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1936ref. 193293Shanghai: Statistical Department of the Inspectorate General of Customs 1936. A definitive internal reference First edition of this extensive reference compiled on the orders of Frederick Maze the inspector-general using archives housed in different offices of the customs service. Though unmarked as such this copy was formerly owned by Lester Knox Little 1892-1981 the service's last inspector-general and was acquired by a private collector from his family in 1999. Lists were submitted to the statistical department by senior personnel in each location. Tables give Western and Chinese names current titles dates of appointment and the Chinese colleagues with whom each officer worked. Quarto. Tables in text. Original yellow boards green cloth backstrip covers printed in black. Contemporary typescript label at head of spine. Spine sunned boards soiled and lightly skinned: very good. hardcover
1800ref. ABC_465751800. ca. 28.2 x 20.1 cm. Green sheepskin with gilt single fillet and blind tooled decorative panel on boards spine with gilt- and blind-tooled ornaments in 6 compartments board edges gilt marbled endpapers. 24 pp. An attractive and finely preserved anonymous album containing 24 original watercolour drawings depicting men and women in traditional Dutch dress and regional costumes. Each drawing is executed on paper bearing the watermark of J. Honig & Zoonen active 1765-1836 placing the album within the late 18th- or very early 19h-century fascination with documenting national identity local customs and traditional clothing.The unsigned and untitled album presents a colourful and detailed survey of Dutch costume portraying figures from different social backgrounds regions and occupations. The carefully observed costumes headwear accessories and attributes provide a valuable visual record of everyday life in the Netherlands at a time when many regional dress traditions were beginning to disappear under the influence of changing fashions and increasing urbanisation.The 15 female and 9 male figures are shown not merely as costume studies but often in connection with their social role or profession. Several figures are accompanied by characteristic objects and attributes including a woman carrying a broom another holding a book and ruler figures with folded linen hat boxes or a fish basket male figures are depicted with hay birds a dog a farmer carrying a rake a cheese seller and a man holding a telescope.The bright palette decorative quality and attention to regional details make this album an appealing example of the early 19th-century European tradition of costume albums produced for travellers collectors and those interested in the customs and appearance of different peoples.The binding shows some wear the leather is rubbed and slightly worn at extremities with some occasionally light foxing. Otherwise in good condition. hardcover
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1787ref. ABC_49498The Netherlands The Hague 1787. 8vo. Contemporary marbled paper wrappers sewn through 4 holes. Kept in a custom burgundy cloth case with a leather label on the spine lettered in gold. With 6 full-page numbered engraved plates vividly coloured by a contemporary hand. 16 pp. Second copy located of the second edition of an extremely rare work on 18th-century Central European military costumes. The work was first published in folio format in The Hague in 1742 with the title referring to the Central European soldiers in the service of the "Queen of Hungary" meaning Maria Theresa 1717-1780 ruler of the Habsburg monarchy from 1740 until 1780 and the "King of Prussia" meaning Frederick II the Great in/of Prussia 1712-1786. The title of the present second edition refers to the "Emperor" and the "King of Prussia" most likely meaning Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II r. 1780-1790 and either King Frederick II r. 1740-1786 or King Frederick William II r. 1786-1797. Thus the second edition was probably published after 1780 and possibly in 1787. Two English/French editions were published in 1742 and 1743 in "London" possibly meaning The Hague by Guillaume Meyer.The present copy contains 6 beautifully contemporary hand-coloured engravings of Central Europeans in their military costumes. They show: 1. Hallas Peter a Colonel of a corps of Hungarian nobles on horseback; 2. Captain of the Croats; 3. a Croat soldier; 4. a Slavonian from a historical region in present-day Croatia; 5. an officer of the Ulans also Uhlans originally Lithuanian irregular cavalry later generally meaning a lancer in service of the King of Prussia; 6. ordinary Ulan a lancer.With the book plate of F.C. Koch on the inside of the front wrapper. Wrappers slightly frayed and slightly faded minor foxing throughout the title page is slightly browned. Otherwise in very good condition.l STCN 240071050 1 copy; WorldCat 894593905 1 copy same as STCN; cf. for the first edition: Lipperheide 2224; Colas 2410. ABE CAT Costumes & Uniforms hardcover
