Grosvenor Prints

[Alvaro Semedo] The true Effigies of F. Alvarez Semedo Procurator of ye Provinces of Japan & China.
Tho: Cross fecit.
[London: John Crook, 1655.]
Engraving. Sheet 180 x 125mm (7 x 5"). Trimmed and laid on album paper.
Alvaro de Semedo (1585-1658) the Portuguese Jesuit missionary in China. Along with another Jesuit, he was imprisoned during an anti-Christian campaign in Nanjing in 1616, and then sent back to Macau. He later returned to to China and in 1636 he went back to Europe as a procurator. The frontispiece to Semado's 'History of that Great and Renowned Monarchy of China',
[Ref: 59871] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

A Sketch by Compass of the Coast of the Promontory og Shan-tung with the Track of the Ships and the Soundings from the place of first making the Land to the Strait of Mi-A-Tau. By J. Barrow 1793.
Engraved by B. Baker Islington.
Published April 12, 1796 by George Nicol.
Engraved map. 695 x 540mm (27½ x 21¼") Staining top & bottom.
A chart of the coast around Shandong, mapped by members of the George Macartney mission to China, the first British embassy to that country, 1792-94. A view shows the passage between Zhifu Island and Kongtong Island. The chart was published in Sir George Staunton's 'An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China'. See item ref: 37515, 'Narrative of the British Embassy to China In the Years 1792, 1793 and 1794' for a detailed account of Æneas Anderson's voyage to China in the service of Lord Macartney, including a list of the retinue of Lord Macartney and a Glossary of Chinese words.
[Ref: 38161] £260.00

Shanghae.
R.E. del et lith. Hullmandel & Watson, Imp
London: Hurst & Blackett Great Marlborough Street [c.1854]
Colour lithograph, printed area 130 x 180mm (5 x 7"), with large margins.
A view the Chinese town of Shanghai. From: Robert Elwes Sketches Tour Around The World.
Abbey: 9
[Ref: 46898] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Shanghae. One of the Five Ports opened by the Late Treaty to British Commerce.
Drawn by B. Clayton from an original Painting by Piqua. On Stone by Dean & Co.
London, Dean & Co. Threadneedle Street. [n.d., 1847.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 165 x 230mm (6½ x 9").
A view of Shanghai soon after it was opened to European trade after the First Opium War, with junks filling the foreground. From Julia Corner's 'The History of India & China'.
[Ref: 39345] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Shanghai.
[n.d., c.1880.]
Wood engraving. Sheet 75 x 230mm (3 x 9").
A view of Shanghai as a westernised city, with clippers and steamers, a very rare letterhead.
[Ref: 39346] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Shanghae-One of the Five Ports opened by the Late Treaty to British Commerce.
Drawn by B. Clayton, from an original painting by Piqua. On Stone by Dean & Co.
[1847.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet: 145 x 235mm (5¾ x 9¼'').
A view of the port of Shanghai, one of the five ports opened to British Traders following the Treaty of Nanking which ended the First Opium War. An illustration from 'The History of China and India Pictorial and Descriptive...' by Julia Corner 1847.
Abbey 468.
[Ref: 50119] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Plan of Shanghai Harbour showing sections and position of wharves, docks, buoys, etc. Buoys shown in red owned by Chinese maritime customs.
October 1930.
Chromolithograph, sheet 385 x 270mm (15¼ x 10½").
Map showing the docks and wharves lining the Huangpu river as it passes through the city of Shanghai. At the time this map was published Britain, France and the United States all operated concessions in the city.
[Ref: 45875] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Shaoguan] The City Shau-Chew 100 miles North of Canton.
G. Child Sculp.t.
[London, n.d., c.1750.]
Engraving, 18th century watermark. 190 x 300mm (7½ x 11¾"), with large margins.
A view of Shaoguan from the North River, once the home of Matteo Ricci's mission house. This view illustrates the account of the VOC's embassy to China (1655-7) by Johan Nieuhoff. From an edition of Astley's 'A New General Collection of Voyages and Travels'.
[Ref: 49637] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Silk Reeling. Che.kiang
Fr Schenck. 50 Geo. St Edin. [n.d. c.1860]
Hand coloured lithograph, sheet 125 x 190mm (5 x 7½"). Bottom margin slightly creased.
A country scene in Zhejiang (Chekiang), China of people making silk thread. One person checks mulberry leaves for silkworm cocoons, another sits creating bundles perhaps for twig frames for the silkworms, one person guides the thread onto the wheel that winds it onto spools, with another person turning. Someone watches from a window nearby and two older people watch them closely. Chickens peck at the ground.
[Ref: 58995] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Canton] Sketch from the Wall on the Morning after the Grand Attack.
W.R. Snow Del.t. M. & N. Hanhart imp.
Dickinson Bro.s Lith.s 114 New Bond Street [1860.]
Scarce tinted lithograph. Printed area 230 x 340mm (9 x 13¾"), with very wide margins.
A prisoner being carried on a bamboo pole, wrists and ankles tied. From Part III (of III) of William Roger Snow's 'Sketches of Chinese Life & Character', based on a visit to Hong Kong.William Roger Snow's 'Sketches of Chinese Life & Character', based on a visit to Hong Kong. Snow was an army officer when he visited Hong Kong. However in 1875 an affair with an Irish actress ruined his career and, rather than be posted to a backwater, he left his wife and disappeared. Under the alias Clifford Merton he worked as an author and illustrator of both adult and children's literature, until his wife found and exposed him in 1881. After another disappearance and name change, Richard André continued to write and illustrate books, as well as working in photography and the publishing business.
[Ref: 52714] £320.00

