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China
European Perspectives of 中国／ Zhongguo from the
16th-19th centuries
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NIEUHOFF, Johann. L’Ambassade de la Compagnie Orientale
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A Rare Meiji Period History of China
[ANCIENT CHINA]. Jyuhasshi ryaku ... go taizen [Complete and Abridged ... Eighteen Histories.] Osaka: Meiji
15 [1882].
$15,000
8vo., (7 x 5 inches). Xylographically printed on double leaves folded in the oriental manner. Title printed on pink
paper, text on 16 unnumbered double leaves, 11 double-page hand-coloured maps of China (only, of 12) on numbered double leaves 1-10 & 12, 1 unnumbered text double leaf at end. (Small marginal dampstain to top corner.)
Original yellow paper-covered boards with printed paper title slip (upper cover dampstained and coming away
from front pastedown, extremities lightly rubbed).
First edition thus. This atlas and history of ancient China was published in the long tradition of the Abridged
Eighteen Histories, a popular work of history first used in China during the Song dynasty (960-1279). By the 16th
century, the Eighteen Histories had disappeared from China, but were enthusiastically adopted by Japan. During the Song, most authors accepted that there were seventeen standard histories and the Tzu-chih t’ung-chien,
‘Comprehensive Mirror for the Aid of Government’, by Ssu-ma Kuang (1019-1086). These were then compiled
under the Chinese title Shi Ba Shi Lue, evolving during the Yuan dynasty (1271-1368) to become a concise general
history. By the time of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), it was widely disseminated in many variant editions. At this
time, the Eighteen Histories spread to Japan, and was widely distributed and read.
By the time of the Meiji Restoration, the history started to reflect contemporary Japanese concerns, absorbing a
Japanese world view coupled with western influences. They were immensely popular, and had a profound impact
on Japanese society and culture.
Despite their incessant publication, there are few copies extant, particularly in the west. The present example, published prior to the first Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895), is a most uncommon item describing the geography and
society of the Chu dynasty (907-951) and the Song. The beautifully stylized maps illustrate dynastic borders and
the diverse topography of China, delineated with vibrant colours. The text gives the names of emperors and cities
as well as statistical information about populations. Worldcat reports a number of Meiji period Jyuhasshi ryaku,
but none for 1882.
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The First European Printed Map of China
LAURENT FRIES
FRIES, Laurent (died 1532). Untitled map of China, Japan and Tibet. Strassburg: [ca 1522-1535].
$15,000
Single sheet (15 2/8 x 19 inches). Fine woodcut map of China, Japan and Tibet.
The first printed map of China, here in its second state with the banner title of the first state removed from outside
the upper border.
This map derives from mediaeval sources, most notably Marco Polo, and extends from Tartary in the north, to
“Prov. Bocat” (Cambodia) in the south. “Tebet” is shown prominently, as is “Zinpangri” (Japan), albeit orientated
north-south, along the right hand border. In the Pacific is a finely observed vignette of the Great Khan seated in
his tent, before a great cluster of tents of his Tartar hordes.
On the reverse are two pages of Latin historical text, the first flanked by woodcuts, while the second page ends with
a diagram of astronomical instruments.
Laurent Fries was a French physician and mathematician born around 1485 in Mulhouse. He settled finally in
Strassburg where he met Peter Apian and the publisher Johannes Grüninger where he became interested in the
Ptolemy Atlases of 1513 and 1520. Fries made his own new woodcut maps in smaller format, and his Ptolemy Atlas
was published first in 1522, reissued in 1525, 1535 and 1541. He died in 1532. Karrow, Mapmakers of the Sixteenth
Century, 28/46; cf. Suarez, Southeast Asia, pp.118-119.
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One of the First Printed Maps of the Continent of Asia
SEBASTIAN MUENSTER
MUENSTER, Sebastian (1489-1552). “Die Lander Asie nach irer Gelegenheit bisz in India werden in diser Tafel
Verzeichnet”. [Basel: ca 1545].
$6,500
Single sheet (13 x 10 inches). Fine woodcut map showing the Asian continent.
This fine woodcut is an early Ptolemaic map from Muenster’s “Cosmographiae universalis”. This is one of the
earliest maps of the whole continent based on the geographical discoveries made by Portuguese navigators. The
outline of the Asian mainland is relatively well established, but Munster omits the extreme northeast of Asia, still
believed to be joined to the New World. Japan is also missing, as it appeared on Munster’s New World map instead.
India appears as a peninsula and Sri Lanka, called Zalon, is correctly located. Cambay, Goa and Cannonore are all
shown, reflecting the Portuguese presence on India’s west coast. Malacca is properly placed on the Malay Peninsula
and the Indonesian island of Sumatra has inherited the name Taprobana from Sri Lanka, but also bears the name
Sumatra. Java appears as two islands, Java Maior and Java Minor, one shown north of the other. The famed Spice
Islands of the Moluccas are located, but oddly shaped. An archipelago of islands lies off the eastern coastline of
China. The Indian Ocean is filled with a huge sea monster and a fantastic two-tailed mermaid.
Sebastian Munster was to become one of “the most influential cartographers in the sixteenth century” (Burden).
Essentially he published Ptolemy’s “Geography” with a “further section of modern, more up to date maps. He
included for the first time a set of continental maps, the America was the earliest of any notes. He was one of the
first to create space in the woodblock for insertion of place-names in metal type. The maps’ inclusion in Munster’s
“Cosmography”. sealed the fate of “America” as the name for the new world. The book proved to be very popular,
there being nearly forty editions during the following 100 years.” (Burden).
“When This Map Appeared, It was by far
the Most Accurate one of China”
ABRAHAM ORTELIUS
ORTELIUS, Abraham (1527-98). Chinae, olim Sinarum regionis, nova descriptio. Auctore Ludovico Georgio.
[Antwerp: ca 1595]
$3,800
Single sheet (14 4/8 x 18 6/8 inches to the neat line, full margins showing the plate mark). Latin text on verso. A
fine uncoloured engraved map showing China, some of Japan and Borneo, decorated with 3 elaborate baroque
cartouches, galleons, sea monsters, masted wind wagons, elephants, deer and yurts.
A fine dark impression. “All the elements of the modern atlas were brought to publication in Abraham Ortelius’
“Theatrum Orbis Terrarum”, in which this map was first published in 1584. This substantial undertaking assembled... the best available maps of the world by the most renowned and up-to-date geographers... each of Ortelius’
maps was engraved specifically for his atlas according to uniform formats” (Shirley).
“When this map appeared, it was by far the most accurate one of China. Japan is shown on a curious curved projection reminiscent of Portuguese charts of the period with Honshu dissected along the line of Lake Biwa. The Great
Wall is shown but with 400 miles only; its length is grossly underestimated. The Tartar ‘yurts’ are dotted across
the plains and the steppes of Central and East Asia. The text on the verso includes four transcriptions of Chinese
characters, brought back to Europe by the Jesuit Bernardino Escalante, published in Sevilla in 1577. Note the four
wind wagons on the right and top of the map, perhaps the earliest examples of a depiction of this device” (van den
Broecke, page 493). Ort. 164.3.
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“One of the Most Important Collections of Early
Voyages in the English Language”
SAMUEL PURCHAS
PURCHAS, Samuel (ca 1575-1626). Purchas his Pilgrimes. In five bookes. - Purchase his Pilgrimage.
London: William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, 1625 - 1626.
$275,000
Together, 5 volumes. Folio (13 x 8 1/8 inches). Additional engraved title-page (re-margined at foot), FINE double-page folding engraved map of “Virginia” by John Smith (21 4/8 x 16 inches to the neatline, 13 6/8 x 17 2/8
inches sheet size), AN EARLY STATE PRECEDING THAT INTENDED FOR PUBLICATION WITH PURCHAS:
Church state 4, Burden state 6, with UNUSUALLY WIDE MARGINS SHOWING THE PLATE-MARK (an early
repair to verso at the bottom of the centerfold, small hole at the fold, and one or two other separations along the
horizontal fold, one or two spots), 6 double-page maps, including “Hondius his Map of the Christian World”, 81
maps in the text, engraved and woodcut illustrations, head- and tail-pieces and initials (without 4 leaves: blanks
vol. 1 1, vol. 3 [pi]1, and vol. 4 1, and colophon vol. 2 2e4; approximately 30 leaves with small marginal tissue
strengthening, approximately 25 leaves with marginal areas renewed, 2 brief marginal worm trails repaired, 2 final
leaves repaired affecting a few letters, New England/Canada and Virginia maps strengthened on verso and with
short separations, 2 inset maps shaved at fore-edge, a third with hole repaired affecting a few words on verso).
Late 19th-century pebble-grained morocco gilt by J. Clarke of Bedford, gilt dentelles (bindings lightly rubbed).
Provenance: George Smith, his sale Sotheby’s July 1867, lot 6479; John Dunn-Gardner (1811-1903), MP and extensive landowner in Cambridgeshire, England, with his pencilled notes re provenance at the end of volume one; his
sale, London, 1854, sold for £75; with the engraved armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Sullivan (1822-1885), who describes this copy in a manuscript note tipped-in at the end: “perhaps the finest extant...it is quite perfect... the Royal
Arms were on the old calf covers”, his sale, London, June 6, 1890, lot 5146.
