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Hand-drawn studies of Indian boats

SAWYER, Cornelius, [Drawn studies of Indian boats in an English manuscript notebook].
Bengal, 1834. 4to (ca. 19 x 23.5 cm). With 31 drawings in various inks and pencil, the text is written in a cursive script in ink. The paper is watermarked "R Tassel 1831". Contemporary gold-tooled half dark green morocco, marbled paper sides, marbled endpapers. 6 pages of text and 21 pages of drawings on 36 ll. Full description
€ 18,000
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Deluxe album containing 19th-century hand-coloured photographs of China and its people by the leading photographer in Shanghai during the late Qing dynasty

SAUNDERS, William Thomas (photographer). [Portfolio of sketches of Chinese life and character].
[Shanghai, China, 1871]. Oblong album (ca. 41 x 56 cm). With 51 hand-coloured photographs mounted on the recto of 50 leaves. Contemporary gold- and black-tooled red sheepskin, with a hand-carved wooden panel mounted into the front board, showing a Asian house with 4 people around a round table, a cat or similar pet in the foreground next to a person smoking a pipe (an opium pipe?) being approached by a servant with two plates food, gold-tooled turn-ins, gilt edges, white watered silk endpapers. [50] ll. Full description
€ 125,000
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Rich iconographic record of an Austrian expedition to the East Indies,
the first to significantly attempt to open commercial channels with China,
with drawings of Singapore, China, Hong Kong, and the Phillippines

[SOUTH EAST ASIA - SMS AURORA - CHINA - SINGAPORE - PHILIPPINES]. Views of South-East Asia, China and Japan drawn on the voyage of SMS Aurora.
[China, Singapore, the Philippines, SMS Aurora (at sea)], 1886-1888. Oblong folio (17.9 x 40 cm). With 37 sheets of sketches in pencil, black ink, and grey wash, mounted on cards, most captioned and dated. Modern quarter black morocco over blue cloth boards, gold-tooled spine, and a gold-tooled morocco label on the front board. Full description
€ 25,000
China Drawings & Watercolours Japan & Far East Southeast Asia Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages Southeast Asia Travel & Voyages Southern Asia
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The bombardment of Alexandria, a night-attack of jihadic troops in Sudan and a survey in the Far East and Australia

SPINKS, Walter. [Album of watercolours drawn aboard HMS Myrmidon].
On board HMS Myrmidon, [1884-]1886[-1887]. Oblong 4to (17.5 x 25 cm). With 25 watercolours (including 1 double-page) and 13 pencil drawings, most of them captioned in pencil. Contemporary half-sheepskin album. [32] ll. Full description
€ 12,500
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Batavia through the eyes of one of the most important Dutch cityscape painters of the Romantic period

SPRINGER, Cornelis. [Tijgersgracht, Batavia].
[Amsterdam?, after 1850]. Frame ca. 19.2 x 27 cm. Watercolour on paper (ca. 14.8 x 22.4 cm), signed "C Springer" in the lower right. In a (near) contemporary gold-coloured wooden frame. Full description
€ 6,850
Art & Art History Drawings & Watercolours Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Southeast Asia
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Twelve vibrant and detailed paintings of members of the Chinese court

[SUNQUA (attributed)]. [Album with twelve Chinese pith paintings of court officials].
[Guangzhou (Canton), before 1850]. Folio (ca. 34.5 x 24.5 cm). Gouache and gold on pith paper (ca. 26.5 x 17.5 cm), each drawing is mounted by its corners in an album of mulberry-bark(?) paper (ca. 34 x 24 cm) and framed with a light blue silk ribbon. Contemporary green silk brocade with a floral pattern, pink closing ties. [12] ll. Full description
€ 8,500
Art & Art History China Costumes & Uniforms Drawings & Watercolours
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Attractive early 19th-century watercolour illustration of the highest Dutch official on Deshima, Japan, together with his wife Titia, one of the first western women in Japan

[WATERCOLOUR - JAPANESE - DESHIMA]. [Portrait of Jan Cocq Blomhoff and his wife Titia Bergsma on Deshima, Japan].
[Japan, ca. 1817 or later]. Drawing size ca. 56.5 x 25.5 cm; frame size ca. 74.5 x 40.5 cm. Watercolour and ink drawing, partly highlighted with white water paint and gouache, on paper. In a passepartout and framed. Full description
€ 7,500
Drawings & Watercolours Japan & Far East
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