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![OKADA GYUKUZAN, OKA YUGAKU, OHARA TOYA MINSEI - Morokoshi Meisho Zue [Illustrated Description of Famous Sites of China].](https://www.loeb-larocque.com/eshop/image/cache/catalog/image/new_upload/34118-275x210h.jpg "OKADA GYUKUZAN, OKA YUGAKU, OHARA TOYA MINSEI - Morokoshi Meisho Zue [Illustrated Description of Famous Sites of China].")
Location: 1806
Date: Osaka, Bunka 3, year of the tiger - 1806
Format: 225 x 180mm.
Color: Noir et blanc.
Condition: Original yellow paper wrappers, some soiling, with title and contents labels, the fourth one of which is a little bit defective, as shown the image. Thread partially untied, but binding is almost secure. As is often the case of this, impression is somewhat pale, but very fine copy. Some worming in volume 3.<br />6 vols., not bound in the 2nd sheet with issue date in the 1st volume.
Published in Osaka, Kawachiya Genhichiro, et al. [8 book sellers], slightly later issue but apparently in Edo period, using ..
4 500€
![CH'ONHA CHIDO - [Atlas of all under Heaven].](https://www.loeb-larocque.com/eshop/image/cache/catalog/image/new_upload/33625-275x210h.jpg "CH'ONHA CHIDO - [Atlas of all under Heaven].")
Location: 1820
Date: Korea, ca. 1820
Format: 330 x 390mm.
Color: Col. ancien.
Condition: Manuscript atlas ([13] folded double leaves) : colour maps mounted on thick rice paper ; sheets 33 x 39 centimeters, folded to 33 x 19,5 centimeters. Korea, early or mid nineteenth century.
The Ch’onha chido [Atlas of all under Heaven] is a 19th century copy of the traditional Korean atlas produced in the early Ch..
28 000€
Location: 1824
Date: Edinburgh, 1824
Format: 455 x 547mm.
Color: In attractive original wash colours.
Condition: Very good condition.
Detailed map of China, Korea, Japan and Taiwan engraved by H. Cooper and published by Alexander Macredie. Originally engraved..
600€
Location: 1827
Date: Brussels, 1825-1827
Format: 467 x 515mm.
Color: Col. ancien.
Condition: Lithography, in original colours. Paper very slightly age toned. Plano sheet.
Covers Jiangxi, Fujian and parts of Zhejiang, Guangdong, Hunan and Hubei.From his famous Atlas Universel . This atlas was one..
150€
Location: 1827
Date: Brussels, 1825-1827
Format: 462 x 508mm.
Color: Col. ancien.
Condition: Lithography, in original colours. Paper very slightly age toned. Plano sheet. Spotted.
Covers Guizhou and parts of Yunnan, Guangxi, Hunan, Hubei and Sichuan.From his famous Atlas Universel . This atlas was one of..
150€
Location: 1862
Date: Paris, 1862
Format: 455 x 610mm.
Color: Col. d'époque.
Condition: Very good condition. In pochoir colours.
Detailed map of Malaysia, Thailand, China, Taiwan, and good detail in Philippines. Lower part of a 2-sheet map...
220€
Location: 1863
Date: Paris, c.1856 - 1863
Format: 621 x 912mm.
Color: Noir et blanc.
Condition: Printed on thick paper. Cut on plate mark. Dark impression.
Very detailed chart of Macao and several of the surrounding Islands, and features numerous depth soundings throughout. Prepa..
1 500€
Location: 1874
Date: Lyon, c. 1874
Format: 212 x 260mm.
Color: Limites en col. ancien.
Condition: Very good condition. Contemporarily pasted on a larger sheet.
Detailed map of Guizhou Province prepared by Mgr. Faurie and other sources supplied by missionaries. Published in "Les Missio..
100€
![GUIERRY, Mgr. - Carte du Tche-Kiang. [ Zhejiang province ]](https://www.loeb-larocque.com/eshop/image/cache/catalog/image/new_upload/30921-275x210h.jpg "GUIERRY, Mgr. - Carte du Tche-Kiang. [ Zhejiang province ]")
Location: 1874
Date: Paris, 1874
Format: 194 x 177mm.
Color: Limites en col. ancien.
Condition: Lithography in very good condition. Contemporarily pasted on a larger sheet.
Map of Tche Kiang, prepared by Bishop Edmond-François Guierry, C.M. (Vicar Apostolic of Zhejiang, China) after sources suppli..
100€
Location: 1875
Date: Paris, Furne, Jouvet et Cie, 1875
Format: 188 x 221mm.
Color: Lithographie en couleurs.
Condition: Short left and lower margin.
Three maps one sheet, with in upper left a map of the southeast coast of China, including Formosa. Lower left, "2e Défenses d..
50€
![DIETH, H. - Hong Kong Piraten Strasse. [Pirate Street].](https://www.loeb-larocque.com/eshop/image/cache/catalog/image/new_upload/24363-275x210h.jpg "DIETH, H. - Hong Kong Piraten Strasse. [Pirate Street].")
Location: 1882
Date: Germany, 1882
Format: 340 x 230mm.
Color: Col. ancien.
Condition: Water colour on paper, signed and dated.
Finely executed water colour made by Henri Dieth of a charming street scene at "Pirate Street" in Hong Kong. The water colour..
1 800€
Location: 1882
Date: Germany, 1882
Format: 340 x 230mm.
