Western Ephemera
Collection of 19 illustrated pags from L’Illustration, Journal Universel in 1858, relating to the Second Opium War. B
Price: $420.00
Note: The Second Opium War, also known as the Second Anglo-Chinese War, the Second China War, the Arrow War, or the Anglo-French expedition to China, was a war pitting the British Empire and the French Empire against the Qing dynasty of China that lasted from 1856 to 1860.
It was the second major war in the Opium Wars, fought over issues relating to the exportation of opium to China, and resulted in a second defeat for the Qing dynasty. The agreements of the Convention of Peking led to the ceding of Kowloon Peninsula as part of Hong Kong.
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A collection of 5 colored illustrated pages from French and Italian periodicals dated 1894-1936. Shown are an attack on a French Customs controller (1894), refugees from the Russian-Chinese conflict (1929), a tiger attack in Manchukuo (1936), a Shanghai tram (1931) and Germans and British Indian soldiers fighting each other in Tientsin (1901). B
Price: $200.00
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