Opium Wars (13 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 48 pages. Illustrated. Gautam Hazarika "China And The West From Marco Polo To The Opium Wars" / David Butcher "The Adagio Press Revisited" (U.P.).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 112 pages. Illustrated. Agnes Arnold-Forster "The Cold, Cold War" / Richard Millington "Stealing A Living in the GDR" / Gordon McKelvie "Roses Are Red [The Wars of the Roses]" / Peter Thilly "Opium For The Masses" (SL#121).

Condition: Very Good. 2 pages, illustrated. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: A4 Size. Category: History Today; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Two half-page engravings: 15.5 and 17.6 x 22.7 cm on a single newspaper leaf, explanatory text for each engraving overleaf, a top corner chipped, edgewear, sheet toned, sound condition. Engravings prepared for "The Illustrated London News" during the Second Opium War (1856-1860). The upper engraving illustrates Allied French and British Forces attempting to scale the wall during the Second Battle of Canton (1857). The associated text overleaf claims the feat for the French. From the Estate of the late collector and scholar Arthur Hacker.…

Two half page engravings: 14.8 x 23.5 cm on a single newspaper leaf, complete explanatory text, neatly sealed marginal tear to a lower corner (not affecting the image), sheet toned and creased, a few marginal spots, good condition. Engravings prepared for a Supplement to "The Illustrated London News" following the Battle of Canton during the Second Opium War. From the Estate of the late artist, collector, historian and scholar Arthur Hacker.…

Half page engraving 14.5 x 23.5 cm and a quarter page plan 17.5 x 15.5 cm on a single newspaper leaf, with complete associated text (a few words abraded in the final paragraph, spots of browning, but in very good condition. Engraving of the British factories at Canton (Guangzhou) and a scarce battle plan prepared for "The Illustrated London News" depicting the events of November 12 & 13, 1856, the Battle of the Bogue, by British-led forces during the Second Opium War. The commentary notes the Russian criticism of the British action, quoting a "letter from St. Petersburg" in the French "Journal des Débats". From the Estate of the late collector and scholar Arthur Hacker.…

1p, 8vo. On aged and worn paper. Attractive letterhead of the hotel and its surroundings. Addressed to 'My dear Willis'. Written in a shaky hand. Clearly writing in reference to his 1899 autobiography 'A Sailor's Life under Four Sovereigns', he states that he is glad that Willis is 'pleased with the book', and explains that he was 'suddenly driven' to Cannes 'by neuralgic pains'. He concludes: 'If I live to get back I should like to insert the Authors name in your Copy! Your sincere old friend | Harry Keppel'.…

Half page engraving 14.5 x 23.5 cm on a single newspaper leaf, with complete associated text, engravings of explosive devices employed in the capture"Chinese Infernal machines? on the verso; and another unrelated half page engraving of "Chinese Smuggling Craft" , spots of browning and edge-wear, but in very good condition. Engraving and detailed battle commentary from correspondents on board the British vessels H.M.S. Sybille moored off Whampoa Island and H.M.S. Encounter moored off Canton (Guangzhou), prepared for "The Illustrated London News" describing the attempted capture of a passenger steamer by 53 Chinese junks in Canton during the Second Opium War. Engravings of the devices used appear overleaf. From the Estate of the late collector and scholar Arthur Hacker.…

One half page and two smaller engravings12.5 x 34 cm, and two10 x 15.5 cm on a single newspaper leaf, top edge spotted, a few small edge tears, lower edge trimmed, but in very good condition. Three engravings prepared for the Illustrated London News depicting the Third Battle of Taku Forts near Tianjin: an allied French and British assault, part of the Second Opium War and an attempt to compel the Chinese government to observe the trade treaties signed between their governments in 1858, which included allowing the British to continue the opium trade in China. From the Estate of the late collector and scholar Arthur Hacker, with his pencilled notation.…

