Very good overall. Hand colored lithograph of Macao harbor after the artist Wilhelm Heine. With masted sailing vessels in the harbor church spires dwellings and flag flying from a hilltop fortress. From Francis Hawk's 'Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan Performed in the years 1852 1853 and 1854 under the Command of Commodore M. C. Perry'. 6 x 8 3/4 inches on sheet 8 1/2 x 11 1/4 inches. Mild fox spotting. P. S. Duval unknown‎

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‎[China; Macao] After James Cook‎

‎Schets van Typa of van Macao. Map‎

‎Leiden 1795. Very good condition. A later hand colored copper engraved map of Macao China and the islands in its vicinity. From a Dutch edition of "Cook's Voyages". On fine wove paper with full impression marks from the plate visible. Contemporary folds. 8 1/4 x 10 1/2" with margin slightly trimmed at lower left. unknown‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 19601

‎[China; Photographs]‎

‎2 China snapshot photos: Peking View & Chinese Troops in Tientsin‎

‎1930. Very good condition. A pair of real photo snapshots with contemporary annotation on the verso one "Pekin sic China" in pencil the second "Chinese troop Tiensen" sic.<br /> <br /> The Peking view is a bird's eye view showing a main thoroughfare with rickshaw and pedestrian traffic and many store fronts including one with a series of minarets at the top of the building. The second snap shot showing two rows of very young Chinese soldiers standing at attention in front of a military building with stucco facade with tents visible in the distance. 5 1/2 x 3 1/4" unknown‎

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‎[China; Photography]‎

‎Shanghai 3 postcards sent by a photographer in Shanghai to his family in Scotland‎

‎Shanghai: Brewer & Co. Booksellers 1902. Good overall. Three full back postcards of Shanghai published in Shanghai with blue images entitled "Honan Road Shanghai" "Tea House Native City Shanghai" and "Loong Hwa Pagoda near Shanghai". Brewer & Co are recorded in a 1904 edition of "The Directory and Chronicle for China ." as being located at 31 Nanking Road.<br /> <br /> The author who signs his postcards "D" is evidently a Shanghai photographer: he writes that he worked until 10 o'clock the previous night on the photographs but worries that there is something wrong with the plates. "There are a great many little holes in them -- some not so little. But I think there ought to be a few good results." There is a D. MacLennan listed as in the employ of Chinese Maritime Customs Service Index first appointed in July 1891 as a Watcher and retired in Apr 1928 as Chief Tide Surveyor and Harbour Master in Ningpo. Ancestry. <br /> <br /> Two are signed with the initial "D" the third signed "L. Ross". All are addressed to a Miss MacLennan at 2 addresses in Scotland: 11 Thirlestane Road Edinburgh and at Eglinton Wellington Road Nairn.<br /> <br /> 5 1/2 x 3 3/4" a few corner defects a diagonal crack in the Honan Road postcard extending a small distance into the image. Postally used undivided backs green King Edward VII half penny stamps canceled Edinburgh 02. Brewer & Co. Booksellers unknown‎

