Asia / Drawings, Photographs, Prints & Watercolours

[JAPANESE FOLDING SCREEN - NANBAN BYOBU - THE PORTUGUESE IN JAPAN]. [A Japanese folding screen, specifically a nanban byôbu, depicting the arrival of a Portuguese ship in Japan].
[Japan, late Edo period (1615-1868)]. 104 x 272 cm (each illustrated panel: ca. 90.5 x 44.5 cm). Ink, watercolours, gold paint, and gold leaf on paper. The image is surrounded by a frame of silk brocade (a narrow frame in burgundy and gold and a wider frame in yellow, gold, and black, with a clear floral pattern; together the frame is 5 cm wide), the whole is mounted on six roiro (black) lacquered wood panels, with gilt metal fittings on the outer corners of the outer panels. The panels are backed with decorative paper. [6 panels]. Full description

KEIEN. Kengyu-ka shasei [= Morning glory sketches].
Japan, Meiji 31?, 34-36 [=1898?, 1901-1903]. Very large 8vo? (28 x 20.5 cm). With 85 double-page (mostly botanical) drawings in black ink on Japanese paper, each showing 1, 2 or 3 figures, sometimes with additional detail drawings, nearly all coloured in watercolour and/or gouache and most with captions identifying the subject and/or giving the date. Front wrapper with the title in Japanese in black ink. Wrapper-title plus [85] double-page spreads. Full description

[LUTZ, J.A. (engraver) and Haatje Pieters OOSTERHUIS (draughtsman)]. De roemryke overwinning, der Palembangsche expeditie op de rivier de Sounsang in de Oost-Indien, door de Nederlandsche land en zeemagt op den 24 Juny 1821.
[Amsterdam, Js. Groenewoud, ca. 1822].
With:
(2) IDEM. Het naar boord brengen, van den Sultan Machmoed Badaroedin naar Z: M: Schooner de Johanna op de rivier de Sousang in de Oost-Indien op den 27 Junij 1821, na de roemrijke overwinning der Palembangsche expeditie.
[Amsterdam, Js. Groenewoud, ca. 1822].
Plate size ca. 32.5 x 43.5 cm. Two hand-coloured aquatint plates with engraved Dutch title and "Proefdruk" below the image. In passepartouts and uniformly framed behind glass (ca. 53.5 x 63.5 cm). Full description

[MAGIC LANTERN SLIDES]. [Large collection of more than 400 glass positive magic lantern slides].
[Kopenhagen?], [early 20th century]. More than 400 glass slides depicting various motifs related to coal mining, chemical processes and astronomy, as well as topographical motifs from Asia, Africa, China, Europe and America. Housed in the original publisher's wooden boxes. Includes 2 original projectors and 1 camera. Full description

[MAP - ARABIAN PENINSULA]. BRUCE, James. Carte de la mer Rouge, relevée sur celle de James Bruce.
[Egypt, probably Cairo], 1827. Folio leaf (46 x 31.5 cm). Manuscript map in pen and ink with watercolour, with a French text on Middle Eastern hand-made paper. Full description

[PAINTING ON LEATHER - JAPANESE - DESHIMA]. [A birds-eye view of the Dutch trading post on Deshima, Japan with in the background a Dutch three-master anchored in Nagasaki Bay].
[Japan, before 1800]. Drawing size ca. 34 x 39.5 cm; frame size ca. 46 x 51 cm. (Oil?) painting on leather. In a passepartout and framed. Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHY - INDIA - SRI LANKA]. Indes (2e partie) et Ceylan.
[ca. 1870-1890]. Oblong album (ca. 31.5 x 35.5 cm). With 125 black-and-white photographic prints mounted on cardboard, accompanied by numerous handwritten annotations in French on the album pages. Near-contemporary half red velvet (spine rubbed/faded). [45] ll. Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHY - SHAH JAHAN ALBUM]. [20th-century photographic reproduction of the Shah Jahan Album].
[20th century]. 2 volumes. Folio. With 50 photographic reproductions in black and white mounted onto thick passepartout leaves, separated by thinner leaves, onto which typed descriptions are mounted. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled burgundy buckram, with the title and volume number lettered in gold on the front and spine, a double fillet border on both boards, blind-tooled turn-ins, gold and burgundy floral end papers, gilt edges. [1 blank], [26], [2 blank]; [2 blank], [25], [2 blank] ll. Full description

POCOCK, Nicholas. East India views islands headlands &c.
[London, ca. 1790?- ca. 1805]. Ten watercolour coastal profiles in grey and blue, of widely varying sizes (30 to 119 cm long), with contemporary captions and other notes in pencil or black ink. 20th-century brown cloth with the artist's original laid-paper wrappers bound at the end. [10] drawings. Full description

SALE, Sir Robert H. (and others). The defence of Jellalabad, ... drawn on stone by W.L. Walton.
London, Joseph Hogarth, Henry Graves & Co., and sold by Hullmandel & Walton, [1845/46]. 1mo (full-sheet leaves) (54 x 37 cm). With a lithographed frontispiece portrait of Sale by Thomas Fairl and after a painting by Scarlet Davis, a lithographed illustrated title-page, a lithographed dedication to Queen Victoria (reproducing Sales hand-written and signed dedication), a double-page "Plan of Jellalabad" (51.5 x 60 cm, lithographed by S. Leith in Edinburgh) and 34 tinted lithographic views of the city and its fortifications (in landscape format) on 22 leaves.
Gold-tooled red goatskin morocco, richly gold-tooled turn-ins, gold-tooled board edges, yellow endpapers, gilt edges. Lithographed frontispiece, title-page & dedication plus 5, [1 blank] pp. plus plates. Full description