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1. Remains of a Bridge at San-Sien-Wey on the Pei-Ho near Tong-Tcheou, August 15, 1793

Creator:: William Alexander, 1767–1816
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on medium, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 x 7 7/8 inches (10.2 x 20 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. City of Lin Tsin, Shantung, with a View of the Grand Canal

Creator:: William Alexander, 1767–1816
Date:: 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/4 × 17 1/2 inches (28.6 × 44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. The Hindostan at Anchor in the Strait of Mi-a-tau of the City of Ten-choo-fou at the Entrance to the Gulf of Pekin

Creator:: William Alexander, 1767–1816
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/8 x 15 1/16 inches (20.6 x 38.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Barges of the Embassy Being Raised from One Canal to Another on Their Way from Han-Tcheou-Foo to Tchu-San, 16 November 1793

Creator:: William Alexander, 1767–1816
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 7/16 x 14 5/8 inches (26.5 x 37.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. A Raree Show

Creator:: William Alexander, 1767–1816
Date:: between 1792 and 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and black ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 5/8 × 6 1/4 inches (19.4 × 15.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Peiho River Foraging Party

Creator:: Lt. Joseph Sparkhall Rundle, 1815–1880
Date:: 1840
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, and scratching out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 5/8 × 8 7/8 inches (14.3 × 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Jesuit Convent, Macao

Creator:: Print made by Peter S. Duval, active 1831–1879
Date:: 1856
Materials & Techniques:: Color-printed lithograph on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 × 11 1/2 inches (22.9 × 29.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frank de Caro and Rosan Augusta Jordan

8. Dinner Party at a Mandarin's House

Creator:: Thomas Allom, 1804–1872
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, white gouache and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 × 7 1/2 inches (12.7 × 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. The Theater at Tien-Sin

Creator:: Thomas Allom, 1804–1872
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash, pen and brown ink, graphite and white gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 × 7 1/2 inches (12.7 × 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. The House of a Chinese Merchant near Canton

Creator:: Thomas Allom, 1804–1872
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, white gouache and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 × 7 5/8 inches (12.7 × 19.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. View Near the City of Tientsin

Creator:: William Alexander, 1767–1816
Date:: 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 x 14 5/16 inches (22.9 x 36.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. A Chinese Beggar

Creator:: William Alexander, 1767–1816
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and gray ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (19.1 x 14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Portrait of a Soldier

Creator:: William Alexander, 1767–1816
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper mounted on card
Dimensions:: Mount: 11 3/4 x 8 1/16 inches (29.9 x 20.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Chinese Carrier with His Sail-Set Barrow

Creator:: William Alexander, 1767–1816
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Yellow wash, brown wash, watercolor, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 x 10 9/16 inches (22.9 x 26.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Natives of Cochin Playing Shuttlecock in China

Creator:: William Alexander, 1767–1816
Date:: 1792 to 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 x 8 7/8 inches (17.5 x 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. View in China: Figures with Pagoda and Mountain

Creator:: William Alexander, 1767–1816
Date:: 1792 to 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 7 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches (19.7 x 24.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. View in the Province of Kiang-nan, China, Taken from Nature

Creator:: William Alexander, 1767–1816
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 7 9/16 x 9 11/16 inches (19.2 x 24.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Fort Opposite the Factory, Canton

Creator:: William Alexander, 1767–1816
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor. pen and gray ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/2 × 6 inches (11.4 × 15.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Three Chinese Women Street Vendors

Creator:: William Alexander, 1767–1816
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 7/8 × 3 1/2 inches (9.9 × 8.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. A Mandarin in his Court Dress

Creator:: William Alexander, 1767–1816
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with black ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 × 5 1/2 inches (20.3 × 13.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. A View of the Coast of China

Creator:: William Alexander, 1767–1816
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and black ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/8 × 8 1/8 inches (13.6 × 20.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Fisherpeople on a Junk

Creator:: William Alexander, 1767–1816
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and black ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 7/8 × 8 inches (14.9 × 20.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Mourning at a Tomb

Creator:: William Alexander, 1767–1816
Date:: between 1792 and 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/2 × 6 1/2 inches (21.6 × 16.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Pavilion and Gardens of a Mandarin near Peking

Creator:: Thomas Allom, 1804–1872
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, graphite and white gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 × 7 1/2 inches (12.7 × 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Young Person with a Basket