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‎[China; Photographs]‎

‎Shanghai Municipal Police. British officer's photograph Album‎

‎Shanghai 1910. Hardcover. Good condition. A remarkable album of images and postcards many taken by a British police officer of the Shanghai Municipal Police which includes numerous vernacular snap shots titled in period ink bound in an elaborately decorated lacquer album.<br /> <br /> The Shanghai Municipal Police SMP was the police force of the Shanghai Municipal Council which governed the Shanghai International Settlement between 1854 and 1943. The SMP's role was to provide stability in the settlement and to protect Western trade interests against pirates and various Chinese nationalist movements and uprisings.<br /> <br /> The SMP was initially made up mostly of Britons; after 1864 it included Chinese. Over the years it grew to include a Sikh Branch 1884 a Japanese contingent 1916 a volunteer part time special police 1918 and a Russian Auxiliary Detachment 1941. <br /> <br /> When the SMP began in 1854 the first detachment of 31 British was on loan from the Hong Kong Police and led by Samuel Clifton. Additional men were recruited from the Royal Irish Constabulary London's Metropolitan Police and from the military presence in Shanghai. .<br /> <br /> The police officer who took these snap shots is identified only by his first name Andy and he appears in one of the 56 original snap shots which he entitles "Chinese Soldiers and your humble". He appears in another which he captions "girls running away from me in country village".<br /> <br /> The album consists of 12 photographs of Shanghai 10 3/4 x 8 1/2" and 8 x 5 3/4" of which<br /> 9 are entitled "Police on Parade" showing the men wearing the ‘Custodian’ police helmet including Indian police and Indian mounted police Sikhs; 4 of Chinese Punishments 3 scenes of decapitations; 1 of people confined in a cangue 6 x 4"; 56 original vernacular snap shots 5 x 4 1/4"; 1 "Parade in Egypt" showing mounted troops in the desert signed G. Lekegian who was the official photographer for the British Army in Egypt beginning in the 1890s; printed color postcards mostly by Kingshill postally unused split backs in fine condition; and 2 period newspapers loosely inserted one Chinese and one American The Catholic News November 14 1914. <br /> <br /> The 56 original vernacular snap shots create a layered impression of contemporary life in China taken by the author and 3 British friends as they travel about the country. They include: the harbour; the jettee; a native court; the race course; street scenes; Up country trip snowy mountain scenes; a country temple; a resort "Mokanshan" sic; Soochow; our boat in Hangchow; trying to bargain market place stall; one of the British men in a wooden cage; getting the bamboos together in the river; a noted gateway up country; Chinese river life; famous bridge; religious ceremony on boat; beggars boats; the Great Lake; Fishing; and hairdressing in the street.<br /> <br /> The 108 postcards include: color printed views of Shanghai one of German consulate & Astor House Garden; Chinese people gardens "thea house" festivals Mandarins opium smoker Chinese trades people; Peking scenes; Yan Chow scenes; and more. <br /> <br /> Oblong 4to 14 x 11" album albumen and silvertone photographs. Black lacquer album cover decorated with inlays of bone and mother of pearl in the form of a rooster 1909 was the year of the rooster. Edges rubbed spine lacking first 5 leaves are loose otherwise all fascicles are bound in. The photographs and postcards bright and clean. Newspapers loosely inserted chipped at edges. Ink manuscript inscription "From Andy" at the front end paper. hardcover‎

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‎[China; Shanghai]‎

‎Collection of real photo views of Shanghai with captions in Chinese and English‎

‎1920. Very good condition. 17 b&w real photographs highlighting Shanghai views. Most are captioned in Chinese & English some Chinese only. English captions read; Sampan Boat S'hai Canton Junk Lung Wha Pagoda The Wing On Co. S'hai Bird's Eye View of the Nanking Road S'hai The Bund Soochow Creek Willow Tea House Nanking Road Sedan Chair Shanghai Chinese Post Office Park Hotel Shanghai Race Course.<br /> <br /> B&w photographs 4 3/8 x 2 3/4 unknown‎

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‎[China; Trade Card]‎

‎Nanking trade card "Jams & Co." Butchers & Bakers‎

‎1890. Very good overall. Card printed in English and Chinese with the name of the establishment in an elaborate type font. The company had locations in Chinkiang Nanking Wuhu and Kiukiang. It records "Bum Boat General Store Keepers Butcher & Bakers Commission Agents & c and Coal Merchants". <br /> <br /> This card hails from the period following the Treaty of Tianjin which ended the Second Opium War opened more Chinese ports to foreign trade and allowed foreign legations in the Chinese capital. "Bum boats" were small water taxis and boats used for short trips.<br /> <br /> Chinese text in 2 vertical columns to left and right of English text. Removed from an album with black paper adhering to verso. 4 1/4 x 2 3/4" unknown‎

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‎[China; Yunnan]; Little Archibald‎

‎ACROSS YUNNAN: A JOURNEY OF SURPRISES Including an Account of the Remarkable French Railway Line now completed to Yunnan-fu‎

