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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
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
184316305Londres, Paris, Fisher, (1843-1845) ; 4 tomes reliés en 2 volumes in 4, demi chagrin vert empire, dos à faux nerfs, fleurons et titre dorés (reliure de l’époque) ; (4), 68, 26 pp. ; 76 pp. ; 74 pp. ; 73, (3) pp. et en tout, 4 titres gravés avec une vignette et 124 planches hors-texte gravées sur acier, protégées par une serpente.
12963Paris, Javal et Bourdeaux, 1928. 1 volume in-4, orné de 16 planches hors texte gravées par Gaston Prost d'après Tsuguharu Foujita et coloriées au pochoir. En feuilles, couverture originale imprimée, chemise cartonné etboîte en cartonnage saumon de l'éditeur avec pièce de titre imprimé
12084Paris, Editions J. Terquem, 1926. 1 volume in-4 broché, couverture souple illustrée, sous étui toilé gris et sous coffret cartonné brique, illustré de 19 eaux-fortes dont 9 hors texte et de 9 vignettes gravées sur bois par Henri le Riche, superbe exemplaire en parfait état.
1870304527Chicago: Evening Journal Print No. 46 Dearborn Street 1870. First edition possibly a later state. 73 3 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original blue morocco title blocked in gilt on upper cover leafy roll border to boards marbled endsheets. Some rubbing. First edition possibly a later state. 73 3 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Rare Work on Treating Opium Addiction. First edition of this work on opium addiction in the U.S. concerning the discovery of a patent cure of Opium addiction by Samuel B. Collins and his correspondence with Fitz Hugh Ludlow editor of the Easy Chair column in Harper's and an acknowledged opium addict. Ludlow had published several chapters in The Opium Habit with Suggestions as to the Remedy 1868. Collins titles the first section An Answer to "What Shall They Do To Be Saved".<br/><br/>The work shows signs of being hastily printed referring to letters dated June 1870 and the Harper's column for August 1870. The last few pages are set in a smaller font but forming part of the last gathering and record a dispute with Henry Read over the marketing of Collins' cure and pledges of testimonials to be published in the Easy Chair that were never honored because of Ludlow's death; the last page bears memorial bands across top and bottom and begins: "A letter conveying the mournful tidings of the death of Fitz Hugh Ludlow was received by Dr. Collins ."; the elegy concludes ". for He has found the Fountain of Eternal Youth Fitz Hugh Ludlow can never grow old." Ludlow died in Switzerland on 12 September 1870.<br/><br/>Scarce institutionally and in the trade. Only the copy recorded at the Toner Collection Library of Congress shelfmark RC371.O6 C7 1870a has pagination similar to this copy. It appears to have been regularly reprinted: a sixth edition is noted with date 1871 Library Company of Philadelphia. A copy digitized at the National Library of Medicine http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/66640200R bears the date 1870 on the title page but the pagination is different and the book manifestly printed later blurred type in the imprint and the text on page 69 referring to a letter dated 26 January 1871; the digitized copy from the Library of Congress has a date of 1870 on the title but a preliminary page bears an accession stamp dated 1881; this would appear to be the copy cited by Cordasco 109 pp. Cordasco 70-021 Evening Journal Print, No. 46 Dearborn Street unknown books
16260044501626 Lyon, Barthelemy Vincent, 1626. Deux ouvrages reliés en un volume petit in-8 (115 X 179 mm) vélin souple à coutures apparentes, titre calligraphié au dos à l'encre noire (Reliure de l'époque); (4) ff. dont feuillet de titre, 342 pages (dont une planche à pleine page p. 338), (1) f. de planche et privilège au verso, (7) planches dépliantes - 313 pages, (4) pages de table. Petites restaurations à la reliure et au feuillet de titre.