Creator:: George Chinnery, 1774–1852
Date:: 1845
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted to medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/8 × 4 7/8 inches (10.5 × 12.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Group of Seven Men Gambling

Creator:: George Chinnery, 1774–1852
Date:: between 1826 and 1852
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 1/8 x 4 1/4in. (7.9 x 10.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. A Chinese Man

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and black ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 × 4 1/4 inches (16.5 × 10.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. A Chinese Girl

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and black ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 4 1/4 inches (16.8 × 10.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. A Chinese Warrior

Creator:: William Alexander, 1767–1816
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 x 6 1/8 inches (20.9 x 15.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Frontispiece for Costume of China

Creator:: William Alexander, 1767–1816
Date:: ca. 1804
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash, yellow wash, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 × 8 5/8 inches (26.4 × 21.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Two Chinese Figures: A Seller of Hats and a Man Sitting Cross-Legged, Smoking a Pipe

Creator:: William Alexander, 1767–1816
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and gray wash on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 5/16 x 7 15/16 inches (18.5 x 20.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Hong Kong, Harbor Night

Creator:: Print made by Elizabeth Keith, 1887–1956
Date:: 1924
Materials & Techniques:: Color woodblock
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 × 16 inches (33 × 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Ogden children in honor of their mother Ruth Simpson Woodcock

33. Kowloon China, looking towards Hong Kong Island

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: between 1826 and 1852
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Image: 10 3/8 × 15 3/4 inches (26.4 × 40 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Lap House, Inner Harbour, Macau

Creator:: George Chinnery, 1774–1852
Date:: 1841
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/2 x 11 7/8 inches (21.6 x 30.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Entrance Gate, Friends College, Chengdu University

Creator:: Arnold Silcock, 1889–1953
Date:: 1928
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache and graphite on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/2 × 32 inches (44.5 × 81.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift from the Estate of Christopher P. Monkhouse

36. East End of the Preya Grande, Macao

Creator:: Pupil of George Chinnery, 1774–1852
Date:: between 1826 and 1852
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and brown ink on moderately thick, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 × 9 inches (15.2 × 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Lap House, Inner Harbor, Macao

Creator:: George Chinnery, 1774–1852
Date:: 1841
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and pen and brown ink on medium, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/4 x 13 1/8 inches (23.5 x 33.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. Coast Scene with Fishermen and Buildings, Macao

Creator:: George Chinnery, 1774–1852
Date:: 1843
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and pen and brown ink on medium, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 x 12 inches (21 x 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. Monte Fort, Macao

Creator:: George Chinnery, 1774–1852
Date:: between 1826 and 1852
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and pen and brown ink on medium, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 × 12 inches (21 × 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. Street Scene with Merchants Selling Wares

Creator:: George Chinnery, 1774–1852
Date:: ca. 1843
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/8 × 7 1/2 inches (21.3 × 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. Workers Demolishing a Building

Creator:: George Chinnery, 1774–1852
Date:: 1833
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/4 × 6 7/8 inches (19.7 × 17.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. China : its state and prospects : with especial reference to the spread of the gospel : containing allusions to the antiquity, extent, population, civilization, literature, and religion of the Chinese / by W.H. Medhurst ... ; illustrated with engravings on wood by G. Baxter.

China : its state and prospects : with especial reference to the spread of the gospel : containing allusions to the antiquity, extent, population, civilization, literature, and religion of the Chinese / by W.H. Medhurst ... ; illustrated with engravings on wood by G. Baxter.

Creator:: Medhurst, Walter Henry, 1796–1857
Date:: 1838
Physical Description:: xv, [1], 592 p., [7] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill. (some col.), map ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. Map of China and the adjacent countries : drawn from the latest surveys and other authentic documents ... / by William H. Allen & Co.

Date:: 1842
Physical Description:: 1 map : hand col., mounted on linen ; 59 x 74 cm., folded to 19 x 10 cm., in covers 23 x 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. The Chinese silk manufactory represented in twelve copper plates [graphic].

Date:: [between 1771 and 1785]
Physical Description:: 12 prints : engravings ; plate marks 18 x 26 cm, on sheets 23 x 35 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. A picturesque voyage to India, by the way of China / by Thomas Daniell, R.A., and William Daniell, A.R.A.