‎London: Sampson Low Marston & Co. Ltd. 1910. Very Rare First Edition. No Copies Currently Exist in Commerce. This copy with excellent provenance having come from the War Office marked received on 22 Apr 1910. Illustrated with many full-page plates from period photographs and a large folding map. 8vo publisher's original red cloth the spine lettered in gilt the upper cover decorated with Chinese bordrs in gilt and a central calligraphic ornament in black. 164 pp. A very fine copy as close to pristine as one could hope already unusually rare this copy is also extremely well preserved. VERY RARE FIRST EDITION AND ONE OF THE FIRST BOOKS IN ENGLISH TO DESCRIBE THE PROVINCE OF YUNNAN. Archibald Little wrote a number of books on China as did his wife Alicia who called herself Mrs. Archibald Little. Little was a merchant scholar and later travel writer who'd spent many years in China. With his wife they moved to Chungking an isolated city to the far west of the country. Impossibly hot in the summer the couple had planned to build a holiday home in the cooler countryside but the authorities blocked the idea after concern that the locals would not take kindly to foreigners. An idea was then hatched for the Littles to move onto a local farm by the Yangtse River for a few months with the hope that it might get the locals used to their presence.<br> Published posthumously in 1910 Archibald Little's memoir of his journey across the Yunnan Province in Southwest China was one of the first comprehensive accounts of the region to be published in English. Little a skilled linguist worked as a merchant in China for over fifty years and opened up the Upper Yangtze area to steam-powered commerce. He was well known for his intrepid travels into territories not yet explored by Westerners and his record of this journey was originally published as a series of letters to the North China Herald. This book also contains Little's account of the building of the French Railway Line to Yunnan-Fu which provided a trade route from India to the Upper Yangtze region. Across Yunnan was completed and edited by Little's wife after his death in 1908. The book includes a detailed map of the area and several photographs. Research Gate<br> Mrs. Archibald Little began a prolific two decade literary career in London focused primarily on highlighting the plight of women. During this time she was also active politically in the feminist movement penning pamphlets lecturing and campaigning around women's property rights suffrage. Both she and her husband traveled around China although Mrs. Little had to dress as a male to avoid attracting attention which had on occasion resulted in items being thrown at her.<br> The book offered here is very rare. At the present time no copies appear in the marketplace or in commerce. Additionally this copy comes with very fine provenance having been owned by the British War Office. The War Office has referred to several British government organizations in history all relating to the army. It was a department of the British Government responsible for the administration of the British Army between 1857 and 1964 when its functions were transferred to the new Ministry of Defence MoD. It was at that time equivalent to the Admiralty responsible for the Royal Navy RN and much later the Air Ministry which oversaw the Royal Air Force RAF. The name 'War Office' is also given to the former home of the department located at the junction of Horse Guards Avenue and Whitehall in central London. Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd. hardcover‎

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‎[China]‎

‎ALS from Shanghai during the Great Depression‎

‎Shanghai 1933. Very good condition. An amusing letter written by Adeline in Shanghai to her sister Dorothea back home in the United States describing Chinese celebrations and rituals and commenting on the Depression and its "direst calamities".<br /> <br /> Adeline vividly describes the Chinese "Mid Autumn Festival" including paying homage to the moon stories from the Tang Dynasty how the Emperor Tang Min-huang traveled to the moon the exchange of moon shaped cakes and moon viewing rituals.<br /> <br /> She also describes in great detail the important seventh week Buddhist memorial services for a deceased Chinese friend. She describes the elaborate Temple altar decorations of dwarf pine and evergreens tea ceremony attendant monks and priests and the burning of large gifts to the deceased made of paper and bamboo.<br /> <br /> Adeline concludes with a lament about the "business situation" and a wish that "Roosevelt will be able to swing things into line soon but think that he has bitten off almost more than he can chew". <br /> <br /> Three sheets writing paper 10 x 6 1/2" the first 2 written in ink on front and back. Original folds flattened. unknown‎

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‎[China]‎

‎China Resists. Progressive Womens Council #33‎

‎New York: Board of Education City of New York 1946. Pamphlet. Very good. One page mimeographed flyer advertising public forum with text "Paul Maurice Youth Director of "China Today" Wed Jan 12 9:00 PM 'China Resists'. This is one of a series of forums held in cooperation with the forum division W. P. A. Adult Education Program of the Board of Education City of New York. Free Public Forum". 8 1/2 x 11" Board of Education, City of New York unknown‎

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‎[China]‎

‎Chinese embossed Christmas card with cut stamp montage on a watercolor landscape‎

‎China 1905. Very good condition. Oblong 8vo. Folding card stock with printed Christmas greeting in both Chinese and English on inlaid sheet. The original cut stamp post card laid inside the open cut front cover. The stamps form Chinese junk with three sails with two men and small mountain in distance. Ribbon tie. 7 1/2 x 5 3/4" unknown‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 19942

‎[China]‎

‎Chinese embossed Christmas card with cut stamp montage on a watercolor landscape‎

‎China 1905. Very good condition. Oblong 8vo. Folding card stock with printed Christmas greeting in both Chinese and English on inlaid sheet. The original cut stamp post card laid inside the open cut front cover. The stamps form people and 2 junks sailing on a water colored water scene with hills in the distance. Post card with space for address only. Ribbon tie. 7 1/2 x 5 3/4" unknown‎