1909173663London.: Printed for the HMSO by Darling & Son. February1909. Two Parliamentary Papers: <br>Volume I: title contents 98pp final blank; Volume III. title Index three large folding charts one coloured showing the sales of opium between 1902-1905 Appendices Subject Index 280 pp; both 32.5 x 21.1cm original blue title wrappers slightly creased spines discoloued with wear and slight loss to the head and foot of each volume III with two blue ink library stamps but very good clean examples. Important and scarce primary material relating to the use of opium in the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States. Volumes I and III were issued in the series of Parliamentary papers of Great Britain as Papers by command. Volume II containing the Minutes of Evidence was not published for sale. <br> <br>Volume I publishes 17 sections which include the effects and prevalence of opium use attempts at prohibition and restrictive measures including the registration of smokers reduction in the number of opium outlets and increasing price. Volume III includes analysis and evidence given by 74 witnesses on a range of issues relating to opium smoking followed by 99 short appendices. Both de-accessioned from the University of Hull Library sold with a copy of a letter of confirmation of de-accession. . Printed for the HMSO by Darling & Son. unknown
175315196Lyon les Frères Bruyset Libraires 1753 -in-4- plein-veau 1 volume comprenant 3 parties en 1 vol. in-4° - reliés ensemble , reliure plein veau blond marbré et raçiné in-quarto (binding full calfskin in-quarto), dos 5 nerfs (spine with 5 raised bands), décorations "or" et à froid (gil and blind stamping decoration), titre frappé "or", pièce de titre sur fond bordeaux avec double filets "or" en encadrement, Tomaison frappée "or" avec une large roulette "or" de part et d'autre dans un encadrement de deux filets "or", entre-nerfs à fleuron "or" au fer évidé dans un encadrement d'un double filet "or" avec rinceaux "or" aux angles, roulette large "or"en tête et en pied, double filets "or" sur les coupes (double gilt line on the cuts)avec léger manque de dorure (blurred gilding), marque-page en tissu vert (bookmark in green tissue), toutes tranches lisses rouges (all red edges), pages de garde peignées à motif "coquille sur fond caillouté" (painting endpapers - model shell on paved bottom), étiquette Ex-Libris Gravée en noir au dos du 1er plat : EX-LIBRIS J. LAISSUS, titre imprimé en rouge et noir, illustrations : 1 frontispice gravé sur cuivre en noir + front de chapitres, lettrines et culs de lampes gravés sur bois en noir pour les deux volumes de la Pharmacopée et 6 planches dépliantes gravées sur cuivre en noir in fine pour les Eaux minérales [ 5 représentent les appareils nécessaires aux préparations pharmaceutiques et la dernière le tableau des symboles chimiques] (1 frontispiece for the two books of the Pharmacopée and 6 folding plates at rear for Eaux Minérales), sans rousseur ni piqûre ni mouillure (without redness mark - without small point of redness mark - without scar of waterstain), XVI+876 (pagination commune pour les deux premiers tomes) et 72 pages avec Approbation & Privilège du Roi, 1753 à Lyon Chez les Frères Bruyset Libraires - rue Mercière au Soleil et à la Croix d'Or,
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
612 pages. Chronology of the Boxer Uprising. Glossary and key of Chinese terms. Black and white illustrations. "Containing a complete history of the Boxers; the Tai-Ping insurrection and massacres of the foreign ministers; manners, customs and peculiarities of the Chinese; oriental splendors; superstitions; secret societies; the opium habit; idol worship; industries; great cities; natural scenery; etc.... This great work contains full accounts of recent atrocities in China... Profusely illustrated with scenes in China and all objects of interest in that wonderful country." - from title page. Above-average wear and soiling. Hinges open. Partial lean to spine. Brown staining to lower corner of first ten leaves - text unaffected. A worthy copy of this chauvinistic work. Book
186718178Paris, Librairie Centrale (J. Lemer, éditeur), 1867 ; in-16, bradel de vélin-parchemin rigide à recouvrement, titre manuscrit en caractères gothiques bleus, plats décorés d’un encadrement doré et rouge orné, dans les coins, d’une composition de fruits tenus par un ruban noué, dragon volant au centre du plat supérieur, d’après celui qui orne la couverture et la page de titre tête dorée, étui bordé (Levitzky) ; 36 pp. , couverture en papier sulfurisé simili parchemin, en rouge et noir, l’eau-forte serait de Delor en frontispice.
187520987Paris, Librairie J.B. Baillière et fils ; Londres, Baillère, Tindall and Cox ; Madrid, Bailly-Baillière, 1875 ; in-8, demi-chagrin rouge, dos à nerfs, titre doré (reliure de l’époque) ; VII, 536pp, 7 figures in-texte.
12718Paris, Edouard-Joseph, MCMXX. 1 volume in-12 carré, 20 pp., broché, couverture rouge à rabats, excellent état.
15418Paris, Bureaux (Imprimerie Mersch, puis Ch. Noblet des numéros 2 à 5 ; Amiens, Imprimerie Nouvelle, N°6-7 ; Paris, A. Lamier et Fils N°8, 9, 10 ; Bordeaux, Gounouilhou), juillet 1887 à juillet 1888, en un volume in-8, broché ; (4) faux-titre et titre général, 472 pp., premier plat de couverture.
189515352Paris, Chamuel, 1895 ; in-12, broché ; 177 pp., (1 bl.), (2) pp. de catalogue, couverture crème rempliée, illustrée, imprimée en vieux-rose et noir, petites figures.