Creator:: Daniell, Thomas, 1749–1840
Date:: 1810
Physical Description:: [2], ii p., [50] leaves, [50] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 x 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. The Chinese expedition, 1859-1860 / by Major W.G.R. Masters, Royal Marine Light Infantry ; a series of eight views ...

Creator:: Masters, W. G. R. (William Godfrey Rays)
Date:: [1861]
Physical Description:: [1] leaf, 8 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 58 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. [India Orientalis].

Date:: 1597[-1628]
Physical Description:: 13 parts : ill., maps, plans, ports. ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. Ancient Chinese.

Creator:: Cavanders, Ltd. (Firm)
Date:: [1926]
Physical Description:: 25 cards : illustrations ; 70 x 40 mm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. Portrait plate of Albert Smith.

Creator:: W.T. Copeland & Sons
Date:: circa [1859?]
Physical Description:: 1 plate : ceramic, transferware ; 23 cm in diameter
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. Travels in China : containing descriptions, observations and comparisons, made and collected in the course of a short residence at the imperial palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a subsequent journey through the country from Pekin to Canton, in which it is attempted to appreciate the rank that this extraordinary empire may be considered to hold in the scale of civilized nations ... / by John Barrow ... ; illustrated with several engravings.

Travels in China : containing descriptions, observations and comparisons, made and collected in the course of a short residence at the imperial palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a subsequent journey through the country from Pekin to Canton, in which it is attempted to appreciate the rank that this extraordinary empire may be considered to hold in the scale of civilized nations ... / by John Barrow ... ; illustrated with several engravings.

Creator:: Barrow, John, Sir, 1764–1848
Date:: 1804
Physical Description:: x, [2], 632 p., [8] leaves of plates : col. ill., port. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. The emperor of China's palace at Pekin : and his principal gardens, as well in Tartary, as at Pekin, Gehol and the adjacent countries : with the temples, pleasure-houses, artificial mountains, rocks, lakes, &c. as disposed in different parts of those royal gardens : with an exact elevation of the great mogul's superb throne : the whole neatly engraved on twenty copper-plates twelve inches square, from the original views, correctly taken on the spot.

The emperor of China's palace at Pekin : and his principal gardens, as well in Tartary, as at Pekin, Gehol and the adjacent countries : with the temples, pleasure-houses, artificial mountains, rocks, lakes, &c. as disposed in different parts of those royal gardens : with an exact elevation of the great mogul's superb throne : the whole neatly engraved on twenty copper-plates twelve inches square, from the original views, correctly taken on the spot.

Date:: MDCCLIII [1753]
Physical Description:: [2] pages, 20 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 40 x 51 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. Journal of a voyage, in 1811 and 1812, to Madras and China : returning by the Cape of Good Hope and St. Helena : in the H.C.S. the Hope, Capt. James Pendergrass / by James Wathen ; illustrated with twenty-four coloured prints, from drawings by the author.

Journal of a voyage, in 1811 and 1812, to Madras and China : returning by the Cape of Good Hope and St. Helena : in the H.C.S. the Hope, Capt. James Pendergrass / by James Wathen ; illustrated with twenty-four coloured prints, from drawings by the author.

Creator:: Wathen, James
Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: xx, 246 p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. Doings in China : being the personal narrative of an officer engaged in the late Chinese expedition, from the recapture of Chusan in 1841, to the peace of Nankin in 1842 / by Lieut. Alexander Murray ...

Doings in China : being the personal narrative of an officer engaged in the late Chinese expedition, from the recapture of Chusan in 1841, to the peace of Nankin in 1842 / by Lieut. Alexander Murray ...

Creator:: Murray, Alexander
Date:: 1843
Physical Description:: 320 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. Graphic scenes in the Japan Expedition / by William Heine, artist of the expedition ; comprising ten plates and an illustrated title-page, printed in colors and tints by Sarony & Co. ...

Graphic scenes in the Japan Expedition / by William Heine, artist of the expedition ; comprising ten plates and an illustrated title-page, printed in colors and tints by Sarony & Co. ...

Creator:: Heine, Wilhelm, 1827–1885
Date:: 1856
Physical Description:: [12] leaves, [1], 10 leaves of plates : color illustrations, portrait ; 53 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. Chinese landskips.

Date:: [ca. 1752?]
Physical Description:: 12 leaves of plates : all ill. ; 23 x 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. The costume of China : illustrated in forty-eight coloured engravings / by William Alexander.