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‎[China]‎

‎Chinese Hand Colored miniatures of trades and scenes‎

‎1920. Twelve hand-colored cards depicting various Chinese trades and scenes. Not dated 20th century. Watercolors of indeterminate age with captions in English. Cards depict trades such as "Barber" "Knife and Scissor Sharpener" "Yellow Rice Cake Seller" "Dealer in Chicken and Ducks" "Waste Watter Arrier" sic & "Vegetable Vender" sic. Others show scenes or methods of transport including "Chinese Wedding Chair" "Peking Cart" "Transport Outside the Great Wall" "Chinese Donkey" "The harrier" & "Chinese Meal Grinding." These cards were certainly produced by amateur artists to be sold to tourists in China. Manila stock each approximately 3 3/4 x 2 1/4". Clean and fine. unknown‎

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‎[China]‎

‎Collection of Chinese propaganda illustrations‎

‎1950. Paperback. Very good condition. A collection of nine color illustrations depicting happy Chinese people at work including: a smiling grandmother making a bed; a teacher explaining a sculpted monument to a group of children; workers with machinery; smiling women collecting water; a landscape of terraced agricultural fields; a woman spinning yarn; a group of workers at a forge; happy family in the snow; and a happy family with young girl on bicycle. All captioned in Chinese. In a folding cardboard sleeve. Sml 8vo red title in Chinese characters on front of sleeve. paperback‎

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‎[China]‎

‎Letter to family during a trip in Shanghai‎

‎1933. Very good condition. Adeline writes a newsy letter to "Dear Sister Anna and My Dorothea" from Shanghai commenting on the number of Catholics in China "there are two large convents and several churches." with the bulk of the letter describing Jessfield Park now Zhongshan Park the "Sukiyaki feeds' eating in the Japanese style and how the food is prepared. "I don't know how those B.C. eggs taste. they looked dark and the white looked mottled . I could not bring myself to taste them." She is clearly enjoying herself and asks for more letters from home "You see I'm so full of what I see I can't write fast enough to tell all I want to." <br /> <br /> 4pp on 2 folded sheets 9 x 7" written in ink on both sides short splits at some folds. unknown‎

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‎[China]‎

‎Manuscript letter from Charles in Hong Kong to his sister Anna in the United States‎

‎Hong Kong 1873. Ephemera. Very good condition. A three page manuscript letter dated March 12 1873 from 'Charles' in Hong Kong to his sister 'Anna' in the United States. The letter was sent via San Francisco and the SS Colorado. Charles seems to be a young bachelor making his way in the Orient and he paints a detailed picture of daily events from a Westerners perspective but no real indication of why he is there.<br /> <br /> Charles and Anna were avid letter writers this one "No. 6" for the year. He refers to Anna's letters of Dec. 29 Jan. 5 19 that were just received. He talks of his lack of a Christmas and that most people who live in Hong Kong celebrate by getting "boozy" a sport he did not relish. He "would give more for 1 pound of good tobacco than 1 barrel of the best liquor."<br /> <br /> "For a young man who has not much determination this is the worse sic place in the world. There is nothing for him to do but play billiards & drink." <br /> <br /> He responds to Anna's questions about paper suits which were made in Japan a Joss house and the custom to accept an offer of tea 'you will have one of these little cups 7 saucers handed to you.' that he will send the 'Ivory letters to you for Miss Harrington' and refers to Anna's husband George other family and an acquaintance Wiliam Blanchard a pilot who lived in Shanghai as well as the 'great fire'. "The only thing I can say of the great fire is that it is too bad - but it may improve Boston by having different planned building and streets." The Great Boston fire of 1872 was Boston's largest and one of the most costly fire-related property losses is American history. He ends by sending his love to other family members and a request for a letter from George.<br /> <br /> The SS Colorado was the largest San Francisco-Panama route liner ever to sail the Pacific. She was originally brig-rigged but was altered in San Francisco in 1866 to enter the China service. In 1867 the Pacific Mail founded the first regular steamship service across the Pacific Ocean and the Colorado became the first American liner to carry mail across the Pacific to the Orient which helped pave the way for a rapid expansion of trade between California and the Orient. <br /> <br /> 4 page folded letter on watermarked paper "Hodgkinson & Co" with writing on 3 sides 8 3/8 x 10 1/8" with original fold marks. unknown‎