Color: Col. ancien.
Condition: Water colour on paper, signed and dated. Framed.
Finely executed water colour, signed and dated 1882 by Henri Dieth of a charming street scene in Peking. The water colour is ..
2 500€
![DIETH, H. - Hong Kong. [Queen's Road].](https://www.loeb-larocque.com/eshop/image/cache/catalog/image/new_upload/24362-275x210h.jpg "DIETH, H. - Hong Kong. [Queen's Road].")
Location: 1882
Date: Germany, 1882
Format: 270 x 380mm.
Color: Col. ancien.
Condition: Water colour on paper, signed and dated. Framed.
Finely excecuted water colour made by Henri Dieth of a charming atmospheric street scene at Queen's Road in Hong Kong. The wa..
3 000€
Location: 1888
Date: Jingdu dashuntang, 1888
Format: 1090 x 1850mm.
Color: Col. d'époque.
Condition: Woodblock printed map.
The second earliest edition of China’s first commercial map, Gujin di yu quan tu 《古今地輿全圖》(Complete map of ancient and modern ..
50 000€
Location: 1890
Date: Lille, 1890
Format: 265 x 415mm.
Color: In original printed colours.
Condition: Coloured lithography. Paper very slightly age toned. Accompanied by one page description of the region in French.
Important missionary map showing part of China, prepared by Adrien Launay, who was a French Missionary and later chronicer of..
50€
Location: 1890
Date: Lille, 1890
Format: 265 x 415mm.
Color: In original printed colours.
Condition: Coloured lithography. Paper very slightly age toned. Accompanied by one page description of the region in French.
Important missionary map showing part of China, prepared by Adrien Launay, who was a French Missionary and later chronicer of..
100€
Location: 1890
Date: Lille, 1890
Format: 265 x 415mm.
Color: In original printed colours.
Condition: Coloured lithography. Paper very slightly age toned. Accompanied by one page description of the region in French.
Important missionary map showing part of China, prepared by Adrien Launay, who was a French Missionary and later chronicer of..
100€
Location: 1890
Date: Lille, 1890
Format: 265 x 430mm.
Color: In original printed colours.
Condition: Coloured lithography. Paper very slightly age toned. Accompanied by one page description of the region in French.
Important missionary map showing part of China, prepared by Adrien Launay, who was a French Missionary and later chronicer of..
100€
![SERVICE GEOGRAPHIQUE DE L'ARMEE - Nankin [Nanjing, Jiangsu]](https://www.loeb-larocque.com/eshop/image/cache/catalog/image/new_upload/30031-275x210h.jpg "SERVICE GEOGRAPHIQUE DE L'ARMEE - Nankin [Nanjing, Jiangsu]")
Location: 1900
Date: Paris, 1900
Format: 470 x 586mm.
Color: Limites en col. ancien.
Condition: Helio engraving with printed colours.
Very detailed (1:1.000.000) map showing the area north of Nanjing, Jiangsu. The French Service géographique des armées was f..
400€
![POTTER, J.D. - Wusung River or Hwang Pu. / Wusung River Entrance [With Shanhhai]](https://www.loeb-larocque.com/eshop/image/cache/catalog/image/new_upload/48595-275x210h.jpg "POTTER, J.D. - Wusung River or Hwang Pu. / Wusung River Entrance [With Shanhhai]")
Location: 1903
Date: London, 1887 - 190, updated to 1903
Format: 1245 x 650mm.
Color: Uncoloured.
Condition: Paper slightly age-toned as usual.
A fine Survey chart no. 1601 showing Wusung River or Hwang Pu. / Wusung River Entrance [With Shanghai]..
800€
Location: 1925
Date: Desvres, 1905 - 1925
Format: 480 x 320mm.
Color: Col. ancien.
Condition: Very good condition.
With attractive pattern of a classic Chinese motif. In top "Planche d'aquarelle N° 04510" and the numbers 2,198. This hand wa..
400€
Location: 1925
Date: Desvres, 1905 - 1925
Format: 320 x 480mm.
Color: Col. ancien.
Condition: Very good condition.
In left hand side "Planche d'aquarelle N° 06502". And the numbers 11.153, 11.154, 11.155. This hand water colored print is a ..
300€
Location: 1925
Date: Desvres, 1905 - 1925
Format: 313 x 480mm.
Color: Col. ancien.
Condition: Very good condition.
In left hand side "Planche d'aquarelle N° 05501". This hand water colored print is a original design created by the Sevres ar..
300€
Location: 1735
Date: Paris, P. G. Le Mercier, 1735
Format: 430 x 280mm.
Color: Noir et blanc
Condition: 4 volumes folio ; (2) leaves, viij-lij-iv-592 pp. — (2) leaves, iv-725 pp. — (2) leaves, iv-564-(2) pp. — (2) leaves, ij-520 pp. Contemporary calf, spines divided in compartments by six raised bands, contrasting red morocco labels in two, others richly gilt with floral tools, leaf sprays, etc., sides ruled in gilt with three-line fillet, marbled endpapers, red edges. With 65 maps and plates (all but one double-page or folding); titles in red and black incorporating engraved pictorial vignette by Baquoy after Humblot; with all half-titles; woodcut head- and tailpieces, typographic ornaments, historiated and decorative initials.
First edition of this cornerstone of any collection of books on China, which is also among the rarest and most desirable of i..
30 000€