On the Wall, Canton.
W.R. Snow Del.t. M. & N. Hanhart imp.
Dickinson Bro.s Lith.s 114 New Bond Street [1860.]
Scarce tinted lithograph. Printed area 230 x 340mm (9 x 13¾"), with wide margins. Slight tear in top margin.
Two Europeans wearing kepis and natives including a water carrier. From Part II (of III) of William Roger Snow's 'Sketches of Chinese Life & Character', based on a visit to Hong Kong.William Roger Snow's 'Sketches of Chinese Life & Character', based on a visit to Hong Kong. Snow was an army officer when he visited Hong Kong. However in 1875 an affair with an Irish actress ruined his career and, rather than be posted to a backwater, he left his wife and disappeared. Under the alias Clifford Merton he worked as an author and illustrator of both adult and children's literature, until his wife found and exposed him in 1881. After another disappearance and name change, Richard André continued to write and illustrate books, as well as working in photography and the publishing business.
[Ref: 52715] £320.00

Military Train Coolies Going Home.
W.R. Snow Del.t. M. & N. Hanhart imp.
Dickinson Bro.s Lith.s 114 New Bond Street [1860.]
Tinted lithograph with original hand colour. Sheet 250 x 365mm (9¾ x 14½"). Trimmed. Bit messy. Repaired tear at bottom.
A group of Chinese porters going home at sunset. From Part III (of III) of William Roger Snow's 'Sketches of Chinese Life & Character', based on a visit to Hong Kong. Snow was an army officer when he visited Hong Kong. However in 1875 an affair with an Irish actress ruined his career and, rather than be posted to a backwater, he left his wife and disappeared. Under the alias Clifford Merton he worked as an author and illustrator of both adult and children's literature, until his wife found and exposed him in 1881. After another disappearance and name change, Richard André continued to write and illustrate books, as well as working in photography and the publishing business.
[Ref: 52710] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

