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1858180046London.: The Illustrated London News. June 261858. Two half page engravings: 14.8 x 23.5 cm on a single newspaper leaf complete explanatory text neatly sealed marginal tear to a lower corner not affecting the image sheet toned and creased a few marginal spots good condition. Engravings prepared for a Supplement to "The Illustrated London News" following the Battle of Canton during the Second Opium War. <br> <br>From the Estate of the late artist collector historian and scholar Arthur Hacker. . The Illustrated London News. unknown
18486240St. Louis: W. H. Gray Ed 1848. First Thus. Loose sheet. Very Good. Published Saturday January 1 1848. Sheet folding to four pages each page measuring 9 x 11.25 inches. Printed sheet with autograph address and postal cancellation. With old mailing folds wax seal ghost some smudging and small stains. A well preserved copy. Commodities prices including Turkish opium and annual statement of the business in St. Louis. Now housed in a removable clear archival sleeve with acid-free backing. W. H. Gray, Ed unknown
1860179264London.: Illustrated London News. December 81860. One half page and two smaller engravings12.5 x 34 cm and two10 x 15.5 cm on a single newspaper leaf top edge spotted a few small edge tears lower edge trimmed but in very good condition. Three engravings prepared for the Illustrated London News depicting the Third Battle of Taku Forts near Tianjin: an allied French and British assault part of the Second Opium War and an attempt to compel the Chinese government to observe the trade treaties signed between their governments in 1858 which included allowing the British to continue the opium trade in China. <br> <br>From the Estate of the late collector and scholar Arthur Hacker with his pencilled notation. . Illustrated London News. unknown
18435977New York City: H. H. Schieffelin & Co 1843. First Thus. Loose Sheet. Loose sheet printed verso and recto measuring just shy of 8 inches x 9.75 inches. Old folds now mellowed but with a nasty closed tear running down the middle of the sheet for 6.5 inches.Now housed in a removable clear archival sleeve with acid-free backing. Included is a handsomely printed handbill 4 x 6 inches for a 1988 lecture on "Victoria Opium and Empire." by Frank. J. Novak M.D. presented at Stanford University's Fairchild Auditorium. Commodities report from the Schieffelin drug firm including the going rate for opium oil. Jacob Schieffelin and his brother founded their drug company in 1794; in 1813 the firm passed to his sons who renamed the firm H. H Schieffelin located at the intersection of John St. and Cliff St. in Lower Manhattan about two blocks from today's South Street Seaport Museum. That firm dissolved in 1848.<p>Other trade goods listed include agricultural produce soaps lucifer matches various gums sulphur asbestos ginger etc. A fine glimpse into daily American life and global trade.</p> . H. H. Schieffelin & Co unknown
1857179411London.: Illustrated London News. January 311857. Half page engraving 14.5 x 23.5 cm and a quarter page plan 17.5 x 15.5 cm on a single newspaper leaf with complete associated text a few words abraded in the final paragraph spots of browning but in very good condition. Engraving of the British factories at Canton Guangzhou and a scarce battle plan prepared for "The Illustrated London News" depicting the events of November 12 & 13 1856 the Battle of the Bogue by British-led forces during the Second Opium War. The commentary notes the Russian criticism of the British action quoting a "letter from St. Petersburg" in the French "Journal des Débats". <br> <br>From the Estate of the late collector and scholar Arthur Hacker. . Illustrated London News. unknown
1860178252London.: The Illustrated London News. June 231860. Black and white full-page engraving on a newspaper leaf 28 x 40 cm related text on the verso one small marginal edge-tear upper corner creased but the image in very good condition. Fine engraving of the combined Expeditionary Force at its encampment at Tsim Sha Tsui Kowloon nearing the culmination of the Second Opium War.The descriptive text notes on the verso : "The expeditionary force is arriving rapidly; every day troop-ships come into the harbour. Probyn's horse Sikhs to the number of five hundred are encamped on the mainland; Armstrong guns also are there. I never saw anything more picturesque than the camp: the scenery is beautiful." see detail in attached image. <br> <br>From the Estate of the late collector and scholar Arthur Hacker. . The Illustrated London News. unknown
1857178579London.: Illustrated Times. March 211857. Full-page engraving 23.5 x 33.6 cm including caption on a single newspaper leaf relevant text on the verso edge tears no loss and creasing in very good condition. Dramatic and scarce engraving depicting the destruction of the Canton Factories principal site of Western trade with China at the onset of the Second Opium War 1856-1860 by a 25 year old Gustave Doré. He contributed to the "Illustrated Times" a chief rival to the monopoly of "The Illustrated London News". Whilst the self-taught Doré did not enjoy initial success in France for Victorian Britons Doré's art was celebrated producing with Blanchard Jerrold his landmark account of mid Victorian London "London: a pilgrimage" over four years 1869-1872. <br> <br>From the Estate of the late collector and scholar Arthur Hacker. . Illustrated Times. unknown
