Shanghae Races, Spring Meeting, 1865, Second Day, Thursday, 27th April, 1865 -
1865 - Printed by A. H. De Carvalho, Shanghai - Only edition
Large and rare lavender China silk programme for one of the earliest Shanghai Races, the 1865 Spring Meeting (47.5 x 23.5 cm).
Listing seven races, all are with names of stables or owners, names of horses, weight or height, jockey silks colours, the horses include Arabs, English, China and Japan Ponies
The races are - Maloo Plate, for China ponies only; Arab Challenge Cup, for all Arabs; Chaasee Cup, for China and Japan ponies; Challenge Cup, for all horses [Arabs, Stud Bred, Colonials, and English]; Chu-Ka-Za Cup, for all Arabs; The Selling Stakes, for Colonial and Arab horses; and the Hack Stakes, for all horses not otherwise entered at this Meeting.
Finely presented in gold wood frame (64 x 38.5 cm), on acid free backing card, and with 99% UV protection ‘tru-vue’ museum grade glass.
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1865 - Printed by A. H. De Carvalho, Shanghai - Only edition
Large and rare lavender China silk programme for one of the earliest Shanghai Races, the 1865 Spring Meeting (47.5 x 23.5 cm). Listing seven races, all are with names of stables or owners, names of horses, weight or height, jockey silks colours, the horses include Arabs, English, China and Japan Ponies
The races are - Maloo Plate, for China ponies only; Arab Challenge Cup, for all Arabs; Chaasee Cup, for China and Japan ponies; Challenge Cup, for all horses [Arabs, Stud Bred, Colonials, and English]; Chu-Ka-Za Cup, for all Arabs; The Selling Stakes, for Colonial and Arab horses; and the Hack Stakes, for all horses not otherwise entered at this Meeting.
Finely presented in gold wood frame (64 x 38.5 cm), on acid free backing card, and with 99% UV protection ‘tru-vue’ museum grade glass.
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Price HK$ 25,000
A Ball Player's Career. Being the Personal Experiences and Reminiscences -
Adrian C. Anson, Late Manager and Captain of the Chicago Base Ball Club
1900 - Era Publishing Co., Chicago - First Edition
A superior and thus scarce first edition of what is considered the first autobiography of the game, by Adrian Constantine ‘Cap’ Anson (1852--1922), one of the great modernizers of the game, bringing strategy and leadership to the National Pastime, played 2,522 games, the first major league hitter to collect more than 3,000 base hits, venerable captain of the famous Chicago White Stockings when they were the kingpins of the baseball world in the 1880s, winning five National League pennants as a player/manager while accumulating almost 1,300 career victories. Anson finished his final year as manager of the New York Giants in 1897.
Illustrated throughout with photographs, and including an account of the 1889 world tour. To the rear are 16 pages of fabulous mostly illustrated Chicago related advertisements.
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1900 - Era Publishing Co., Chicago - First Edition
A superior and thus scarce first edition of what is considered the first autobiography of the game, by Adrian Constantine ‘Cap’ Anson (1852--1922), one of the great modernizers of the game, bringing strategy and leadership to the National Pastime, played 2,522 games, the first major league hitter to collect more than 3,000 base hits, venerable captain of the famous Chicago White Stockings when they were the kingpins of the baseball world in the 1880s, winning five National League pennants as a player/manager while accumulating almost 1,300 career victories. Anson finished his final year as manager of the New York Giants in 1897.Illustrated throughout with photographs, and including an account of the 1889 world tour. To the rear are 16 pages of fabulous mostly illustrated Chicago related advertisements.
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Ismailia. A Narrative of The Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade. Organized by Ismail, Khedive of Egypt -
Sir Samuel W. Baker, Pacha
1874 - Macmillan And Co., London - First Edition
A near fine two-volume first edition by one of the great explorers of the era, in which Sir Samuel White Baker describes leading a military expedition beginning in 1869 to annex the lawless upper Nile, suppress its barbaric slave trade, establish trade routes and open up navigation on the Great Lakes for the cotton trade.
Profusely illustrated with fifty two full-page plates and two maps in colour, one folding.
Tasked with the assignment by the Ottoman Viceroy of Egypt at a ball in Cairo, Baker was given four years, the rank of major-general, and the title of pasha – the most senior positions ever given to a European under an Egyptian administration. The books begin in the same way as the expedition: with the commission of four boats, including a 251-ton paddle steamer that were shipped from England, and with hundreds of camels and an additional nine steamers and 55 sailing boats in Egypt.
In Baker’s view the slave trade led to ‘treachery, devastation and ruin.’ ‘It is impossible to know the actual number of slaves taken from Central Africa annually; but I should imagine that at least fifty thousand…the loss of life attendant upon the capture and subsequent treatment of the slaves is frightful.’