Features: Reasons Why the Canadian Pacific is So Prosperous; Spokane Rate Decision Eagerly Awaited; Value of Steel Equipment Demonstrated in Wreck of the Crack Milwaukee Train, Columbian on May 30th east of Ralston, WA; Continued Smuggling of Opium into West Coast Ports Aboard Trans-Pacific Steamships; Professional Biography of Joseph H. Young, President of Alaska Steamship Co. - with photo; Contracts Let for Coaling Plants in Seattle and Tacoma - article with two photos; $1 Million Available for Improvements at Moran Shipyards; Record Run Between Puget Sound and Callao by Schooner Wilbert L. Smith; After 20 Years on the Seattle-Tacoma Run, Steamer Flyer is Sold - Feature article with photo; Review of Marine Insurance and Shipping Law; Photo of Steamer Tampico Submerged in Seattle Harbor; Photo of New Boilers for Steamer Charmer built by Commercial Boiler Works of Seattle; Effects of the Panama Canal on Pacific Coast - Oriental Trade; News of Tacoma; Launching of the Titanic - 1/3 page article including photo of the Titanic in drydock with man standing below her massive 100-ton rudder; Charming one-page illustrated ad for The Shasta Limited, "The Finest Train in the West" which connected Seattle with San Francisco; and more. 44 pages including several pages of nostalgic ads, some illustrated in black and white, featuring local marine and rail interests. Printed upon glossy coated stock. Average wear. Binding intact. Few library markings to front cover. A well-preserved copy of this highly-informative memento of Pacific Northwest transportation over a century ago. 12" x 9". Magazine
12961Paris, Société d'Editions Littéraires et Artistiques, Librairie Paul Ollendorf, 1921. 1 volume in-8, VI-274 pp., reliure ancienne demi-maroquin à coins, dos à 2 larges nerfs, légèrement insolé, plats cartonnés marbrés, couverture imprimée conservée, ouvrage illustré de dessins de Georges Jauneau, gravés sur bois par G. Lemoine, bel exemplaire. Première édition de luxe de "Fumée d'opium", limitée à trois cent vingt-deux exemplaires. Celui-ci, No 144, sur Vélin d'Arches.
1924178121Singapore.: J. E. Tyler Government Printer. 1924. 74 122 ix 324pp. Text divided into 3 parts. A. Part I. Includes a report list of attendances and minutes of the British Malaya Opium Committee. Material covered inlcudes many aspects of opium use eg origin consumption retail sale of prepared opium by the government registration of users the Chinese community in British Malaya and the anti-opium movement education as the means of eradicating the habit. The section concludes with a 24 point summary by the committee which sat on 23 occasions between November 1923 and February 1924. B. Part II consists of 77 appendices including opium statistics; statistics of consumers of prepared opium of opium shops dross returns and miscellaneous official and unofficial correspondence and memoranda relating to opium consumption. C. Part III deals in detail with the evidence given by witnesses before the committee and lists their names and occupations. Dark blue cloth covered boards lettered in gilt on the spine very lightly marked original blue wrappers bound in. A sound and clean copy of a fascinating and important report. Amongst the most peculiar aspects of British colonial rule of Malaya was the opium trade where in the late 19th and early 20th centuries revenue raised formed a major part of colonial government budgets Bailey & Truong 2001. In the early 1920s revenues derived from the government opium monopoly together with import duties on alcohol and tobacco were the three largest components of the colony's revenues of the Straits Settlement and remained as major sources of revenue until the end of the 1930s. By the beginning of the 20th century the problem of opium addiction in British Malaya particularly among the Chinese community had become a major concern. Under mounting pressure from the Chinese community leaders an Opium Commission was set up in 1907 to investigate the problem and this resulted in the abolition of opium tax farms in 1912 and the subsequent loss of a major source of revenue for the colonial government Turnbull 1989; Sugimoto 2002. In order to address this major loss of revenue the British colonial administration attempted to introduce income tax in the Straits Settlements.' Ern Chen Loo and Margaret McKerchar The Impact of British Colonial Rule on the Malaysian Income Tax System in eJournal of Tax Research 2014 vol. 12 No. 1. . J. E. Tyler Government Printer. hardcover
11492Paris, Albert Messein, Editeur, 1921. 1 volume in-12, broché, couverture souple illustrée présentant quelques piqures, surtout sur le 4e plat, 66 pp., page de faux-titre jaunie, intérieur propre et frais, bon exemplaire. Tirage limité à 505 exemplaires. Celui-ci No 368 sur vélin d'Arches. Illustration de Binet sur la page de couverture.