“One of the fullest and most important collections of early voyages and travels in the English language” (Sabin)
First edition of Purchas his “Pilgrimes...” and fourth edition of the “Pilgrimage...”, issued simultaneously as a supplement. Early issue of “Pilgrimes” with “Hondius his Map of the Christian World” in volume one, pages 65 and 115,
2T6 incorrectly numbered, and the headline on page 704 reading “Hollanders lying devices,” but with second issue
of engraved title-page, an unusually complete copy, the only significant absence being the colophon to volume 2,
which is frequently missing. Second issue of the “Pilgrimage...” with dedication to King Charles.
Material relating to America begins in book III, about halfway through volume III with an account of George Barkley’s travels, accompanied by a map of the arctic regions “Polus Arcticus...” . Book IV entitled “English Northerne
Navigations, and Discoveries, Relations of Greeneland, Groenland, The North-West Passage, and other Arctike
Regions, with later Russian Occurrents” is illustrated with Henry Briggs’s double-page map of “The North part of
America...” This map is best known for being the progenitor of the myth of California as an island, but since it may
have been published as early as 1622 it is also proposed as the first map to name “Hudsons bay”, “Fretum Hudson”,
“Hudsons R”, “Cape Cod”, and “De la war bay” (Burden 314). Book V concerns the “Voyages, and Travels to and in
the New World, called America: relations of their Pagan Antiquities and of the regions and plantations in the North
and South parts thereof, and of the Seas and Islands adiacent”. It is illustrated with “Hondius his Map Of America”,
“Hondius his Map of Hispaniola, Cuba, &c”, “Hondius his Map of Florida”, “Hondius his Map of New Spaine”, “Hondius his Map of America Meridionalis”, “Hondius his Map of the Magellan Streight”, and numerous woodcuts of
Mexican art and hieroglyphics.
The fourth volume, containing books VI to X includes many famous accounts of voyages of exploration to and in
the New World, and is famously illustrated with JOHN SMITH’S MAP OF “VIRGINIA”, IN AN EARLY STATE
PRECEDING THAT INTENDED FOR PUBLICATION WITH PURCHAS, AND IN FINE CONDITION WITH
EXCEPTIONALLY WIDE-MARGINS. John Smith’s map of “Virginia” “one of the most important printed maps of
America ever produced and certainly one of the greatest influence. It became the prototype for the area for half a
century until Augustine Herman’s map of 1673. First issued separately in London, it accompanied many editions of
various publications for another twenty years. It, therefore, was seen widely and inspired much interest in the fledgling Virginia colony, influencing considerably its eventual success. Consequently the east coast of North America
became dominated by the English. To this day the map is still used by archeologists to locate native India villages.
It records 166 of them” (Burden 164). Also featured is Sir William Alexander, Earl of Stirling’s map of New France,
New Scotlande and New Englande (Burden 208). First published in 1624 to accompany his “An Encouragement to
Colonies”, this is an important map as it records the twenty names of patentees granted land between 40 and 48
degrees north latitude, stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, and including the land east of the Ste. Croix
River and the Acadian peninsula. This map is in the second state as issued to accompany Purchas’s “Pilgrimes”.
The “Pilgrimage...” gives account of “The World and the Religions...”, illustrated with the fine world map “Typus
Orbis Terrarum”. The fifth book concerns the East Indies, and “of the Seas and Islands about”; the eighth “Of New
France, Virginina, Florida, New Spaine, with other Regions of America Mexicana; and of their Religions”; the ninth
“Of Cumana, Guiana, Brasil, Chica, Chili, Perus, and other Regions of America, Peruuiana, and of their Religions”.
“This great geographical collection is a continuation and enlargement of Hakluyt’s The Principal Navigations. At
the death of Hakluyt there was left a large collection of voyages in manuscript which came into the hands of Purchas, who added to them many more voyages and travels ... This fine collection includes the accounts of Cortes and
Pizarro, Drake, Cavendish, John and Richard Hawkins, Quiros, Magellan, van Noort, Spillbergen, and Barents, as
well as the categories of Portuguese voyages to the East Indies, Jesuit voyages to China and Japan, East India Company voyages, and the expeditions of the Muscovy Company” (Hill 1403); Sabin 66682-66686; STC 20509, 20508.5.
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The European Discovery of Tibet
ANTONIO DE ANDRADE
[TIBET - ANDRADE, Antonio de (1580-1634) - KIRWITZER, Wenceslas Pantaleon (1588-1626)]. Lettere annue
del Tibet del MDCXXVI. E della Cina del MDCXXIV. Rome: Francesco Corbelletti, 1628.
$9,500
8vo (6 x 3 6/8 inches). Woodcut Jesuit device on title-page, woodcut initials (first few leaves lightly browned). Old
vellum over paste-board, yapp edges, antique.
First RARE Italian edition, and AN ATTRACTIVE COPY. Without the errata leaf as often. Dated Caparangue, (i.e.
Tsaparang), August 15th, 1626, the first of the two letters printed in this small volume recounts Andrade’s second
visit to Tibet between 1625 and 1626. Born in the small town of Oleiros, Portugal, in 1580, Andrade entered the
order of the Society of Jesus in 1596. Between 1600 and 1624 he was the Jesuit’s chief missionary in the Indies,
establishing a permanent mission in Agra. His greatest triumph for the church and for the history of exploration
was undoubtedly his “discovery” of Tibet in 1624. Geographically and politically inaccessible, Tibet was for many
centuries a mystery to European explorers, the subject of myth and legend and persistent rumor that beyond the
Himalayan mountains lay secluded Christian communities, the remnants of early evangelizing missions. Andrade
and his companion Manuel Marques began their long and arduous journey from Agra in the company of pilgrims
in March of 1624. Reaching Delhi they donned Hindu disguises and travelled through the valley of Ganges to
Hardwar “the Gate of Vishnu”, to Srinagar in Garhwal, Badrinath and finally through the perilous Mana Pass to
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Tsaparang in August. Although they soon discovered that the rumours of Christian communities were untrue
they were treated with great kindness by the people and the King and Queen of Guge, who gave him a passport,
or letter of privilege, allowing him safe passage to Agra with permission to recruit fellow Jesuits for a mission in
Caparangue. The permanent mission arrived in August 1625. Andrade was eventually recalled to Goa where he
died of poisoning shortly before the permanent mission at Tsaparang failed in 1635. The second longer letter by
is by the Bohemian Jesuit Kirwitzer, who died in Macao in 1626, is a report on the state of China and the Jesuit
missions there. Catholic Encyclopedia online. DBS I, 331 and 1084; Streit V, 306; not in Lust.
The Earliest Comprehensive Account of Tibet
MANOEL DA VEIGA
[TIBET]. VEIGA, Manoel da (1549-1640). Relacam geral do estado de christandade de Ethiopia; reducam dos
Scimaticos... & do que de nouo socedo no descobrimeto do Thybet, a que chamam, gram Catayo. Lisbon: Mattheus
Pinheiro, 1628.
$9,500
4to., (7 2/8 x 5 2/8 inches). Woodcut head-piece and initial (preliminaries with one or two discreet repairs not
affecting the text). Contemporary limp vellum, yapp fore-edges, original free endpapers (expertly recased with
modern vellum preserving the original spine and covers, vellum ties renews, endpapers renewed). Provenance:
early signature partially obscured on title-page and scholarly notes on verso of original free endpaper; with John
Howell, bookseller.
First edition, and AN ATTRACTIVE COPY. Da Veiga was a Jesuit missionary principally in Ethiopia, and the
first two sections of this book discuss the activities of the Jesuits in that country. In the third section, entitled "Das
Covsas do Reyno do Gram Thybet, a que chamam Catayo, que de nono socederam nos Annos de 625. & 626".
da Veiga recounts in five chapters how he accompanied Antonio de Andrade on his second journey into Tibet in
1625 to establish a permanent mission. Veiga includes an account of Andrade's first journey into Tibet from India
in August of 1624, the first by any European to reach Tibet, and goes into great detail about their expedition, their
work at Tsaparang, and negotiations with local lamas and the Tibetan religion.
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Geographically and politically inaccessible, Tibet was for many centuries a mystery to European explorers, the
subject of myth and legend and persistent rumor that beyond the Himalayan mountains lay secluded Christian
communities, the remnants of early evangelizing missions. Andrade and his companion Manuel Marques began
their long and arduous journey from Agra in the company of pilgrims in March of 1624. Reaching Delhi they
donned Hindu disguises and travelled through the valley of Ganges to Hardwar "the Gate of Vishnu", to Srinagar
in Garhwal, Badrinath and finally through the perilous Mana Pass to Tsaparang in August. Although they soon
discovered that the rumours of Christian communities were untrue they were treated with great kindness by the
people and the King and Queen of Guge, who gave him a passport, or letter of privilege, allowing him safe passage
to Agra with permission to recruit fellow Jesuits for a mission in Caparangue. The permanent mission arrived in
August 1625. Andrade was eventually recalled to Goa where he died of poisoning shortly before the permanent
mission at Tsaparang failed in 1635. Da Veiga (1566-1647), a Jesuit contemporary of Andrade's, continues this
tradition with an account of Andrade's heroic discovery of the country, the establishment of good relations with
the government, and the founding of a mission in Tsaparang with the support of the reigning monarch. Written
with hagiographical and propandist intent, the work is nonetheless an important historical document, since in
providing an account of the Jesuits' contretemps and public disputations with the lamas, it reported some of the
first ethnographic data on the native Tibetan religion and related customs to a European audience. DBS VIII, 530
no.2; Silva VI, p. 121; Cordier Sinica 2901.
