[Album of watercolours, engravings and aquatints of China, etc.]
[Watercolours signed ELH, 1829-32.]
Plain brown paper wrappers, pp.28, bound with string. 6 watercolours, largest c. 130 x 180 (5¼ x 7"); 20 engravings, five coloured aquatints. All plates trimmed; some watercolours loose, apparently one missing.
The watercolours are: four of Chinese junks, a Japanese junk and a Maltese rowboat, titled 'Passage Boat'. The engravings are views of China from Ogilby's edition of Nieuhof, 1669. Four of the aquatints are from Henry Ellis's Journal of the Proceedings of the late Embassy to China, 1817, the fifth from John Barrow's 'Voyage to Cochinchina, 1806.
Abbey Travel 536 (Ellis) & 514 (Barrow).
[Ref: 31757] £1,600.00
Plain brown paper wrappers, pp.28, bound with string. 6 watercolours, largest c. 130 x 180 (5¼ x 7"); 20 engravings, five coloured aquatints. All plates trimmed; some watercolours loose, apparently one missing.
The watercolours are: four of Chinese junks, a Japanese junk and a Maltese rowboat, titled 'Passage Boat'. The engravings are views of China from Ogilby's edition of Nieuhof, 1669. Four of the aquatints are from Henry Ellis's Journal of the Proceedings of the late Embassy to China, 1817, the fifth from John Barrow's 'Voyage to Cochinchina, 1806.
Abbey Travel 536 (Ellis) & 514 (Barrow).
[Ref: 31757] £1,600.00