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DAMPIER (WILLIAM) A Collection of Voyages, 4 vol., James and John Knapton, 1729

MOORE (JOHN HAMILTON) A New and Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels, 2 vol., folio (360 x 220mm.) (3)

WORLD MAP TEESDALE (HENRY, publisher) A New Chart of the World on Mercator's Projection, with the Tracks of the Most Celebrated & Recent Navigators, H. Teesdale, 1842

HMS BOUNTY Four blue glass trading beads salvaged from the wreck of the HMS Bounty

HMS BOUNTY Fragment of a 9lb cannon ball recovered from the wreck of the HMS Bounty

COLLINS (DAVID) An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, from its First Settlement, in January 1788, to August 1801: with remarks on the dispositions, customs, manners, &c. of the native inhabitants of that country... some particulars of New Zealand, T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1804

Charles Decimus Barraud(British, 1822-1897)Figures on a path, New Zealand

William Bustard(Australian, 1894-1973)Sheep station

Robert Juniper(Australian, 1929-2012)Landscape with figures

Ken Done(Australian, born 1940)'Frangipani Night I'

Judy Cassab(Australian, 1920-2015)Australian desert landscape

Peter McIntyre(New Zealand, 1910-1995)'Tahiti Dancers'

Percy Lindsay(Australian, 1870-1952)'Porters Cottage, Melbourne Road, Creswick'

Robert Charles(Col.) Goff (British, 1837-1922)The Karamon Gate at the Toshogu Shrine, Nikko, Japan

Kinichiro Ishikawa(Japanese, 1871-1945)A Japanese woman with a parasol walking through a park

Masano(Masana) Kawakubo (Japanese, 19th/20th Century)Temples at Nikko, Japan

Charles Wirgman Sr.(British, 1832-1891)Study of a Japanese man, probably a leader during the Boshin war

Charles Wirgman Sr.(British, 1832-1891)Study of Japanese figures, probably hikeshi

KAEMPFER (ENGELBERT) The History of Japan: Giving an Account of the Antient and Present State of Government of that Empire... together with a Description of the Kingdom of Siam, 2 vol., for the Publisher, and sold by T. Woodward and C. Davis, 1728

MONTANUS (ARNOLDUS) Atlas Japannensis: being Remarkable Addresses by way of Embassy... to the Emperor of China, T. Johnson, 1670

MONTANUS (ARNOLDUS) Ambassades mémorables de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales... vers les Empereurs du Japon, 2 parts in one vol., Amsterdam, Jacob de Meurs, 1680

PERRY (MATTHEW CALBRAITH) Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, Performed in the Years 1852, 1853, and 1854..., 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, Washington, A.O.P. Nicholson, 1856 with KEATE (GEORGE), An Account of the Pelew Islands..., second edition, G. Nicol, 1788 4to (4)

PHOTOGRAPHY Album of 50 topographical views and portrait types, [1880s]

ABEL (CLARKE) Narrative of a Journey in the Interior of China, and of a Voyage to and from that Country, in the Years 1816 and 1817, 4to (2)

BARROW (JOHN) Travels in China, T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806

BRETON DE LA MARTINIÈRE (JEAN BAPTISTE) China: its Costume, Arts, Manufactures, 4 vol. in 2; with 2 others (8)

CANTON AND MACAO - SEA CHART [ESPEJO (JOSÉ)] Carta esférica del Rio Chou-Kiang ó Canton, desde su embocadura con los canales de S.Y So. É Isla de Hong-Kong, hasta la Ciudad de Canton... por el Capitan de la Marina Rl. Inglesa Edw.d Belcher..., Madrid, [en Direccion de Hidrographia], 1849

DANIELL (THOMAS AND WILLIAM) A Picturesque Voyage to India; by the Way of China, Longman, 1810

FORTAVION (G.C. DE) La guerre de Chine. Grand panorama illustré historique et anecdotique, Paris, Guérin-Muller, 1862

GONZALEZ DE MENDOZA (JUAN) Dell' historia della China descritta dal P.M. Gio. Gonzalez di Mendozza... nella lingua Spagnuola. Et tradotta nell' Italiana dal Magn. M. Francesco Avanzo, Citadino originario di Venetia. Parti due, divise in tre libri, & in tre viaggi fatti in quei paesi da i Padri Agostiniani, & Fraciscani, Venice, Andrea Muschio, 1586

HALDE (JEAN BAPTISTE DU) The General History of China. Containing a Geographical, Historical, Chronological, Political and Physical Description of the Empire of China, 4 vol., John Watts, 1736

HALL (BASIL) Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island; with an Appendix Containing Charts, and Various Hydrographical and Scientific Notices... and Vocabulary of the Loo-Choo Language by H.J. Clifford, FIRST EDITION, John Murray, 1818

IDES (EVERT YSBRANTS) Three Years Travels from Moscow Over-Land to China, thro' Great Ustiga, Siriania, Permia, Sibiria, Daour, Great Tartary, &c. to Peking, W. Freeman, J. Walthoe [and others], 1706

KIRCHER (ATHANASIUS) China monumentis, qua sacris qua profanis, nec non variis naturae & artis spectaculis, aliarumque rerum memorabilium argumentis illustrata, Amsterdam, J. à Meurs, 1667

MASON (GEORGE HENRY) The Costume of China, Illustrated by Sixty Engravings with Explanations in English and French, FIRST EDITION, W. Miller, 1800 [watermarked 1816-1818]

MASON (GEORGE HENRY) The Punishments of China, William Miller, 1808

MENDES PINTO (FERNANDO) The Voyages and Adventures of Ferdinand Mendez Pinto... during his Travels for the Space of One and Twenty Years in the Kingdoms of Ethiopia, China, Tartaria, Cauchin-china, Calaminham, Siam, Pegu, Japan, and a Great Part of the East-Indies, J. Macock, for Henry Herringhman, 1663

NIEUHOFF (JEAN) L'Ambassade de la compagnie orientale des provinces unies vers l'Empereur de la Chine, ou Grand Cam de Tartarie, 2 parts in 1 vol., Leiden, Jacob de Meurs, 1665

OSBECK (PETER) A Voyage to China and the East Indies, 2 vol., 1771; and 2 others (4)

PHOTOGRAPHY - H.M.S CUMBERLAND Album relating to the H.M.S. Cumberland's tour of duty to China, as part of the British China Fleet, [1930-1931]

PHOTOGRAPHY Group of 16 photographs, [1870s-1880s]

PSALMANAZAR (GEORGE) An Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa, 1705; and 3 others (4)

SHANGHAI UYENO (HIKOMA) 'Shanghai, Taken from scaffold 160 feet high', [1893]

STAUNTON (GEORGE) An Authentic Account of An Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China, 3 vol. including Atlas, FIRST EDITION, W.Bulmer & Co. for G.Nicol, 1797

James Billington Coughtrie(British, active 1863-1914)Hong Kong harbour at sunset

[SULAYMAN al-Tajir and ABU ZAYD HASAN ibn Yazid Sirafi] Ancient Accounts of India and China, by Two Mohammedan Travellers, who went to those parts in the 9th century; Translated from the Arabic by the late learned Eusebius Renaudot, 2 parts in 1 vol., Printed for Sam[uel] Harding at the Bible and Anchor on the Pavement in St. Martins-Lane, 1733

WRIGHT (GEORGE NEWENHAM) China, in a Series of Views, Displaying the Scenery, Architecture, and Social Habits, of that Ancient Empire, 4 vol. in 2, Fisher, [c. 1843]

Chinese School19th CenturyChinese boat dwellers

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