Western Ephemera

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Four illustrated pages from Italian and English periodicals dated 1858-1884 showing different methods of punishment in China. B

Price: $100.00

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1902 article in The American Monthly Review of Reviews titled Formosa under Japanese Rule. 4 pages complete. Images of Dr. Shimpei Goto and Baron Gentaro Kodama, Governor-General of Formosa. B

Price: $25.00

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A collection of 5 colored illustrated pages from French and Italian periodicals dated 1894-1936. Shown are an attack on a French Customs controller (1894), refugees from the Russian-Chinese conflict (1929), a tiger attack in Manchukuo (1936), a Shanghai tram (1931) and Germans and British Indian soldiers fighting each other in Tientsin (1901). B

Price: $200.00

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A collection of 20 political cartoons about China in Punch, from 1850-1906. B

Price: $430.00

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Two engravings from 1750 on silk manufacturing in China. B

Price: $160.00

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Complete set of 6 plates by Pardinel on China. Shown are Chinese peasants; meal time; females; punishment; military, mandarin and servant costumes. B

Price: $180.00

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Collection of 9 19th century steel engravings by Allom, Melville and others. Shown are the Que Moy fort and island; Canton; Ning-Po; house of a Cantonese merchant; punishment; Fung-ting Shan; Tiger Island; a devotee consulting the sticks of fate. B

Price: $270.00

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Collection of 14 engravings from various 18th century voyages. Shown are Chinese fishermen; human transportation; working a chain pump; household divinities; Chinese emperor; bell of Peking; methods of catching fish and wild ducks; military and civil service types; female types; farming; a pagoda and sepulcher; local dress; mandarins and merchants; Confucian festival. B

Price: $700.00

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Collection of 12 engravings from various 17th century voyages. Shown are the fortress of Tientsin; Nanking; the flying bridge; various habits of Chinese and tartars; farmers; a pagan temple; city of Tong-chew; catching wild ducks and fish; different Chinese types; jugglers; Chinese men. B

Price: $600.00

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A collection of 13 17th century engravings from Nieuhof. Shown are the city of Chu Cheu Fu; Nanking; a marriage procession; Tong Cheu; strolling beggars; method of catching wild ducks and fish; Easter Tartars; Chinese sepulcher; farming; local temple; Lan Tang; a flying fish; Sang Wan Hab; priests or monks; a fishing bird. B

Price: $700.00

t-cpc196a5CPC 196t-cpc196a6CPC 196Note: Johan Nieuhof (22 July 1618 in Uelsen – 8 October 1672 in Madagascar) was a Dutch traveler who wrote about his journeys to Brazil, China and India. The most famous of these was a trip of 2,400 km from Canton to Peking in 1655-1657, which enabled him to become an authoritative Western writer on China. He wrote An embassy from the East-India Company containing the written account of this journey. B

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