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
P003067Berlin: Deutscher Zweig der Internationalen Frauenliga für Frieden und Freiheit 1929. Octavo 24 à 15.8 cm. Original pictorial wrappers; 74 4 pp. Wrappers worn chipped to corners; front wrapper re-attached; else internally good or better. Scarce proceedings of the first public conference held in Germany against opium and other drugs organized by the International League for Peace and Freedom following a visit of delegates to China in 1927. The conference featured an honorary committee staffed by numerous noted women's rights activists such as Helene Stöcker Lida Gustava Heymann Anita Augspurg and the French feminist Gabrielle Duchêne as well as figures such as Käthe Kollwitz Albert Einstein and the writer Ricarda Huch. Related events were organized in other German cities such as Munich Bremen and Hamburg. With numerous ads for other publications by the German branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. With a striking woodcut illustration to front wrapper typical for the period signed Brigitte Nagel or Hagel and the caption "Fort mit den Rauschgiften!" Away with the drugs!. We are unable to find any information on the artist. As of April 2020 KVK and OCLC show only one copy in North America. unknown books
18870016661887 Bruxelles, Weissenbruch, 1887-1889. Deux volumes in-quarto (190 X 277 mm) demi-basane fauve, dos cinq nerfs, pièces de titre et de tomaison rouge et verte (Reliure de l'époque). Tome I : 648 pages - Tome II : 775 pages.
41052503Group of 8 photo postcards color and black and white very clean most unused a few used as a group only. This is an excellent lot of eight period postcards most likely from about 1898-1920's. THE CARDS & THEIR CAPTIONS: a. No caption. Shows what looks like a Manchurian Princess in elaborate gowns sitting beside a Chinese man smoking opium large format 14.5 x 10.2 cm. black & white very good verso blank. . b. "N. AN OPIUM DEN SHANGHAI. "Verso shows publisher as Denniston & Sullivan Shanghai no. 2. b.w. shows two Chinese men sharing an opium pipe usual postcard size unused card. . c. "CHINESE OPIUM SMOKERS." Color card shows 5 Chinese men with queue hair style one smokes an opium pipe one other smokes a 'water pipe' a child looks on verso publisher states: "Published by the Turco-Egyptian tobacco store Hong Kong Queens Road Old Post Office Building else blank card unused. . d. "CHINESE OPIUM SMOKING." Black & white card shows 6 Chinese men with queue hair style one smokes an opium pipe one other smokes a 'water pipe' while others look on. Verso blank unused card. The color photo illustration occupies 2/3 of the card balance 1/3 to the right is blank. Front states: "Edward H. Mitchell publisher San Francisco." . e. "57 UNDERGROUND OPIUM DEN CHINATOWN SAN FRANCISCO CAL" Color card shows the dank dark basement type opium den common to the San Francisco area in the early 1898-1900's. Shows 4 Chinese men one with a long queue 3 smoke the opium pipe. Verso is blank but printed: "Authorized by act of Congress of May 19 1898. This could be close to that date. . f. "SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA UNDERGROUND OPIUM DEN CHINATOWN." This is similar to the above but a full-sized card color view. Front also states: "Published & Manif. by the Galloway Lithographing Co. S.F. Cal." Verso is blank unused. . g. "CHINESE OPIUM DEN 614 JACKSON STREET CHINATOWN SAN FRANCISCO THE CAT HAS BECOME ADDICTED TO THE FUMES OF THE DRUG." Color photo with 1905 dated ink message on the front cover also on the front is: " Britton & Rey Lithographers San Francisco 512." Verso is addressee postmark round dated and cancelled one-cent stamped with 1905 postmark. Shows a Chinese man with queue hair style smoking an opium pipe a cat sits on his body being held in place by the man's hand. . h. "OPIUM AND PIPE SMOKERS." Color card shows 6 Chinese with queue hair styles two smoke opium. Verso is with penned message dated 1910 round-dated stamp with half-penny stamp addressed to Jersey a UK island. CONDITION: All items in very good or better original condition. Please view the photo images posted to our web site if any questions. . unknown
189228464Gwalior India 1892-93 1892. Paper browning but generally sound; chips and tears at the edges and folds; in very good condition. All approximately 34.5 x 49.5 printed on the recto only in ten columns. Each column serves a different purpose: serial number; date; name of the trader; number of bags; destination; number of wooden crates; weight; taxes; signature of the recipient; and instructions for the tax collector. Documents permitting and taxing the movement of opium by the Government of Gwalior. The name of the trader on one of the documents has been identified as "Bhakim Chand Pijara." These documents were sold in a single lot at Superior Galleries Los Angeles January 16 2001 Session Two lot 847. The translation was done by an academic in New Delhi India for a librarian at Stanford University on behalf of the previous owner a private collector. <br/><br/> Gwalior, India, 1892-93 unknown books