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1922ref. 173387Shanghai: Statistical Department of the Inspectorate General of Customs 1922. A scarce customs service publication First edition first printing of this informative tribute to the 66 employees of the custom service who served during the First World War as well as the 23 men killed during the conflict. Copies are recorded in just four institutional libraries British Library Leeds Cornell and the University of Hong Kong. For each member of staff sections give their record of service ranks the countries and battles in which they fought honours and wounds received and "other particulars of interest". The majority served on the Western and Eastern Fronts and several were seconded to the Chinese Labour Corps on account of their linguistic skills. The final entry concerns G. R. G. Worcester 1890-1969 whose works on Chinese craft and navigation remain definitive. Octavo. Roll of honour plate decorative title page and initial text printed within red frames. Original purple pebble-grain cloth front cover lettered in gilt patterned endpapers. Spine sunned rear board a touch soiled contents clean: a very good copy. hardcover
1990ref. 173560Beijing: Foreign Languages Press 1990-93. Lifting the veil on late-Qing diplomacy First editions first printings complete with its original box of this historical compendium equal in stature to Morse's Chronicles of the East India Company Trading to China. The scope covers some 3500 letters and 5000 telegrams sent between Beijing and the customs service's London office all drawn from the service's confidential archives and nearly all never before made publicly accessible. The volumes were born out of a long-running collaboration between the Second Historical Archives of China and the Institute of Modern History China Academy of Social Sciences. The Hart-Campbell correspondence is presented unabridged and without editorial corrections to retain as much of the original feel of the documents as possible. New editions have been published in China in the last two decades. 4 vols octavo pp. 942; 1158; 1576; 675. Original blue cloth spines lettered in silver gold bookmarkers. Housed in publisher's box with plastic toggles. Vol. I shaken rear inner hinge starting front board slightly bowed; jackets without prices as issued toned and creased Vol. I jacket cockled and faded Vol. IV jacket cockled: a very good set in like jackets box splitting along one edge lid sunned internal lining worn in places. hardcover
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1846ref. 775461846. Great Britain: S.n. 1846-1848. Great Britain: S.n. 1846-1848. A Glimpse into the Daily Operations of Victorian British Customs Board of Customs. Great Britain. Collection of Orders Relating to Commerce and Trade Issued by the Board of Customs Treasury Privy Council and Queen. Great Britain: S.n. 1846-1848. 357 ff. Folio 13-1/4" x 8-1/4"; 33.6 x 20.9 cm. Contemporary three-quarter vellum over plain paper-covered boards early hand-lettered title to spine edges of bound-in sheets untrimmed. Light soiling to exterior vellum starting to crack through paper corners bumped and worn front hinge split causing front board and spine to separate from text block rear hinge just starting. Most items printed on blue paper and docketed "On the Service of the Customs./ Collector and Comptroller/ at blank" in print some dockets completed "Hull" in ink. Light toning to interior light soiling to edges single hole through each item near top from prior posting affecting text legibility slightly impacted in places occasional light foxing a few partial cracks to text block a few items loosening but secure early manuscript notes signatures and/or corrections to many items some with postmarks or manuscript dockets. $1500. An extraordinary and remarkably detailed insider compilation of official orders broadsides circulars and departmental notices documenting the day-to-day administrative machinery of British global trade at the dawn of the High Victorian era. Likely assembled contemporaneously by a senior customs officer-with several entries pointing specifically to operations out of the port of Hull-this volume captures a pivotal moment of institutional transformation as Great Britain dismantled long-standing mercantilist protections and embraced free trade. Spanning the crucial years between 1846 and 1848 the collection highlights the radical liberalization of British commercial policy triggered by Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel's repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846. As trade tariffs were slashed and imperial commerce exploded in volume the Board of Customs was forced to adapt rapidly to unprecedented administrative logistical and legal challenges. Many of the orders in this volume are apparently unrecorded with no copies located on OCLC or Library Hub. unknown
1661ref. 754811661. London: 1661 & 1663. London: 1661 & 1663 Two Scarce Books of Rates Great Britain. Customs Administration. A Subsidy Granted to the King Of Tonnage And Poundage And Other Sums of Money Payable Upon Merchandize Exported and Imported. Together with a Book of Rates Agreed Upon by the Honorable House of Commons And Hereunto Annexed. Also an Act for the Encouraging And Increasing of Shipping And Navigation; With an Act to Prevent Frauds And Concealments of His Maiesties Customs And Subsidies. London: Printed by Chr. Barker 1661. ii 180 pp. Bound with Rules and Instructions for the Tare of Goods & Merchandize Imported into Any Port of England. Revised and Published by the Farmers of His Majesties Customs. As a Direction to All Their Officers Concerned Therein. London: s.n. Printed Anno Dom. 1663. ii 14 pp. 12mo. 5-1/2" x 3". Contemporary sheep blind rules to boards rebacked