A Group of Coolies on the road at Dinner.
W.R. Snow Del.t. M. & N. Hanhart imp.
Dickinson Bro.s Lith.s 114 New Bond Street [1860.]
Scarce tinted lithograph. Printed area 230 x 340mm (9 x 13¾"), with very wide margins.
Workers eating lunch with chop sticks. From Part III (of III) of William Roger Snow's 'Sketches of Chinese Life & Character', based on a visit to Hong Kong.William Roger Snow's 'Sketches of Chinese Life & Character', based on a visit to Hong Kong. Snow was an army officer when he visited Hong Kong. However in 1875 an affair with an Irish actress ruined his career and, rather than be posted to a backwater, he left his wife and disappeared. Under the alias Clifford Merton he worked as an author and illustrator of both adult and children's literature, until his wife found and exposed him in 1881. After another disappearance and name change, Richard André continued to write and illustrate books, as well as working in photography and the publishing business.
[Ref: 52712] £320.00

A Funeral. Mode of Carrying the Coffin.
W.R. Snow Del.t. M. & N. Hanhart imp.
Dickinson Bro.s Lith.s 114 New Bond Street [1860.]
Scarce tinted lithograph. Printed area 230 x 340mm (9 x 13¾"), with very wide margins.
From Part II (of III) of William Roger Snow's 'Sketches of Chinese Life & Character', based on a visit to Hong Kong.William Roger Snow's 'Sketches of Chinese Life & Character', based on a visit to Hong Kong. Snow was an army officer when he visited Hong Kong. However in 1875 an affair with an Irish actress ruined his career and, rather than be posted to a backwater, he left his wife and disappeared. Under the alias Clifford Merton he worked as an author and illustrator of both adult and children's literature, until his wife found and exposed him in 1881. After another disappearance and name change, Richard André continued to write and illustrate books, as well as working in photography and the publishing business.
[Ref: 52713] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

An Affair of Retaliation upon the Island Formosa.
[London, 1790.]
Engraving, rare. Sheet 255 x 205mm (10 x 7"). Trimmed within plate binding, creased.
A plate from 'Memoirs and Travels of Mauritius Augustus Count de Benyowsky', the highly-fictionalised autobiography of Móric Benyovszky (1746-86). Although he was Hungarian he was fighting for the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth against the Russians when he was captured and sent as a prisoner of war to Kamchatka. There he stole a ship and sailed south, landing in Japan, Taiwan (where three of the crew were killed during a fight with native islanders) and Macao, from where the survivors took passage to France.
[Ref: 45639] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Gathering of Tea. [&] Taching, or Firing, of Tea.
Sangso, a Chinese pinx. Sutherland sculp. [&] Wo-siong pinx.t.
London, Published by Dr Thornton, Dec.r 1, 1808.
Pair of aquatints. 440 x 540mm (17¼ x 21¼"), with very large margins. Framed. Centre folds as issued. Unexamined out of frames.
Two scenes in oriental style of tea production, from Dr Robert Thornton's 'The Philosophy of Botany, Being Botanical and Philosophical Extracts'. The first shows Chinese picking leaves, with figures climbing ladders and cut steps to reach plateaus with tea fields. The second shows a garden under a cliff with stairs, with a man drying the leaves in a furnace under a waterfall, two men drinking tea and a pavilion with tea chests on racks.
[Ref: 54907] £800.00 view all images for this item

Culture and Preparation of Tea.
Drawn by B. Clayton from a Painting by Piqua. On Stone by Gilks.
London, Dean & Co. Threadneedle Street. [n.d., 1847.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 165 x 230mm (6½ x 9").
From Julia Corner's 'The History of India & China'.
Abbey 468.
[Ref: 56659] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Tea plant] Thee ou Cha [in image]
[After Johannes Nieuhof]
[Amsterdam, published by Jacob van Meurs, 1668]
Engraving with letterpress, sheet 300 x 190mm (11¾ x 7½").
From Johannes Nieuhof's 'Dutch Embassy to the khan of Tartary Shunzhi, the present Emperor of China', 1668, which documented Dutch trade missions sponsored by the VOC or Dutch East India Company. In the history of travel literature Nieuhof is noted for his eyewitness accounts of experiences in Asia and Latin America, and he wrote in detail about the function and place of tea within the highest echelons of Chinese society. Niehof's books were highly popular and swiftly translated into several foreign-language editions, including an English publication by John Ogilby.

