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103, (1) SS. Mit gest. Frontispiz (Mansfeld sc.) und einem mehrf. gefalt. gest. Plan. Zeitgenöss. Broschur. 8vo. Früher kulturhistorischer Reiseführer für Paris mit einer gestochenen Ansicht der Tuilerien und einem Grundrißplan mit ausführlicher Legende. - Unaufgeschnittenes Exemplar in tadelloser Erhaltung.
12,5 x 35 cm. Some occasional light worming, some slight damage affecting the text of 3 boards. Contained in a Chinese leather travelling trunk. Using imperial measures - metric was not used until after the Revolution of 1911 - these receipts are headed with either the title Chung the Celestial at Chuan-Tuan, or Military General the Protector of the People at Chu-Ling-Shan. There are 'labels' for men, women and children, giving the ingredients and name of the remedy pills, potions or powders to "restore youth" and similar purposes. Chinese medicine is of great antiquity and devoid of any outside influence. Legend has it that the Yellow Emperor, Huang Ti, wrote the first treatise on Chinese medicine in 300 BC. In its present form, the Nei Ching, on which most Chinese medical literature is founded, it is thought to date from the third century AD. The Nei Ching holds that "the blood current flows continously in a circle and never stops", anticipating Harvey by centuries. The Chinese materia medica has always been extensive and consists of vegetable, animal, including human, and mineral remedies. There were famous herbals from ancient times, but these ca. 1000 were collected by Li Shih-Chen in the Pen-ts'ao Kang-mu or Great Pharmacopoeia of the 16th Century. It was revised and reprinted many times in 52 volumes and is still authorative. The use of drugs is to restore the harmony of the Ying and Yang, related to the five organs, five planets, and five colours. Western influences did not occur until the 19th century, but today, with the revival of Taoist temples for healing which began to be tolerated again in the 1970s, and the profusion Chinese chemists, acupuncturists and hydrotherapists in the west, the Chinese can be said to have redressed the balance. The troubled history of the 20th century in China has made the survival of such ephemeral documents, and in such quantity, quite remarkable.
Paris, Fernand Nathan, 1982; in-folio, 176 pp., reliure d'éditeur sous jaquette et emboîtage. Bon état.
Paris, Chêne, 1982; in-4 oblong, environ 250 pp., cartonnage d'éditeur avec emboîtage imprimé. Photographies d'Henri Bancaud. Bon état.
Boulogne, Éditions Delroisse, s.d. (vers 1980); in-4, 160 pp., reliure d’éditeur, sous jaquette. Edition franco-anglo-japonaise. Photos de Bernard Sonneville. État neuf.
Chicago, the Werner Coy, s.d. (vers 1900); in-folio oblong, environ 300 pp., relié demi-veau brun à coins, dos orné à nerfs. Ouvrage de photographies des monuments les plus connus de la planète. Bon état.
in-12, xxxii-287 pp, 3 gravures et 2 cartes dépliantes hors texte, broché. Etat proche du NEUF. [OM-1]
192 x 390 mm. Folding manuscript chart in ink and blue, red, brown, and greenish colours on vellum, embellishments and some islands heightened in gold. Framed (61:41 cm). A finely drawn, small-scale portolan chart measuring only 39 centimetres across, showing the Mediterranean Sea with the northern coast of Africa, but also the coast of Portugal. The deeply cleft coastlines are typical of portolan charts; windrose lines emanate from 12 compass roses; there are two distance bar scales in the upper right and lower left corners. Uncommonly, no toponymic information has been added to the littoral. Decoration is sparse, though a trimount with crosses at the lower right indicates the location of the Holy Land. For a similar example cf. a chart attributed to Giovanni Battista Cavallini or his workshop in the Library of Congress, dating from ca. 1678 (LC Nautical charts on vellum, 20). - Traces of three vertical folds with repairs to occasional damage near top and lower edges; a larger vellum flaw on the right edge, measuring ca. 3 x 3 cm, has likewise been re-backed with paper (without loss to image). A decorative example.
