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STAUNTON’S “REMARKABLE ACCOUNT OF CHINESE MANNERS AND
CUSTOMS AT THE CLOSE OF THE 18TH CENTURY” (HILL)
STAUNTON, George Leonard. Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain. London, 1797. Three volumes altogether. First edition of this splendidly detailed description of 18th-century China, with engraved frontispiece portraits of the Emperor Tchien Lung and Lord Macartney and 27 additional in-text engravings, together with the Atlas plate volume containing 44 finely engraved folio plates, including several large folding maps and charts—among the earliest accurate charts of the interior of China—and lovely picturesque views and cityscapes by William Alexander. $28,500.
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A JOURNEY OF ONE THOUSAND MILES ACROSS THE HIMALAYAS AND TIBET TO EASTERN TURKESTAN, RARE LANTERN SLIDE COLLECTION, CIRCA 1869-1911, WITH 175 ORIGINAL GLASS SLIDES AND ORIGINAL MAGIC LANTERN
(INDIA, TIBET, PAKISTAN & THE HIMALAYAS). Lantern slide collection. Journey through the Himalayas and Tibet. Calcutta, Bombay, London, 1891. Exceedingly rare collection of 175 original lantern glass slides with original magic lantern, circa 1869-1911, in three original cases, together with original candle-operated magic lantern complete with wooden slide holder and original metal case, an exceptional series of original slides, some in sepia, from photographs taken by a English missionaries living Northern India and traveling extensively through the region, including Pakistan, the Himalayas and Tibet—featuring views of ancient mosques, Buddhist monasteries, Sikh temples, and remote vistas rarely glimpsed by Europeans, with Thacker’s Reduced Survey Map (1911) containing a large folding linen-backed map of India. Together housed in a large contemporary wooden crate. $28,000.
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“COWS ARE THE MOST HIGHLY ESTEEM’D; FOR THEY TIP THEIR HORNS
WITH GOLD, AND BESET THEM WITH PRECIOUS STONES”
OGILBY, John. Asia. London, 1673. First edition, splendidly illustrated with engraved frontispiece, five double-page maps, 28 plates (12 double-page) and 28 engraved in-text illustrations. Complete in itself. $22,000.
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BARROW’S VOYAGE TO COCHINCHINA, 1806, WITH HAND-COLORED PLATES
BARROW, John. A Voyage to Cochinchina, in the Years 1792 and 1793. London, 1806. First edition of Barrow’s account of the Macartney Mission to present-day Vietnam, with 18 hand-colored plates, folding map hand-colored in outline, and two hand-colored folding charts. A lovely copy. $9500.
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“EXTRAORDINARY KNOWLEDGE OF THE OVERLAND EASTERN TRADE”
TAVERNIER, [Jean-Baptiste]. Collections of Travels. London, 1684. Two volumes bound in one. Early collected edition in English of these engaging early accounts of trade with the East, translated by John Phillips, and illustrated with 37 copper-engravings—many folding—of views, inhabitants, animals, money and precious stones. Handsomely bound. $8800.
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“STILL REGARDED AS A BRILLIANT EXAMPLE OF LITHOGRAPHIC WORK”
SIMPSON, William. The Seat of War in the East. London, 1855, 1856. First edition of this remarkable series of images from the Crimean War, by the “pioneer war-artist” William Simpson, the complete First and Second Series with two lithographed vignette title pages and 79 large folio tinted lithographs—tinted in two colors—in attractive contemporary morocco. $8500.
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FINE COLLECTION OF SILK WOVEN FABRIC SAMPLES FROM JAPAN
(COSTUME). Japanese Fabric Samples. No place, circa 1890. Two volumes. A wonderful collection, with 61 accordion-style leaves containing a total of 332 colorful woven silk kimono swatches from Japan, most with gilt thread. $8200.
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19TH-CENTURY JAPANESE EROTIC BOOK WITH TWELVE COLOR WOODBLOCK PRINTS BY TOMIOKA EISEN
EISEN, Tomioka. Yakumo no Chigiri. Tokyo, circa 1890. Early printing of this 19th-century Japanese color woodblock print “pillow book,” graphically depicting erotic material, complete with 12 exceptional double-page full-color woodblock prints (each 13 by 9-1/2 inches) by celebrated Meiji era artist Tomioka Eisen. $7800.
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BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED MID-19TH CENTURY JAPANESE BOOKS,
WITH WONDERFUL ILLUSTRATIONS BY HOKUSAI
TAKAI, Ranzan. Toshisen Ehon. Edo, Japan, circa 1833. 35 volumes. Early editions of this beautifully illustrated set of Chinese T’ang poetry with 10 volumes illustrated by Hokusai. $7800.
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FIRST EDITION OF ELPHINSTONE’S CAUBUL, WITH VIVID HAND-COLORED PLATES OF AFGHANI COSTUME AND TWO ENGRAVED MAPS OF AFGHANISTAN HAND-OUTLINED IN COLOR
ELPHINSTONE, Mountstuart. Account of the Kingdom of Caubul. London, 1815. First edition of this illustrated account of Afghanistan, with 14 aquatint plates, all but one brightly hand-colored (as issued), and with two engraved maps (one large and folding) hand-outlined in color, in contemporary calf. $7800.
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