retaining existing spine with blind fillets endpapers renewed. Light rubbing and a few minor stains to boards small hole to fore-edge of front board moderate rubbing to board edges corners bumped and worn. Light toning to interior faint dampstain to first few leaves of first work light soiling to a few leaves. $1500. Only edition; first edition. Two scarce books of rates for customs administrators under Charles II. The first work also includes the text of the Navigation Act of 1660 and the Customs Act of 1660 which significantly restricted colonial trade by requiring that certain goods such as sugar tobacco and indigo be exported only to England and that only those "born within the allegiance of our sovereign lord the King.or naturalized" could become merchants. OCLC locates 4 copies of the first work in North America Harvard New York Society Library UCLA Yale and 1 copy of the second Harvard. Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature 1608 1712. English Short-Title Catalogue R228060 R171955. unknown
1702ref. 756291702. The Collection of Crown Revenue Great Britain. Customs Administration. Carkesse Charles Compiler. The Act of Tonnage and Poundage And Rates of Merchandize With The Further Subsidy; The Old Impost; The Additional Impost; And All Other Duties Relating to Her Majesties Customs Now Payable Upon any Sort of Merchandize Imported or Exported. Digested into an Easie Method Whereby may in One View be Found the Several Duties upon Each Particular Commodity Specified in the Book of Rates Or any Other Act of Parliament. As also the Twenty Seven Rules Annext to the Book of Rates; And the Table of Officers Fees. To Which is Added A Collection of Such Statutes And Part of Statutes Relating to Her Majesties Customs As Passed Since the Act of Tonnage and Poundage. 12 Car. 2. And are Now in Force. Likewise An Abridgment of Several Statutes Now in Force and Use Which were Made Before the Said Act of Tonnage and Poundage. As Also The Duties of Excise on Imported Commodities: The Ports of England and Wales: Lawful Keys And Wharfs in the Port of London: With the Tables of Scavage Package Balliage Packers-Porters Duties And Usual Tares. Together with an Alphabetical Index to the Whole. London: Printed by Charles Bill And the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb Deceas'd; Printers to the Queens Most Excellent Majesty 1702. xxiv 768 52 pp. Folding woodcut table. Publisher advertisement to final page. Octavo 97-3/4" x 4-3/4". Recent period-style quarter calf over marbled boards raised bands retained somewhat edgeworn early lettering piece blind and gilt fillets and gilt publication date to spine endpapers renewed. Light toning to interior light smudges to a few leaves light soiling to title page two clean tears and light edgewear to folding table. $350. Updated edition. In existence from the time of Edward II to the Customs and Excise Act of 1787 Tonnage and poundage was a set of import and export taxes levied for the crown by Parliament. This compilation provides an excellent perspective on their implementation by clerks collectors and other dockside officials. Like many books of this kind they are valuable sources of detailed information that is difficult to find elsewhere. First published in 1660 it went through several editions the last appearing in 1737. Goldsmiths' Library of Econo. unknown
1635ref. 741511635. The Last Customs Guide for Revenue Farmers Great Britain. Commissioners of Customs. The Rates of Marchandizes; As They are Set Downe in the Book of Rates For the Custome and Subsidie of Poundage And for the Custome and Subsidie of Clothes. The Same Being Signed by the Kings Majesty And Sealed with the Great Seale of England And Remaining in His Highnesse Court of Exchequer at Westminster: And by Speciall Commandment from His Majesty Published in Print For the Direction of Such as It May Concerne: Together with the Rates of Such Impositions as are Laid Upon Any Commodities Either Brought into the Realme Or Carried Out of the Same According to His Majesties Letters Patents Thereof Under the Great Seale of England. London: Robert Barker Printer to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty 1635. ii 13 111 pp. Lacking final blank. Octavo 5-1/2" x 3-1/4". Recent straight-grained morocco gilt title and date to spine endpapers renewed edges rouged. Light rubbing a few small scuffs to front board some fading to spine somewhat lighter fading to extremities recent pencil annotations to front free endpaper. Moderate toning to interior light foxing in a few places trimming to fore-edge of leaf H6 pp. 108-109 just touching right edge of text with loss to catch-word but not legibility of main text. $1250. Final edition one of two 1635 issues the other in quarto. A guide to customs administration for private revenue farmers who paid an annual rent to the Crown in return for the privilege of collecting and retaining customs duties. These rents effectively became an intricate system of short-term loans to the Crown and a way to raise funds without Parliament. This was the last such guide before the revenue farming system was abandoned as a concession to the Long Parliament in 1641. OCLC locates 6 copies of this issue 1 in North America Huntington Library. The ESTC adds a North American copy at Harvard. English Short-Title Catalogue ESTC S105551. Ashton "Revenue Farming under the Early Stuarts" The Economic History Review 8.3 pp. 310-322. unknown