Neiuhoff ’s Definitive Account of the Dutch
Embassy to Peking
JOHANN NIEUHOFF
NIEUHOFF, Johann. L’Ambassade de la Compagnie Orientale des Provincies Unies vers l’Empereur de la Chine...
Leyda: Jacob de Meurs, 1665.
$45,000
2 parts in one volume. Folio (14 6/8 x 9 inches). Letterpress title-page printed in red and black with engraved
vignette. Fine engraved frontispiece title-page (a bit loose), portrait of Colbert, fine folding map of China, 34
double-page plates, 110 engraved vignettes, head- and tail-pieces. Contemporary vellum over paste-board, yapp
fore-edges, title in manuscript on the spine (one or two marks).
Provenance: with the bookplate of Ferdinand Dubois de Fosseux (1742-1817), influential secretary of the Academy of Arras on the front paste-down; with the bookplate of Jean-Paul Morin on the front paste-down of each
volume, his sale, Paris, 4th November 2011, lot 29.
First edition in French of Nieuhoff ’s definitive account of the Dutch embassy to Peking: “L’Ambassade de la Compagnie Orientale des Provincies Unies vers l’Empereur de la Chine” which includes an account of the Dutch
voyage from Batavia to Peking and an account of their mission; followed by a more general history “Description
Generale de l’Empire de la Chine”.
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The Dutch East India Company was keen to persuade the Emperor to open up the Chinese ports to the Dutch,
and Nieuhoff joined Pieter van Goyer and Jacob de Keyser on the mission to visit the Emperor Chun-Chi. The
work includes many incidental remarks on the manners and customs of the Chinese, together with a second part
comprising a general description of the Chinese Empire. The fine plates and illustrations, most of which are after
Nieuhoff ’s own originals, show town views in China, Tibet and Tartary, together with subjects such as costume
and natural history. They became a huge influence on Chinoiserie, which became especially popular in the 18th
century, with many artists and architects basing their designs on the illustrations in Nieuhoff ’s book.
From the distinguished library of Ferdinand Dubois de Fosseux, who became secretary of the Academy of Arras
in 1785. Between then and 1792, when he retired, he created a bureau of correspondence, to connect scientific
societies all over France, and Paris with the provincial academies in particular. At last the scientific community
throughout France shared a national identity and culture. This idea had already been mooted by the American
Philosophical Society in Philadelphia in 1780, and was revisited again in 1790. Lust 534; Cordier, Sinica 2345-6;
Landwehr VOC 540
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Christian Difficulties Evangelizing in China,
in an Exceptionally Fine Biding
THIBERGE, BRISACIER, and TOURNON
[THIBERGE, Louis, Abbe – BRISACIER, Jacques-Charles de, Abbé – TOURNON, Carlo Tommaso Maillard de].
Ecrits de Mrs. des Miss. Etrang. Sur l’affaire de la Chine. 1710.
$19,000
12mo., (6 4/8 x 3 4/8 inches). Engraved allegorical frontispiece title-page, 3 sectional letterpress title-pages (some
light browning, one or two spots). Contemporary FINE red morocco binding each cover decorated with a border
of fine roll tools with small gilt tools of heads and castellated towers at each inner corner, surrounding a central
cartouche with the arms of the Duc d’Antin, the spine in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt-lettered in
one, the others decorated with fine gilt tools, all edges gilt.
Provenance: supra-libros of Louis Antoine de Pardaillan de Gondrin, marquis then duc d’Antin (1665-1736); with
the bookplate of Roger Peyrefitte on the front paste-down; the bookplate of Jean-Paul Morin on the front pastedown of each volume, his sale, Paris, 4th November 2011, lot 42.
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First collected edition, and A FINE AND ATTRACTIVE COPY of three pamphlets concerning the “Quarrel of
Rites”, or Christian missions’ difficulties evangelizing in China: “Lettre de messieurs des Missions etrangeres, au
Pape. Sur le decret de Sa Saintete rendu en 1704 & publie en 1709 contre les idolatries & les superstitions Chinoises”; “Reponse de Mrs des Missions etrangeres, a la protestation et aux reflexions des Jesuites”; “Memoires our
Rome, sur l’etat de la religion chretienne dans la Chine”. These documents discuss important questions, such as
what to call God in the native languages of India and the far-east; what role should the local traditions have in the
Catholic rites and what could be tolerated. The Jesuits’ reputation with their brother Dominicans and Franciscans
was low, as they tolerated the certain rites such as ancestor-worship as part of civil ceremonies, but others viewed
it as sheer idolatry.
From the distinguished library of the Duc d’Antin, legitimate son of Louis XIV’s mistress Madame de Montespan,
who after her death in 1707 was bequeathed the Château de Petit-Bourg at Évry-sur-Seine and, more importantly,
royal favour and the governorship of the Orléanais followed by head of the Bâtiments du Roi in 1708 a role which
required that he supervise works on Versailles. A confident to Louis XIV and his architectural projects (such as
the Salon d’Hercule), he managed to complete them under Louis XV. In 1711, Louis XIV promoted the marquisate
of Antin into a “duché-pairie”, and in 1724 d’Antin became a knight of the Ordre du Saint-Esprit. Cordier, Sinica
911-912; Lowendahl 311.
A Fine Sino-Centric Map
FERDINAND VERBIEST
VERBIEST, Ferdinand (1623-1688). Kun-yü Ch’üan-t’u. Korea, Seoul, ca 1860.
$350,000
Fine wood-engraved twelve-sheet map, with vertical sections joined to form six sheets, each measuring approximately 1860 x 590 or 1860 x 3510 mm overall, float mounted and framed, the ships and animals with early color
(expert repairs to loss along right edge of the middle sheet of the Western hemisphere affecting the western regions
of South America, small hole in northern islands of Canada and two small holes in calligraphic text near the top
renewed, edges with minor expert repairs.
“Flemish scientist Ferdinand Verbiest joined the Jesuit order in 1641; he traveled to Macao in 1659, where he
studied Chinese and Confucian classics and took his final religious vows. He was a polymath best known for this
Chinese world map, a revised Chinese calendar, and astronomical works in Chinese and Latin. Notwithstanding
his status as a foreigner he developed an unusually close relationship with the Kangxi emperor, who conferred
mandarin rank on Verbiest and granted him an official funeral.
For the emperor, cartography was a significant expression of his control over the regions under imperial domain.
Verbiest’s world map drew from contemporary Dutch maps and Chinese sources, but it presented the world in a
format appropriate to a Chinese audience. Counter to Western mapmaking traditions that focused on Europe, the
Kunyu quantu deferred to local conventions by placing China at the symbolic center, surrounded by countries that
could be construed as tributary states” (Getty Museum online). In 1647 Ferdinand Verbiest produced one of the
largest double hemisphere maps of the world to date. It was made for the second Qing Emperor of China, K’anghsi (1662-1722) and was part of a larger geographical work called K’un-yü t’u-shuo [Illustrated Discussion of the
Geography of the World].
Approximately eight copies survive of the original map. Verbiest’s unique map was primarily made for Chinese use
and designed to open China’s eyes to the rest of the world. It incorporates Chinese text with European cartographic
knowledge of the globe at that time. In keeping with Chinese tastes and their belief that Peking was the cultural and
political center of the world, China is placed at the center of the map with the rest of the world flanking it. The map
is drawn using Mercator’s projection. Descriptive cartouches explain geographic details and peculiarities of countries and oceans, as well as describing natural phenomena such as eclipses and earthquakes. Columbus’ discovery
of America is also discussed. The likely source for Verbiest’s map was Joan Blaeu’s monumental world map of 1648,
Nova totius terrarum orbis tabula. Although the delineation of China differs, the maps are similar in size and a
comparison and a concordance of geographical names shows clearly the relationship between the two maps. In
total twenty-three different animals, believed to be unknown or little-known in China, decorate the margins. The
illustrations were derived from Konrad Gessner’s Historia animalium (1551) and this part of the map became most
influential - the illustrations and their descriptions were copied into the imperial encyclopedia T’u-shu chi-ch’eng
of 1723 and the transliterated names included in Chinese and Manchu dictionaries.
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The Only Dutch Edition of Bleau’s “Nieue Atlas”
Volume on the Chinese Empire
WILLEM BLAEU and JOANNES BLAEU
BLAEU, Willem (1571-1638) and Joannes BLAEU (1596-1673). "Novus Atlas Sinensis". From "Nieue Atlas oft
Toonneel des Aerdrijcx" [Amsterdam: Joannes and Willem Blaeu, 1655].
