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Glimpses of China. A Series of Vandyck Photogravures illustrating Chinese life and surroundings -
Donald Mennie
Circa 1920 - A. S. Watson & Co. Ltd., 16 Nanking Road - First Edition
A clean and superior example of this work by the Scottish born Donald Mennie, published by A. S. Watson in Shanghai.
Presenting thirty large photogravure plates tipped onto a dark brown background each with Mennie’s personal descriptive text.
In the publisher’s original card wrappers, without soiling, stains, chips or foxing, scarce as such.
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Circa 1920 - A. S. Watson & Co. Ltd., 16 Nanking Road - First Edition
A clean and superior example of this work by the Scottish born Donald Mennie, published by A. S. Watson in Shanghai.Presenting thirty large photogravure plates tipped onto a dark brown background each with Mennie’s personal descriptive text.
In the publisher’s original card wrappers, without soiling, stains, chips or foxing, scarce as such.
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China North & South. A Series of Vandyck Photogravures illustrating the picturesque aspect of Chinese life and surroundings -
Donald Mennie
Circa 1920 - A. S. Watson & Co. Ltd., 16 Nanking Road - First Edition
A clean and superior example of this work by the Scottish born Donald Mennie, published by A. S. Watson in Shanghai.
The first edition, in the publisher’s original card wrappers, without chips or foxing, scarce as such.
Presenting thirty large photogravure plates tipped onto a dark green background each with Mennie’s personal descriptive text.
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Price HK$ 18,000
Circa 1920 - A. S. Watson & Co. Ltd., 16 Nanking Road - First Edition
A clean and superior example of this work by the Scottish born Donald Mennie, published by A. S. Watson in Shanghai.The first edition, in the publisher’s original card wrappers, without chips or foxing, scarce as such.
Presenting thirty large photogravure plates tipped onto a dark green background each with Mennie’s personal descriptive text.
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An Old Chinese Garden. A Three-fold Masterpiece of Poetry, Calligraphy and Painting -
Wen Chen Ming, Kate Kerby and Mo Zung Chung
1923 - Chung Hwa Book Company, Shanghai - First Edition
Rare and large presentation of poetry and calligraphy by ‘Wen Chen Ming [Wen Zhengming], famous landscape artist of the Ming Dynasty’, with ‘studies written by Kate Kerby’, translations by Mo Zung Chung, and a two page introduction by her husband Philip Kerby.
Representing a fusion of painting, calligraphy, and pastoral poetry honouring the tradition of Chinese landscape design. Illustrated with eighty eight finely printed plates, consisting of thirty three calligraphy plates of poems matched to thirty three plates of paintings, eleven individual plates of calligraphy, one calligraphic title page.
Printed on thin handmade mulberry paper, with separate sheets of translations, descriptions, and title pages, all separated by blank sheets, and one additional facsimile letter of appreciation from Frank B. Noyes, President of The Associated Press, Hong Kong.
Housed in the publisher’s original and delicate blue silk covers, bound in Chinese style with gilt braided ties, and separate art-deco gilt braided bookmark, usually lacking.
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1923 - Chung Hwa Book Company, Shanghai - First Edition
Rare and large presentation of poetry and calligraphy by ‘Wen Chen Ming [Wen Zhengming], famous landscape artist of the Ming Dynasty’, with ‘studies written by Kate Kerby’, translations by Mo Zung Chung, and a two page introduction by her husband Philip Kerby.Representing a fusion of painting, calligraphy, and pastoral poetry honouring the tradition of Chinese landscape design. Illustrated with eighty eight finely printed plates, consisting of thirty three calligraphy plates of poems matched to thirty three plates of paintings, eleven individual plates of calligraphy, one calligraphic title page.
Printed on thin handmade mulberry paper, with separate sheets of translations, descriptions, and title pages, all separated by blank sheets, and one additional facsimile letter of appreciation from Frank B. Noyes, President of The Associated Press, Hong Kong.