First English edition, 8vo (168 x 104 mm), [iv], 187, 128pp., 2 folding maps and 5 engraved plates, title page a little browned with small hole affecting two words, without front free-endpaper, cont. calf, rebacked with chipped title label. First English translation of Pouchot de Chantassin's Relation du voyage et retour des Indes orientales pendant les ann?es 1690 et 1691, par un garde de la marine, servant sur le bord de Monsieur Duquesne?, Paris, 1692. The second part of the book consists of translation of Le Maire's Voyage to the Canary Islands, and an anonymous work covering the islands and towns of the rivers of Bresalina, Gambia, Zamenee, St. Domingo, Geve, &c. "This is an account of a voyage to the East Indies (1690-1691) under command of the French naval officer Abraham Duquesne-Guiton. In 1690 a fleet of six ships was despatched under Duquesne-Guiton to rescue the Siam mission and to pick up company goods stored in India. The Siam enterprise had met with disaster due to the political upheavals in Siam during 1688. During this voyage the fleet visited Cape Verde, Madagascar, Pondicherry and Ceylon. After sailing along the coasts of southern India and attacking a few places, the ships returned to France in 1691 via America (the islands Ascension and Martinique) with a valuable cargo. The author describes in detail the people, the difficulties encountered during the voyage, the battles with the English and the Dutch, and gives observations on the fauna, etc."?Magedera. Wing D2669.; Magedera, French Books on India.
4 volumes in-12, XX-436; vi-364; XII-386; X-411-[9]p. Ensemble complet en 4 volumes. Contient: Voyage du Docteur Pocoke en Egypte; Voyage du Docteur Shaw en Barbarie (Algérie); Voyage de M. Robert Wood à Palmyre et à Balbec; Voyage de F.-L. Norden dans toute l'Egypte & en Nubie (avec carte gravée); Voyage d'Alep à Jérusalem par M. Maundrel; Voyage de M. Hanway en Russie, Perse & autres parties d'Europe; Voyage d'Alex. Drummond à Chypre et en Syrie; Description d'Alep & des pays voisins par le Dr Russel; Histoire naturelle de la Norvège par M. Pontopidan. Attaque de ver au dos en tete du premier volume avec petit manque de cuir, sinon très bel exemplaire.
8vo. XVI, 414, (2) pp. With engr. frontispiece with 4 medallion portraits, engr. title page with the title on a rock in an alpine scene, 54 numbered engr. plates (1 folding) and 2 folding leaves with built-up letterpress music, probably set in Breitkopf's type. With the 4 costume plates in hand colour. Later 19th century half cloth with Spanish-marbled sides. First edition of an attractively illustrated account of a journey through Switzerland. The work includes 4 costume plates (2 showing military uniforms, with flags), a description of Balmat and Paccard's first ascent of Mont Blanc, as well as many fine views by J. A. Darnstedt, including the engraved title page. One of the alpine views also serves as a fifth costume plate, but in black and white. The letterpress music is printed in a type built up from small pieces, a system first widely publicized by Breitkopf in the 1750s, and the type used may be Breitkopf's. - In very good condition, with only some slight foxing. Bookplate on front pastedown, showing a pile of three-dimensional letters that could make the name "Erich Lohe". Lonchamp 2425. Wäber I, 53. Barth 17610. Dreyer 812.
Reliure in-4°, 192 pages, reliure d'époque, piece de titre. Bon etat. [P-19] Contributions et préoriginales de (e.a.) : A. KARR - H. BERTHOUD - J. JANIN, A. THIERS etc. etc.
2 ouvrages reliés en 2 volumes in-8 (196 x 123 mm), plein maroquin rouge de l'époque, dos lisses ornés de compartiments richement fleuronnés et cloisonnés, pièces de titre de maroquin vert bronze, plats encadrés de triples filets garnis de fleurons d'angle, roulettes sur les coupes et les chasses, tranches dorées, gardes de tabis bleu. Exemplaire d'auteur (?) 1- Édition originale et unique de ce projet de réformes politiques, économiques et administratives, donné sous forme d'un voyage imaginaire utopique: un naufragé aborde le pays des Sérosages… Planche gravée en regard de la p. 531, qui figure un curieux: "Tableau de culture, pendant vingt-quatre ans". L'originalité du projet, par ailleurs inspiré des idéaux physiocratiques, réside en ce que l'auteur, en disciple de Rousseau, fait reposer son modèle sur l'hypothèse anthropologique d'une bonté originelle de l'homme et sur un principe d’autorité fondé sur celui de la famille. Ainsi, le narrateur s'adresse-t-il au roi Alcidor pour préconiser prioritairement l'éradication des vices inhérents à la société avant toute réforme structurelle: "Sire , en détruisant le luxe, les moeurs s'épurent d'eux-mêmes , les villes se débarrassent, les campagnes se repeuplent, les terres se défrichent, la population augmente, l'émulation renaît, la circulation se rétablit, le Royaume devient un Paradis terrestre & Votre Majesté verra sous son règne un second âge d'or" (p. 696). (Goldsmiths, 10717. Higgs, 5385. INED, 3938. Kress, 6818. Weller, II, p. 188). 