Creator:: Alexander, William, 1767–1816
Date:: 1805
Physical Description:: [10] pages, [48] leaves, [48] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 34 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. The rice manufactury in China : from the originals brought from China.

Date:: [1770?]
Physical Description:: 24 leaves : all ill. ; 25 x 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stuart P. Feld

58. China, in a series of views : displaying the scenery, architecture, and social habits, of that ancient empire / drawn, from original and authentic sketches, by Thomas Allom, esq. ; with historical and descriptive notices by the Rev. G.N. Wright, M.A.

China, in a series of views : displaying the scenery, architecture, and social habits, of that ancient empire / drawn, from original and authentic sketches, by Thomas Allom, esq. ; with historical and descriptive notices by the Rev. G.N. Wright, M.A.

Creator:: Allom, Thomas, 1804–1872
Date:: 1843
Physical Description:: 4 volumes : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. Voyage autour du monde, fait dans les années 1803, 1804, 1805 et 1806 : par les ordres de Sa Majesté Impériale, Alexandre Ier, Empereur de Russie, sur les vaisseaux la Nadriedjeda et la Neva / commandés par M. de Krusenstern, traduit de l'aveu et avec des additions de l'auteur ; la traduction revué par M. J.-B-B. Eyriès.

Creator:: Kruzenshtern, Ivan Fedorovich, 1770–1846
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: 2 volumes ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. Sample book of patterned silk fabrics sold by Hogg Brothers, Shanghai.

Creator:: Hogg Brothers (Shanghai, China)
Date:: between 1860 and 1899
Physical Description:: 1 volume (12 samples) ; 37 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. The costume of China : illustrated by sixty engravings : with explanations in English and French / by George Henry Mason.

Creator:: Mason, George Henry
Date:: 1800 [i.e. not before 1821]
Physical Description:: [134] p., 60 leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's mission to China and Japan in the years 1857, '58, '59 / by Laurence Oliphant ... ; with illustrations from original drawings & photographs.

Creator:: Oliphant, Laurence, 1829–1888
Date:: 1859
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. Journal of three voyages along the coast of China, in 1831, 1832 & 1833 : with notices of Siam, Corea, and the Loo-Choo Islands / by Charles Gützlaff ; to which is prefixed an Introductory essay on the policy, religion, etc., of China by the Rev. W. Ellis.

Creator:: Gützlaff, Karl Friedrich August, 1803–1851
Date:: 1834
Physical Description:: vi, xciii p., 1 l., 450 p., [2] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. Voyage of His Majesty's ship Alceste, along the coast of Corea, to the island of Lewchew : with an account of her subsequent shipwreck / by John M'Leod.

Creator:: M'Leod, John, 1777?-1820
Date:: 1818
Physical Description:: 323 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. Journal of the proceedings of the late embassy to China; comprising a correct narrative of the public transactions of the embassy, of the voyage to and from China, and of the journey from the mouth of hte Pei-Ho to the return to Canton. Interspersed with observations upon the face of the country, the polity, moral character, and manners of the Chinese nation ... By Henry Ellis ...

Creator:: Ellis, Henry, Sir, 1777–1869
Date:: 1817
Physical Description:: vii, [1], 526, [2] p. front. (port.) col. pl., maps (1 fold.) 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. Albert Smith token.

Creator:: Pinches (Medallists)
Date:: 1859
Physical Description:: 1 token : copper ; 22 mm in diameter
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. Voyage aux Indes Orientales et a la Chine : fait par ordre du roi, depuis 1774 jusqu'en 1781 : dans lequel on traite des mœurs de la religion, des sciences & des arts des Indiens, des Chinois, des Pégouins & des Madégasses : suivi d'observations sur le cap de Bonne-Espérance, les isles de France & de Bourbon, les Maldives, Ceylan, Malacca, les Philippines & les Moluques, & de recherches sur l'histoire naturelle de ces pays / par M. Sonnerat ...

Creator:: Sonnerat, Pierre, 1748–1814
Date:: 1782
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's mission to China and Japan in the years 1857, '58, '59 / by Laurence Oliphant ... ; with illustrations from original drawings & photographs.

Creator:: Oliphant, Laurence, 1829–1888
Date:: 1860
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. The history of China & India, : pictorial & descriptive; / by Miss Corner ...

