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Grand Tattoo at Sookumpoo, Hong Kong 4th, 5th & 6th October 1928 -
1928 - Printed by The Newspaper Enterprise, Hong Kong - Only Edition
A fine and rare example of this programme for the 1928 ‘Tattoo’ in Hong Kong, an enormous undertaking for the time, and a fitting farewell to the Queen's Royal Regiment who were heavily involved and left Hong Kong the following year.
With three full page and five in-text illustrations, and nineteen pages of local Hong Kong advertisements.
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1928 - Printed by The Newspaper Enterprise, Hong Kong - Only Edition
A fine and rare example of this programme for the 1928 ‘Tattoo’ in Hong Kong, an enormous undertaking for the time, and a fitting farewell to the Queen's Royal Regiment who were heavily involved and left Hong Kong the following year.With three full page and five in-text illustrations, and nineteen pages of local Hong Kong advertisements.
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Hong Kong $ Directory 1966 -
1966 - Local Property &, 13 Duddell Street - First and only Edition
A fabulous, thick and scarce example of Hong Kong’s ‘$ Directory’ for 1966, over 1,500 pages, covering every detail of Hong Kong commerce and trade, representative offices, transport routes, institutions, societies, 200 page ‘Who’s Who’ section, all interspersed with illustrated advertisements.
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1966 - Local Property &, 13 Duddell Street - First and only Edition
A fabulous, thick and scarce example of Hong Kong’s ‘$ Directory’ for 1966, over 1,500 pages, covering every detail of Hong Kong commerce and trade, representative offices, transport routes, institutions, societies, 200 page ‘Who’s Who’ section, all interspersed with illustrated advertisements.
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La Chine et les Chinois -
Auguste Borget
1842 - Goupil &, Paris - First Edition
Complete set of this renowned and highly prized collection of plates on China, including views of Hong Kong, Macao, and Canton.
Tinted lithographic title page and thirty two sepia tinted lithographic plates on 25 sheets by Eugène Cicéri after Borget, letterpress text and title page, and two leaves of dedication.
‘The feeling of superiority to the Chinese, so characteristic of accounts from the 1840s, is absent here. The artist observes with a fresh eye.’ - Lust, Western Travellers in China.
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Price HK$ 210,000
1842 - Goupil &, Paris - First Edition
Complete set of this renowned and highly prized collection of plates on China, including views of Hong Kong, Macao, and Canton.Tinted lithographic title page and thirty two sepia tinted lithographic plates on 25 sheets by Eugène Cicéri after Borget, letterpress text and title page, and two leaves of dedication.
‘The feeling of superiority to the Chinese, so characteristic of accounts from the 1840s, is absent here. The artist observes with a fresh eye.’ - Lust, Western Travellers in China.
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Personal Narrative of Three Years Service in China -
Lt.-Colonel Arthur A Court Fisher Royal Engineers
1863 - Richard Bentley, London - First Edition
Lt.-Colonel Fisher’s three years of service, are in Canton, the Pei-Ho River, and Taku Fort battles, throughout the Second Opium War.
Illustrated with three wood-engraved plates, engraved plan, six in-text engravings and three folding maps at rear. Scarce in the original cloth and bright gilt.
This is not one of your more dry ‘Personal Narrative’ accounts, and is very much in the ‘Personal’. Entertainingly written, one wonders if Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Agincourt Fisher was in any way related to Harry Flashman....
Lt-Colonel Fisher begins his tales with the action at the Battle of Canton in late 1857, he remains in Canton, occupying his spare time with various adventures and sport (Cricket in Hong Kong, shooting snipe and riding ponies across the Canton countryside ‘Paper-Hunt’ style), and visits to Hong Kong and islands. Fisher then moves up the Pei-Ho River and is involved with the battles around the Taku Forts, as well as surveying the ‘Great Wall’, returning once again to the skirmishes on the Pei-Ho and around Canton. After the third and final ‘Battle of Taku Forts’ at the end of August 1860, Fisher is preparing to head to Peking but is taken sick and forced to spend two months on the hospital ship ‘Mauritius’ whilst hearing news from other wounded officers of the battles around Peking and the looting of the Summer Palace. In November of 1860 Fisher’s service in China ends with his shipment back to England.