2- Édition originale. L'auteur soumet, sous forme de dictionnaire philosophique classé par article, un vade-mecum des idéaux économiques, politiques et sociaux fondés sur le populationnisme, la défense de l'agriculture et la liberté du commerce. On y trouve des articles sur l'accouchement, l'adoption, l'adultère, l'agriculture, les banqueroutes, le cadastre, le célibat, les courtisanes, le divorce, la famine, les fêtes, l'hôpital, les loteries, les salaires... "Très varié et fort intéressant. Théories sur l'excellence de la population et de l'agriculture, sur la nécessité de modérer l'industrie, sur les dangers du luxe, des colonies, etc." (cf. longue analyse in INED, 3937 sq.). (Goldsmiths, 10955. Higgs, 5646. Kress, 6975). Homme des Lumières, acquis aux idées physiocratiques, Gaspard Louis Rouillé d'Orfeuil (1732-1791) devint conseiller, puis maître des requêtes au parlement de Paris, président au Grand Conseil, intendant de La Rochelle, puis de Champagne. Tenu en grande estime par Diderot, il a laissé une réputation "d'intendant modèle". Exemplaire de l'auteur, sans doute, comportant deux rajouts manuscrits repliés en marge (p. 136 et 320) et une petite correction (p. 513). Les pièces d'auteur aux dos portent "L'Ami des Francois". Deux papillons imprimés, collés l'un au verso du titre de "l'Alambic" ; l'un pour signaler que "le manuscrit de cet ouvrage a été enlevé beaucoup trop tôt à l'auteur" et regretter les trop nombreuses erreurs non corrigées. L'autre p. 551 pour annoncer d'autres titres du même auteur à paraître. Quelques petits trous en pied d'une reliure. Certains feuillets légèrement froissés. Autre provenance: Viscount Mersey Bignor Park (ex-libris imprimé) Bel exemplaire très bien relié en maroquin rouge à l'époque, imprimé sur beau papier vergé.
4to. 3 volumes in 8 parts. With 80 lithographed plates, including several folding plates and 2 chromolithographed plates, and some smaller illustrations in text. Contemporary blue and grey paper wrappers, kept in two modern half morocco boxes. Complete set of all the articles published by the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland in the years 1824-1834 under the name "Transactions". In 1835 the journal would continue under the name Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. The society was founded in 1823 and received its Royal Charter in 1824 for "the investigation of subjects connected with and for the encouragement of science, literature and the arts in relation to Asia" (website Royal Asiatic Society). The set consists of three volumes, published in two or three parts, each containing several articles on a wide variety of subjects: archaeology, religion, philosophy, languages, scripts, coins, inscriptions, and occasionally natural history and medicine. The areas covered are China, India, Southeast Asia and Indonesia. The lithographed plates illustrate temples, statues of gods, inscriptions, scripts, coins, maps, etc. Some half-titles slightly browned, but overall in very good condition, wholly untrimmed and mostly unopened. Paper wrappers slightly frayed along the extremities. Löwendahl: China illustrata nova. Supplement, Serials p (individual fascicules 1709, 1716, 1720, 1721, 1723, 1726, and 1734).
Ensemble relié en 2 volumes in-8, plein veau havane marbré, dos à 5 nerfs ornés de compartiments fleuronnés et cloisonnés, pièces de titre et de tomaison de maroquin, tranches rouges (reliure maçonnique de l'époque). Rare ensemble réunissant le premier écrit du "Philosophe Inconnu" et sa "Suite" dans une reliure maçonnique de l'époque. 1- Edition originale sous page de titre de remise en vente. Le premier livre de L.-C. de Saint-martin, qu’il rédigea alors qu’il suivait l'enseignement de Martinès de Pasqually. "L’auteur, indigné de lire, dans Boulanger, que les religions étaient nées de la frayeur causée par les catastrophes de la nature, composa ce livre pour montrer, dans la nature même de l'homme, la connaissance sensible d'une cause active et intelligente, véritable source des allégories, des mystères, des institutions et des lois" (Gence, ‘Notice biographique sur L.-C. de Saint-Martin’, 1824) Cette édition aurait été imprimée par Jean-André Périsse-Duluc, député du tiers état aux États généraux de 1789 pour Lyon. Franc-Maçon, il fit partie de la maçonnerie mystique lyonnaise. 2- Edition originale de cette "suite" apocryphe de l’ouvrage de Saint-Martin qui serait l'œuvre de Charles de Suze. Réaction au rationalisme des Lumières, l'oeuvre de Saint-Martin exerça une influence majeure sur la génération romantique. (Caillet, III, 9762 et 9770. Dorbon, 4308. Guaita, 931. Chateaurhin, ‘Bibliographie du martinisme’, p. 17). Bel exemplaire, frais, très bien relié à l’époque, grand de marges. L’exemplaire est conservé dans une reliure maçonnique comportant 2 fois trois étoiles placées symétriquement dans les pièces de tomaison, rappelées par deux fois trois grains placés dans les caissons.