Creator:: Corner, Miss (Julia), 1798–1875
Date:: 1847
Physical Description:: iv, ii, iii, iv, iii, [1], iii, [1], 402 p., [33] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. An account of a voyage to India, China &c. in His Majesty's ship Caroline : performed in the years 1803-4-5, interspersed with descriptive sketches and cursory remarks / by an officer of the Caroline ...

Creator:: Johnson, James, 1777–1845
Date:: 1806
Physical Description:: iv, [5]-138, [6] p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. A particular account of the Emperor of China's gardens near Pekin: In a letter from F. Attiret, a French missionary, now employ'd by that emperor to paint the apartments in those gardens, to his friend at Paris. Translated from the French, by Sir Harry Beaumont.

Creator:: Attiret, Jean Denis, 1702–1768
Date:: 1752
Physical Description:: vi, 50 p. 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. A history of the Shanghai Paper Hunt Club, 1863-1930, with complete records of hunts, hunt handicaps, steeplechases and point-to-points; by C. Noel Davis ... Illustrated by Edmund Toeg in line and colour; with six maps of the riding country in and around Shanghai and numerous photographs.

Creator:: Davis, Charles Noel
Date:: 1930
Physical Description:: 173 p. illus. 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. The punishments of China / illustrated by twenty-two engravings : with explanations in English and French.

Creator:: Mason, George Henry
Date:: 1804 [i.e. 1820]
Physical Description:: [54] p., 22 leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. A dissertation on oriental gardening; by Sr. William Chambers. The second edition, with additions. to which is annexed, an explanatory discourse by Tan Chetqua, of Quang-chew-fu, gent.

Creator:: Chambers, William, Sir, 1723–1796
Date:: 1773
Physical Description:: 3 p. ., xi, [13]-163 p. 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. The costume of China : illustrated by sixty engravings : with explanations in English and French / by George Henry Mason.

Creator:: Mason, George Henry
Date:: 1804 [i.e. not before 1819]
Physical Description:: [134] p., 60 leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. Wanderings in New South Wales, Batavia, Pedir Coast, Singapore, and China : being the journal of a naturalist in those countries during 1832, 1833, and 1834 / by George Bennett ...

Creator:: Bennett, George, 1804–1893
Date:: 1834
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. Chinese architecture, civil and ornamental : being a large collection of the most elegant and useful designs of plans and elevations, &c. from the imperial retreat to the smallest ornamental building in China : likewise their marine subjects : the whole to adorn gardens, parks, forests, woods, canals, &c. consisting of great variety, among which are the following, viz. royal garden seats, heads and terminations for canals, alcoves, banqueting houses, temples both open and close, adapted for canals and others ways, bridges, summer-houses, repositories, umbrello'd seats, cool retreats, the summer dwelling of a chief bonza or priest, honorary pagodas, Japaneze [sic] and imperial barges of China : also, those for the emperor's women, and principal officers attending on the emperor, pleasure boats, &c. : to which are added, Chinese flowers, landscapes, figures, ornaments, &c. : the whole neatly engraved on twenty-four copper-plates, from real designs drawn in China, adapted to this climate / by P. Decker, architect.

Creator:: Decker, Paul
Date:: MDCCLIX [1759]
Physical Description:: 2 v. : chiefly ill. ; 25 x 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. Views in India, China, and on the shores of the Red Sea : drawn by Prout, Stanfield, Cattermole, Purser, Cox, Austen, &c. / from original sketches by Commander Robert Elliott ; with descriptions by Emma Roberts.

Creator:: Elliot, Robert James, -1849
Date:: [1835]
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., port. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. An essay on that earliest species of idolatry : the worship of the elements / by J. Christie.

Creator:: Christie, James, 1773–1831
Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: [4], iv, 26 p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. Narrative of the expedition to China : from the commencement of the war to its termination in 1842 : with sketches of the manners and customs of the singular and hitherto almost unknown country / by Commander J. Elliot Bingham ....

Creator:: Bingham, J. Elliot (John Elliot)
Date:: 1843
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. China : its costume, arts, manufactures, etc. / edited principally from the originals in the cabinet of the late M. Bertin ; with observations explanatory, historical, and literary by M. Breton ; translated from the French ...

Creator:: Breton, M. (Jean Baptiste Joseph)
Date:: 1813
Physical Description:: 4 v. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. Designs of Chinese buildings, furniture, dresses, machines, and utensils / engraved by the best hands, from the originals drawn in China by Mr. Chambers, architect, member of the Imperial Academy of Arts at Florence ; to which is annexed a description of their temples, houses, gardens, &c.