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1874 - Macmillan And Co., London - First Edition
A near fine two-volume first edition by one of the great explorers of the era, in which Sir Samuel White Baker describes leading a military expedition beginning in 1869 to annex the lawless upper Nile, suppress its barbaric slave trade, establish trade routes and open up navigation on the Great Lakes for the cotton trade.Profusely illustrated with fifty two full-page plates and two maps in colour, one folding.
Tasked with the assignment by the Ottoman Viceroy of Egypt at a ball in Cairo, Baker was given four years, the rank of major-general, and the title of pasha – the most senior positions ever given to a European under an Egyptian administration. The books begin in the same way as the expedition: with the commission of four boats, including a 251-ton paddle steamer that were shipped from England, and with hundreds of camels and an additional nine steamers and 55 sailing boats in Egypt.
In Baker’s view the slave trade led to ‘treachery, devastation and ruin.’ ‘It is impossible to know the actual number of slaves taken from Central Africa annually; but I should imagine that at least fifty thousand…the loss of life attendant upon the capture and subsequent treatment of the slaves is frightful.’
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Observations Historical, Critical, and Medical, on the Wines of the Ancients. And the Analogy between them and Modern Wines. With General Observations on the Principles and Qualities of Water, and in particular those of Bath. -
Sir Edward Barry
1775 - T. Cadell, London - First Edition
‘The earliest work of any importance written in English about wines.’ - Andre Simon.
A fine and finely bound first edition of this classic text on the history of wine-making from the ancient times to the late 18th century. The appendix provides a survey of the principal wine-making regions of Europe. This is also the first book in English to discuss ‘modern wines’ [Gabler]. Illustrated with the wonderful engraved frontispiece and two engraved vignettes on title-page.
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1775 - T. Cadell, London - First Edition
‘The earliest work of any importance written in English about wines.’ - Andre Simon.A fine and finely bound first edition of this classic text on the history of wine-making from the ancient times to the late 18th century. The appendix provides a survey of the principal wine-making regions of Europe. This is also the first book in English to discuss ‘modern wines’ [Gabler]. Illustrated with the wonderful engraved frontispiece and two engraved vignettes on title-page.
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Plan des Vignobles produisant Les Grands Vins de Bourgogne -
Lucien Bonnamas
After 1870 - A. Batault, Beaune - Second printing of the &lsquo
A magnificent, large, rare and fine lithographed map of the vineyards producing the great Burgundy wines as classified in 1861 for each commune of the Arrondissement of Beaune according to the merit of the products under the guidance of the Comité d'Agriculture de l'Arrondissement de Beaune, and for the Arrondissement of Dijon by a Society of Winegrowers. Drawn by M. L. Bonnamas.
Over 3 metres (10 feet) in length. Currently folded into a bespoke French binding, but can be simply removed from the modern archival tissue attachments for mounting as three sheets or one continuous map.
This is the second printing of the 1861 deluxe ‘de choix’ issue which was produced in small numbers (scale 1/20,0000, three sheets (125.5x53cm; 125.5x53cm; 65x5cm / plates 112x36cm; 112x36cn; 50cmx36cm with Larrey extending approx. 4cm outside of the standard border)).
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After 1870 - A. Batault, Beaune - Second printing of the &lsquo
A magnificent, large, rare and fine lithographed map of the vineyards producing the great Burgundy wines as classified in 1861 for each commune of the Arrondissement of Beaune according to the merit of the products under the guidance of the Comité d'Agriculture de l'Arrondissement de Beaune, and for the Arrondissement of Dijon by a Society of Winegrowers. Drawn by M. L. Bonnamas.Over 3 metres (10 feet) in length. Currently folded into a bespoke French binding, but can be simply removed from the modern archival tissue attachments for mounting as three sheets or one continuous map.
This is the second printing of the 1861 deluxe ‘de choix’ issue which was produced in small numbers (scale 1/20,0000, three sheets (125.5x53cm; 125.5x53cm; 65x5cm / plates 112x36cm; 112x36cn; 50cmx36cm with Larrey extending approx. 4cm outside of the standard border)).
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Boat Racing: or The Arts of Rowing and Training -
Edwin Dampier Brickwood (Amateur Ex-Champion of The Thames)
1876 - Horace Cox, 346 Strand - New Edition
Fine example of the rare second edition of ‘the earliest comprehensive work on the technique of rowing’ which adds the wonderful albumen photograph of an elegantly calm Henley and has been expanded with alterations bringing it up to date with the addition of historical matter. The most important being the invention and acceptance of the sliding seat between the first edition of 1866 and this second edition of 1876.
Brickwood is insistent on a good balance of work, diet, sleep and cleanliness. Breakfast of mutton chops or rump steaks, to which can be added some cold chicken or hot grilled fowl, an egg or two, lettuce or watercress, brown bread, and two cups of tea, lunch includes a slice or two of bread and butter and a half a pint of good sound ale, perhaps with a chop, dinner, being the main meal of the day is too large to list here, but should include a pint and a half of sound beer in the summer months, with a couple of glasses of claret, sherry, or port wine to finish it all off with. A glass of warm port wine or cup of tea without milk or sugar but with a teaspoonful of brandy is recommended between heats on race day....