$48,000
Engraved allegorical title-page with original hand-colour HEIGHTENED IN GOLD (creased, edges a bit frayed),
17 fine double-page engraved maps of Asia with original hand-colour in outline (2x1 with long tear crossing the
text repaired in the margin at an early date). Contemporary Dutch gilt panelled vellum over thin paste-board with
yap fore-edges, all edges gilt (lacking two pairs of ties, lightly soiled but ATTRACTIVE).
First and only Dutch edition of volume VI from Blaeu's six-volume "Nieue Atlas", depicting the Chinese empire
and its fifteen provinces, and Japan. This "Novus Atlas Sinensis" was compiled by the Italian Jesuit Martino Martini, and is the first atlas of China produced in the western world.
The Blaeu family firm was founded by Willem Janzoon Blaeu (1571-1638) in 1596. He was eventually joined by
his sons, Cornelius (1616-1648) and Joannes (1596-1673). The firm became the most productive cartographic
establishment in the Netherlands until it was destroyed by fire in 1672. The elder Blaeu initiated the great series of
atlases that culminated in the "Atlas Maior". Koeman 2:521A.
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First Edition of Dapper’s Famous Description
of China
OLFERT DAPPER
DAPPER, Olfert (1636-1689). Gedenkwaerdig Bedryf der Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Maetschappye, op de
Kuste en in het Keizerrijk van Taising of Sina. Amsterdam: J. Van Meurs, 1670.
$9,500
Folio, (12 ½ x 8 ½ inches). 8]-504-[6], [2]-163 (= 263)-[1] pp (some pages mispaginated). 1 folded engraved map
and 38 engraved plates and 57 text engravings (some browning). 19th Century half calf marbled boards (joints
rubbed). Provenance: Her Majesty's Stationary Office (HMSO) stamp on title page.
This fascinating work gives a general description of the Dutch East India Company's second and third trade missions to the Chinese court in 1662 and 1664 in addition to a historical and geographical description of the Chinese
Empire. This highly popular work was very influential in forging perceptions of China among Dapper's contemporaries. It is richly illustrated with numerous engravings covering religion, language, botany, costumes etc. Dapper
had first hand access to many of the Dutch East India employees who went on these historic trade missions and
numerous unpublished manuscripts when creating this magnificent work. HMSO was first established in England
in 1786. Beginning in 1822 all government departments were required to buy stationary through HMSO. Later the
HMSO became the official printer of all acts of parliament. Until 1996 it published virtually all government material. Landwehr, VOC 544; Cordier, BS 2348.
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First English Edition of Dapper’s Chinese
Travels
JOHN OGILBY and OLFERT DAPPER
OGILBY, John (1600-1676), translator. MONTANUS, Arnoldus (1625?-1683), attributed to on title-page [but,
DAPPER, Olfert (ca 1635 - 1690).]. Atlas Chinensis: Being a second part of a relation of remarkable passages in
two embassies from the East India Company of the United Provinces to the Vice-Roy Singlamong and General
Taising Lipovi, and to Konchi, Emperor of China and East Tartary. London: Tho. Johnson for the author, 1671.
$16,000
Folio. (16 3/8 x 10 3/8 inches). Letterpress title-page printed in red and black. Engraved additional title-page dated
1671, four FINE double-page and folding plates, 28 double-page plates all mounted on guards, 6 single leaf plates,
and 57 vignettes in the text (bound without the two maps, some plates with short, clean tears in the margins at
mounts, one or two early repairs to short marginal tears, offset image of an unrelated but contemporary title-page
made while the ink was still wet to page 617). Contemporary mottled calf, the spine in seven compartments, with
six raised bands, red morocco lettering-piece in one, the others finely decorated with small gold tools (expertly
rebacked preserving the original spine, corners strengthened).
Provenance: Frank Sherwin Streeter (1918-2006) (Collection of Important Navigation, Pacific Voyages, Cartography and Science), his sale 17th April 2007, lot 395.
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First edition in English, from works mistakenly attributed to Montanus on the title-page, but in fact a translation
of Olfert Dapper’s work published the year before in Dutch as “Gedenkwaerdig Bedryf der Nederlandsche OostIndische Maetschappye op de Kuste en in het Keizerrijk van Taising of Sina” Amsterdam: Jacob van Meurs, 1670.
Clearly bound without the general map of China and one other map sometimes recorded.
John Ogilby had led a full and interesting life even before began printing the famous series of travel books that
bear his name, of which “America” is the second (preceded by “Africa” in…). He was an investor in the Virginia
Company lottery, a reknowned dancer, even owning his own dancing school and dancing before the King, founder
and managing director of the first theatre in Dublin. Ogilby only turned to publishing after an accident left him
lame and he was no longer able to dance, and the rise to power of Oliver Cromwell made frivolities like dancing
unfashionable. Cordier Sinica 2349; Lowndes 1719; Lust 525; Wing D-242.
100 Fine Engravings of a 17th Century Trading Empire
PETRUS SCHENK
SCHENK, Petrus (1660-1718). Hecatompolis, sive Totius orbis Terrarum Oppida Nobiliora Centum; exquisite collecta atque eleganter depicta. [Amsterdam: Petrus Schenk], 1702.
$85,000
Oblong 4to., (9 4/8 x 12 inches). Mezzotint frontispiece portrait of Frederick Guillaume of Prussia, engraved titlepage and contents leaf, and 100 fine engraved numbered views of the 17th-century trading empire (EXCEPTIONALLY BRIGHT). 19th-century calf (rebacked to style, covers with some surface tears).
First edition. Including magnificent views of 65 western cities from Amsterdam to Uppsala; 12 eastern cities including Constantinople, the Burmese city of Bandel in Arakan, Batavia, Goa, Jerusalem and Peking; 13 views of
African cities including Alexandria, Memphis, Gigeri in Barbery, Morocco and Algiers; and 10 views of important
cities on the American coast, including Acapulco, New York as "Nieu Amsterdam" showing the Wall; Pernambouc
in Brazil, San Francisco de Campeche in modern Maya, Havana, Cartagena in Colombia, Nombre de Dios in
Panama, Panama, Puerto Rico, and San Salvador. Although born in Germany Schenk was apprenticed as an engraver under the tutelage of Gerard Valk in Amsterdam, who was to become his business partner, and with whom
he published plates, and several important maps and atlases including the "Atlas Contractus." in 1705: "Schenk
travelled extensively, particularly in his native Germany where he was to have a shop in Leipzig. On 2 November
1687 he married Valk's sister Agatha. His work in the field of cartography did not begin until about 1695, when in
September the States of Holland and West Friesland gave permission for the publication of maps copied from the
Sanson" (Burden). EXCEPTIONALLY RARE, only two complete copies have been offered publically in the last 30
years. Alden & Landis 702/172; Burden 722 (note); Koeman, Sche 3.
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A Fascinating Account of Jesuit Missions
and Trade in Ginseng
JESUIT MISSIONS
[JESUIT MISSIONS]. The Travels of Several Learned Missioners of the Society of Jesus, into Divers Parts of the
Archipelago, India, China, and America. London: R. Gosling, 1714.
$4,800
8vo., (7 4/8 x 4 5/8 inches). 2 FINE folding engraved plates, one Chinese characters and one of “Plant Gin-Seng”
(initial blank a bit loose, one or two pale marginal stains to text leaves). Contemporary speckled paneled calf (a bit
scuffed at the extremities, and worn with minor loss at the head and foot of the spine).
Provenance: early ink stamp on title-page of “Eastern District”; with the small library label of Wolfgang A. Herz,
on the front pastedown, his sale “Important Voyages and Travels”, 9th December 2009, lot 223.
“All this makes me apt to believe that if it be in any other part of the world, it must be chiefly in Canada, where the
Mountains and Woods, as those who have liv’d there report, do much resemble these here” (page 218)
First edition in English, translated and abridged from the French “Lettres edificantes et curieuses.” Paris, 17111713.
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Printing twenty-two letters in all, three of which are of American interest: “. of a Spanish Relation, concerning
the New Mission of the Moxos, in America”, “A letter from Father Marest to Father de Lamberville, procurator of
the Missions of Canada, concerning the French Settlement at Hudson’s Bay. Manners and Customs of the Native
Savages.”, “Extract of an Account of the Country of Accadia, in North America.”, and “A Letter from the said F. Jartoux to the E. Procurator General of the Missions of China and India, containing the virtues of the famous Plant
Ginseng.”: “We have often made use of the Leaves of Gin-Seng instead of Tea, as the Tartars do, and it agreed with
me so well, that I ever since prefer’d that Leaf before the best Tea. The Colour of it is no less agreeable, and when
taken Two or Three Times, it has a Taste and Flavour which is very pleasant” (page 217). After Father Petrus Jartoux’s (1668-1720) letter was received by Father Lafitau in 1714 he started to look for Gin-seng in French Canada.
He discovered it growing near the Montreal area. Realizing the potential profit with the trade with China from
Gin-seng, Jesuits sent missionaries to Canada to collect the plant and for many years the Jesuits shipped tons of
Canadian Gin-seng to China.