Creator:: Chambers, William, Sir, 1723–1796
Date:: MDCCLVII [1757]
Physical Description:: [10], 19, [1] pages, XXI leaves of plates : illustrations ; 58 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. Twelve years in China : the people, the rebels, and the mandarins / by a British resident ; with illustrations.

Creator:: Scarth, John
Date:: 1860
Physical Description:: xviii, [2], 328 p., [13] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. "Ten thousand Chinese things." A descriptive catalogue of the Chinese collection, now exhibiting at St. George's Place, Hyde Park Corner; with condensed accounts of the genius, government, history, literature, agriculture, arts, trade, manners, customs, and social life of the people of the Celestial empire. By William B. Langdon ...

Creator:: Dunn, Nathan, 1782–1844
Date:: 1844
Physical Description:: 1 p.l., [7]-170 p. front., plates. 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. The history of trauayle in the VVest and East Indies, and other countreys lying eyther way, towardes the fruitfull and ryche Moluccaes : As Moscouia, Persia, Arabia, Syria, Ægypte, Ethiopia, Guinea, China in Cathayo, and Giapan : vvith a discourse of the Northwest passage / Gathered in parte, and done into Englyshe by Richarde Eden. Newly set in order, augmented, and finished by Richarde VVilles.

Creator:: Eden, Richard, 1521?-1576
Date:: 1577
Physical Description:: [10], 466, [6] leaves : ill. ; 19 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. Narrative of a journey in the interior of China, and of a voyage to and from that country, in the years 1816 and 1817 : containing an account of the most interesting transactions of Lord Amherst's Embassy to the Court of Pekin and observations on the countries which it visited / by Clarke Abel, M.D. F.R.S. F.L.S. and member of the Geological Society, Chief Medical Officer and naturalist to the Embassy ; illustrated by maps and other engravings.

Creator:: Abel, Clarke, 1780–1826
Date:: 1819
Physical Description:: xvi, 420 pages, [23] leaves of plates ([4] folded) : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. Narrative of a voyage in His Majesty's late ship Alceste, to the Yellow Sea, along the coast of Corea, and through its numerous hitherto undiscovered islands, to the Island of Lewchew : with an account of her shipwreck in the Straits of Gaspar / by John M'Leod.

Creator:: M'Leod, John, 1777?-1820
Date:: 1817
Physical Description:: 288 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. China : containing illustrations of the manners, customs, character, and costumes of the people of that Empire.

Date:: [1823]
Physical Description:: 2 v. : col. ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. A voyage to China : including a visit to the Bombay presidency,the Mahratta country, the Cave Temple of Western India, Singapore, the Straits of Malacca and Sunda, and the Cape of Good Hope / by Dr. Berncastle ...

Creator:: Berncastle, Julius, d. 1870
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. Travels in Kamtchatka and Siberia : with a narrative of a residence in China / by Peter Dobell ...

Creator:: Dobell, Peter, 1772–1852
Date:: 1830
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. A journey to the tea countries of China : including Sung-Lo and the Bohea hills : with a short notice of the East India Company's tea plantations in the Himalaya mountains / by Robert Fortune ; with map and illustrations.

Creator:: Fortune, Robert, 1813–1880
Date:: 1852
Physical Description:: xv, [1], 398 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. Three years' wanderings in the northern provinces of China : including a visit to the tea, silk, and cotton countries : with an account of the agriculture and horticulture of the Chinese, new plants, etc. / by Robert Fortune ... ; with illustrations.

Creator:: Fortune, Robert, 1813–1880
Date:: 1847
Physical Description:: xiv, [4], 406, [1] p., [3] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. Atlas chinensis : being a second part of A relation of remarkable passages in two embassies from the East-India company of the United Provinces, to the Vice-Roy Singlamong and General Taising Lipovi, and to Konchi, Emperor of China and East-Tartary : with a relation of the Netherlanders assisting the Tartar against Coxinga and the Chinese fleet, who till then were masters of the sea : and a more exact geographical description than formerly, both of the whole empire of China in general, and in particular of every of the fifteen provinces / collected out of their several writing and journals by Arnoldus Montanus ; English'd, and adorn'd with above a hundred several sculptures, by John Ogilby, Esq. ...

