Second opium war (4 Ergebnisse)

Black and white wood engraving prepared for The Illustrated London News (trimmed) 16.7 x 27.7cms (including caption and margins), a few marginal spots, unrelated text on the verso, the image in very good condition. Dramatic image of an incident on the Canton (now Pearl) River near Guangzhou, between a Chinese galley and a British vessel from H.M.S. Amethyst, during the Second Opium War (1857-1859).…

Black and white full-page engraving on a newspaper leaf, 28 x 40 cm, related text on the verso, one small marginal edge-tear, upper corner creased but the image in very good condition. Fine engraving of the combined Expeditionary Force at its encampment at Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, nearing the culmination of the Second Opium War.The descriptive text notes on the verso : "The expeditionary force is arriving rapidly; every day troop-ships come into the harbour. Probyn's horse (Sikhs), to the number of five hundred, are encamped on the mainland; Armstrong guns also are there. I never saw anything more picturesque than the camp: the scenery is beautiful." (see detail in attached image). From the Estate of the late collector and scholar Arthur Hacker.…

First edition. The Treaty of Tianjin, and its ratification at the 1860 Convention of Peking, gave the British the right to trade along the Yangtse's lower and middle reaches as far as Hankow and opened several ports, including Hankow and Zhenjiang, to foreign vessels. The documents in this collection cover the first three months of 1861, during which Admiral Sir James Hope and Harry Parkes led a naval expedition up the river to enforce Britain's treaty privileges. Large quarto (322 x 200 mm). Disbound. Leaves foliated in contemporary hand. Old vertical crease, spine folds repaired with archival paper: very good.…

First edition, with the scarce wrappers retained, of this official French account of the Franco-British expedition northwards to Beijing, together with a well-preserved first edition of the accompanying atlas volume. The detailed narrative encompasses such pivotal moments as the third battle of the Taku Forts, the taking of Tianjin, the burning of the Summer Palace, and the battles of Zhangjiawan and Tongzhou. The finely engraved atlas includes maps of the Chinese coast, the December 1857 capture of Canton, the occupation of Tianjin by Anglo-French naval forces in May 1859, and the Western camp at Chefoo. Four other maps, all folding, show the Franco-British landing at Peh-tang, the battles of Zhangjiawan and Baliqiao, and the route of the Western advance from the mouth of the Peiho to Beijing. These works were produced at the behest of the Dépôt de la Guerre, the country's principal military archive and cartographic institution. Between 1852 and 1867, the Dépôt was run by Antoine Lucien Blondel (1801-1883), a major military cartographer. From 1859, Blondel reported to Jacques Louis César Alexandre Randon (1795-1871), a veteran of Napoleon's European campaigns and Marshal of France from 1856. Cordier (2nd edition) 2496. Two works. Atlas comprising 8 maps (4 folding) with occasional hand-colouring, all engraved by Erhard Schièble. Relation: quarto (281 x 200 mm). Mid-20th-century green boards (Claude Honnelaitre), brown spine label lettered in gilt, original green wrappers tipped-in, top and bottom edge trimmed, fore edge untrimmed. Atlas: folio. Original green cloth-backed orange boards, front cover lettered in black. Wrappers well-preserved with some staining and a few small losses, atlas volume with soiling to boards, couple of surface losses on rear cover, and wear to extremities, text and maps clean, atlas with just occasional foxing. Very good copies indeed.…