Asia Illustrated Catalogue 2024
The interaction between Europe and Asia has always had the potential to enrich the knowledge of both continents. Sadly, this promise has not always been fulfilled – a glance at the authors of many of the books in the present catalogue betrays their military background with European powers subsuming Asian culture.
A side effect was that many talented artists also made their way eastwards and have left us a superb visual record of Asia.
As the world pivots towards Asia and particularly the economic superpowers that are China and India, it is an ideal time to reflect on the glories of these countries as seen by western artists over the century and a half from 1750 to the turn of the twentieth century.
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Letters written in a Mahratta camp during the year 1809,
BROUGHTON, Thomas Duer.Original price £2,250.00 - Original price £2,250.00Original price £0.00£2,250.00£2,250.00 - £2,250.00Current price £2,250.00With 10 hand-coloured aquatints. Broughton was Commander of the Resident's Escort at the Court of Scindia. His march commenced in Agra and took in ...
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Narrative of a journey in the interior of China:
ABEL, Clarke.Original price £4,750.00 - Original price £4,750.00Original price £0.00£4,750.00£4,750.00 - £4,750.00Current price £4,750.00Rothschild copy with arms. A finely bound copy of Abel's China with Rothschild provenance, bound by the Royal bookbinder, Simier.Abel was the natur...
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Nederlandsch-Indië Teekeningen.
RAPPARD, Josias Cornelis (illustrator); PERELAUER, M.T.H; VAN REES, Willem Adriaan.Original price £15,000.00 - Original price £15,000.00Original price £0.00£15,000.00£15,000.00 - £15,000.00Current price £15,000.00Rare complete set consisting of Batavia, Java, Buitenzorg, and De Buitenbezittingen (outer possessions). The work presents a romanticised account ...
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Oriental Field Sports.
WILLIAMSON, Thomas; HOWETT, Samuel.Original price £12,500.00 - Original price £12,500.00Original price £0.00£12,500.00£12,500.00 - £12,500.00Current price £12,500.00Valuable record of the sporting activities of British officers serving in India. Williamson's Oriental Field Sports is a valuable record of the spo...
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Original Sketches in the Punjaub.
[PUNJAB].Original price £19,500.00 - Original price £19,500.00Original price £0.00£19,500.00£19,500.00 - £19,500.00Current price £19,500.00Fine views of Lahore and Amritsar. The drawings were selected from an album produced by the wife of a British army officer serving in the Punjab. T...
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Portraits of the princes & people of India.
EDEN, Hon. Emily.Original price £40,000.00 - Original price £40,000.00Original price £0.00£40,000.00£40,000.00 - £40,000.00Current price £40,000.00Rare hand-coloured issue. The rare hand-coloured issue of Emily Eden's Portraits of the Princes and People of India. The author, Hon. Emily Eden (1...
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Rambles and recollections of an Indian official.
SLEEMAN, William Henry (Lieut-Col.)Original price £2,000.00 - Original price £2,000.00Original price £0.00£2,000.00£2,000.00 - £2,000.00Current price £2,000.00Sleeman (1788-1856), an officer in the East India Company, achieved some renown for his part in the anti-Thugee campaign in the 1830's and 40's, b...
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Recollections of India.
HARDINGE, Charles Stewart.Original price £45,000.00 - Original price £45,000.00Original price £0.00£45,000.00£45,000.00 - £45,000.00Current price £45,000.00Deluxe issue with plates hand-coloured. The deluxe issue of Hardinge's rare colour plate book on India. Includes important Sikh portraits of the Ma...
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Reise des Grafen Emanuel Andrasy in Ostindien.
ANDRASY, Graf Emanuel [Mano].Original price £19,500.00 - Original price £19,500.00Original price £0.00£19,500.00£19,500.00 - £19,500.00Current price £19,500.00Plates of Hong Kong and Calcutta. Andrasy's Ostindien contains a particularly beautiful set of plates of Hong Kong and Calcutta, elephant, rhinocer...
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Reizen over Moskovië door Persië en Indië:
BRUIN [BRUYN], Cornelis de.Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £7,500.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00With superb engraved plates. An exceptionally fresh copy of Le Brun's account of his trans-Asia expedition, noteworthy in particular for its superb...