Creator:: Dapper, Olfert, 1635 or 1636–1689
Date:: MDCLXXI [1671]
Physical Description:: [6], 723, [1] pages, [72] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 45 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. The Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club : the story of racing in Hong Kong / [compiled by Geoffrey V. Somers ; with colour photography by Maynard Frank Wolfe].

Creator:: Somers, Geoffrey V
Date:: 1975
Physical Description:: 128 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. Glue and lacquer : four cautionary tales / translated from the Chinese by Harold Acton & Lee Yi-hsieh ; preface by Arthur Waley ; with illustrations from drawings by Eric Gill interpreted on copper by Denis Tegetmeier.

Creator:: Feng, Menglong, 1574–1646
Date:: 1941
Physical Description:: 139, [1] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. Pictures of the Chinese, drawn by themselves. Described by Rev. R. H. Cobbold.

Creator:: Cobbold, Robert Henry, d. 1893
Date:: 1860
Physical Description:: vi, 219 p. illus., 30 (i.e. 34 ) pl. 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. The punishments of China / illustrated by twenty-two engravings with explanations in English and French.

Creator:: Mason, George Henry
Date:: 1801 [i.e. 1822?]
Physical Description:: [54] p., 22 leaves of plates : 22 col. ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. Family records collected by William Dorset Fellowes : from original mss and traditionary memoranda in my possession : for the information of my descendants Madame Alfred Marquise de Bois Thierry and her children.

Creator:: Fellowes, W. D. (William Dorset)
Date:: circa 1842-circa1845
Physical Description:: 1 volume (187 pages, with blanks) ; 23 x 31 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. China and the Chinese: their religion, character, customs, and manufactures: the evils arising from the opium trade: with a glance at our religious, moral, political and commercial intercourse with the country. By Henry Charles Sirr ...

Creator:: Sirr, Henry Charles, 1807–1872
Date:: 1849
Physical Description:: 2 v. col. fronts. 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. Triumphs and conquests of the English in China.

Date:: [1842]
Physical Description:: 1 print on 3 joined sheets : hand-colored lithograph ; sheets end-to-end 13 x 184 cm, accordion folded to 13 x 8 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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1. Remains of a Bridge at San-Sien-Wey on the Pei-Ho near Tong-Tcheou, August 15, 1793

2. City of Lin Tsin, Shantung, with a View of the Grand Canal

3. The Hindostan at Anchor in the Strait of Mi-a-tau of the City of Ten-choo-fou at the Entrance to the Gulf of Pekin

4. Barges of the Embassy Being Raised from One Canal to Another on Their Way from Han-Tcheou-Foo to Tchu-San, 16 November 1793

5. A Raree Show

6. Peiho River Foraging Party

7. Jesuit Convent, Macao

8. Dinner Party at a Mandarin's House

9. The Theater at Tien-Sin

10. The House of a Chinese Merchant near Canton

11. View Near the City of Tientsin

12. A Chinese Beggar

13. Portrait of a Soldier

14. Chinese Carrier with His Sail-Set Barrow

15. Natives of Cochin Playing Shuttlecock in China

16. View in China: Figures with Pagoda and Mountain

17. View in the Province of Kiang-nan, China, Taken from Nature

18. Fort Opposite the Factory, Canton

19. Three Chinese Women Street Vendors

20. A Mandarin in his Court Dress

21. A View of the Coast of China

22. Fisherpeople on a Junk

23. Mourning at a Tomb

24. Pavilion and Gardens of a Mandarin near Peking

25. Young Person with a Basket

26. Group of Seven Men Gambling

27. A Chinese Man

28. A Chinese Girl

29. A Chinese Warrior

30. Frontispiece for Costume of China

31. Two Chinese Figures: A Seller of Hats and a Man Sitting Cross-Legged, Smoking a Pipe

32. Hong Kong, Harbor Night

33. Kowloon China, looking towards Hong Kong Island

34. Lap House, Inner Harbour, Macau

35. Entrance Gate, Friends College, Chengdu University

36. East End of the Preya Grande, Macao

37. Lap House, Inner Harbor, Macao

38. Coast Scene with Fishermen and Buildings, Macao

39. Monte Fort, Macao

40. Street Scene with Merchants Selling Wares

41. Workers Demolishing a Building

42. China : its state and prospects : with especial reference to the spread of the gospel : containing allusions to the antiquity, extent, population, civilization, literature, and religion of the Chinese / by W.H. Medhurst ... ; illustrated with engravings on wood by G. Baxter.