[Ref: 40074] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

View of the City of Ten-Tchoo-Foo from the anchorage of the Hindostan in the Strait of Mi-A-Tau bearing South-west.
Ellis sculp.t.
London, Published April 12, 1796, by G.Nicol.
Engraving. 545 x 745mm (21½ x 29¼"), on paper watermarked 'J. Whatman 1794.' Central vertical fold as published.
Three views of the Shantung Peninsula. A panoramic view of the harbour and city of Ten-Tchoo-Foo is shown at the bottom. Cape Macartney, Staunton's Island and Cape Gower are illustrated above. Plate 7 from Sir George Staunton's 'An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China', describing the expedition of Lord Macartney (1737 - 1806) as the first British ambassador to China. See item ref: 37515, 'Narrative of the British Embassy to China In the Years 1792, 1793 and 1794' for a detailed account of Æneas Anderson's voyage to China in the service of Lord Macartney, including a list of the retinue of Lord Macartney and a Glossary of Chinese words.
[Ref: 38153] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)

Summer Palace of the Emperor, opposite the City of Tien-Sing.
Hon.ble Charles Abbot del.t. J. Clarke sculp.t.
[London, John Murray, 1817.]
Fine coloured aquatint. Sheet 160 x 250mm (6¼ x 9½"). Trimmed to printed boarder and laid on album paper.
From 'Journal of the Proceedings of the Late Embassy to China', an account of the Amherst Embassy by Henry Ellis.
[Ref: 55497] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Tun-Min, Roy de la Chine. Sous la Puissance du Grand Cam, Ou Empereur de Tartarie...et Choisisent tel genre de mort q.ls veulent Quand a leurs Religions Ils Sont Grands Idolastres et Super stitieux, &.
[Engraved by De Larmessin].
Paris Chez P Bertrand Rue St. Iacques a la pomme d'Or pres St Seuerin, Avec Privil du Roy, [n.d. c.1685].
Engraving with large margins, paper watermarked. Plate 234 x 159mm. 9¼ x 6¼".
Portrait of a Chinese Emperor, bust-length, facing front, wearing fur hat and tunic embroidered with dragons and adorned with pearls; in oval frame with ribbon tied in the upper part, and coat of arms in the lower part. 'Tun-Min' could be be Tianming/Nurhaci (1519-1626). From a large series of portraits, all following the same composition.
[Ref: 26192] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Tungchang.
[London: John Ogilby, 1673.]
Engraving. 130 x 165mm (5¼ x 6½"). Trimmed from a larger sheet.
A view from Jan Nieuhoff's account of first embassy of the Dutch East India Company to China, as published in Ogilby's English edition.
[Ref: 38850] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

