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95510c.1849. . Water colour on paper Hong Kong visible area 74.8 X 137 cm. mounted. Overall size: 90 cm x 150 cm.<br /> A rare large-scale view of Hong Kong Island painted in the first ten years of colonial rule. The charming scene shows both Chinese Junks and European tripple-masted sailing ships at anchor in Victoria harbour with the rippling hills of Hong Kong Island above the burgeoning town of Victoria.<br /><br />Many watercolours painted for western export emphasised the trading nature of Hong Kong hence the emphasis on merchant vessels and company buildings on the waterline including those of Dent & Co. and Lindsay. The absence of St John's Cathedral amongst the urban waterline dates this painting before 1849 only eight years after land grants were first issued to British investors following the cession of Hong Kong to Britain at the Treaty of Nanking. The image is also reminiscent of the 1843 seal of Hong Kong which shows merchant ships on a quay with the mountains of Hong Kong in the background and strengthens the idea that this painting represents the quintessential depiction of Hong Kong.<br /> [c.1849]. unknown
1954030011Hong Kong 1954 K. Weiss Hardcover 1st Edition Signed by Author
1924157518Hong Kong: Honkon nipposha 1924. Only a single copy found institutionally First edition first printing of this exceptionally scarce Japanese-language guide to Hong Kong with plates showing views of the harbour city centre and Peak Tram. WorldCat records just a single copy at the Bukkyo University Library. This guide was published by a Japanese newspaper founded in the territory in 1909. It includes adverts for banks beers shipping lines and trading companies as well as a full list of important businesses and amenities enumerated in Japanese and English. Sections deal with climate population diplomatic buildings business opportunities and the usual useful information needed by travellers. A final page lists the travelling time and distance between Hong Kong and major Chinese and international ports including Macao Shanghai Singapore and London. A second expanded edition was published in 1928; today this is equally rare. Duodecimo. With 4 blue photographic half-tone plates pp. 15 adverts many printed in colour. Original red card wrappers title on front cover in black. Wrappers well-preserved with minor chip to front cover and spine sunned with small split at foot a little toning and skinning internally imprint page consolidated at gutter plates and adverts bright. A very good copy of this fragile publication. unknown
1897165561Hong Kong: Noranha & Co. Printers to the Hongkong Government 1897 & 1899. By order of Governor Robinson First editions the 1894 ordinances being a second printing issued shortly after first publication. Noranha & Co.'s volumes of ordinances from the 19th century are now rare both institutionally and in commerce. The regulations in these volumes concern a range of topics including the formation of a Hong Kong volunteer corps new requirements for the registration of medical practitioners and the introduction of licenses and numbered metal tags for all dogs. 1894 also heralded the strengthened regulation of slaughterhouses meat markets and the opium trade between Hong Kong Canton and Macao. The same year Governor William Robinson promulgated a lengthy directive on the government's legal resumption of the unsanitary Taipingshan area. Two works octavo. Original brown wrappers or boards green linen backstrips front covers lettered in black. Ex-New York City Bar Association Library with shelf label along spines and stamp on title pages. Wrappers with some wear losses to covers of 1893 volume with couple of large closed tears neatly repaired with tissue 1894 volume with paste-action browning to endpapers and 65 mm split at foot of front free endpaper contents of both evenly toned. About very good copies of these vulnerable works. hardcover
1967158680Hong Kong: Ta Kung Pao 1967. Hongkong has been turned into a hell for its Chinese inhabitants First edition first printing scarce in this condition of this charged and sometimes graphic bilingual photobook published by the pro-Beijing newspaper Ta Kung Pao in the wake of the Hong Kong riots and the burning of the British mission in Beijing in August 1967. Despite all the bluster privately Mao and other communist leaders were extremely keen to see the territory an important trading partner remain in British hands. Following the explosive beginning of the Cultural Revolution in China left-wing propagandists in Hong Kong infiltrated labour disputes and protests over conditions to fan the flames of anti-British sentiment. The present work presents dozens of photographs to show how patriotic residents have "armed themselves with the great thought of Mao Tse-tung" in a struggle against "anti-national oppression" foreword. A final section boasts of the global support for these actions