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Royal Navy Master's logbook recording the tour of HMS Amazon
[RENAUD, Benjamin].Original price £20,000.00 - Original price £20,000.00Original price £0.00£20,000.00£20,000.00 - £20,000.00Current price £20,000.00Watercolours of Singapore and the West Indies. A richly illustrated record of service in the Royal Navy at the height of British maritime supremacy...
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Ruins of Mandoo,
HARRIS, Capt. Claudius.Original price £6,500.00 - Original price £6,500.00Original price £0.00£6,500.00£6,500.00 - £6,500.00Current price £6,500.00Captain Harris (1826-62) served in the 8th Madras Light Cavalry between 1845 and 1860, becoming a captain in 1858. When his regiment was posted to...
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Scenery and reminiscences of Ceylon.
DESCHAMPS, John.Original price £8,500.00 - Original price £8,500.00Original price £0.00£8,500.00£8,500.00 - £8,500.00Current price £8,500.00In his preface to Scenery and Reminiscences of Ceylon, Deschamps states that the views he has selected represent some of the most familiar scenes ...
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Sketches of China and the Chinese.
BORGET, Auguste.Original price £22,500.00 - Original price £22,500.00Original price £0.00£22,500.00£22,500.00 - £22,500.00Current price £22,500.00Fine lithographic views of China. Borget's fine lithographic views of China, including five of Hong-Kong, and others relating to Macao and Canton. ...
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The Chater collection
ORANGE, James.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00A fine copy of James Orange's catalogue of the Chater collection. Originally formed by Wyndham Law, the collection was acquired by Sir Catchick Ch...
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The costumes of the various tribes,
RATTRAY, James.Original price £30,000.00 - Original price £30,000.00Original price £0.00£30,000.00£30,000.00 - £30,000.00Current price £30,000.00The finest illustrated book on Afghanistan. Rattray's is the finest illustrated book on Afghanistan, of great value for showing us the ways of life...
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The Holy Land
ROBERTS, David.Original price £19,500.00 - Original price £19,500.00Original price £0.00£19,500.00£19,500.00 - £19,500.00Current price £19,500.00Earliest issue of one of the greatest of 19th-century illustrated books. Roberts' Holy Land, was one of the most elaborate ventures of 19th-century...
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The rulers of India and the chiefs of Rajputana.
HENDLEY, Thomas Holbein.Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £0.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00Hendley depicts the rulers of India from the end of the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, starting with the portrait of emperor Akbar, the foun...
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The Sundhya or the daily prayers of the Brahmins.
BELNOS, Mrs. Sophia Charlotte.Original price £8,000.00 - Original price £8,000.00Original price £0.00£8,000.00£8,000.00 - £8,000.00Current price £8,000.00The rites and rituals of the Brahmin. Mrs Belnos' scarce book on the rites and rituals of the Brahmin.'Relatively little is known about Mrs. Belnos...
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Twenty four views taken in St. Helena,
SALT, Henry.Original price £45,000.00 - Original price £45,000.00Original price £0.00£45,000.00£45,000.00 - £45,000.00Current price £45,000.00Fresh, clean copy of Salt's very fine large format views. A fresh, clean copy of the set of Salt's very fine large format views of India, Abyssinia...
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Views in India,
WHITE, George Francis.Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00Well-illustrated account of White's tours in the direction of Mussoore, Simla, the sources of the Jumna and Ganges, etc.First edition; 2 vols, fol...
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Views in the Himala Mountains.
FRASER, James Baillie.Original price £37,500.00 - Original price £37,500.00Original price £0.00£37,500.00£37,500.00 - £37,500.00Current price £37,500.00First edition of Fraser's Himala Mountains, the finest illustrated work on the Himalayas.James Baillie Fraser (1783-1856) was the eldest son of a ...
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Watercolour Album.
[CHINA.Original price £45,000.00 - Original price £45,000.00Original price £0.00£45,000.00£45,000.00 - £45,000.00Current price £45,000.00China under the Qing dynasty. A remarkable collection of sixty-four fine large-format Chinese watercolours with subjects depicting tradesmen, flowe...
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