View in Turon Bay.
W. Alexander del. J. Landseer sculp.t.
London, published April 12, 1796, by G. Nicol.
Engraving, very large margins. On watermerked paper, 'J. Whatman 1794.' Platemark: 250 x 210mm. (9¾ x 8¼").
A view in Vietnam of a beach with a thatched dwelling and figures watching a boat approaching land with dignitaries under parasols at the bow. Two sailing ships can be seen behind at left with mountains in the distance. Plate 15 from Sir George Staunton's 'An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China', describing the expedition of Lord Macartney (1737 - 1806) as the first British ambassador to China. See item ref: 37515, 'Narrative of the British Embassy to China In the Years 1792, 1793 and 1794' for a detailed account of Æneas Anderson's voyage to China in the service of Lord Macartney, including a list of the retinue of Lord Macartney and a Glossary of Chinese words.
[Ref: 38148] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Vietnam] Natives of Cochin-China, Playing at Shittlecock with their Feet.
W. Alexander del. J. Landseer & J. Shirt sculp.
London, Published April 12, 1796, by G. Nicol.
Engraving, very large margins. On watermarked paper, 'J. Whatman 1794.' Platemark: 210 x 255mm. (8¼ x 10").
A game played with a shuttlecock by the inhabitants of a village in the Cochinchina region, now encompassing the southern part of Vietnam. Plate 14 from Sir George Staunton's 'An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China', describing the expedition of Lord Macartney (1737 - 1806) as the first British ambassador to China. See item ref: 37515, 'Narrative of the British Embassy to China In the Years 1792, 1793 and 1794' for a detailed account of Æneas Anderson's voyage to China in the service of Lord Macartney, including a list of the retinue of Lord Macartney and a Glossary of Chinese words.
[Ref: 38151] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Vietnam] Natives of Cochin-China, Playing at Shittlecock [sic] with their Feet.
W. Alexander del. J. Landseer & J. Shirt sculp.
London, Published April 12, 1796, by G. Nicol.
Engraving, very large margins. Platemark: 210 x 255mm. (8¼ x 10").
A game played with a shuttlecock by the inhabitants of a village in the Cochinchina region, now encompassing the southern part of Vietnam. Plate 14 from Sir George Staunton's 'An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China', describing the expedition of Lord Macartney (1737 - 1806) as the first British ambassador to China. See item ref: 37515, 'Narrative of the British Embassy to China In the Years 1792, 1793 and 1794' for a detailed account of Æneas Anderson's voyage to China in the service of Lord Macartney, including a list of the retinue of Lord Macartney and a Glossary of Chinese words.
[Ref: 40026] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Village Chinois.
Pâris del. Himely sc. Finot imp.
De Sainson Edit. [Paris, n.d., 1835.]
Aquatint on india paper, 290 x 380mm, 11½ x 15".
Chinese junk boats at anchor in front of buildings on the waterfront; a pagoda on the hill beyond. Numbered '43' upper right. From 'Voyage autour du Monde par les mers de l’Inde et de Chine sur la corvette de l’e´tat la Favorite pendant les anne´es 1830, 1831 et 1832 sous le commandement de M. Laplace' by Cyrille Pierre The´odore Laplace.
See BNF FRBNF33995730. BM 002075877.
[Ref: 20291] £100.00 (£120.00 incl.VAT)

Wampoo.
Burney delin.t. G. Testolini sculp.t.
Published as the Act directs by Dr. J. Trsuler March 1790.
Engraving. 195mm x 130mm (8" x 5"). Trimmed to plate mark.
View of a Chinese landscape looking over a harbour filled with boats. Two figures stand in the foreground, one holding a rifle over his shoulder, the second holding a dog on a lead.
[Ref: 32044] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

View of Wampooh China.
Owen del. Wells sc.
Publish'd by Binney & Gold, June 1, 1802.
Aquatint. 130 x 220mm.
Published in the 'Naval Chronicle'.
[Ref: 4386] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Whampoa [No 18. Whampoa. Sonnenuntergang.]
E. Hildebrandt. [Chromofacsimilirt nach der Aquarelle aus der Sammlung 'die Reise um die Erde'.]
[Verlag von R.Wagner, Berlin Zimmerstr. No.92/93.] [n.d., 1871-4.]
Fine coloured chromolithograph. Image 240 x 340mm (9½ x 13½"), trimmed to image and mounted on card as issued, title label on reverse as usual. Board foxed.
A view of Whampoa, once the main anchorage for Western shipping traading with Canton, after a watercolour by Eduard Hildebrandt (1818-69). Two pagodas are on the far shore. Born in Gdansk, Hildebrandt travelled constantly, including visits to the Middle East, India, Singapore, Siam (Thailand), Macao, Hong Kong, China, The Philippines, Japan and the United States. He worked mainly in watercolours, and his paintings were exhibited in London in 1866 and at the Crystal Palace in 1868, just a year before his death in Berlin. A folio of chromolithographs, mounted in imitation of watercolour presentation, was published as 'Reise um die Erde', (Journey around the World).
[Ref: 46874] £450.00

