The foremost authority on the early history of America. A handsome set in a contemporary Italian binding. 'One of the earliest and most important c...

From the collection of the 5th Duke of Marlborough. A sumptuous collection of mounted watercolours depicting Chinese silkworm cultivation, birds (i...

The first edition of Du Halde's "encyclopaedic account of China" (Lust) -- and one of the earliest European sources on Chinese ceramics. Du Halde,...

Best edition, enlarged and corrected. Contains descriptions of the Ryukyus (then a Chinese protectorate) and Canton (Guangzhou).'This voyage was u...

Travels between 1843 and 1845 in Kuangtung, Fukien, the Chekiang coast, and Shanghai. Fortune (1812-1880) was a Scottish botanist, plant hunter an...

A pioneering work. Scarce. Two issues of this work were made in 1814. This second issue has Chinese characters on title and a 2-page errata, it als...

The most important work on China since Marco Polo. The earliest authoritative source of information on China available in Europe at that time. At h...

Important account of the First Opium War. Includes a fine map of Hong Kong. The Nemesis was designed to draw only six feet of water, enabling her ...

Attractive early twentieth century atlas showing the provinces of China. The index has some 10,000 entries. Both the maps and index are bilingual....

Includes two views of Hong Kong.Second edition. 8vo., xviii, 532pp., double page map of China, hand-coloured in outline, 12 lithographed plates, o...

Pavel Piasetskiy (1843 - 1919) was only a respected doctor but also talented artist and writer. These versatile abilities ensured his participatio...

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...