including from London's very own Finsbury Communist Association. The present work was issued in two variants of the wrappers with no discernible priority. The front cover of the other design is lettered "The Upheaval in Hong Kong" in white against the same red-drab colour scheme. Short quarto. Photographic half-tones throughout several pages with quotations from Mao printed in red sepia vignette on first leaf. Text in Chinese and English. Original card wrappers titles to spine in red and black front cover lettered in white and black against red and drab horizontal bands. Wrappers well-preserved moderate creasing and marking loss at head of spine only slightly affecting Chinese title text block square and holding firm clean internally with light bumping to lower corner of text block. A very good copy indeed. Martin Parr & WassinkLundgren The Chinese Photobook: From the 1900s to the Present second edition 2016 p. 348. unknown
200532616Hong Kong: Christie's. New. 2005. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY BRAND NEW PRISTINE NEVER OPENED - Lots 1301 - 1445 with a special section of imperial paintings and calligraphy lots 1227 - 1246 -- with a bonus offer-- . Christie's paperback
190151358Hong Kong 1901. Three quarto manuscript letters totaling 22 pages and approx. 6000 words on life in Hong Kong as an American expat. Clean and legible. The author "Katheryn" writes to her friend Jesse in Oregon describing her daily routine and life in Hong Kong with her husband Tom who works there. "Hong Kong is the most beautiful place I have ever seen. I cannot describe it to you but will send you some Kodak pictures." Her writing is rather slangy and telegraphic but she manages to convey a sense of her life and times. "We have a rickshaw of our own now Tom bought it last week. It is a nice one made in Japan and better than the ones they make here. Have two coolies so they can drag Tom up the hill. One runs behind and pushes. A tailor is making their uniforms. I chose kahki sic trimmed with red for them Will also have the monogram TWH in red letters on them. People here think you are somebody if your coolies are in uniform." She goes on at length in this manner explaining that the chair coolies necessary to negotiate the many steps in Hong Kong do not like Tom because he weighs 200 pounds. She on the other hand goes where she pleases. She discusses her wardrobe all white clothing and talks about clothing and Chinese tailors and about friends of her husband's - other expats. She describes their rooms a bargain at $160 per month. Then "Although the Plague is usually worse here in summer it seems now that there are fewer cases than there were a few weeks ago. I go through the Plague district that is where it is the worst Wauchai a suburb nearly every day." She also talks about ships currently in the harbor "trouble in the north" and the Hong Kong regiment. We gather that she's been married just a year and that her husband pampers her but that she misses her friend Jessie and is a little homesick. The first twelve-page letter was written between June 19 and 25. The second a two-pager sending condolences for a death in Jessie's family was written August 27 1900. The third letter eight pages was written in 1901. In it Kathryn talks about cameras and mentions their trip to Canton and Macao. unknown
110175Hong Kong Ye Olde Printerie n.d. circa 1925. . Landscape folio 28.5 x 21 cm iii preface pp. title with tipped-in photograph 26 tipped-in sepia photographs on 24 leaves captioned below image each with accompanying leaf of descriptive text original buff card wrappers with large photographic image to upper cover a very good example.<br /> A very attractive series of photographs showing Hong Kong in the colonial era.<br /><br />'Denis Henry Hazell 1897-1970 was a British businessman. Some of his photographs were published in Picturesque Hong Kong Ye Olde Printerie Ltd. Hong Kong in approximately 1925. Hazell was born in Clevedon Somerset the son of local photographer Edwin Henry Hazell. He moved to Hong Kong in 1923 to take up a position in business there and lived in the colony until his death'. Historical photographs of China University of Bristol.<br /> Hong Kong, Ye Olde Printerie, n.d. circa 1925. unknown
1967187330Shanghai: Gangjiu fan pohai douzheng zikliao bianji bu "Hong Kong and Kowloon Anti-Persecution Office" 1967. First edition recording the feverish protests whipped up by left-wing activists in Hong Kong in 1967. Despite the bluster from Beijing privately Mao and other communist leaders were extremely keen to see the territory an important trading partner remain in British hands. Following the explosive beginning of the Cultural Revolution in China mainland Chinese operatives in Hong Kong infiltrated labour disputes and demonstrations over conditions to fan the flames of anti-British sentiment. The photographs show large gatherings arrests and a plethora of Maoist slogans. Quarto. Illustrations through. Text in Chinese. Original illustrated wrappers wire-stitched as issued. Occasional contemporary annotation internally. Creasing covers lightly rubbed and nicked ink mark on rear wrapper: very good. unknown
