1. Seigneure Delassa tirés de Grueber. 2. Trophée à l'honneur du Grand Lama. (Tibet).
Fanciful European depiction of people from Tibet and Lhassa. A somewhat larger image appeared in "Abbe A.F. Prévost, Histoire Generale des Voyages".
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1750
Souan pan, ou instrument dont les chinois se servent pour compter.
Text page with a wood block illustration of a souan-pan [suan-p'an] the calculation table used by the Chinese. Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d' Anville (1697-1782), French c...
- $20 / ≈ €19
Place & Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1735
Plan du Ti-tang ou du temple, où l'empereur sacrifie à Chang-ti sous le titre de souverain seigneur de la terre
Nice example of d'Anville's plan of Tien-tang 天堂 [Tiantang] temple, from "Atlas général de la Chine..." prepared by Jesuit missionaries ...
Place & Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1735
Selling price: $14
Sold in 2017
Plan du Tien-tang ou du temple, où l'empereur sacrifie à Chang-ti sous le titre de souverain seigneur de la terre.
Nice example of d'Anville's plan of Tien-tang 天堂 [Tiantang] temple, from "Atlas général de la Chine..."" prepared by Jesuit mission...
Place & Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1735
Selling price: $8
Sold in 2017
![[XXV Cavalleria ].](/uploads/cache/34983-250x250.jpg)
[XXV Cavalleria ].
Aquatint depicting Chinese cavalry engraved by G Bigatti, Plate N°25.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement, de la milice, ...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
![[XXIII Infanteria ].](/uploads/cache/34982-250x250.jpg)
[XXIII Infanteria ].
Aquatint depicting Chinese infantry engraved by G Bigatti, Plate N°23.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement, de la milice,...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
![[LVI. Strada di Nan-King].](/uploads/cache/34984-250x250.jpg)
[LVI. Strada di Nan-King].
Aquatint depicting a street in Nanking (Nanjing) engraved by G Zancon, Plate N°56.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement, d...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
![[LXXXI. Amida e Xaca ].](/uploads/cache/34985-250x250.jpg)
[LXXXI. Amida e Xaca ].
Aquatint depicting Amida (or Amideva who is a celestial Buddha) and the God Xaca, engraved by A.Rancati. Plate N°81.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Mode...
- $40 / ≈ €37
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
![[XXXII. Dio Quante-Cong].](/uploads/cache/34992-250x250.jpg)
[XXXII. Dio Quante-Cong].
Aquatint depicting Chinese Idol Quantecong, who was the first Emperor, engraved by G Zancon, Plate N°32.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histo...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
![[XIX. Principali persone componenti la marcia ec..].](/uploads/cache/34986-250x250.jpg)
[XIX. Principali persone componenti la marcia ec..].
Aquatint depicting a Chinese procession, engraved by G. Zacon, Plate N°16.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement, de la mil...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
![[XL. Sepolcro di un Grande].](/uploads/cache/34993-250x250.jpg)
[XL. Sepolcro di un Grande].
Aquatint depicting the tomb engraved by L. Rolsi. Plate N°40.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement, de la milice, de la re...
- $40 / ≈ €37
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
![[Antico Imperatore nel suo carro].](/uploads/cache/34990-250x250.jpg)
[Antico Imperatore nel suo carro].
Aquatint depicting an Emperor in his chariot engraved by G. Bigatti, Plate N°13.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement, de ...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
![[assorted Chinese musical instruments].](/uploads/cache/37969-250x250.jpg)
[assorted Chinese musical instruments].
A delightful copperplate print of 15 assorted Chinese musical instruments including violin, flute, trumpet, guitars, cymbals etc.
- $30 / ≈ €28
Place & Date: Germany, ca. 1812
![[LXXXIII. Nozze].](/uploads/cache/34987-250x250.jpg)
[LXXXIII. Nozze].
Aquatint depicting a Chinese wedding ceremony engraved by A. Rancati, Plate N°83.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement, de...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
![[assorted Chinese musical instruments].](/uploads/cache/37968-250x250.jpg)
[assorted Chinese musical instruments].
A delightful copperplate print of 15 assorted Chinese musical instruments including gong, bell, drum, cymbals etc.
- $35 / ≈ €33
Place & Date: Germany, ca. 1812
Chinese Temples. Sin-Ko-Tsyen. Canton, Sancian Isle. Ma-Kao.
An attractive print divided into four areas, two depicting Chinese temples and the other two with maps of the city of Canton, the island of Sancian and the island of Ma-K...
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: London, 1745-1747
![[LXVIII. Abiti de' cittadini e de' contadini].](/uploads/cache/34991-250x250.jpg)
[LXVIII. Abiti de' cittadini e de' contadini].
Aquatint costume plate showing Chinese citizens and farmers engraved by G. Bigatti, Plate N°68.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du go...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
Chinese Temple, Macao.
A pleasant view of the important Chinese Temple in Macao, taken from the water with a junk in the foreground and many sampans and junks moored in front of it, with visito...
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Philadelphia, 1856
Idole que les chinois appellant, le dieu de l´immortalité, et qu´ils disent presider a leur Fortune. . .
Four fascinating engraving on one sheet depicting Chinese gods. "Idole que les chinois appellant, le dieu de l´immortalité, et qu´ils disent presider a leur Fortu...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Amsterdam, J.F. Bernard c.1736
Garde Imperiale. Cavalier et Fantassin.