1858179429London.: Illustrated London News. March 131858. Three engravings on a double newspaper leaf the main image 16.5 x 51.3 cm with complete associated text central fold a few minor edge tears and two central fold splits neatly sealed on the verso but in very good condition. Engravings depicting the Battle of Canton Guangzhou 28-31 December 1857 led by joint British and French forces during the Second Opium War prepared for "The Illustrated London News". The main engraving shows the bombardment from the Harbour with the European Factories still in tact by artist and engraver Richard Principal Leitch his signature is reversed in the image who worked for "The Illustrated London News" for over 30 years from the 1840s. <br> <br>From the Estate of the late collector and scholar Arthur Hacker with his pencilled note in the lower corner. . Illustrated London News. unknown
1876000203Philadelphia: Claxton Remsen & Haffelfinger 1876. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/None. Original green clothPressed front board with title and design. Spine decoartine gilt design with gilt lettering. Boards are mildly scuffed as is spine top and bottom. Corners slightly bumped. Previous owner's signature in pencil on fly leaf with some ink lines to end paper and same. Another owner' signature on the back end papers in ink.The text is clean tight and bright. Some tiny spots on pp 48 and 49. This is a classic civil war book describing the opium addiction of a former Union Army POW. It describes all of the effects of the drug as experienced by the author and the with drawal symptoms. This is a gem of a little book. Rare. <br/> <br/> Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger hardcover
184956871Edo Tokyo: n.p. Kaei 2 1849. Five vols. Tall 8vo. 40; 44; 48; 42; 34 pp. With 1 double-page colour woodblock map 18 double-page woodblocks 7 w/ colour 1 single-page woodblock plate. Uniformly bound in textured embossed pattern limp softcovers manuscript titles punch-sewn at gutter margins wear soiling some worming through fore-edges text in portions thumbing to fore-edges soiling lower 2/3 of front title leaf stating “Forbidden from Sale†torn away still a G- reference set of this noted rarity. First edition of the author’s “second series†recounting further events in the First Opium War fought between Great Britain and China in 1839-1842. The text and illustrations vividly stressed the terrible effects of opium on Qing Dynasty China and the brave Chinese resisting the British military. Buttressed with striking illustrations by Utagawa Sadahide 1807-1879/79 which depict such incidents as Chinese fire-boats approaching a British warship; a captured spy; Chenshi the Monk putting up a valiant fight; a Chinese Woman warrior fighting the British; a Taiwanese fort sinking a British Warship; the fall of Zhenhai; French diplomatic ships arriving on the Yangtze and even an omen appearing in the heavens. In addition there are a number of woodblock prints depicting British cannons mortars and firearms employed during the Opium Wars. The Kaigai Shinwa printed on Mino paper was written in a sensationalistic and simple style with Japanese syllabaries attached to all Chinese characters and intended as a cautionary tale advising Japan and other Asian countries of the pitfalls of foreign invaders and intervention just four years before the appearance of Perry’s squadron in Tokyo Bay. Mineta Fuko 1817-1883 was thrown into prison for having published the work without official consent and later after he was released was deprived of the right to live in Edo Kyoto or Osaka -- the santo kamae tri-urban banishment and many of the volumes were seized and others were censored or removed. See: Timothy Brook & Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi Opium Regimes: China Britain and Japan 1839-1952 2000 pp. 60-65; Masuda Wataru Seigaku tozen to Chukoku jijo: zassho sakki The Eastern Spread of Western Learning and Conditions in China: Notes on Various Books 14. Kaigai Shinwa. . . Tokyo 1979 Translated by Joshua A. Fogel UCSB pp. 27-39. n.p., paperback
1862160274Paris: Imprimerie Impériale 1862. With the atlas of eight finely engraved maps First edition with the scarce wrappers retained of this official French account of the Franco-British expedition northwards to Beijing together with a well-preserved first edition of the accompanying atlas volume. The detailed narrative encompasses such pivotal moments as the third battle of the Taku Forts the taking of Tianjin the burning of the Summer Palace and the battles of Zhangjiawan and Tongzhou. The finely engraved atlas includes maps of the Chinese coast the December 1857 capture of Canton the occupation of Tianjin by Anglo-French naval forces in May 1859 and the Western camp at Chefoo. Four other maps all folding show the Franco-British landing at Peh-tang the battles of Zhangjiawan and Baliqiao and the route of the Western advance from the mouth of the Peiho to Beijing. These works were produced at the behest of the Dépôt de la Guerre the country's principal