1937175566Hong Kong: Cigar Stores "La Perla del Oriente" 1937. A souvenir of pre-war Hong Kong including views of the city by night Victoria & Kowloon the residence of Sir Robert Ho Tung Wanchai and the ferry pier. Photographs also show junks and beach-goers Hong Kong University and individual residents. The publisher manufactured premium cigars for the Hong Kong and Filipino markets. Managed by Carl Ingenohl it had a factory of some 310000 square feet near Nathan Road and Soy Street. Landscape quarto. With 15 captioned photogravure plates. Original grey card wrappers front cover printed in gilt photogravure of harbour laid down within blind panel. Wrappers lightly creased a little skinning on rear cover plates fresh: a very good copy. unknown
8vo., First Edition, with over 70 plates and 4 folding maps (2 large and coloured); handsomely bound in red full morocco, back with five raised bands ruled in gilt, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt with a floral spray, original pictorial wrappers preserved, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. With a contemporary picture postcard and embroidered Christmas card (1945) loosely inserted. One of the best - and scarcest - pre-WWII guides to Hong Kong. Profusely illustrated and with very numerous trade advertisements throughout, it includes detailed coloured maps of Hong Kong Island and the New Territories, and plans of the Central District of Victoria and the Canton-Kowloon railway. A splendid copy of a work rarely found complete. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
1899178829Hong Kong: Printed by Noronha & Co. Printers to the Hongkong Government 1899. First edition covering the first full year after the Second Treaty of Peking during which British officials consolidated the governance of the New Territories and adopted measures concerning prisons opium and sanitation. This volume lists the many individuals appointed by Governor Blake to administrative committees in each village of Kowloon and other new districts. A priority for lawmakers in 1899 was the improvement of the prison ordinance detailed in a lengthy section. The folding tables provide a detailed breakdown of the diets for inmates of different ethnicity and the amount of food to be provided at different times of the day. "The Hong Kong emblem showing the blossom of the Bauhinia blakeana is a legacy of Blake's governorship; he had a strong interest in botany and the tree like Blaketown in Newfoundland was named in his honour" DIB. Octavo. With 6 folding tables; tables and Chinese characters in text. Original stiff yellow boards blue cloth backstrip. Spine toned covers sunned a few bumps to fore edge of text block contents fresh: a very good copy indeed. hardcover
1969182303London: D Survey Ministry of Defence 1969. Classified "restricted": a cartographic representation issued following the 1967 riots of British military plans for securing the New Territories during civil disturbances or in the face of Chinese incursion across the Lo Wu border. The points are concentrated on inland through routes the coast west of Tsuen Wan and the railway line linking Kowloon to Guangzhou. The map was compiled by D Survey the branch of the Ministry of Defence tasked with creating maps for military use in conjunction with Far East Land Forces and 84 Survey Squadron. Colour lithographed map 640 x 770 mml recto with large plan of New Territories and legend verso with smaller maps of Sheung Shui & Fanling Yuen Long Tai Po and Tsuen Wan as well as small legend. Folding away to 170 x 205 mm. Small contemporary ink annotation near Yuen Long map. Scuffing some creasing where incorrectly refolded foxing on panels exposed when folded: very good. unknown
1900178831Hong Kong: Printed by Noronha & Co. Printers to the Hongkong Government 1900. First edition first printing including measures on pensions for the widows and orphans of public officers a ban on smoking around naval establishments and military magazines and restrictions on the sale and export of firearms. 1900 marked the midway period of Governor Blake's time in office. "The Hong Kong emblem showing the blossom of the Bauhinia blakeana is a legacy of Blake's governorship; he had a strong interest in botany and the tree like Blaketown in Newfoundland was named in his honour" DIB. Octavo. With 3 folding tables tables and Chinese characters in text. Original stiff blue boards black cloth backstrip front cover lettered in black. A little shaken binding lightly worn bumping and chipping at fore-edge text unaffected: a very good copy. hardcover
