Complete chapter of Voyage from Shanghai to Moscow, from Giornale Popolare di Viacci, September 8, 1872. 11 pages, all on China. B
Price: $30.00
Complete chapter of Voyage from Shanghai to Moscow, from Giornale Popolare di Viacci, September 8, 1872. 11 pages, all on China. B
Price: $30.00
Chinese telephone operators in 1909, from L’Illustration. B
Price: $25.00
A collection of 5 illustrations of Chinese diplomats and fairs in 19th century Europe and the USA. B
Price: $110.00
A collection of 5 illustrated pages of Chinese piracy, navy and submarine torpedo experiments.B
Price: $90.00
A collection of 7 illustrated pages of Peking from European periodicals dated 1847-1875. B
Price: $130.00
A collection of 21 illustrated pages from European periodicals dated 1847-1899. Shown are a market in Kalgan; the marriage of the Emperor; an internment; a child’s hospice at Canton; funeral customs; the temple of Foochow; a barber; local theatre; Chinese palace in Tientsin; games; females; domestic life; temple interior; children for sale in Shantung; a Buddhist refectory in Canton; child life; dispensing medicine; a Chinese pharmacy; local punishment; more. B
Price: $400.00
Two illustrations of Shanghai from L’Illustrazione Popolare (1874) and the Illustrated London News (1854). B
Price: $100.00
A theatre in Hong Kong, dated 1884 from L’Illustration. B
Price: $35.00
Collection of 5 illustrations from the rare periodical Giornale Per Tutti showing the Imperial Summer Palace in 1869. B
Price: $100.00
Collection of 10 illustrated pages from French and English periodicals relating to the Sino-French War of 1884-1885. Shown are a panorama of Chinese troops crossing the Foochow River; bombarding the arsenal at Foochow; European consulates and concessions at Foochow; views of Foochow; French and Chinese on the streets; bombardment of Foochow; scenes at Kelung Formosa; Fort Tamsue at Kelung Formosa. B
Price: $300.00
Note: The Sino-French War was a limited conflict fought from August 1884 through April 1885. There was no declaration of war. Militarily it was a stalemate. The Chinese armies performed better than in other nineteenth-century wars and the war ended with French retreat on land. However, one consequence was that France supplanted China's control of Tonkin (northern Vietnam). The war strengthened the dominance of Empress Dowager Cixi over the Chinese government, but brought down the government of Prime Minister Jules Ferry in Paris. Both sides were satisfied with the Treaty of Tientsin. According to Lloyd Eastman, "neither nation reaped diplomatic gains." B