In-8, broché, couverture imprimée, 11 p. Deuxième édition, publiée par Olinde Rodrigues, de la célèbre "Parabole" de Saint-Simon publiée initialement dans le périodique "L'Organisateur" en 1819. Saint-Simon imagine que la France perde subitement ses cinquante meilleurs représentants dans les arts, les sciences et l’industrie et oppose ce malheur irréparable à la perte, sans conséquence, de cinquante officiers de la Couronne, ministres, fonctionnaires, ecclésiastiques et propriétaires fonciers "qui vivent noblement". Il note, non sans malice, que le peuple en serait certes affligé parce que "ces hommes sont bons", mais qu’il n’en résulterait aucun mal pour l’État. "Cette 'parabole' du Comte de Saint-Simon pourrait être relue avec nos lunettes d'aujourd'hui si on veut bien faire l'effort de changer les mots et les vocables qui appartenaient à la société de Louis XVIII" (Vingtras, Club de Mediapart). (Mazzone, n°71, 8, p. 29. Walch-Gerits, 410). Petits accrocs de papiers à la couverture, sinon bon exemplaire. Rare.
Paris, Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1904. In-4, 2 ff (introduction)-285 pp plus table des matières. Reliure de l'époque, demi-maroquin bleu marine à coins, deux filets dorés, dos à nerfs orné de filets dorés. N couronné doré en queue, tête dorée. Nombreuses illustrations in-texte, 34 illustrations à pleine page dont une en frontispice, (portrait de l'auteur), 4 cartes dont une à pleine page. De la bibliothèque du Prince Victor Napoléon avec son chiffre couronné en queue. Légères traces d'humidité dans la marge supér ou infér sans gravité, coins frottés.
Rouen, Mégard & Cie Libraires-Éditeurs, 1886; in-8, 224 pp. + frontispice hors-texte, relié pleine percaline d'éditeur, coloris rouge vif, dos lisse, plats estampés à motifs noirs, texte inscrit : « Collège de Pont-à-Mousson » dans une couronne de chêne et d'olivier surmontée d'une couronne de laurier, tranches jaspées. Livre de Prix du Collège de Pont-à-Mousson. Traduit de l'anglais par Mlle Pugsley. Bon état.
382 photographs (various sizes), mostly tipped in to album. Captioned throughout. Includes two exit visas dated 1949, issued by the new Communist Regime. Scrap book documenting the journeys and diplomatic stations of longtime British First Secretary R. T. Callender and his wife Cécile, mainly during the 1930s and 1940s. Shows family life in Britain, Berlin under National Socialist rule, the Rhine Valley, holidays in Tyrol, stations in Bermuda and Shanghai, (some 75 images of the siege of the city and Mao's Communist invasion), Bombay, and, finally, Aden in Oman (the harbour, a military encampment, and the famous wells) and the Suez canal. Several photos have been removed without much care, leaving the album sheets torn in places.
Gr. In-8, 252p. Avec un cahier photographique central. Enrichi d'un envoi autographe signé de l'auteur.
Oblong folio (362 x 274 mm). Contemporary block-bound silk album of 111 photographs. Various sizes; largest 212 x 155 mm. A photograph album comprising 111 personal photographs of Shanghai, including several images of battleships, various English-language shop signs for local businesses (such as "Hsing Loong Carpenter Mason and Painter"), and 12 photographs showing the burial procession of the mother of Shanghai businessman Pau Ching Po. Also, there are several photographs of the 1911 Xinhai Revolution in Shanghai: in November 1911, Shanghai citizens organised a rebellion and captured the city, establishing the Shanghai military on 8 November that same year. The photographs offered here depict the uprising in the streets as well as scenes of destroyed homes and weapons used when taking the city. The revolution resulted in the overthrow of the last imperial monarchy in China and the establishment of the Republic of China in 1912. - Also includes images of the German Theatre at the Lyceum, founded in 1930 as an amateur dramatics society, a photograph of Prince Adalbert of Prussia (1884-1948) at the Club Concordia in 1904 laying the foundation stone to the new German Club in Shanghai, and three photographs of the wedding of Wilhelm Knappe (1855-1910), the German Consul General in Shanghai from 1899 to 1906. - Very well preserved. Provenance: From the collection of Johannes Gottfried William Schröder (1870-1942). Born in India, the brother of the German poet Rudolf Alexander Schröder grew up in Bremen, trained as a merchant and visited India, China, Japan, and America. He established his own business in Shanghai in 1906. His intimate knowledge of East Asia led him to embrace the philosophy of anthroposophy.