The Gin-seng trade was enormously profitable for French Canada: available at 25 cents a pound in Canada and
sold at 5 dollars a pound in China. By the mid-18th century the Gin-seng trade was also important to the international trade with America: “Not only merchants in New York, Boston and Philadelphia, but isolated farmers in
deep mountains had learned that they could be paid by something grown in the northern slope of the mountains.
About the same time when the Empress of China unloaded the Ginseng at China, George Washington (17321799) met some people who were doing Ginseng business in Virginia. He recorded it in his diary, “I met numbers
of Persons & Pack horses going in with Ginseng: & for salt & other articles at the Market Below” (Dave Wang,
“Ginseng: the Herb that Helped U.S. Commerce”). Alden & Landis 714/69; Howes T-334; Sabin 40707.
“The First Definitive European Work on
the Chinese Empire”
JEAN BAPTISTE DU HALDE
DU HALDE, Jean Baptiste, S. J. (1674-1743). Description géographique, historique, chronologique, politique, et
physique de l'Empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie Chinoise. The Hague: Henri Scheurleer, 1736.
$16,000
4 volumes, 4to (10 x 7 4/8 inches). Title-pages printed in red and black with engraved publisher’s devices, FINE
engraved folding map of Canton, 52 engraved plates (some folding), including a number of city plans, 5 engraved
vignette head-pieces, 6 diagrams in the text, many by J. C. Philips after A. Humblot, others by Humblot after J. van
de Spyk, one by Philippe van Gunst, most unsigned, woodcut head- and tailpieces and woodcut initials throughout. Modern calf backed marbled paper boards antique.
Provenance: with the small bookplate of “Knowlton” on the front paste-down of each volume.
"The first definitive European work on the Chinese empire" (Hill).
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First quarto edition, with a new preface and bibliography, first published in Paris the previous year in a folio edition. The illustrations are reduced versions of the plates of the first edition (some of which were woodcut) and fine
engravings of Chinese life including city plans, ceremonies, artisans at work, costumes, etc. The maps were published separately by Bourguignon d'Anville in 1737, also reprinting the contents of the1735 edition.
Du Halde became a Jesuit in 1708, and was commissioned by his superiors to bring together the published and
manuscript accounts of Jesuit travelers in China. He first began by editing much of the comprehensive “Lettres
édifiantes et curieuses écrites des missions étrangères” (1702-1776), one of the most important sources for Jesuit
missionary activities in the 18th century. His later “Le Description…” includes reports of 27 Jesuit missionaries, all
listed in the preface, and covers every aspect of Chinese life and culture. The first printed account of Vitus Bering's
first expedition to Alaska in 1725-1728, is included in volume four: "The original report traveled a circuitous route
to fall into Du Halde's hands. The Danish Vitus Bering (1681-1741) had entered the Russian navy as a young man
and risen through the ranks. His expedition was sponsored by the Russian Czar Peter the Great. When Bering
returned to St. Petersburg in 1730, five years after the death of Peter the Great, his account and an accompanying
map were sent as a gift to the King of Poland, who gave them to Du Halde with permission to do with them “as
he saw fit”. In this way the first account of Bering's important exploration was published in France rather than in
Russia, where the full narrative was not published until several years later" (Hill). Brunet II, 870; Cordier “Sinica”,
p. 48; Hill 498.
Du Halde’s Description of the Chinese Empire
in Contemporary Binding
JEAN BAPTISTE DU HALDE
DU HALDE, Jean Baptiste, S. J. (1674-1743). Description géographique, historique, chronologique, politique, et
physique de l'Empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie Chinoise. The Hague: Henri Scheurleer, 1736.
$19,500
4 volumes, 4to (9 6/8 x 7 6/8 inches). Title-pages printed in red and black with engraved publisher’s devices,
engraved folding map of Canton (early tape repairs), 52 engraved plates (some folding), including a number of
city plans, 5 engraved vignette head-pieces, 6 diagrams in the text, many by J. C. Philips after A. Humblot, others
by Humblot after J. van de Spyk, one by Philippe van Gunst, most unsigned, woodcut head- and tailpieces and
woodcut initials throughout (a few of the illustrations in volume 2 colored by a modern hand, pale marginal stains
towards the end of volume one, some stains to the early gutters of volume 2, small marginal tear to the folding plate
of the “Peking Observatory” in volume 3.) Contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt in compartments, red and black
morocco lettering-pieces (extremities scuffed).
Provenance: 19th-century ownership inscription of Julie Mestral-Tavel on the recto of the first blank in each volume, except volume two, which is lacking the first blank and has the slightly later ownership inscription of Julie
Mestral-Paynerne in a different hand on the title-page.
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"The first definitive European work on the Chinese empire" (Hill).
First quarto edition, with a new preface and bibliography, first published in Paris the previous year in a folio edition. The illustrations are reduced versions of the plates of the first edition (some of which were woodcut) and fine
engravings of Chinese life including city plans, ceremonies, artisans at work, costumes, etc. The maps were published separately by Bourguignon d'Anville in 1737, also reprinting the contents of the1735 edition.
Du Halde became a Jesuit in 1708, and was commissioned by his superiors to bring together the published and
manuscript accounts of Jesuit travelers in China. He first began by editing much of the comprehensive “Lettres
édifiantes et curieuses écrites des missions étrangères” (1702-1776), one of the most important sources for Jesuit
missionary activities in the 18th century. His later “Le Description…” includes reports of 27 Jesuit missionaries, all
listed in the preface, and covers every aspect of Chinese life and culture. The first printed account of Vitus Bering's
first expedition to Alaska in 1725-1728, is included in volume four: "The original report traveled a circuitous route
to fall into Du Halde's hands. The Danish Vitus Bering (1681-1741) had entered the Russian navy as a young man
and risen through the ranks. His expedition was sponsored by the Russian Czar Peter the Great. When Bering returned to St. Petersburg in 1730, five years after the death of Peter the Great, his account and an accompanying map
were sent as a gift to the King of Poland, who gave them to Du Halde with permission to do with them as he saw fit”.
In this way the first account of Bering's important exploration was published in France rather than in Russia, where
the full narrative was not published until several years later" (Hill). Brunet II, 870; Cordier “Sinica”, p. 48; Hill 498.
Chambers’ Study of Chinese Architecture and Design,
One of the Handsomest Architectural Folios of the Century
WILLIAM CHAMBERS
CHAMBERS, William, Sir (1723-1796). Designs of Chinese Buildings, Furniture, Dresses, Machines, and Utensils,
engraved by the best hands from the originals drawn in China by Mr Chambers, architect.to which is annexed a
description of their Temples, houses, gardens &c. London: for the author, 1757.
$9,000
Folio (21 2/8 x 14 4/8 inches). Letterpress title-page, dedication to the Prince of Wales, 2-page list of subscribers,
preface and 23 pages of text. 21 engraved plates of Chinese designs by Fougeron, Foudrinier and others. Modern
half brown morocco, marbled paper boards, gilt.
First edition, on heavy paper, the plates with strong impressions. William Chambers was a Scottish Architect, born
in Gothenburg in Sweden, where his father was a merchant. From 1744-49 he worked for the Swedish East India
Company travelling extensively in China. Fascinated by the architecture he saw he returned to Europe, studying
architecture with Blondel in Paris, and setting up his own architectural practice in London in 1755. His work with
Lord Bute and other members of the Royal Circle established him as a one of the foremost architects of his day.
“Designs of Chinese Buildings, Furniture, Dresses, Machines, and Utensils” was “the first time Chinese architecture was presented as a subject worthy of the kind of serious study formerly reserved for Western antiquity.
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One of the handsomest architectural folios of the century, among its 164 subscribers were many of the milordi he
had met in Italy. Nevertheless, its influence in Britain was less than Chambers might have hoped. The high fashion
for Chinoiserie architecture in England was in the 1740s, a mongrel style made up from diverse ornamental sources. It lacked the authority of first-hand study. Oddly, Chambers himself at Amesbury, Wiltshire; Kew Gardens,
Surrey; The Hoo, Hertfordshire; Blackheath, Kent; and perhaps Ingress Abbey, Kent, never used the authoritative
detail of the very Designs he had published, except for his unexecuted design for a bridge for Frederick II at Sanssouci, Germany (1763). He may well have sensed that the Chinese architecture he had studied at first hand was an
alien style in the Europe of rococo and early neo-classicism. Only after Chambers's death did the book come into
its own in England as a model for Chinese decoration (for example at the Brighton Pavilion, 1815). However, on
the continent circumstances were different, particularly in Germany and France, where the fashion did not reach a
peak until the 1780s. There the book's plates had a profound effect throughout the century, particularly on garden
architecture and interior decoration, for example at Drottningholm China House, Sweden (1760s), and Schloss
Worlitz, Germany (1770s–1780s)” (John Harris for DNB). Millard 12; Colas 592; Lipperheide le 12; Harris 113.
