Schiff, Maskee. A Shanghai Sketchbook. Shanghai. 1938. 22 pages. 21 pages of hand drawn and watercolored pictures. 19.5 cm x 27 cm
$900.00
Limited Edition. Red silk brocade binding. Copy #44 signed by the author, Schiff. The illustrations are hand drawn and watercolored. Circa 1938. A humourous insight into Shanghai, the Paris of the East, before WWII. Bound Chinese style with red silk brocade binding. Very good overall. Item #10209
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Staunton, George Leonard. An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China. London. W. Bulmer and Co. 1797. Vol. 1 & 2: 518p.; Atlas Vol. 626p. Including Cursory Observations Made, and Information Obtained, in Travelling Through That Ancient Empire, and a Small Part of Chinese Tartary. Together with a Relation of the Voyage Undertaken on the Occasion by His Majesties Ship The Lion, and the Ship Hindostan, in the East India Company’s Service, to the Yellow Sea, and Gulf of Pekin…Two volumes plus Atlas volume. With a portrait frontispiece in each volume and 26 additional engravings (including one full-page plate of tea-leaves). Atlas volume with 44 engraved plates (including large folding map). Two Volumes: 282 mm x 220 mm; Atlas volume: 560 x 420 mm. The written accounts are bound in contemporary English tree-calf. Atlas volume, bound in contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards.
$18,000.00
First Edition. Illustrated with the first engraved view of China published in English. One of the earliest and best English works on China published in the eighteenth century, offering eyewitness accounts of Chinese manners and customs; the work is richly illustrated with large and fine engraved plates. Great Britain had been eager to establish formal diplomatic relations with China and thus open the way for trade relations, but Chinese reserve and self-sufficiency, which had for many centuries resisted foreign overtures, still pervaded, despite Lord McCartney’s gifts and persuasions. This report, which was prepared at government expense, contains valuable observations on China and many other ports of call on the way to the Orient from England. The work “is of considerable interest owing to the descriptions of the various places en route which were visited, including Madeira, Teneriffe, Rio de Janeiro, St. Helena, Tristan d’Acunha, Amsterdam Island, Java, Sumatra, Cochin-China.” Atlas volume rebacked, corners renewed; some minor browning or offsetting to plates; text volumes generally very clean, bindings refurbished; overall in excellent condition. Armorial bookplate of the Earl of Moray affixed inside both text volumes. Cox I, 344. Cordier 2383. Catalogue of the Asiatic Library of Dr. G.E. Morrison I, 695. Lust 546. Hill II, 582-3. Very fine. Item #10114.
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