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1876 - Horace Cox, 346 Strand - New Edition
Fine example of the rare second edition of ‘the earliest comprehensive work on the technique of rowing’ which adds the wonderful albumen photograph of an elegantly calm Henley and has been expanded with alterations bringing it up to date with the addition of historical matter. The most important being the invention and acceptance of the sliding seat between the first edition of 1866 and this second edition of 1876.Brickwood is insistent on a good balance of work, diet, sleep and cleanliness. Breakfast of mutton chops or rump steaks, to which can be added some cold chicken or hot grilled fowl, an egg or two, lettuce or watercress, brown bread, and two cups of tea, lunch includes a slice or two of bread and butter and a half a pint of good sound ale, perhaps with a chop, dinner, being the main meal of the day is too large to list here, but should include a pint and a half of sound beer in the summer months, with a couple of glasses of claret, sherry, or port wine to finish it all off with. A glass of warm port wine or cup of tea without milk or sugar but with a teaspoonful of brandy is recommended between heats on race day....
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Velocipedes, Bicycles and Tricycles -
Tom Burgess
May 1869 - George Routledge and Sons, London - First Edition
First edition of one of the first books in English to be dedicated to the bicycle, with thirty six charming woodcut illustrations.
‘Whether velocipedes are only the 'toy of the hour,' or are destined to become a permanent adjunct to our civilization and every-day life or not, no one can doubt their extending popularity’.
‘A treasure trove of information with illustrations from the early inventions in 1819, right through to the so-called French, Parisian and American models available at the time. A summary of the scene in 1869 includes a report that the 52 miles from London to Brighton had been covered in 7½ hours on a bicycle, shaving two hours of the previous fastest time.’ – Pelotome.
Chapters include ‘Advantages of Velocipedes’, ‘Velocipedes of the Past’, ‘Velocipedes of the Day’, ‘Art of Velocipede Management’, ‘How to Manage a Bicycle’, ‘How to Construct a Bicycle’, ‘Velocipedum Variorium’ and ‘Progress of the Velocipede’.
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May 1869 - George Routledge and Sons, London - First Edition
First edition of one of the first books in English to be dedicated to the bicycle, with thirty six charming woodcut illustrations.‘Whether velocipedes are only the 'toy of the hour,' or are destined to become a permanent adjunct to our civilization and every-day life or not, no one can doubt their extending popularity’.
‘A treasure trove of information with illustrations from the early inventions in 1819, right through to the so-called French, Parisian and American models available at the time. A summary of the scene in 1869 includes a report that the 52 miles from London to Brighton had been covered in 7½ hours on a bicycle, shaving two hours of the previous fastest time.’ – Pelotome.
Chapters include ‘Advantages of Velocipedes’, ‘Velocipedes of the Past’, ‘Velocipedes of the Day’, ‘Art of Velocipede Management’, ‘How to Manage a Bicycle’, ‘How to Construct a Bicycle’, ‘Velocipedum Variorium’ and ‘Progress of the Velocipede’.
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I Want to Take Picture - Signed -
Bill Burke
1987 - Nexus Press, Atlanta - First Edition
Illustrated throughout with duotones and halftones from photographs by Bill Burke; some colour reproductions and photographs.
Signed by Bill Burke with inscription to Terry Etherton within a trace of the photographer's left hand.
A photographic journal taken during the author's trips through Thailand along the Cambodian border in the early 1980’s, particularly focusing on the after-effects of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia.
‘In 1982, years after Vietnam, I decided to give myself my own Southeast Asia experience. I wanted to make pictures in a place where I didn't know the rules, where I'd be off balance. Friends who had been there recommended Thailand; nice people, easy transportation, good food. Another friend told me that as long as I was going to Thailand I should go see the refugees coming out of Cambodia. He set me up with the International Rescue Committee, which was working at the Thai-Cambodian border.’ – Bill Burke.
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1987 - Nexus Press, Atlanta - First Edition
Illustrated throughout with duotones and halftones from photographs by Bill Burke; some colour reproductions and photographs.Signed by Bill Burke with inscription to Terry Etherton within a trace of the photographer's left hand.
A photographic journal taken during the author's trips through Thailand along the Cambodian border in the early 1980’s, particularly focusing on the after-effects of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia.
‘In 1982, years after Vietnam, I decided to give myself my own Southeast Asia experience. I wanted to make pictures in a place where I didn't know the rules, where I'd be off balance. Friends who had been there recommended Thailand; nice people, easy transportation, good food. Another friend told me that as long as I was going to Thailand I should go see the refugees coming out of Cambodia. He set me up with the International Rescue Committee, which was working at the Thai-Cambodian border.’ – Bill Burke.
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Price HK$ 8,000