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CHINA. South Manchuria Railway, April, 1935.Dairen, Manchuria : 1935
First edition of this early and informative "advertorial" piece promoting the range of business concerns established by the South Manchuria Railway in Japanese-held Manchuria in the 1930s, including descriptions of the company's coal mining, warehousing, railway workshops, harbours, wharves, hotels, hospitals, and schools, and details of the administration... Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 143418
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CHINA. Lankin.1671
This fascinating copperplate engraving comes from a famous work originally published in Dutch by the trade diplomat Jan Nieuhoff, translated into English by the British mapmaker and publisher John Ogilby.
The images provide a document of early western contact with China and come from the account written by the diplomat Jan Nieuhoff who was the... Learn More£220.00Stock Code: 56331
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CHINA. Paolinx Pagoda.1671
This fascinating copperplate engraving comes from a famous work originally published in Dutch by the trade diplomat Jan Nieuhoff, translated into English by the British mapmaker and publisher John Ogilby.
The images provide a document of early western contact with China and come from the account written by the diplomat Jan Nieuhoff who was the... Learn More£240.00Stock Code: 56329
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CHINA. Second Opium War.An enthralling and richly detailed journal of a decade at sea with the US Navy during the 1850s, recording back-to-back cruises on three sloops-of-war, seeing action in three different arenas: on the Cyane, which shelled Greytown, Nicaragua (1854), the Preble during the Paraguay Expedition (1858) - a flexing of muscle by the US Navy that concluded peaceably... Learn More£9,500.00Stock Code: 127365