1902178832Hong Kong: Printed by Noronha & Co. Printers to the Hongkong Government 1902. First edition first printing including the text of the ordinance authorizing the construction of the Hong Kong tramway and outlining its specifications. A company was founded the same year and the first line from Happy Valley and Causeway Bay to Shau Kei Wan was laid in 1903. Full service began in mid-1904. Governpr Sir Henry Blake took leave for almost all of 1902 and authority was exercised in his name by the lieutenant-governor Major-General Sir William Gascoigne 1844-1926 a hero of the Boxer Uprising and the 1899 Six-Day War in the New Territories. Octavo. Tables and Chinese characters in text. Original stiff blue boards dark blue cloth backstrip front cover lettered in black. A little shaken binding lightly rubbed and soiled bumping and chipping to fore edge text unaffected: a very good copy. hardcover
1899176918Hong Kong: Noronha & Co. Printers to the Hongkong Government 1899. First separate edition comprising the 15 ordinances and many regulations issued during the first full year of William Robinson's tenure as governor. These concerned quarantine shipping in the vicinity of the telegraph cables linking the island with Kowloon and the introduction of new legal protections for young children. Robinson's governorship overlapped with the dominance of Sir Paul Chater in the colony's affairs and he was a firm supporter of Chater's expansion plans for the New Territories. Octavo. Original green quarter cloth front cover lettered in black. Boards stained tidemarks at margins of contents: a very good copy. hardcover
1940170698Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh Ltd c.1940. First edition first printing of this ephemeral window onto old Hong Kong including views of the racecourse cricket ground Repulse Bay and the landscape by night. We have traced a single copy at the University of Hong Kong. Landscape octavo. Original tan card wrappers front cover lettered in blue and black with oval window 16 rotogravure photographic plates. Wrappers creased and lightly soiled: a near-fine copy. unknown
1961176992Hong Kong: Chinese Importers' & Exporters' Association 1961. The 1961 edition of this long-running handbook offering a snapshot of the colony's commercial life and major businesses. In the 1950s following the UN trade embargo on China Hong Kong shifted towards export-led growth in particular the manufacture of textiles and plastic goods. Between 1951 and 1961 exports as a percentage of GDP grew from 30 to 80 percent. Octavo. Tables and advertisements a few colour throughout; section titles printed on green paper; text in Chinese. Original grey cloth spine decoratively stamped in blind and lettered in Chinese in gilt front cover lettered in Chinese and English in gilt advertisement endpapers. 1971 Hong Kong ownership inscription on title page. Spine worn in places with couple of marks at head signs of handling contents lightly toned: a very good copy. hardcover
1953183788Hong Kong: South China Morning Post 1953. Hongkong Rejoices Sole edition of this pictorial souvenir recording the street parades fireworks displays and events that greeted the coronation of Elizabeth II. "In its short history of just over a century the Crown Colony of Hongkong small in terms of territory has always risen to greatness of heart in its sentiment towards the Crown" preface. Landscape octavo. Captioned half-tones throughout. Original buff textured card wrappers wire-stitched as issued front cover lettered in purple with gilt decoration. Light cockling wrappers marked small chip and closed tear at head of front cover: very good. unknown
1935188297Hong Kong: Gloucester Hotel c.1935. Early edition of this attractive pictorial issued to patrons of Wanchai's Gloucester Hotel which opened in 1933 and offered the guests the very latest modern conveniences and luxuries. This work was first published while Sir William Peel was still governor. The present copy states below his portrait on page 26 that he retired in May 1935. Quarto. With 15 tipped-in colour plates folded leaf of gilt-flecked red paper with Chinese-language announcement from publisher illustrations in text some text printed in red; publisher's printed correction slip amending advertisement on p. 43. Original gilt quarter paper grey front sides green rear side front board with title and vignette laid down within green frame advertising pastedowns. Near-contemporary ownership inscription "G. Sword Kingsclere Hotel Kowloon" on front free endpaper. Wear at spine ends toning and sunning to boards ink splashmarks at head of front cover light creasing and couple of short closed tears internally: very good. hardcover
184511299Paris, H. Fournier, 1845 ; cartonnage polychrome à fond noir représentant un personnage chinois fumant, en habit traditionnel doré rehaussé de rouge, bleu et blanc, fond décoré de scènes et objets symboliques, second plat à grand décor doré et vert, tranches dorées ; VI, (2), 396 pp., 50 planches hors-texte, nombreuses illustrations in-texte de tous formats, dessins de Auguste Borget.