1804ref. E5UG7Z4OCT3NLeipzig 1804. 16mo in 8s 14 x 10.5 cm. Friedrich August Leo Original publisher's paperboards printed from an engraved plate and hand-coloured each board with a costume scene in a decorated frame with caricature faces also with faces and decorations on the spine green paste-downs. With 2 stiff coated leaves at the end apparently intended for writing with a stylus. With 12 numbered engraved plates by Friedrich Wilhelm Nettling all coloured by a contemporary hand each showing several figures in carnival costumes. 31 1 blank pp. Very rare first and only published part of a series of hand-coloured carnival costume plates each of the 12 with a letterpress description in German and French. Only plates 9 and 10 bear the name of the German draughtsman and engraver Friedrich Wilhelm Nettling best known for his portrait of Bach but all may have been engraved by him. The mostly comical or farcical plates illustrate a fairy with her entourage a Chinese man Don Quixote and Sancho Panza a group of beast people and many other extraordinary figures. Two figures in one plate wear funnels as hats like the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz. Besides the 12 plates in the booklet itself the engravings on the boards show two male figures gymnasts one in a clown-like costume on the front and a dancing woman with a tambourine on the back.With some minor stains and the front of the binding slightly damaged in the lower margin and lower right corner spine cracked. Good copy.l Baumgärtel Die Almanache Kalender und Taschenbücher 1750-1860 der Landesbibliothek Coburg p. 32; Köhring 111; WorldCat 633348944 465355875 3 copies; not in Colas; Hiler; Lanckoronska & Rümann; Lipperheide; for Nettling: Thieme & Becker XXV p. 400. ABE CAT Costumes & Uniforms hardcover
ref. 35527Nouméa Nouvelle Calédonie : Service des Douanes 1903. Single sheet 480 x 250 mm printed recto and verso with manuscript entries recording that the permit - valid for one year - was issued on 24 July 1903 to 'femme indigène Kaïpiane' resident of the Loyalty Islands and owner of the ""Chanedra"" a cutter of 10 tons; entries on the verso record five different voyages made by this vessel during 1903 between the islands of Maré and Lifou in the Loyalties and Port Vila on Efate in the New Hebrides; with the relevant signatures annotations and stamps of the local customs officials; light damp staining at one edge original horizontal folds complete. unknown
1904ref. 150513Shanghai: Statistical Department of the Inspectorate General of Customs 1904. A Commissioner's record of four decades of the Chinese Maritime Customs Service First edition sole printing with a pleasing provenance of the Chinese Maritime Customs Service internal staff list for 1904 issued to the sinologist Charles Williams in his first year as an employee. Williams annotated this copy throughout his successful three-decade career to track the fortunes of Service colleagues. His signed armorial bookplate is to the front pastedown. Charles Alfred Speed Williams began working for the Service's revenue department in November 1903 at the junior level of Fourth Assistant. He rose to the rank of Acting Commissioner at the Lungchow station before retiring in late 1935. On leaving the service he was given the honorary rank of Commissioner. Williams' manuscript additions show that he maintained an evolving record of the careers of those who worked with him in the revenue department. He notes colleagues who reached the senior grade of Commissioner and their dates of compulsory retirement while he also records whether members of staff resigned retired or died in office. In line with his own interest in the Chinese language Williams also highlights those who attained the Service's highest grade of Chinese language proficiency. The Chinese Maritime Customs Service was founded in 1854 by Britain and other foreign powers to collect taxes on maritime trade for the Chinese government but its remit quickly expanded to include domestic customs administration the postal service waterway and harbour management and meteorology. These areas of responsibility inevitably overlapped with diplomatic and political issues making the Service one of the most powerful bureaucratic entities in the country. Between 1875 and 1948 the Service published an annual list containing basic information on all members of staff and their responsibilities. These volumes only ever distributed for internal use represent a valuable record of the Service's contributions to the economic and political history of modern China. Alongside his successful career in the Chinese customs bureaucracy Williams maintained a deep scholarly interest in Chinese history and culture. He is most well-known for Outlines of Chinese Symbolism and Art Motives: An Alphabetical Compendium of Antique Legends and Beliefs as Reflected in the Manners and Customs of the Chinese 1931 a work that went through multiple editions over several decades. In 1969 he published his autobiographical Chinese Tribute which recounts his colourful experiences working for the Maritime Customs Service. Quarto. Original brown pebble-grain cloth title to spine in gilt sides ruled in blind edges sprinkled red. A little rubbed and marked overall tips bumped with light wear edges slightly dusty offsetting to endpapers touch of foxing to contents else bright. A very good copy indeed. hardcover