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1863 - Richard Bentley, London - First Edition
Lt.-Colonel Fisher’s three years of service, are in Canton, the Pei-Ho River, and Taku Fort battles, throughout the Second Opium War.Illustrated with three wood-engraved plates, engraved plan, six in-text engravings and three folding maps at rear. Scarce in the original cloth and bright gilt.
This is not one of your more dry ‘Personal Narrative’ accounts, and is very much in the ‘Personal’. Entertainingly written, one wonders if Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Agincourt Fisher was in any way related to Harry Flashman....
Lt-Colonel Fisher begins his tales with the action at the Battle of Canton in late 1857, he remains in Canton, occupying his spare time with various adventures and sport (Cricket in Hong Kong, shooting snipe and riding ponies across the Canton countryside ‘Paper-Hunt’ style), and visits to Hong Kong and islands. Fisher then moves up the Pei-Ho River and is involved with the battles around the Taku Forts, as well as surveying the ‘Great Wall’, returning once again to the skirmishes on the Pei-Ho and around Canton. After the third and final ‘Battle of Taku Forts’ at the end of August 1860, Fisher is preparing to head to Peking but is taken sick and forced to spend two months on the hospital ship ‘Mauritius’ whilst hearing news from other wounded officers of the battles around Peking and the looting of the Summer Palace. In November of 1860 Fisher’s service in China ends with his shipment back to England.
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Thrilling Cities -
Ian Lancaster Fleming
1964 - New American Library, New York - First American Edition &
Finely bound first edition of this wonderful account of fourteen cities, starting with Hong Kong, Fleming’s favourite city, where he stayed with his friend Hugh Barton, Chairman of Jardine Matheson.
Descriptions of the more exciting side to each city, with an emphasis on good food, company of character and beautiful Ladies. It is a shame that these descriptions cannot be used by the Tourism board of Hong Kong today.
This, the first American edition, includes the first appearance of the short James Bond story '007 in New York', written to appease the New York publisher after Fleming’s negative (to be polite) portrayal of their city.
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1964 - New American Library, New York - First American Edition &
Finely bound first edition of this wonderful account of fourteen cities, starting with Hong Kong, Fleming’s favourite city, where he stayed with his friend Hugh Barton, Chairman of Jardine Matheson.Descriptions of the more exciting side to each city, with an emphasis on good food, company of character and beautiful Ladies. It is a shame that these descriptions cannot be used by the Tourism board of Hong Kong today.
This, the first American edition, includes the first appearance of the short James Bond story '007 in New York', written to appease the New York publisher after Fleming’s negative (to be polite) portrayal of their city.
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Private Journal -
Captain Robert Jenkins [1825-94]
1857 to 1858
The original 320 page hand-written journal of Captain Robert Jenkins, during his time as Commander of HMS Actaeon for the year 1857 and HMS Comus in 1857, both ships active off the coast of China, mostly around Canton. Included is a hand drawn and water coloured sketch of Chinese villagers being forced to kowtow to the Union Jack. Finely bound in contemporary black calf and brass locks.
HMS Actaeon was commissioned in 1857 to serve as a survey vessel off the coast of China, under the command of Captain William Thornton Bate. She was present at the bombardment of Canton in 1857,where Bate was shot and killed on 29th. December. Captain Robert Jenkins took over the command of the ship and his journal refers to the bombardment of Canton, surveying factories, disputes over land between British and Chinese merchants. It also covers skirmishes with armed junks and defence of the Barrier. Locations include Hong Kong ,Canton, Macao and Amoy.
According to the Journal it appears that Jenkins was wounded seriously on June 30th 1858, and on September 16th ‘Joined Commander J Ward, [vice?] Captain R Jenkins discharged to Half Pay’, September 18th ‘I went to Shanghai with Commander Ward’, from whence Jenkins travelled to Hong Kong, Singapore, Penang, Galli, Aden, Alexandria, Malta, Gibralter, Falmouth, arriving in Southampton 19th November, one month after leaving Shanghai.
Journal (binding size 29x23.5cm), pp. [4] [144 (1st January to 31st December 1857 as Commander of HMS Comus)] [9 (Summary of year 1857 as Commander of HMS Comus)] [1]; [7(January 1-19th, last days as Commander of HMS Comus)] [1] [92 (January 20th to 19th November as Commander of HMS Actaeon)] [4] [8 (Summary of year 1857 as Commander of HMS Actaeon)] [50]. Paper watermarked ‘1852’ ‘Fellows’.