Housed in the publisher’s original and delicate blue silk covers, bound in Chinese style with gilt braided ties, and separate art-deco gilt braided bookmark, usually lacking.
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Eighteen views taken at & near Rangoon [Views in the Birman Empire] - with - Rangoon Views and Combined Operations in the Birman Empire -
Lieutenant Joseph Moore, Captain Frederick Marryat
October 1825 - January 1826 - Kingsbury & Co., London - First Editions
A rare set of these twenty three hand-coloured aquatint plates from the first and second series, exceptionally bright colours. Together with the engraved allegorical title-dedication leaf for the ‘Eighteen Views’ [First Series] by R. W. Smart after Thomas Stothard, the aquatint leaf listing the eight most important subscribers with large vignette by J. Bromley after Thomas Stothard, and six page lithographed list of subscribers in England and India.
These aquatint plates, published during the First Anglo-Burmese War of 1824-1826, concentrate on Rangoon, captured by the British in 1824. In the subject matter of the plates there is an interesting comparison between graphic battle scenes and picturesque views of the Burmese countryside and architecture. Although Moore wished to record the details of the battles he was involved in, he also wanted to depict the pagodas, temples and views around Rangoon.
A complete set of the first series of eighteen plates from drawings by Lieutenant Joseph Moore, together with five plates from the second series from original sketches by Captain Marryat, which were published eight months later.
With rather fabulous provenance, coming from the Honourable East India Company’s East India College Library (with their armourial bookplate), which was founded in 1806. The ‘Eighteen Views’ are dedicated to the Court of Directors of the East India Company. The contemporary binding is by Stephen Austin of Hertford, Stephen Austin had been associated with the East India College since boyhood. When it closed in 1858 he was a leading member of the group which set up the public school in William Wilkins’s classical buildings at Hertford Heath.
Plate 16, in first state with ‘ajacent’ (corrected to adjacent in the second state), and plate 14 of the first series and plates 1, 2, & 3 of the second series marked ‘Proof’. The Abbey catalogue notes that ‘... it does not seem that the appearance or non-appearance of the word 'Proof' can be made into an issue point, and, in fact, it seems that all the plate differences must be ascribed to states, not issues’.
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October 1825 - January 1826 - Kingsbury & Co., London - First Editions
A rare set of these twenty three hand-coloured aquatint plates from the first and second series, exceptionally bright colours. Together with the engraved allegorical title-dedication leaf for the ‘Eighteen Views’ [First Series] by R. W. Smart after Thomas Stothard, the aquatint leaf listing the eight most important subscribers with large vignette by J. Bromley after Thomas Stothard, and six page lithographed list of subscribers in England and India.These aquatint plates, published during the First Anglo-Burmese War of 1824-1826, concentrate on Rangoon, captured by the British in 1824. In the subject matter of the plates there is an interesting comparison between graphic battle scenes and picturesque views of the Burmese countryside and architecture. Although Moore wished to record the details of the battles he was involved in, he also wanted to depict the pagodas, temples and views around Rangoon.
A complete set of the first series of eighteen plates from drawings by Lieutenant Joseph Moore, together with five plates from the second series from original sketches by Captain Marryat, which were published eight months later.
With rather fabulous provenance, coming from the Honourable East India Company’s East India College Library (with their armourial bookplate), which was founded in 1806. The ‘Eighteen Views’ are dedicated to the Court of Directors of the East India Company. The contemporary binding is by Stephen Austin of Hertford, Stephen Austin had been associated with the East India College since boyhood. When it closed in 1858 he was a leading member of the group which set up the public school in William Wilkins’s classical buildings at Hertford Heath.
Plate 16, in first state with ‘ajacent’ (corrected to adjacent in the second state), and plate 14 of the first series and plates 1, 2, & 3 of the second series marked ‘Proof’. The Abbey catalogue notes that ‘... it does not seem that the appearance or non-appearance of the word 'Proof' can be made into an issue point, and, in fact, it seems that all the plate differences must be ascribed to states, not issues’.
