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HRD. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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Hardcover. Condición: New. Size of the book: US Trade 152 x 229 mm and around 272 Cream color pages. Unchanged reprint of the original 1843 edition. Please review our "Terms of Sale". If you have any questions, please feel free to ask us.

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Hardcover. Condición: New. Size of the book: US Trade 152 x 229 mm and around 388 Cream color pages. Unchanged reprint of the original 1843 edition. Please review our "Terms of Sale". If you have any questions, please feel free to ask us.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.

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Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Complete with 128 intricately engraved plates showing scenes not just of important sites, such as the Great Wall, Temples, Palaces and the landscape but also of more intimate scenes, such as dinner parties and cat -merchants. The plates are accompanied by detailed descriptions by Wright, providing history and context as well as a wealth information on daily life in China. Bound in half-leather with fetching blue cloth with blind stamped floral design. Marbled end-papers with matching marbling to page edges. 4to. (275x225mm) 96+72+68+56pp. Some rubbing and scratching to leather. Marking to rear of vol. III. Some mild spotting to front matter and edges of engravers. Else clean. Binding tight. Good.

Hard Cover. Condición: Good. 4 steel-engraved additional title-pages plus 124 Plates By Allom Ilustrador. First Edition. Contemporary half leather, rubbed. water stain to bottom margin of the engraved title page and a number of plates in volume three (away from the image); otherwise VG.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. Four volumes, black leather spines & corners over marbled paper-covered boards, gilt decorations and lettering to spines, 10-7/8? x 8-3/4", all plates present, I: 72 + 96 pp. (32 plates), II: 72 pp. (32 plates), III: 68 pp. (32 plates), IV: 56 pp. (32 plates). In each volume, one of the plates is the vignette on the engraved title page. Rubbing to edges of boards, minor repair work to spines. Main flaw is foxing to volume 4 which affects some plates; endpapers have vertical creases from accidental folding. +++++Thomas Allom (1804-1872) was a British architect, topographer, and artist. He traveled widely and produced popular books of views of England and Constantinople. For this book on China, however, it seems unlikely that he ever traveled to China. Instead, he relied on works by previous artists. +++++In the eighteenth century, Britain was concerned about their trade deficit with China. However, the East India Company discovered that they could run opium from India to China, and, once the population was addicted to the drug, the trade imbalance was tilted in England?s favor. British imports of opium to China rose from 200 chests (about 140 pounds) in in 1729 to 40,000 chests in 1838. (That?s 5.6 million pounds of opium. According to the UN, the current street price in China for opium is about $1.80 per gram, which means the UK was delivering the equivalent of $5.6 billion in drugs.) +++++In the late 1830s, China and Britain faced off over China?s increasing crackdown on the opium traffic. It eventually led to the First Opium War of 1839-1842, which ended with the 1842 Treaty of Nanking, giving Hong Kong to the British, forcing China to increase foreign trade, and allowing the continued opium deliveries to China. +++++Thus, the English appetite for knowledge of China was at a peak when Allom produced this book in 1843. Even though Allom produced more of an anthology of art than first-hand impressions, it remained an extremely popular and influential book, and helped form England?s view of China. +++++Extra postage required for international or expedited shipping.

[Travel] Four volumes bound as two. Quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.[2] 96; 72, pp.68; 56. Illustrated with 124 black and white engraved plates, as called for. All four title pages present. Contemporary half navy blue calf, gilt, over marbled paper-covered sides, marbled edges and endpapers. Text leaves clean, plates browned to margins as expected, covers rubbed with some wear to joints and headbands. Very good indeed, attractively bound. The standard steel-pate book on China, written by the Irish topographer and clergyman George Newenham Wright, and illustrated from drawings made in situ by the English artist and architect Thomas Allom, a founding member of what became the Royal Institute of British Architects and whose projects included The Houses of Parliament.