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First Edition, Fine Copy of a Fascinating Buc’hoz
Colorplate Book
PIERRE JOSEPH BUC’HOZ
BUC'HOZ, Pierre Joseph (1731-1807). Herbier ou collection des plantes medicinales de la Chine. Paris: for the
author, 1781.
$48,000
Folio (19 3/8 x 12 inches). Engraved title-page. 2-page "Explication des Planches" at end. 100 hand-colored engraved plates by Etienne Fessard (1714 -1777) after local Chinese artists. Contemporary boards, uncut (rebacked
to style in the 19th-century, light wear to edges).
First edition, and a FINE UNCUT COPY, of "one of the more interesting of the Buc'hoz colorplate books, and a
good many of the triangular groups of plants make a pleasing effect" (Hunt). According to the title-page the work is
after an original manuscript found in the library of the Emperor of China, and includes 300 plants many of which
are now familiar, but which were unknown to 18th-century Europeans.
Buchoz, a physician and naturalist, was a prolific publisher of more than 500 works, including several which featured the plants of China: "the early plates were actually painted in China. Herbier is among a small group of books
where "considerable use is made for the first time of drawings of Chinese plants executed by native artists..." (Blunt
page 179). Plates 11-71 are apparently reprints of the 60 botanical plates used in “Centurie de Planches enluminees.” Dunthorne 63; Hunt 660; Pritzel 1369.
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An Exquisite Watercolour Album of Asian Flowers,
from the Collection of Lord Hesketh
CHINESE SCHOOL
[CHINESE SCHOOL]. A FINE ALBUM OF BOTANICAL WATERCOLOURS. 18th-century.
$65,000
Folio (19 2/8 x 12 inches). 46 fine watercolour drawings on Chinese paper, each lightly mounted in a folio volume
of western paper (sheet size 15 x 11 inches) (second sheet torn, occasional light browning, a few other tears, especially at corners). Original marbled paper wrappers, and half red sheep, marbled paper boards portfolio, modern
red morocco-backed clamshell case.
Provenance: with the bookplate of Frederick, 2nd Lord Hesketh, his sale Magnificent Books, Manuscripts and
Drawings from the Collection of... his sale 7th December 2010, lot 27.
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A beautiful album of exquisite watercolours of exotic Asian flowers. The market for Chinese export watercolors
grew out of the trade in porcelain to the West. In Britain, botanical interest in the exotic botany of the world was
spurred on by Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820), the president of the Royal Society. However, the botanical treasures of
China must have been known in England well before 1750, since Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753) owned a fine album
of such drawings, now in the British Museum. There was a long tradition of botanical writing and illustration in
China, dating back to the Song dynasty (960-1279), and the desire of Western scholars to obtain accurate depictions of unfamiliar Asian flora and fauna was easily satisfied by Chinese natural history watercolorists. The tradition of botanical painting was so prevalent throughout China that western traders were not solely reliant upon the
workshops at Canton, the main trading city-port, and also obtained watercolors from other parts of the Chinese
community in southeast Asia.
These particularly fine examples date from the late eighteenth century and display an acute sense of scientific accuracy balanced by a strong aesthetic sensibility. It is probable that they were originally commissioned by a Western scholar or amateur gentleman-botanist curious as the appearance of the exotic fruits of Asia. As is typical of
Chinese export watercolors of this period, each work shows the fruit with its complete vegetation and also contains
a cross-section illustration depicting the interior flesh of the fruit. Each of these minutely detailed, exquisitely
colored, and fully animated renderings seem ready to burst out of its compositional boundaries. Indeed, from the
incredibly life-like rendering of a pineapple's prickly scales to the emotionally charged depictions of seeds liberating themselves from their shells, it is clear that the watercolorist possessed an incredibly heightened scientific and
decorative sense.
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The Costume of China at the end of the
Eighteenth Century
GEORGE HENRY MASON
MASON, George Henry. The Costume of China. London: W. Miller, 1800.
$4,750
Folio (14 x 10 3/8 inches). Text in English and French. 60 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates by Dadley after PuQua (plates offset onto text, occasional light spotting and staining). Contemporary red straight-grained morocco
decorated in gilt and blind, gilt edges (rebacked preserving the original spine, extremities rubbed, a few scuff
marks, some ink staining, silk endpapers waterstained and worn).
First edition, later issue with T. M’Lean’s announcement of his purchase of Miller’s catalogue of costume titles
dated 1818, plates watermarked 1817.
Mason (of His Majesty’s 102nd Regiment) was sent to Southern China on sick leave from his station in Madras in
about 1790. While there he commissioned, or acquired, a series of Chinese Export watercolours by a local Cantonese artist Pu-Qua. The resulting aquatints depict Chinese people at their occupations and applying their crafts,
and are accompanied by a brief explanatory text by Mason “...for the better information of his friends in Europe”
(Introduction). Abbey Travel 533.
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An Unusual Cartographic Depiction of a Famous
Event in Anglo-Chinese Relations
Captain WILLIAM THORNTON BATE
BATE, Captain William Thornton. A Manuscript Plan Showing the Burning of the Factories of Canton. Canton:
1806.
$75,000
Single sheet (202 x 130 mm). Ink and wash manuscript map of thin paper, captioned and initialed by the author
(old folds and creases, slightly soiled at foot).
Provenance: Sir Lindsay Ride, Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong, 1949-1955; thence by descent.
Canton had long been the only point of contact between British traders and China. As such, many "factories" or
warehouses run by Britain and other European states had been established there. However, during the hostilities
surrounding the outbreak of the Second Opium War in late 1856, a mob of Chinese attacked the factories and
burnt them. The British were forced to withdraw from the site, which was not recaptured until twelve months later.
The author of the map was Captain of the Acteon, and, after the withdrawal from Canton, was placed in charge of
the Macao fort. He was killed during the retaking of Canton. His plan shows the extent of the damage sustained to
the factories; one building, clearly marked, carries the legend "only house untouched by fire". His map also shows
the church, outside the main complex of factories, where Bate and the other survivors entrenched themselves for
several days after the attack. James Orange, The Chater Collection (London 1924) p. 262, reproducing a similar
plan by Bate; Rev. John Baillie, A Memoir of Captain W. Thornton Bate (London, 1859) which gives an account of
Bate's role in the event.
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An Account of Lord Macartney’s Unsuccessful Embassy
to China, with 19 Hand-Coloured Aquatint Scenes
JOHN BARROW
BARROW, John (1764-1848). A Voyage to Cochinchina, in the years 1792 and 1793. to which is annexed an account of a journey, made in the years 1801 and 1802, to the residence of the chief of the Booshuana Nation, being
the remotest point in the interior of Southern Africa ... London: (Strahan and Preston) for T. Cadell and T. Davies,
1806.
$7,500
4to., (10 4/8 x 8 2/8 inches). 19 color-printed aquatint plates with additional hand-coloring, including one folding,
by T. Medland after Samuel Daniell and W. Alexander, and two folding engraved maps, the first a hand-colored
plan of the harbor and town of Rio de Janeiro, the second a "Chart of the Southern Extremity of Africa" (short
tear to second map, maps and folding plate strengthened on fold versos, marginal repairs to 2 leaves of prelims,
occasional soiling, a few very light spots.) Contemporary calf-backed boards, vellum corners (rebacked preserving
original spine, extremities rubbed, endpapers renewed).
Provenance: Note with a presentation inscription from the author laid down on the front paste-down "From the
Author"; a few faint contemporary marginal annotations; Quentin Keynes (1921-2003) Collection of Important
Travel Books and Manuscripts.
First edition of the first illustrated English work on southern Vietnam, and is an account of Barrow's voyage to
China with Lord Macartney's unsuccessful embassy to China. "The voyage visited Madeira, the Canary Islands,
and Rio de Janeiro; a description of that city and of Brazil in general is given. Touching at Tristan da Cunha, the
ship rounded the Cape and eventually reached Cochin China via the city of Batavia on Java. The volume is also of
Cook interest as it describes finding Captain Cook's "Resolution" transformed into a smuggling whaler under the
French flag" (Hill). The work is dedicated to Sir George Staunton, who was also on the voyage, and who wrote his
own account in 1797. The supplementary article "An account of a journey to Leetakoo, the residence of the chief
of the Booshuana nation" "covers an overland expedition from Cape Town to the interior of South Africa into the
then little-known territory of Bechuanaland, translated from a manuscript journal by Pieter Jan Truter, one of the
commissioners of the expedition" (Hill). Barrow continued in Lord Macartney's service after he was appointed
governor in 1796 of the colony of the Cape of Good Hope. He married a South African Boer, purchased a house in
Cape Town, and intended to settle there permanently, but was forced by the surrender of the colony at the peace
of Amiens to return to England in 1804. Abbey "Travel" 514; Borba de Moraes I, p. 88; Brunet, I, p. 672; Cordier,
"Indosinica", 2424; Cordier, "Sinica" 2390; Hill 66.
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A Voyage from Canton to California
WILLIAM SHALER
[SHALER, William (1778-1833)]. "Journal of a Voyage between China and the North-Western Coast of America
Made in 1804." In: The American Register: or General Repository of History, Politics, and Science. Part I for 1808,
Vo. III., pages 137-175. Philadelphia, etc.: C. & A. Conrad, et al., 1808.