Wrestler & Automaton. Tom Tom Player.
A. Freschi sculpsit.
[London: John Stockdale, 1812.]
Stipple and line engraving, with original hand colour. Sheet 175 x 100mm (7 x 4"). Trimmed, laid on album paper.
Rare automaton image. From Jean Baptiste Joseph Breton De La Martinière's four-volume ''China: Its Costume, Arts, Manufactures, &c. Edited Principally from the Originals in the Cabinet of the late M. Bertin: With Observations Explanatory, Historical, and Literary''.
Abbey Travel 536.
[Ref: 53251] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[China.] Pons volans in Provincia Xensi unico arcu à Monte ad Montem long: 400 cub: altitud: 500.
[Athanasius Kircher.]
[1667.]
Engraving. Plate: 200 x 310mm (8 x 12"). Trimmed and creased at bottom.
A view of a bridge in China from Athanasius Kircher's 'China monumentis..' 1667. Kircher was a German Jesuit scholar and polymath who wrote many great works on comparative religion and science.
[Ref: 46122] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The Bridge from Mountaine to Mountaine in the Province of Xensi Called the flying Bridg 400 Cub: long 500 high.
[Francis Place?]
[London: John Ogilby, 1669.]
Etching, 17th century watermark. 215 x 305mm (8½ x 12"), with very large margins. Time stained.
Although the 'flying bridge' at Shensi described by Athanasius Kircher, a Jesuit priest, is believed to have been a bamboo suspension bridge, this view shows a conventional stone bridge over a a waterfall. An etching probably by Francis Place, who worked with Wenceslaus Hollar on John Ogilby's 'An Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces', the first English edition of Johann Nieuhof's account of the embassy. However this state, with lettering lower right, was included in Ogilby's edition of Arnoldus Montanus's 'Asia'.
[Ref: 55451] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Yeh. From the original sketch by Major Crealock. D. O [?] 2th G. " No habit of looking at Yeh..."
[after Lieutenant-General Henry Hope Crealock]
1858.
Pen and ink drawing sheet on scrapbook page; 225 x 170mm (9 x 6¾"). Small abrasion on face. Slightly messy.
A portrait of Ye Mingchen (1807-1859) known as Commissioner Yeh, a Canton official who fought British influence in the aftermath of the First Opium War and who was involved in the beginning of the Second. An extract from the letter of the Yiuces [?] China Confinement. Lieutenant-General Henry Hope Crealock (1831–91) was a captain in the 90th Light Infantry during the Crimean War, was an accomplished draughtsman, who also sketched during the Indian Mutiny, Opium Wars in China and the Zulu campaign (for the Illustrated London News).
[Ref: 61460] £350.00

A Chart of the Islands to the Southward of Tchu-San on the Eastern Coast of China generally laid down from one published by Alexander Dalrymple Esq with additions and alterations by J Barrow.
Engraved by B. Baker Islington.
Published April 12, 1796 by George Nicol.
Engraved map. Sheet 560 x 420mm (22 x 16½"). Staining at bottom left & top right.
A chart of the coast around Ningbo, including Zhousan and other islands, mapped by members of the George Macartney mission to China, the first British embassy to that country, 1792-94. Insets show a 360° circular panorama of Zhousan harbour and a detail of the south ocast of the island. The chart was published in Sir George Staunton's 'An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China'. See item ref: 37515, 'Narrative of the British Embassy to China In the Years 1792, 1793 and 1794' for a detailed account of Æneas Anderson's voyage to China in the service of Lord Macartney, including a list of the retinue of Lord Macartney and a Glossary of Chinese words.
[Ref: 38159] £230.00

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