A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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![[Joseph-Marie Amiot.] M. Amyot,](jpegs/59872.jpg)
[Joseph-Marie Amiot.] M. Amyot, Missionaire Apostolique à Peking, Correspondant de l'Academie &c &c. Chargé d'Affaires par S.M.T.C. auprès de l'Empereur de la Chine [...]
Peint? à la Chine par Panzi.
Rare stipple. Sheet 220 x 135mm (8¾ x 5¼"). Trimmed within plate at sides.
Joseph-Marie Amiot (1718-93), Jesuit priest and missionary in China, astronomer and historian. Amiot arrived in Macao in 1750 and the following year travelled to Peking (now Beijing) where he remained until his death. A prolific author on science and music, his translations from Chinese included the first translation into a European language of Sun Tzu's 'The Art of War'. Amiot was one of the last Jesuit missionaries in China, as the Chinese attitude towards the West hardened in the late 18th century. Engraved after a portrait made in China by the Italian artist and missionary Giuseppe Panzi.
[Ref: 59872] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Peint? à la Chine par Panzi.
Rare stipple. Sheet 220 x 135mm (8¾ x 5¼"). Trimmed within plate at sides.
Joseph-Marie Amiot (1718-93), Jesuit priest and missionary in China, astronomer and historian. Amiot arrived in Macao in 1750 and the following year travelled to Peking (now Beijing) where he remained until his death. A prolific author on science and music, his translations from Chinese included the first translation into a European language of Sun Tzu's 'The Art of War'. Amiot was one of the last Jesuit missionaries in China, as the Chinese attitude towards the West hardened in the late 18th century. Engraved after a portrait made in China by the Italian artist and missionary Giuseppe Panzi.
[Ref: 59872] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Chinese Lady.
Ramsay pinx.t. C. Corbutt fecit.
Printed for Rob.t Sayer, No 53 in Fleet Street.
Mezzotint. 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½") very large margins. Printer's crease top left corner, laid on album paper.
A young woman shown bust-length to left, wearing a blouse with large sleeves and a fichu tucked into a bodice decorated with bows at each side, with a collar, three strings of pearls and a striped veil over her hair. Engraved by Richard Purcell, using the pseudonym of Corbutt, after Allan Ramsay. According to Chaloner Smith it is a reversed copy of Macardell (197), ''Lady with turban'', ''Sometimes called Marshal Keith's Mistress''.
CS: 87.
[Ref: 60088] £360.00
Ramsay pinx.t. C. Corbutt fecit.
Printed for Rob.t Sayer, No 53 in Fleet Street.
Mezzotint. 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½") very large margins. Printer's crease top left corner, laid on album paper.
A young woman shown bust-length to left, wearing a blouse with large sleeves and a fichu tucked into a bodice decorated with bows at each side, with a collar, three strings of pearls and a striped veil over her hair. Engraved by Richard Purcell, using the pseudonym of Corbutt, after Allan Ramsay. According to Chaloner Smith it is a reversed copy of Macardell (197), ''Lady with turban'', ''Sometimes called Marshal Keith's Mistress''.
CS: 87.
[Ref: 60088] £360.00
A View in the Gardens of the Imperial Palace in Pekin. 29.
W.Alexander del.t. S.Smith sculp.t.
London Published April 12, 1796 by G.Nicol.
Engraving. Platemark: 295 x 390mm (11½ x 15¼"), with very large margins.
A detailed view of the gardens of the Imperial Palace in Peking, China. 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.
[Ref: 60055] £320.00
W.Alexander del.t. S.Smith sculp.t.
London Published April 12, 1796 by G.Nicol.
Engraving. Platemark: 295 x 390mm (11½ x 15¼"), with very large margins.
A detailed view of the gardens of the Imperial Palace in Peking, China. 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.
[Ref: 60055] £320.00
![[Matteo Ricci] Pere Matthew Ricci.](jpegs/59870.jpg)
[Matteo Ricci] Pere Matthew Ricci.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving. Sheet 190 x 105mm (7½ x 4¼"). Trimmed and laid on album paper.
A full-length portrait of Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci (1552-1610), the first European to enter Beijing's Forbidden City in 1601, where he used his knowlege of astronomy to gain influence in court. He is famed for his world map with Chinese characters, which introduced European cartography to China.
[Ref: 59870] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving. Sheet 190 x 105mm (7½ x 4¼"). Trimmed and laid on album paper.
A full-length portrait of Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci (1552-1610), the first European to enter Beijing's Forbidden City in 1601, where he used his knowlege of astronomy to gain influence in court. He is famed for his world map with Chinese characters, which introduced European cartography to China.
[Ref: 59870] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
![[Alvaro Semedo] The true Effigies of F. Alvarez Semedo Procurator of ye Provinces of Japan & China.](jpegs/59871.jpg)
[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)
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)