$4,500
8vo., (9 x 6 inches). (Spotted and browned, title-page torn with minor loss to one corner not affecting the text).
Contemporary red roan backed marbled paper boards, uncut (extremities a bit worn). Provenance: Perforated
library stamp of John Crerar Library on title-page.
"THE FIRST EXTENSIVE ACCOUNT OF CALIFORNIA PUBLISHED IN THE U.S. BY AN AMERICAN VISITOR" (Hart)
First edition. Shaler sailed from Canton to the mouth of the Columbia River between February and May of 1804,
from there he cruised down the coast to Guatemala, and so was the first U.S. citizen to give account of California.
He was favorably impressed: "The conquest of this country would be absolutely nothing; it would fall without an
effort to the most inconsiderable force; and as the greatest efforts that the Spanish government would be capable of
making towards its recovery would be from shores of New Spain, opposite the peninsula" (page 161).
Shaler was involved in the China trade in the 1790s, traded furs on the Northwest Coast, lived in Hawaii from
1803-1804, served as a special agent of the U.S. in Havana, on President Madison's orders he fomented revolution in Texas, and then acted as a peace-maker in the war of 1812. Forbes, Hawaiian National Bibliography 396.
Companion to California, p. 400; see also Hart's American Images of Spanish California, pp. 2 & 38-39). Hill 1555
(citing reprint). Howes S324.
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An Early American Account of Trade with China
AMASA DELANO
DELANO, Amasa (1763-1823). A Narrative of Voyages and Travels in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres:
Comprising Three Voyages Round the World; Together With a Voyage of Survey and Discovery in the Pacific and
Oriental Islands. Boston: printed by E.G. House for the Author, 1817.
$2,800
8vo., (8 3/8 x 5 inches). Errata leaf at end. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Delano, and portrait of Abba Thule,
King of the Pelew Islands, one folding map of Pitcairn Island (browned, occasionally heavy spotting throughout).
Contemporary mottled sheep, the smooth spine gilt-ruled in five compartments, red morocco lettering-piece in
one (worn with minor loss at the head of the spine, extremities rubbed). Provenance: Pencilled ownership inscriptions of Joseph J. Norris on the recto of the front free endpaper and at head of title-page, dated Canton February 1819 on the recto of the portrait frontispiece; with the small library label of Wolfgang A. Herz, on the front
pastedown, his sale "Important Voyages and Travels", 9th December 2009, 318. "Lengthy. readable and frequently
exciting" (DND) First edition. Delano, an American mariner and author from Duxbury, Massachusetts, made
several voyages to various parts of the Pacific including Hawaii, Palau, the Galapagos Islands, Manila, Canton and
Macao, New Guinea, Australia, the East Indies, Chile and Peru. His "opportunity for fame and fortune came in
1790. A new ship, the "Massachusetts", weighing 900 tons and 116 feet long, had been built at Quincy to engage in
the recently opened and much-talked-about China trade. Delano booked on as second officer and began keeping
the journal that would form the basis of his [this book]. He published this lengthy--about 600 pages--yet readable
and frequently exciting story in Boston, and it was reprinted several times in the nineteenth century" (DNB). "A
Narrative." reveals Delano's open-minded curiosity and respect for the diverse cultures he encountered. It includes
a unique account of the "Bounty" and Captain Bligh, accompanied by the map and views of Pitcairn's Island. The
source for Herman Melville's short story, "Benito Cereno" is taken from one of Delano's adventures in which a
Spanish ship is overrun by the slaves it was transporting. Ferguson 673; Forbes 463; Hill 463; Howes D-233; Sabin
19349.
Hall’s Explorations and Observations in China
and the Yellow Sea
BASIL HALL
HALL, Basil (1788-1844). Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Correa, and the Great Loo-Choo
Island. London: John Murray, 1818.
$3,500
4to (10 4/8 x 8 1/8 inches). Fine hand-colored aquatint frontispiece and 8 aquatint plates by William Havell, all but
one hand-colored, 5 engraved maps, including 2 folding (lacking half-title, some spotting). Contemporary half tan
calf gilt (extremities scuffed with some surface wear, front cover detached).
Provenance: Armorial bookplate of Viscount Sydney on front paste-down.
First edition. Hall's account of his voyage on the "Lyra" to China in company with the frigate "Alceste" as part of
Lord Amherst's embassy. Hall explored the East China and Yellow Seas and journeyed to Canton and included observations of the people and culture of China, a vocabulary of the Loochoo language and an appendix containing
charts and nautical notices. On his return journey, Hall stopped at St. Helena where Napoleon was in exile: he had
known his father, Sir James Hall, when the two were at school. An account of this meeting appears in subsequent
editions. Abbey "Travel" 558; Cordier "Sinica" 3009.
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Baron de Bougainville’s Voyage Around the World,
Undertaken to Re-establish Diplomatic Ties in Indochina
HYACINTHE-YVES-PHILIPPE-POTENTIEN, BARON de BOUGANVILLE
BOUGAINVILLE, Hyacinthe-Yves-Philippe-Potentien, Baron de (1781-1846). Journal de la Navigation Autour
du Globe de la frégate La Thétis et de la corvette L'Espérance pendant les années 1824, 1825 et 1826. Paris: Arthus
Bertrand, 1837.
$95,000
3 volumes: 2 text volumes, 4to (11 4/8 x 9 inches); Atlas, folio (21 x 13 6/8 inches). Wood-engraved title vignettes
and tail-pieces. Atlas: 56 plates, maps and plans, comprising 34 lithographed views and portraits after V. Adam,
Sabatier and others from sketches by E.B. de la Touanne, printed by Bernard & Frey, 12 hand-colored engraved
natural history plates after P. Bessa and J.-G. Pretre by Coutant, H. Legrand, Oudet, Dumenil and Massard, doublepage hand-colored aquatint of various native vessels, folding engraved map, 2 double-page coastal profi les and 6
double-page engraved maps and charts, by A. Tardieu after E.B. de la Touanne (one or two pale marginal stains).
Atlas volume in contemporary black morocco gilt, text volumes in matching half black morocco gilt.
Provenance: Ink stamps of the Institution Ste Marie on title-pages of text volumes.
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First edition. Hyacinthe-Yves-Philippe-Potentien, baron de Bougainville was the son of the famous explorer Louis
Antoine de Bougainville (1729-1811). This is the official record of his voyage around the world, the main purpose
of which was to re-establish diplomatic ties with Cochin China (Indochina). However, Bougainville also visited
Pondicherry, Manila, Macao, Surabaya, Sydney, Port Jackson, Valparaiso and Rio de Janeiro. The voyage also took
him to the eastern coast of Australia, most imporatantly the area around Sydney. A tremendous amount of ornithological material was gathered here, resulting in "superb illustrations" (Wood) of the male and female Ganggang, or red-crested parrot. From Sydney both the "Thetis" and "Esperance" sailed to Valpariso where La Touanne
commenced his overland journey to rejoin the expedition at Rio. An account of this journey and R.-P. Lesson's
account of the natural history form the majority of the second text volume. Borba de Moraes I:115; Ferguson 2236;
"Fine Bird Books" p.79; Hill 162; Nissen ZBI 483; Sabin 6875; Whittell p.68; Wood p.251; Zimmer 83.
A Pictorial Account of the Chinese,
by one of Lord Macartney’s Draughtsmen
WILLIAM ALEXANDER
[ALEXANDER, William (1767-1816)]. Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manner of the Turks;... the
Chinese; "... the English"; "... the Russians"; and "... the Austrians". London: James Goodwin, [plates watermarked
1825-1829].
$3,400
5 volumes. 4to., (9 6/8 x 7 inches). "... the Turks": 60 fine hand-coloured aquatints after Octavian Dalvimar; "...
the Chinese": 50 after Octavian Dalvimar; "... the English": 50 after Alexander; "... the Austrians": 50 after Alexander; "... the Russians": 50 after Alexander. Uniformly bound in original half red morocco, marbled paper boards,
printed paper label on the front cover, gilt, uncut (extremities a bit worn).
A BRIGHT AND ATTRACTIVE SET. First published under these titles by John Murray in 1814. The 260 magnificent plates include detailed and beautiful images of the Turkish, Chinese, English, Austrian, and Russian peoples,
their "various modes of dress and peculiarity of customs" (Introduction to "... the Turks"). Alexander was a prolific
artist, best remembered for his depictions of China "in a period in which the Chinese style greatly influenced the
decorative arts in Britain. His meticulous, highly finished technique using pen, ink, and tinted wash is distinctive,
his watercolours delicate, his engravings and soft ground etchings were much admired" (Richard Garnett, rev.
Heather M. MacLennan for DNB). Alexander first travelled to China as junior draughtsman in Lord Macartney's
embassy in 1792-1794. His drawings from the expedition were engraved for the official record, Staunton's, "An
Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China", (1797). His own publications included "Views of the headlands, islands, etc., taken during a voyage to, and along the eastern coast of
China, in the years 1792 & 1793" (1798), and his designs were used for the aquatints in John Barrow's "A Voyage
to Cochin China, in the Years 1792, and 1793" (1806).