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1857 to 1858
The original 320 page hand-written journal of Captain Robert Jenkins, during his time as Commander of HMS Actaeon for the year 1857 and HMS Comus in 1857, both ships active off the coast of China, mostly around Canton. Included is a hand drawn and water coloured sketch of Chinese villagers being forced to kowtow to the Union Jack. Finely bound in contemporary black calf and brass locks.HMS Actaeon was commissioned in 1857 to serve as a survey vessel off the coast of China, under the command of Captain William Thornton Bate. She was present at the bombardment of Canton in 1857,where Bate was shot and killed on 29th. December. Captain Robert Jenkins took over the command of the ship and his journal refers to the bombardment of Canton, surveying factories, disputes over land between British and Chinese merchants. It also covers skirmishes with armed junks and defence of the Barrier. Locations include Hong Kong ,Canton, Macao and Amoy.
According to the Journal it appears that Jenkins was wounded seriously on June 30th 1858, and on September 16th ‘Joined Commander J Ward, [vice?] Captain R Jenkins discharged to Half Pay’, September 18th ‘I went to Shanghai with Commander Ward’, from whence Jenkins travelled to Hong Kong, Singapore, Penang, Galli, Aden, Alexandria, Malta, Gibralter, Falmouth, arriving in Southampton 19th November, one month after leaving Shanghai.
Journal (binding size 29x23.5cm), pp. [4] [144 (1st January to 31st December 1857 as Commander of HMS Comus)] [9 (Summary of year 1857 as Commander of HMS Comus)] [1]; [7(January 1-19th, last days as Commander of HMS Comus)] [1] [92 (January 20th to 19th November as Commander of HMS Actaeon)] [4] [8 (Summary of year 1857 as Commander of HMS Actaeon)] [50]. Paper watermarked ‘1852’ ‘Fellows’.
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The Tourists' Guide and Merchants' Manual. Being an English-Chinese Vocabulary of Articles of Commerce and of Domestic Use; also, All the Known Names Connected with the Sciences of Natural History, Chemistry, Pharmacy, &c. &c. &c. In the Court and Punti Dialects -
Rev. Wilhelm Lobscheid
1864 - Printed and Published at the office of the &ldquo, Hongkong - First Edition
Rare early Cantonese (’Punti’) and Mandarin vocabulary published by The Daily Press, compiled by Rev. Wilhelm Lobscheid (1822-1893) whose groundbreaking four volume dictionary was also published by The Daily Press two years later in 1866.
The Daily Press was the first daily English-language newspaper in Hong Kong, published from 1857 for about 80 years. Founded and edited by George M Ryder.
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1864 - Printed and Published at the office of the &ldquo, Hongkong - First Edition
Rare early Cantonese (’Punti’) and Mandarin vocabulary published by The Daily Press, compiled by Rev. Wilhelm Lobscheid (1822-1893) whose groundbreaking four volume dictionary was also published by The Daily Press two years later in 1866.The Daily Press was the first daily English-language newspaper in Hong Kong, published from 1857 for about 80 years. Founded and edited by George M Ryder.
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On a Chinese Screen -
William Somerset Maugham
1922 - William Heinemann, London - First English Edition
First edition of Maugham’s collection of sketches on China.
Maugham spent the winter months of 1919 travelling fifteen hundred miles up the Yangtze river, with what are clearly long stops in Shanghai and Hong Kong amongst other treaty ports. Always more interested in people than places, he noted down acute and finely crafted sketches of those he met on countless scraps of paper.
In the resulting collection we encounter Western missionaries, army officers and company managers who are culturally out of their depth in the immensity of the Chinese civilisation. Maugham keenly observes, and gently ridicules, their dogged and oblivious persistence with the life they know. In total 58 sketches.
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1922 - William Heinemann, London - First English Edition
First edition of Maugham’s collection of sketches on China.Maugham spent the winter months of 1919 travelling fifteen hundred miles up the Yangtze river, with what are clearly long stops in Shanghai and Hong Kong amongst other treaty ports. Always more interested in people than places, he noted down acute and finely crafted sketches of those he met on countless scraps of paper.
In the resulting collection we encounter Western missionaries, army officers and company managers who are culturally out of their depth in the immensity of the Chinese civilisation. Maugham keenly observes, and gently ridicules, their dogged and oblivious persistence with the life they know. In total 58 sketches.
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