1960188504Hong Kong: around late 1960s. An informative group of images showing Trench taking the salute march-pasts by dog and riot units female officers on parade and a ride-past by a motorcycle division. Other photographs capture Trench pinning decorations on individual officers the arrival of senior personnel and music and marching. Completing the collection is a photograph of Peter Dixon Lennett 1938-1997 a member of the force from 1964 to 1991 receiving the baton of honour from Lieutenant-General Sir Denis O'Connor Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong during his passing out ceremony. Lennett graduated as Best Inspector of the Intake and was commended on multiple occasions during his distinguished career. His accompanying business card identifies him as a force training officer at the training school in Wong Chuk Hang Aberdeen. Together 35 gelatin silver professional photographs 125 x 170 mm and larger gelatin silver photograph 210 x 160 mm latter with South China Morning Post wet-stamp and near-contemporary ink manuscript caption on verso. Photographs bowed but mostly bright and unfaded a little silver mirroring: a very good collection. unknown
19150299571915 Kelly & Walsh Hardcover
Features: Title page illustration of a tank stuck in Palestine; Wonderful two-page photo spread illustrates "Men's Work and Women's Work - In England, Ireland, France, and Palestine; The Reappearance of the Zeppelin (article); The Power of the Press - A Complete Journalist (article); Occupied by the Germans - The Aaland Islands (article); Page of six photos regarding Hong King's new Tai Tam Tuk dam and reservoir; Article by G.K. Chesterton includes photos of Sir George Alexander, John Dillon, and Canon Scott Holland; Five photos of the wrecked stained glass of Rheims Cathedral, and related salvage work; Six photos entitle 'Underground on the British Front' illustrate activites in subterranean tunnels and rooms; The New Air Force and Its Future - article; Before and after aerial photos of Merckem in Flanders which was destroyed by shells; Fantastic page of illustrations and text presents some ingenius food substitutes used by 'our ill-fed foes'; Centrefold illustration of British mine-sweeper protecting a neutral cargo ship from a drifting surface mine; Four wonderful half-page photos of the terrain of the Palestine Campaign - a land of wadis, sands and foliage; Fabulous one-page photo of the Mayor of Jerusalem coming out to surrender the city to General Allenby - meeting the first British outposts; Wonderful one-page ad for Beecham's Pills features lady fortune-teller with big hair, crystal ball and playing cards; Nice two-colour back cover ad for Greys cigarettes features illustration of two mounted soldiers circa 1742 in Mitre or Grenadier cap; and more. 36 pages including several pages of marvelous vintage ads, most of which are illustrated. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent WWI-era issue. Magazine
12973Hong Kong, The South China Morning Post Ltd, 1938 (First Edition). 1 volume in-8, 59 pp., light green hard illustrated boards, copy illustrated by a map, sketches and 11 plates, in pristine condition.