43. Map of China and the adjacent countries : drawn from the latest surveys and other authentic documents ... / by William H. Allen & Co.

44. The Chinese silk manufactory represented in twelve copper plates [graphic].

45. A picturesque voyage to India, by the way of China / by Thomas Daniell, R.A., and William Daniell, A.R.A.

46. The Chinese expedition, 1859-1860 / by Major W.G.R. Masters, Royal Marine Light Infantry ; a series of eight views ...

47. [India Orientalis].

48. Ancient Chinese.

49. Portrait plate of Albert Smith.

52. Journal of a voyage, in 1811 and 1812, to Madras and China : returning by the Cape of Good Hope and St. Helena : in the H.C.S. the Hope, Capt. James Pendergrass / by James Wathen ; illustrated with twenty-four coloured prints, from drawings by the author.

53. Doings in China : being the personal narrative of an officer engaged in the late Chinese expedition, from the recapture of Chusan in 1841, to the peace of Nankin in 1842 / by Lieut. Alexander Murray ...

54. Graphic scenes in the Japan Expedition / by William Heine, artist of the expedition ; comprising ten plates and an illustrated title-page, printed in colors and tints by Sarony & Co. ...

55. Chinese landskips.

56. The costume of China : illustrated in forty-eight coloured engravings / by William Alexander.

57. The rice manufactury in China : from the originals brought from China.

58. China, in a series of views : displaying the scenery, architecture, and social habits, of that ancient empire / drawn, from original and authentic sketches, by Thomas Allom, esq. ; with historical and descriptive notices by the Rev. G.N. Wright, M.A.

60. Sample book of patterned silk fabrics sold by Hogg Brothers, Shanghai.

61. The costume of China : illustrated by sixty engravings : with explanations in English and French / by George Henry Mason.

62. Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's mission to China and Japan in the years 1857, '58, '59 / by Laurence Oliphant ... ; with illustrations from original drawings & photographs.

63. Journal of three voyages along the coast of China, in 1831, 1832 & 1833 : with notices of Siam, Corea, and the Loo-Choo Islands / by Charles Gützlaff ; to which is prefixed an Introductory essay on the policy, religion, etc., of China by the Rev. W. Ellis.

64. Voyage of His Majesty's ship Alceste, along the coast of Corea, to the island of Lewchew : with an account of her subsequent shipwreck / by John M'Leod.

66. Albert Smith token.

68. Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's mission to China and Japan in the years 1857, '58, '59 / by Laurence Oliphant ... ; with illustrations from original drawings & photographs.

69. The history of China & India, : pictorial & descriptive; / by Miss Corner ...

70. An account of a voyage to India, China &c. in His Majesty's ship Caroline : performed in the years 1803-4-5, interspersed with descriptive sketches and cursory remarks / by an officer of the Caroline ...

71. A particular account of the Emperor of China's gardens near Pekin: In a letter from F. Attiret, a French missionary, now employ'd by that emperor to paint the apartments in those gardens, to his friend at Paris. Translated from the French, by Sir Harry Beaumont.

72. A history of the Shanghai Paper Hunt Club, 1863-1930, with complete records of hunts, hunt handicaps, steeplechases and point-to-points; by C. Noel Davis ... Illustrated by Edmund Toeg in line and colour; with six maps of the riding country in and around Shanghai and numerous photographs.

73. The punishments of China / illustrated by twenty-two engravings : with explanations in English and French.

74. A dissertation on oriental gardening; by Sr. William Chambers. The second edition, with additions. to which is annexed, an explanatory discourse by Tan Chetqua, of Quang-chew-fu, gent.

75. The costume of China : illustrated by sixty engravings : with explanations in English and French / by George Henry Mason.

76. Wanderings in New South Wales, Batavia, Pedir Coast, Singapore, and China : being the journal of a naturalist in those countries during 1832, 1833, and 1834 / by George Bennett ...

78. Views in India, China, and on the shores of the Red Sea : drawn by Prout, Stanfield, Cattermole, Purser, Cox, Austen, &c. / from original sketches by Commander Robert Elliott ; with descriptions by Emma Roberts.

79. An essay on that earliest species of idolatry : the worship of the elements / by J. Christie.

80. Narrative of the expedition to China : from the commencement of the war to its termination in 1842 : with sketches of the manners and customs of the singular and hitherto almost unknown country / by Commander J. Elliot Bingham ....