Thomas Allom (1804-1872) the noted topographical artist, at a time of increased interest in China, presented the Western world with the most compl...

Report 415 in the series Reports on subjects of general and commercial interest. A valuable document compiled by Consul Jamieson to be presented t...

The second opium war. Scarce parliamentary paper dealing with the Second Opium War. Includes papers by Sir Henry Pottinger, Sir John Davis, the Ear...

Rare Liverpool printed broadside. The text consists of a quote from Lord Byron followed by a nineteen-line text praising the city and giving detai...

Translations from the Chinese and Armenian, with notes and illustrations.I. History of the pirates who infested the China Sea, from 1807 to 1810.I...

Extensive collection of Russian works focusing mostly on Northern China and Mongolia, including important and rare travel, trade and exploration a...

The Dutch being at the height of their power, having supplanted the Portuguese, desired to gain access to China and a portion of the China trade. ...

The first separate edition of Baudier's survey of the Chinese court, which supposedly he based on the narrative of a Jesuit who had travelled in t...

The Central Asiatic Expedition went into Mongolia to seek and discover the ancestry of man, and explore the natural history of the region. Andrews...

Thomas Allom (1804-1872) the noted topographical artist, at a time of increased interest in China, presented the Western world with the most compl...

There are two interesting chapters on Chinese field sports, with sections on tiger, leopard and a few other species of big game. The appendix cont...

The author was the artist on Colonel Sosnovsky's scientific expedition across Siberia to Lake Baikal and Mongolia in 1874-75. This was one of the ...

The rare Russian first edition.Pavel Piasetskiy (1843 - 1919) was not only a respected doctor but also talented artist and writer. These versatile...

China under the Qing dynasty. A remarkable collection of sixty-four fine large-format Chinese watercolours with subjects depicting tradesmen, flowe...

The Qing Emperor Kangxi commissioned Jesuit surveyors to chart his kingdom from 1708 to 1716. The resulting maps were published as the Kangxi Atla...

Scarce. Alexandre de Rhodes (1591-1660), 'the father of the romanization of Vietnamese' (Lust), wrote several books relating to his own experience...

With map. A very scarce work, with an Introduction by the Right Revd. George Smith, D.D. Lord Bishop of Victoria (Hong Kong), which sketches out We...

Scarce. 'Sulaiman's works had a profound effect on many Arabic and Persian geographers and are of exceptional importance for the study of early Is...

Inscribed presentation copy. Inscribed to Sir James Dunlop Smith, an official in the Indian Army, who held various important positions, eventually ...

Little is known of the early life of Edward Donovan (1768–1837). His interest in natural history started with the collecting of shells and preserv...

Rare playing card map. Designed to play the Florentine version of the tarot game, the 'Minchiate'.The card features a miniature map to its upper p...

A fine group of Chinese export watercolours showing flowers and butterflies.Pith came into use for painting to satisfy the increasing demand for s...