military archive and cartographic institution. Between 1852 and 1867 the Dépôt was run by Antoine Lucien Blondel 1801-1883 a major military cartographer. From 1859 Blondel reported to Jacques Louis César Alexandre Randon 1795-1871 a veteran of Napoleon's European campaigns and Marshal of France from 1856. Two works. Atlas comprising 8 maps 4 folding with occasional hand-colouring all engraved by Erhard Schièble. Relation: quarto 281 x 200 mm. Mid-20th-century green boards Claude Honnelaitre brown spine label lettered in gilt original green wrappers tipped-in top and bottom edge trimmed fore edge untrimmed. Atlas: folio. Original green cloth-backed orange boards front cover lettered in black. Wrappers well-preserved with some staining and a few small losses atlas volume with soiling to boards couple of surface losses on rear cover and wear to extremities text and maps clean atlas with just occasional foxing. Very good copies indeed. Cordier 2nd edition 2496. hardcover
1861152570Tientsin: 1861. Peace reigns in Tianjin after the bloody taking of the Taku Forts Highly engaging album the core of which comprises 26 sketches of Tientsin Tianjin in 1861 sketched by Ensign Francis Sadleir Brereton the year following the conclusion of the Second Opium War; with additional views of Singapore and Java. A unique visual record of Qing dynasty Tianjin as seen through the eyes of a young British army officer. Brereton 1838-1911 was commissioned ensign in the Royal North Gloucestershire Militia in November 1855 transferring to the 2nd Battalion 60th Rifles in December of the same year. Even among sharpshooters he was clearly a crack shot serving as inspector of musketry and winning both the Ladies' Purse and Challenge Prize. In 1857 he sailed with his battalion to South Africa. Following service in India during the Rebellion and in China during the Second Opium War he resigned his commission in 1865. He afterwards practised as an architect with his father-in-law Frederick Beeston then independently as an architect and surveyor. In 1889 he was elected to serve on the first London County Council. During the 18th century drawing masters were established at the military training centres at Woolwich Chatham High Wycombe and Addiscombe with the aim of instructing officer cadets in drawing and watercolour. Although there is no record of Brereton having studied in this way his sketchbook comprises an accomplished series of views very much in the tradition of the soldier-artist. In light of his subsequent career his interest in architectural detail is evident in a number of highly worked and painstaking sketches of temples and cityscapes occasionally employing dense hachures and some interesting compositional framing. To the modern eye they have a haunted quality reminiscent of the deserted vistas of Giorgio de Chirico. Views are in the main captioned on verso some at lower right of image all of Tientsin each dated 1861 and initialled unless otherwise noted: View of traditional roundhouses in a landscape "Head Quarters Square 2/60th Royal Rifles" "South West angle Tien Tsin Wall" "Mahomedan Temple" "Bell Temple" "Treaty Joss House" "Pallisir's Grave" Lieut. John R. Palliser 2. Battalion 1st Royal Foot died of fever after taking part in the capture of the Taku Forts "Old Castle near Tien Tsin" View of wall and fort View of fortified tower Three temples "South Forts" double-sheet panorama "Angles of Treaty Joss House" "Treaty Joss House" "Tien Tsin from West Gate" "West Gate from the Wall" "Tien Tsin from East Gate" "Tien Tsin from North Gate" "North Gate Tien Tsin from street" "Tien Tsin from South Gate" "English burial ground & Treaty Joss House from South Gate" "Chinese Graves French Side Tien Tsin" "South Forts Tien Tsin" "South Taku Fort" "2nd North Taku Fort" "Chinamans Houses French Side Tien Tsin" 59th Regiment graveyard "Singapore" seascape "Singapore Nov. 16 1861" double-sheet panorama of the coastline showing junks and ships Java double-sheet panorama with shipping in the foreground View of palm trees in a mountainous landscape Plus another 26 views and sketches 6 double-sheet executed later with appealing panoramas in the west of Scotland Dunoon Tarbert Dumbarton Bowling and elsewhere. The album is accompanied by a typed letter by the popular boys author Lt.-Col. F. S. Brereton 1872-1957 reading in full: "These sketches were made by my father Ensign Frank Sadleir Brereton 2nd Battn. 60th Rifles when on service with his regiment in China 1861. The first action in which he was engaged was I believe an attack on the Taku Forts when he and a small command went over the side and waded ashore" undated personal stationery. Albums such as this are certainly not common on the open market and this is a particularly attractive exemplar. Landscape octavo 105 x 182 mm. Contemporary dark red roan sketchbook by Henry Penny metal clasp stamped with his name label to front pocket gilt patterned endpapers marbled edges; some 60 leaves in all 26 with views of Tientsin and environs plus blanks one of two leaves toward the end excised. Housed in a burgundy cloth flat-back box by the Chelsea Bindery. Loss of leather at foot of spine minor scuffing expected rubbing and signs of handling otherwise remarkably well preserved. hardcover