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‎[China]‎

‎Merrill's Toys A Peep at the Old World. Primer‎

‎Concord NH: Merriam and Merrill 1853. Wraps. Children's primer with wood block illustrations and descriptions of the peoples of the world including 'Chinese Flower Seller' 'People of Siam' 'People of Japan' and 'Hindoo sic Idols'. Verso of title page has an illustration of Chinese children with their toys. and the first story describing China as where 'we obtain tea silk and fine muslin.' 16mo 24pp b&w ills throughout. Yellow decorative and printed paper wraps with title in black within ornately decorated black border with sewn binding. Covers slt dusty and worn. Internally some signs of child's scribbles inside front and rear covers light fox spotting internally split at spine repaired with archival tape o/w good . OCLC: 80291556. Merriam and Merrill paperback‎

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‎[CHINA]‎

‎Pair of Chinese export watercolours of architectural "Views of China‎

‎Canton Guangzhou workshop 1810. Watercolour and opaque body-colour with ink on thick chinese paper depicitng 1. A Temple Compound and 2. An Imperial Pleasure Garden. Sheet size: 16 1/8 x 22 inches. An exceptional pair of Chinese export watercolours rich in architectural detail exemplifying the pictorial conventions developed to frame China for European eyes.<br/> <br/> A fine pair of large-scale architectural fantasy views produced in a Canton workshop for the export trade at the height of the China Trade period. The compositions exemplify the hybrid artistic language developed for Western patrons by Chinese painters trained in native techniques yet attuned to foreign tastes for picturesque and monumental subjects. The first painting depicts a two-courtyard Buddhist or Taoist temple approached through a three-bay shan-men ceremonial gateway flanked symmetrically by drum and bell towers. A painted screen wall in the inner court displays guardian deities in brilliant red while the gilded Buddha presides from an elevated rear hall. The temples architecture is stylized but evocative of southern Chinese religious compounds. Above the gateway a plaque bears brush-written characters reading "Beautiful Hall of Profound Reverence" a fictive name likely invented by the workshop for decorative effect rather than to identify a specific site. The second painting shows a walled palace complex centered around a multi-tiered pavilion rising from a lotus pond filled with sculptural rocks and pleasure boats. Dragon grottoes stone causeways and ornamental bridges evoke the fantastical terrain of imperial parks such as the Yuanmingyuan rendered here in a compressed stage-set perspective. White elephants bearing crimson banners guard the main gate signaling a courtly or ceremonial setting. While reminiscent of northern gardens the details are compositional inventions rather than topographical records. The palette vermilion malachite green gamboge and carbon black and the use of crisp ink outlines are typical of late 18th-century Canton export workshops. Unlike smaller pith-paper images destined for albums these works were painted on thick laid paper of generous dimensions. Loose drawings such as these were often compiled into custom albums in British India where Chinese watercolours were often combined with Indian and Persian material to appeal to the tastes of British collectors. The Persian-Urdu foliation on the verso indicates their inclusion in such a collection likely assembled in Calcutta or Lucknow in the early 19th century. While drawing upon recognizable architectural forms and cultural symbols the views are best understood as imaginary or composite constructions designed to satisfy European curiosity about China. The temple compound reflects generic southern typologies while the palace garden borrows selectively from northern models such as the Yuanmingyuan. unknown‎

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‎[China]‎

‎The Child's Bethel Flag Magazine Volume V.‎

‎London: T. Ward and Co. Paternoster Row 1845. Hardcover. Very good. With content on China tea South Australia the sea elephant and pearl diving. With a chapter at p67 "Notices of China and the Chinese" with an engraved and illustrated table "Emblems of Trade and Religion in China" stating "Tea first brought to England in 1610. Tea brought to England in 1755 about 4000000 lbs. Tea brought to England in 1844 about 40000000 lbs." A chapter entitled "The First College in South Australia" states "South Australia is a new British colony not ten years old . its population already amounts to 18000 souls" p251. The sea elephant description includes an engraving based on an illustration in Charles Medyett Goodridge's volume of 1820 describing his shipwreck in the South Seas. With a four page article on pearl diving p311. 24mo viii 376pp b&w engravings throughout. Three quarter red leather and marbled boards gilt title at red spine. Covers rubbed esp at marbled boards. Internally child's signature and date 1845 at ffep o/w very good. T. Ward and Co., Paternoster Row hardcover‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 15596

‎[China]‎

‎The Story of Aladdin‎

‎New York: Cupples and Leon 1905. Twilight Series. Hardcover. Ca. 1905. Charming tale of Aladdin the idle son of a Chinese tailor & the magician and his magic lamp. Sml 8vo 29 pp b&w and 2 color plates. Illustrations by David Brett. Color illustrated boards with title in white on black. Front cover with vertical crease o/w very good. HKD735. Cupples and Leon hardcover‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 15198