Four volumes 28.3 x 22 cms, 4 engraved vignette title-pages and 124 black and white engravings after drawings by Thomas Allom, 72 + 96 pages; 72 pages; 68 pages; 56 pages; contemporary half morocco over pebbled cloth boards, spines gilt lettered with raised bands and decorated in compartments, all edges gilt, morocco a trifle rubbed and scant foxing affecting one of the title pages and a handful of plates, but a very good remarkably clean set, the fine engravings bright with great depth of tone. A very handsome example of an influential work. The fine illustrations are by Thomas Allom (1804-1872), who at the time of this publication was a well-known and highly regarded topographical artist, having produced a series of English views as well as illustrating celebrated works on Turkey and the Middle East. The author of the text (who gets second billing) the Rev'd George Newenham Wright (c. 1794?1877) was an Irish writer and Anglican clergyman who had never travelled to China and despite Allom's travels to Turkey and the Middle East there is no convincing evidence to suggest that he ever made it there either. Wright's text was drawn from his research performed at the British Library, and Allom's illustrations drew on earlier works. The majority of the views show southern China, including images of Hong Kong, Canton and Macao, reflecting the limited British access to China at the time. However, there are also some images and descriptions of Peking, Nanking and Jehol visited by the Macartney Embassy almost fifty years before. Very popular at the time of publication, "China Illustrated" answered a European demand for news of the "exotic Orient" and it gives keen insight into British attitudes towards China in the early 19th Century. It ran to a number of editions including a German edition in 12 parts with smaller plates which appeared shortly after the English edition. Cordier 80-81; Lust 363; Lowendahl 986.

4 volumes bound in 2. Large 4to. (28 x 21 cm). Contemporary full pebble-grained red morocco, sides richly gilt with foliate panel design, spines in six compartments with raised bands and gilt-decorated compartments, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In total 128 steel-engraved plates including 4 engraved vignette title-pages, all with tissue guards. I: pp. 96, with additional engraved title ('China, its scenery, architecture, social habits, &c. illustrated') and 31 plates; II: pp. 72, with additional engraved title and 31 plates; III: pp. 68, with additional engraved title and 31 plates; IV: pp. 56, with additional engraved title and 31 plates. Light foxing to some of the plates, a little toned, some light shelfwear, overall a very good copy in particularly handsome red morocco bindings. Thomas Allom (1804-1872) the noted topographical artist, at a time of increased interest in China, presented the Western world with the most complete portrait of China and Chinese culture up to the middle of the nineteenth century. Captioned in English, French and German, the plates encompass Hong Kong, Beijing, Nanjing, Macao, Guangzhou, and Xiamen, among other locations, and depict, inter alia, harbours, temples, palaces, mountains and rivers, military engagements, punishments, the cultivation of tea and rice and the manufacture of silk, the Great Wall of China, cat merchants, and 'playing at shuttlecock with the feet'. As well as his own observations, Allom includes some images based on the work of earlier artists such as Lieutenant Frederick White, R.M., Captain Stoddart, R.N. and R. Vaughan. The text was by George Wright, a protestant missionary who had spent a considerable time in China. Cordier 80-81; Lust 363; Lowendahl 986.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. A Most Attractive Quarto Set. 4 volumes bound in 2. Half Contemporary Brown Calf and marbled boards with raised bands and gilt to spines. Embellished with 4 Vignette Title-pages and 124 Stunning steel-engraved tissue-guarded Plates. A.e.gilt. An unusually clean and fresh set with minimal spotting / foxing. (ref. Cordier 80 - 81 ;- Lowendahl 986 ;- Lust 363.).

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. 1850 CHINA Illustrated Thomas Allom CHINESE ART Architecture Temples Peking RARE Thomas Allom s China in a Series of Views is an impressive and highly desirable 19th-century illustrated account of Chinese scenery and architecture. This particular tome features illustrations and descriptions of iconic locations including: PooToo Temple at Chusan, or Zhoushan o Valley o Bridges Ancient tombs at Amoy, or Xiamen Ting-Hoo, Tripod Lake Chin Chew River and Bay Ting Hai Fortress of Terror Silk farming; dying, winding, manufacturing Wootang, or Wudang Mountains Item number: #21817 Price: $1250 ALLOM, Thomas China in a series of views : displaying the scenery, architecture, and social habits, of that ancient empire London: Fisher, Son, & Co., [ca. 1850]. Details: Collation: 2 volumes in 1 tome 32 engravings (including vignette title page) 32 engravings (including vignette title page) Language: English Binding: Leather; tight and secure Size: ~11in X 8.5in (28cm x 21.5cm) Very rare and desirable Our Guarantee: Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide. Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving, and we will offer a full refund without reservation! 21817 Photos available upon request.