A decorative, colored lithograph of a Guard in the Chinese Imperial Army, and that of a Cavalier. From the work by Malpiere titled: " La Chine, Moeurs, Usages, Arts ...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1825
Macchine idrauliche. (Chinese hydraulic machines)
Aquatint with original coloring by G. Rossi, taken from Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume ancien et moderne ou histoire du gouvernement, de la milice, de la religion, des...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
Charlatans qui se mêlent de vendre le vent de la Chine. Dévots mendiants de la Chine et charlatans qui se promènent sur des tigres apprivoisés, . . .
Two fascinating engraving on one sheet depicting Chinese charlatans. Engraved by Bernard Picart. Published in Jean Frederic Bernard's monumental "Cérémonies et cou...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Amsterdam, J.F. Bernard c.1736
Cité de Nang Hyong Fu, tiree the Nieuhof. De Stad van Nan-Hyong-Fu, uit Nieuhof.
Interesting view of Nan-Hyong-Fu with harbour and fort.Prepared by Jacques Nicolas Bellin and included in a Dutch edition of Prévost d' Exile's "Histoire des Voyage...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: The Hague, Pieter de Hondt, 1747-1767
Verm Gegenstaende. CXIII. 1 Melandes CCXIII.
A Chinese Mandarin house and below a Chinese village scene with farmers.
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Germany, 1812
Province d'Yun-Nan.
Important map of Yun-nan 云南 [Yunnan] province. With a quite elaborately pictorial cartouche featuring a rococo chinoiserie ornamentation, engraved by Delahaye. Jean B...
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1735
Province de Koei-Tcheou.
An important map of Koei-tcheou 贵州 [Guizhou]. With a quite elaborately pictorial cartouche featuring a rococo chinoiserie ornamentation engraved by Guélard, the map ...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1735
Sick and wounded embarking at Hong-Kong on Board the Steamer.
Large view of the harbour with numerous ships and people. From the Illustrated London News, October 23, 1858.
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: London, October 1858
Partie de L'Empire Chinois - No.47.
One of Vandermaelen's 378 conjoined maps on a uniform scale to made up the total globe. This map features the Eastern Mongolia portion of China with Oloa Baytin. Interest...
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Brussels, 1825-1827
Empire de la Chine Par le Sr. Robert de Vaugondy fils de Mr. Robert Geog. Ord du Roi avec Privilege 1749.
Small detailed map of China, and Corea, including Taiwan. From Atlas Portatif Universel, by Robert de Vaugondy.Page 165 outside border top right. First and only state.The...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Paris, 1749
Succession Des Empereurs De la Chine divisée en XXII. Familles.
Showing successions of the Emperors of China divided into 22 families, copper engraved plate from "Atlas Historique". Zacharie Chatelain (d.1723) was the father...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Vue de la Côte du Japon lorsque nous la vimespour la 1ere fois La Coline A restant dans l'O à 3 Millerc.
A pleasant copper engraving of Japan coasts. By Rigobert Bonne from his ATLAS ENCYCLOPEDIQUE published in 1780. Engraved by Andre.Rigobert Bonne (1727-1795) was one of th...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Paris, 1780
Tende, Stendardi (Chinese Military Equipment)
Aquatint with original coloring by Antonio Rancati, taken from Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume ancien et moderne ou histoire du gouvernement, de la milice, de la religi...
- $80 / ≈ €75
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
China-Propria oder das eigentliche China.
Map number 48 from Meyer's 'Zeitung's Atlas', a popular German 'pocket atlas', published during the mid nineteenth century. This map of China shows the mainland, and the ...
Place & Date: Hildburghausen / Philadelphia, 1849
Jonques de la Chine.
A depiction of two Chinese junks. Tome 3 Page 377. From the French reissue of the account of early Dutch voyages first published in 1608 by Commelin. The French translati...
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Amsterdam, J.F. Bernard, 1725
Carte du ciel et de la terre qui commencent à se former / Figure du ciel fluide & pur & de la terre fixe & ferme.
Recto and verso text page with two illustrations of the grounding of the sky and earth according to a Chinese philosopher. Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d' Anville (1697-178...
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1735
Soldato nel suo compito uniforme (Chinese soldier in full battle dress)
Aquatint with original coloring by Antonio Rancati, taken from Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume ancien et moderne ou histoire du gouvernement, de la milice, de la religi...
- $80 / ≈ €75
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
La Cina propriamente detta e sue isole.
Uncommon map of China prepared by Francesco Costantino Marmocchi. Above the map "Geografia Commerciale". From "Il Globo Atlante di carte Geografiche compil...
Place & Date: Genova, Paolo Rivara fu Giacomo, 1858
![Plans de Quelques Villes de la Province de Hou-Quang. / Grondtekening [floor plan] van eenige Steden van't Landschap Hu-Quang.](/uploads/cache/34078-250x250.jpg)
Plans de Quelques Villes de la Province de Hou-Quang. / Grondtekening [floor plan] van eenige Steden van't Landschap Hu-Quang.
Interesting set of three local town plans each with extensive titles :"Yong Chew Fu, ou Yong Tcheou Fou." Centre: "Vu Chang Fu, ou Vou-Tchang-Fou Capitale:...
- $90 / ≈ €84
Place & Date: The Hague, Pieter de Hondt, 1747-1767
Palais de Lamthau à la Chine.
View of a Mandarin's Palace at Lantau Island, showing the palace wall, 3 gates and guards in the inner palace where the Mandarin meets with the officers.. Tome 3 Page 392...
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Amsterdam, J.F. Bernard, 1725
Chine et Japon.
Detailed map of China, Korea, Taiwan and Japan, prepared by Charles V. Monin (fl.1830-1880) a French cartographer of Caen and Paris. Published in Atlas Universel de Géog...
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Paris, 1845