Half page engraving 15 x 23.7 cm and an inset town plan of Canton (Guangzhou) on a single newspaper leaf, with complete associated text, spots of browning, a few minor edge tears, but in very good condition. Engraving and town plan prepared for "The Illustrated London News" by Richard Principal Leitch 1844-1877 (fl.) after a sketch "by an Officer engaged in the operations" depicting the aftermath of the Battle of Canton (23 October to 5 November 1856) by British-led forces during the Second Opium War. From the Estate of the late collector and scholar Arthur Hacker.…

Half page engravings 8.8 x 34.4 cm and 12.7 x 34.4 cm on a single newspaper leaf, edge wear and creasing, lower edge trimmed, but in very good condition. A pair of engravings prepared for the Illustrated London News depicting the Third Battle of Taku Forts near Tianjin: an allied French and British assault, part of the Second Opium War and an attempt to compel the Chinese government to observe the trade treaties signed between their governments in 1858, which included allowing the British to continue the opium trade in China. From the Estate of the late collector and scholar Arthur Hacker, with his pencilled notation.…

Three engravings on a double newspaper leaf (the main image 16.5 x 51.3 cm), with complete associated text, central fold, a few minor edge tears and two central fold splits (neatly sealed on the verso), but in very good condition. Engravings depicting the Battle of Canton (Guangzhou), 28-31 December, 1857, led by joint British and French forces during the Second Opium War, prepared for "The Illustrated London News". The main engraving shows the bombardment from the Harbour with the European Factories still in tact, by artist and engraver Richard Principal Leitch (his signature is reversed in the image) who worked for "The Illustrated London News" for over 30 years from the 1840s. From the Estate of the late collector and scholar Arthur Hacker, with his pencilled note in the lower corner.…

Five vols. Tall 8vo. [40; 44; 48; 42; 34 pp.]. With 1 double-page colour woodblock map, 18 double-page woodblocks (7 w/ colour), 1 single-page woodblock plate. Uniformly bound in textured embossed pattern limp softcovers, manuscript titles, punch-sewn at gutter margins (wear, soiling, some worming through fore-edges, text in portions, thumbing to fore-edges, soiling, lower 2/3 of front title leaf stating "Forbidden from Sale" torn away), still a G- reference set, of this noted rarity. First edition of the author's "second series" recounting further events in the First Opium War fought between Great Britain and China in 1839-1842. The text and illustrations vividly stressed the terrible effects of opium on Qing Dynasty China, and the brave Chinese resisting the British military. Buttressed with striking illustrations by Utagawa Sadahide (1807-1879/79?) which depict such incidents as Chinese fire-boats approaching a British warship; a captured spy; Chenshi the Monk putting up a valiant fight; a Chinese Woman warrior fighting the British; a Taiwanese fort sinking a British Warship; the fall of Zhenhai; French diplomatic ships arriving on the Yangtze, and even an omen appearing in the heavens. In addition, there are a number of woodblock prints depicting British cannons, mortars, and firearms employed during the Opium Wars. The Kaigai Shinwa printed on Mino paper, was written in a sensationalistic and simple style with Japanese syllabaries attached to all Chinese characters, and intended as a cautionary tale advising Japan and other Asian countries of the pitfalls of foreign invaders and intervention, just four years before the appearance of Perry's squadron in Tokyo Bay. Mineta Fuko (1817-1883) was thrown into prison for having published the work without official consent, and later after he was released was deprived of the right to live in Edo, Kyoto, or Osaka -- the santo kamae (tri-urban banishment), and many of the volumes were seized, and others were censored or removed. See: Timothy Brook & Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi, Opium Regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839-1952 (2000), pp. 60-65; Masuda Wataru, Seigaku tozen to Chukoku jijo: zassho sakki (The Eastern Spread of Western Learning and Conditions in China: Notes on Various Books], 14. Kaigai Shinwa. . . , Tokyo (1979), Translated by Joshua A. Fogel, UCSB, pp. 27-39.…