Schiff Illustrateur (2 results)

1 large volume, folio (15*10.5 inches), 84 pp., hardcover, cloth covered boards with a photograph inserted, one coloured map and numerous photographic illustrations and black and white sketches by Schiff throughout the text. A good copy, despite some soiling on the cloth boards and small tears on the edges. Inside is clean and in good condition. First and only edition of this rare volume on Peking in the thirties. An interesting mixture of nice photographs by Ellen Catleen and humoristic drawings and sketches by Schiff. Ellen Catleen was the wife of the former Netherlands Minister in China, Thorbecke. She published books on Hong Kong, Shanghai and Peking. Schiff was a famous Austrian Cartoonist and Illustrator working for many newspapers and magazines in Shanghai.…

Avec une lettre d'Alexandre HEPP. Illustré de 10 planches reproduisant les dessins de E. FRIANT, JEANNIOT, MARTIN, Victor PROUVE, SCHIFF, SELLIER, J. et L. VOIRIN. Paris, Ollendorf, 1883, in-12 broché, couverture crème imprimée en brun, 115 pp., table des matières, tables des illustrations. Tiré à 300 exemplaires, l'un des 275 sur papier teinté satiné. Couverture insolée et salie, coins cornés avec petits manques, dos fendu avec petits manques, pages légèrement jaunies, petites piqûres internes. Livres. . Illustrateur : FRIANT (E.), JEANNIOT (Georges), MARTIN (C.), PROUVE (Victor), SCHIFF, SELLIER, VOIRIN (J. et L.). (illustrator).…