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Soochow: The Garden City -
F. R. Nance
1936 - Kelly & Walsh, Shanghai - First Edition
A lovely example of this beautifully illustrated guide to the ‘Garden City’.
With twenty four black and white photographic plates of photographs by H. C. Wong and four folding maps, as well as a Map of the Waterways Around Soochow highlighted in green and used as endpapers.
Florence Rush Nance (1875-1940) was an American teacher of mathematics and chemistry at the McTyeire School for Young Ladies in Shanghai (now the Shanghai No. 3 Girls' High School). She was the first woman to receive a degree in science from Vanderbilt. Nance also taught at Soochow University where her husband was President.
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1936 - Kelly & Walsh, Shanghai - First Edition
A lovely example of this beautifully illustrated guide to the ‘Garden City’. With twenty four black and white photographic plates of photographs by H. C. Wong and four folding maps, as well as a Map of the Waterways Around Soochow highlighted in green and used as endpapers.
Florence Rush Nance (1875-1940) was an American teacher of mathematics and chemistry at the McTyeire School for Young Ladies in Shanghai (now the Shanghai No. 3 Girls' High School). She was the first woman to receive a degree in science from Vanderbilt. Nance also taught at Soochow University where her husband was President.
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An Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China -
Johan Nieuhoff, John Ogilby
1669 - Printed by John Macock for the Author, London - First Edition in English
One of the great 17th century works on China, translated and published by John Ogilby, noteworthy not only for the text, bringing notice of the mysteries of the East to English readers, but for the magnificent engraved illustrations and plates.
In contemporary full calf and profusely illustrated throughout with portrait frontispiece, added pictorial title-page (signed in the plate by Wenceslaus Hollar), double page map of China, 17 copper-engraved plates (on 16 pages); double-page plan of Canton; 120 copper-engravings in the text; and numerous decorative motifs.
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1669 - Printed by John Macock for the Author, London - First Edition in English
One of the great 17th century works on China, translated and published by John Ogilby, noteworthy not only for the text, bringing notice of the mysteries of the East to English readers, but for the magnificent engraved illustrations and plates.In contemporary full calf and profusely illustrated throughout with portrait frontispiece, added pictorial title-page (signed in the plate by Wenceslaus Hollar), double page map of China, 17 copper-engraved plates (on 16 pages); double-page plan of Canton; 120 copper-engravings in the text; and numerous decorative motifs.
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The History of Java -
Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles
1817 - Printed for Black, London - First Edition
A beautifully presented first edition set of this landmark work one of only 900 copies, finely bound by Riviere and Son, with large original sheets and untrimmed edges. ‘A magnificent survey of the customs, dress, language, religion, culture, and history of the Javanese people as written by Thomas Stamford Raffles, British colonial agent cum Imperial statesman and later founder of modern Singapore.
The marriage of a scientifically original text with beautiful illustrations by an accomplished aquatint engraver resulted in a book about Indonesia of outstanding quality; indeed a masterpiece.’ [Bastin and Brommer]
Those illustrations include a include a large (114x44cm) folding linen-backed hand-coloured map ‘Map of Java’ with inset ‘Mineralogical Sketch of the Island of Java’ and an engraved map of the ‘Countries referred to in the Brata Yud’ha &c’, ten finely hand coloured aquatint costume plates engraved by William Daniell who visited the island in 1785 and 1793, two soft-ground etched frontispieces, nine engraved vignettes, and a further fifty five black and white plates which include seven of temples (one of which is double page), two musical scores, ten of alphabets and inscriptions, eight of weapons and tools, two of musical instruments and masks, and twenty six others.
Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781-1826) ‘was interested in every aspect of his subject, and devotes whole sections to Javan ethics, literature, poetry, music and musical instruments, drama, games of skill and methods of hunting, besides the more ordinary matters of interest, population, natural history, religion, antiquities, and the military system. At the end of the second volume a hundred and fifty pages are given up to the comparative vocabularies of Java and the neighbouring islands, and the whole is a unique monument erected by a great ruler to those over whom he rules, and incidentally, to his own honour, stands very high in its own class and the aquatint plates are full of interest’ [Prideaux]
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1817 - Printed for Black, London - First Edition
A beautifully presented first edition set of this landmark work one of only 900 copies, finely bound by Riviere and Son, with large original sheets and untrimmed edges. ‘A magnificent survey of the customs, dress, language, religion, culture, and history of the Javanese people as written by Thomas Stamford Raffles, British colonial agent cum Imperial statesman and later founder of modern Singapore.The marriage of a scientifically original text with beautiful illustrations by an accomplished aquatint engraver resulted in a book about Indonesia of outstanding quality; indeed a masterpiece.’ [Bastin and Brommer]
Those illustrations include a include a large (114x44cm) folding linen-backed hand-coloured map ‘Map of Java’ with inset ‘Mineralogical Sketch of the Island of Java’ and an engraved map of the ‘Countries referred to in the Brata Yud’ha &c’, ten finely hand coloured aquatint costume plates engraved by William Daniell who visited the island in 1785 and 1793, two soft-ground etched frontispieces, nine engraved vignettes, and a further fifty five black and white plates which include seven of temples (one of which is double page), two musical scores, ten of alphabets and inscriptions, eight of weapons and tools, two of musical instruments and masks, and twenty six others.
Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781-1826) ‘was interested in every aspect of his subject, and devotes whole sections to Javan ethics, literature, poetry, music and musical instruments, drama, games of skill and methods of hunting, besides the more ordinary matters of interest, population, natural history, religion, antiquities, and the military system. At the end of the second volume a hundred and fifty pages are given up to the comparative vocabularies of Java and the neighbouring islands, and the whole is a unique monument erected by a great ruler to those over whom he rules, and incidentally, to his own honour, stands very high in its own class and the aquatint plates are full of interest’ [Prideaux]
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Antiquarian, Architectural, and Landscape Illustrations of the History of Java -
Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles
1844 - Henry G. Bohn, London - First Thus
Magnificent large quarto volume of illustrations with great provenance, formerly from the library of Admiral Sir James Gordon (1782-1869) who served as a Midshipman under Admiral Nelson at the Battle of the Nile, and went on to command ships during the later stages of the Napoleonic Wars. He eventually attained the rank of Admiral of the Fleet, and is considered to be one of the main inspirations for C.S. Forester's character Horatio Hornblower, alongside Thomas Cochrane, George Cockburn and others.
This separate volume of topographical, archaeological, linguistic and anthropological plates was published in 1844 to accompany the 1830 second edition of Sir Stamford Raffles’ landmark work ‘The History of Java’, including twenty four additional plates not found in the first edition of 1817.
With 92 illustrated plates, including 10 fine hand-coloured aquatints and a very large folding map. No text. In the publisher’s original gilt and red cloth binding.
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1844 - Henry G. Bohn, London - First Thus
Magnificent large quarto volume of illustrations with great provenance, formerly from the library of Admiral Sir James Gordon (1782-1869) who served as a Midshipman under Admiral Nelson at the Battle of the Nile, and went on to command ships during the later stages of the Napoleonic Wars. He eventually attained the rank of Admiral of the Fleet, and is considered to be one of the main inspirations for C.S. Forester's character Horatio Hornblower, alongside Thomas Cochrane, George Cockburn and others.This separate volume of topographical, archaeological, linguistic and anthropological plates was published in 1844 to accompany the 1830 second edition of Sir Stamford Raffles’ landmark work ‘The History of Java’, including twenty four additional plates not found in the first edition of 1817.
With 92 illustrated plates, including 10 fine hand-coloured aquatints and a very large folding map. No text. In the publisher’s original gilt and red cloth binding.
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Price HK$ 18,000