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“So Vivid and Vigorous They Make Most Other
Plant Drawings Look Insipid by Comparison”
NATHANIEL WALLICH
WALLICH, Nathaniel (1786-1854). Plantae Asiaticae rariores; Or descriptions and figures of a select number of
unpublished East Indian Plants. London: Treuttel and Wurtz, [1829]-1830-1832.
$145,000
3 volumes, folio (21 x 14 4/8 inches). List of subscribers, half-titles to volume 1 and 3 only (as usual). 295 handcolored lithographed plates by Gauci from drawings by Vishnupersaud, Gorachaud and others (plates 222/223
constitute one folding plate), one double-page engraved map (occasional very slight spotting, a few plates slightly
cropped). Contemporary half calf, marbled boards (extremities scuffed).
Provenance: From the Library of Magnificent Plate Books of the Earls of Bradford, at Weston Park, Shropshire,
with their 19th-century armorial bookplate on the front paste-down of each volume.
"So vivid and vigorous that they make most other plant drawings look insipid by comparison" (Coats)
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First edition, one of only 294 copies published. Wallich, superintendent of the East India Company's botanic garden
at Calcutta from 1817, was the first European to study the plants of Nepal and the countries on the south side of the
Himalayas, and travelled extensively in Penang, Singapore, and Burma. As a result his "Plantae Asiaticae rariores"
was the first to bring images of the exotic flora of the Indian subcontinent to the attention of curious Europeans,
particularly the British, for whom India was an increasingly important part of their Empire. At the Calcutta garden
Wallich trained native artists to make botanical drawings, and one of them, Vishnu Prasad or Vishnupersaud, accompanied him on several journeys. Nearly all of the illustrations in the "Plantae Asiaticae rariores" are the work
of these Indian draughtsmen, and are so vivid and vigorous that they make most other plant drawings look insipid
by comparison" (Coats, "The Book of Flowers", 109). From the distinguished library of the Earls of Bradford and
almost certainly acquired for the library at Weston Park by Orlando, 3rd Earl of Bradford (1819-1989), Master of
the Queen's Horse, notable race-horse breeder and trainer and correspondent of John Gould. Dunthorne 326; Nissen BBI 2156; Sitwell "Great Flower Books", p.151; Pritzel 10276; Stafleu TL2 176.52; Plesch, pp.459-460.
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An Exceptionally Fine Set of Gould’s First Work,
with 100 Himalayan Birds
JOHN GOULD
GOULD, John (1804-1881) - [Nicholas Aylward VIGORS (1787-1840)]. A Century of Birds from The Himalaya
Mountains. London: [for the author], 1831-[1833].
$55,000
Folio. 80 fine hand-colored lithographic plates, by and after Elizabeth Gould, after sketches by John Gould. Contemporary green morocco gilt, all edges gilt. Provenance: from the library of the Wadsworth Athenaeum, the gift
of J. Pierpont Morgan in memory of his father, with an engraved bookplate commemorating the bequest on the
front paste-down of each volume. First edition, first issue, with the backgrounds of the plates uncolored. Gould's
first major work produced after his acquisition of a collection of bird-skins from the Himalaya Mountains: "the
work scored such a great success that Gould continued for the rest of his life to publish large uniform monographs
and faunas all on the same lines" (Anker, 168). Gould acknowledges the help of Vigors in confirming the nomenclature of the birds and their descriptions. Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, one of the most highly discriminating collectors in American history, from Henry Sotheran & Co. on June 15, 1899 (who bought the entire stock of
Gould's works and copyrights, and who with the help of Sharpe completed Gould's unfinished works), and subsequently donated it to the Wadsworth Athenaeum in the name of his father. AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE SET.
"Fine Bird Books (1990) p. 101; Nissen 374; Sauer 1; Wood p. 364.
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Gould’s Birds of Asia,
The Exceptionally Fine J. Pierpont Morgan Set
JOHN GOULD
GOULD, John (1804-1881) - Richard Bowdler SHARPE (1847-1909). The Birds of Asia. London: Taylor and Francis for the author. 1850-1883.
$480,000
7 volumes. Folio (22 4/8 x 14 4/8 inches). 530 hand-colored lithographs after John Gould, H.C. Richter, Josef Wolf
and W. Hart. Contemporary green morocco gilt, all edges gilt.
Provenance: from the library of the Wadsworth Athenaeum, the gift of J. Pierpont Morgan in memory of his father,
with an engraved bookplate commemorating the bequest on the front paste-down of each volume.
"Species from Palestine to the westward, and from the Moluccas to the east" (Sharpe "Introduction")
First edition, and AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE SET, originally issued in 35 parts, the last three being issued after
Gould's death by Sharpe, and published over more than thirty years. "The Birds of Asia", dedicated to the Honourable East India Company, followed easily from Gould's first monograph on the birds of the Himalayas. That it took
more than thirty years to publish, at the rate of one part per year, is testament to Gould's dedication to bringing to
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the attention of the public extraordinary and exotic birds from the furthest reaches of the globe. It was the most
comprehensive study of Asiatic birds of its time, illustrating birds from an enormous area, which included Siberia,
Turkestan, Central Asia, Southwest Asia, the Caucasus, Persia, Afghanistan, China, India, and the Malayan Peninsular, and includes birds as disparate as parrots, pheasants, kingfishers, and woodpeckers.
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, one of the most highly discriminating collectors in American history, from
Henry Sotheran & Co. on June 15, 1899 (who bought the entire stock of Gould's works and copyrights, and who
with the help of Sharpe completed Gould's unfinished works), and subsequently donated it to the Wadsworth
Athenaeum in the name of his father. Anker 178; "Fine Bird Books" (1990) p. 102; Nissen 368; Sauer 17; Wood p.
365; Zimmer pp 258-9.
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First Edition of Hooker’s Opus Major with Some
of the Finest Plates of Himalayan Plants
JOSEPH DALTON HOOKER
HOOKER, Joseph Dalton. (1785-1865). Illustrations of Himalayan Plants, chiefly selected from drawings made for
the late J.F. Cathcart Esq. of the Bengal Civil Service. London: 1855.
$38,000
Folio (510 x 375 mm). Lithographed title with hand-colored botanical border, 24 hand-colored lithographed plates
by and after W.H.Fitch from original drawings by native artists and the author. Modern red half calf and buckram.
FIRST EDITION OF HOOKER'S OPUS MAJOR WITH SOME OF THE FINEST PLATES OF HIMALAYAN
PLANTS. James Cathcart (1802-1851) produced a series of nearly one thousand drawings of plants from the Himalayas, from which Hooker made this selection based both on aesthetic and scientific interest. "Contains probably the finest plates of Magnolia Campbellii and Meconopsis simplicifolia ever made as well as other important
Himalayan plants." - Patrick M.Synge, Great Flower Books 1700-1900; (Nissen 910; Great Flower Books p.101).
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A Monograph on Chinese Birds, with a
Portfolio of 88 Fine Original Pencil Drawings
JEAN FREDERICK EMILE OUSTALET and ARMAND DAVID
ARNOUL, M. - OUSTALET, Jean Frederick Emile (1844-1905), and Armand DAVID. Les Oiseaux de la Chine ...
Paris: G. Mason, 1877.
$35,000
PORTFOLIO OF ORIGINAL PENCIL DRAWINGS
3 volumes: 2 published volumes, 8vo (10 2/8 x 6 1/8 inches) 124 hand-colored lithograph plates of birds. Original
brown bevelled pictorial cloth, gilt. Portfolio of 88 FINE ORIGINAL PENCIL DRAWINGS of birds, each on a
separate leaf (7 4/8 x 5 inches), and annotated with their Latin names, by M. Arnoul, loose in modern red cloth
chemise and slipcase. Provenance: Bookplate of the Markree library on the front paste-down of volume one dated
1913; bookplates of H. Bradley Martin on the front paste-down of each volume. “Probably the most important
systematic monograph yet written on the birds of China”. (Wood). First edition, with a portfolio of fine detailed
original drawings of birds in “natural” settings for plates 1,2,4,6,17,10-20, 22-34, 36-39, 41-45, 47, 50, 52, 54-61,
64-78, 81-89, 91-94, 96, 97, 99, 111, 112, 116-119, 121, 122.
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The published monograph covered 807 different species of bird found in China, all that were then known of in
1877. Sadly nothing is known of the artist, who not only drew these exquisite images but was also responsible for
the published lithographs. Ronsil suggests the plates do not present the birds if a natural position, the drawings
convey a remarkable life-like quality. “Arnoul dessina et lithographia en 124 planches beaucoup d’especes figurees
pour la premiere fois. Tous ces Oiseaux sont fort bien peints, mais leur attituden n’est pas tourjours tres naturelle”
(Ronsil). From the distinguished library of H. Bradley Martin. Ayer/Zimmer 159; Copenhagen/ANker 113; “Fine
bird Books” 69; McGill/Wood 113; Nissen, IVB 221; Ronsil 731; Ronsil, L’Art 77. Purchased at Sotheby’s 12th December 1989, lot 1501. Catalogued by Kate Hunter.
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