Oblong folio (363 x 274 mm). Contemporary block-bound silk album of 167 photographs. Various sizes; largest 297 x 218 mm. A photograph album comprising 167 images of the life of a German merchant family in China around the turn of the century. Includes several views of the interior of the Schröders' art-deco residence in Shanghai and of their Chinese domestic workers dressed in late Qing costumes with house puppies and pet monkey, with several portraits of Schröder's wife, showing her feeding the chicken in the courtyard or seated on a horse carriage in the streets of Shanghai, many photographs were taken during the Schröder family's extensive travels in and around Shanghai, for example along the Huangpu River to the mountain retreat in Moganshan and to Hangzhou, showing not only scenic views but also the life of locals they met en route. - Extremeties somewhat rubbed with slight flaws to silk, but still well preserved. Provenance: From the collection of Johannes Gottfried William Schröder (1870-1942). Born in India, the brother of the German poet Rudolf Alexander Schröder grew up in Bremen, trained as a merchant and visited India, China, Japan, and America. He established his own business in Shanghai in 1906. His intimate knowledge of East Asia led him to embrace the philosophy of anthroposophy.
8vo. 148 pp. (collates: [1]2 2-194 = 74 ff.). With western round-head letterpress music notation, a decorated rule on the title-page and each page in a frame of rules. Set in Thai type with incidental roman and the place of publication in a decorative textura. This copy with the letterpress presentation slip on blue paper tipped in (from McFarland and his wife), for people who contributed to the project. Contemporary half tanned sheepskin, sewn on 3 recessed cords, gold dotted fillets on spine, bubble-grain grey-brown cloth sides, probably bound for presentation. Very rare first edition (first issue) of McFarland's Thai (Siamese) hymnal, one of the first books printed by the mission press at Phetchaburi (Petchabury) in Thailand, with the 86 hymns selected by donors who contributed at least five dollars for the production of the hymnal. Each hymn appears on a single double-page spread (with the music at the head of the left page) except the last, whose text continues on nine additional pages. The texts of the hymns themselves appear only in Thai, but the title, introductory note and hymn titles also appear in English and each hymn gives the name of the person or organisation that selected it in English only. Some of the donors who selected the hymns lived in Thailand (both Europeans and natives) but most lived in the United States. Each hymn also indicates the metre, either with abbreviations for the common, long, short, hallelujah or particular metre, or with an indication of the number of syllables per line. The music was apparently set and electrotyped by J.M. Armstrong in Philadelphia and the electrotype blocks shipped to Phetchaburi for printing, for the Newberry Library copy of the second issue has a manuscript note "Music typography by J.M. Armstrong, Philadelphia, Pa." (Armstrong advertised his services for music typesetting and electrotyping at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition). - The first European book printed in Thai type is said to be Jean Baptiste Pallegoix's 1854 Thai dictionary (with Latin, French and English translations) by the Imprimerie Impériale in Paris, but missionaries printed Thai books in Asia decades earlier. The Missionary George H. Hough set up a printing office in Yangon (Rangoon), Burma, where he had Thai type made and used it in 1819. His materials were taken to the mission press in Calcutta soon after. Claudius Henry Thomsen of the London Missionary Society brought a printing press to Singapore in 1822 and operated it with another missionary, Samuel Milton, who brought a fount of Thai type from the Calcutta mission, along with a set of matrices to cast more. Thomsen sold the press and materials to the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in 1834 and John Taylor Jones printed Thai for them there in 1835. The ABCFM missionary Dan Bradley took one press and the Thai type to Bankok in July 1835 and produced Thailand's first printing with Thai type in 1836, and Jones moved there to take charge of the press. The Thai King Mongkut (Rama IV)'s interest in printing features in the musical "The King and I", based on Anna Leonowens's 1870 memoires. In 1861 Samuel McFarland, Daniel McGilvary and their wives set up the first Thai mission outside Bankok at Phetchaburi, where McFarland printed the present hymnal in 1876 (he is said to have printed a dictionary in 1866). A second edition appeared in 1885 and the fifth and last in 1920. - We have located five other copies of the 1876 edition. The four recorded in WorldCat have 181 pages, but the Pittsburg Theological Seminary has a second copy that has 148 pages, like the present copy. The preliminary note explicitly says the hymnal includes 86 hymns and they are all present, and there is no evidence that any leaves ever followed page 148, so the additional leaves sometimes included were probably added after copies had been distributed to donors. They probably add further hymns or possibly some other supplementary text. The presentation slip for the donors notes that the hymnal is already being used by the missionaries' congregations, so the present copy probably shows the book as the Thai people first saw it. Cf. KVK & WorldCat (4 copies of the 2nd issue); not in Cordier, Indosinica; for the history of the presses: eresources.nlb.gov.sg/infopedia/articles/SIP_1074_2008-12-20.html; J.F. Coakley, "Printing offices of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions ...", in: Harvard Library Bulletin IX (1998), pp. 5-34, at pp. 26-27.
54 SS., l. w. Bl. Blaue Interimsbroschur der Zeit. 8vo. Seltenes Verzeichnis der Städte und Dörfer Siebenbürgens. Über Bibliothekskataloge nur 3 Exemplare nachweisbar (Wienbibliothek, Siebenbürgische Bibliothek Gundelsheim, BSB München [incpl.]). - Sehr sauberes, gutes Exemplar mit hs. Deckeltitel in rosafarbenem Buntstift (um 1900).
20 large uniform albumen prints (210 x 270 mm), all but one in landscape format. Each print mounted on paper boards (245 x 325 mm) with a manuscript series number and a German caption. Stored in a modern black cloth clamshell box with a red morocco label ("Singapore"). A uniform set of large photographic albumen prints of Singapore, including exterior views of traditional, European, and mixed-style buildings, landscapes, the botanical gardens, etc., many with European and/or Malay people in the scene and some with horse-drawn carriages, or boats. The two views from Fort Canning have been attributed to August Sachtler (ca. 1839-73): one looking southwest toward Telok Blanagah village and its hill, with a Malay man in the foreground; the other looking southeast toward the roadstead, with many ships in the background and a canon in the foreground, at least the former published in the National Museum of Singapore's catalogue "The Image of Our Landscape" (2009). Sachtler gained experience as a photographer in the Prussian expedition to Japan and China (1860-62), came to Singapore in 1863 and worked there as a commercial photographer until his death in April 1873. He may be the author of some of the other photographs as well. They show the Jamae Mosque (ca. 1835) and Sri Mariamman Hindu temple (ca. 1827; the tower and wall to the left differ only slightly from those in a dated view of 1866: the tower was completely changed in the early 20th century); six views of the botanical gardens established by Whampoa (1816-80); a jungle plantation in operation (with 4 boats); jungle houses built on wooden stilts with roofs and some walls of reed; the Hôtel de l'Europe (either that on St Andrew's Road, demolished in 1906, or its predecessor on Beach Road); the mission chapel; the gothic revival St Andrew's Cathedral (ca. 1861); Raffles Square (named Commercial Square by Stamford Raffles in 1823 but changed to Raffles Place in 1858, the name in the photograph apparently retaining the older name); the town hall (ca. 1862: the offices moved elsewhere in 1893). The view of Raffles Place clearly shows the signboards of the shops: G. Schiller; Geokteat & Co; John Little (department store established 1845), and Singapore Dispensary (these last two are also visible in an album presented to Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh in 1869). - Two of the photographs have lettered captions and numbers as part of the photographic prints themselves, in white sans-serif capitals in the lower right corner: "Bot. Garden S. 200" and "Raffles Square S. 212". Most have a number in the lower left corner, written after the print was made, ranging from 3 to 200 (matching the number in the print, but the print with number 212 has no written number). Each has a number written on the mount, along one long edge (the head except in the one photograph in portrait format) ranging from 109 to 139, not corresponding to the other numbers. - As usual for albumen prints, the sky in the background shows little or no cloud detail, and two or three have lost a bit of detail in the background, but all further preserve very detailed images and are in very good condition, with only occasional minor spots. A remarkable set of large, detailed and well-preserved historical images of Singapore ca. 1870. For Sachtler, see the report of a lecture by Sebastian Dobson on oag.jp.
