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05/12/2025
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Bernard Quaritch
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Firsts Hong Kong
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Manuscripts, paintings, photographs, and ephemera, chiefly from or about China and the East, that we will be bringing. These include the first polychrome woodblock book printed in China; a pioneering dictionary of Cantonese printed in early Hong Kong; rare and unrecorded Chinese missionary texts printed at Beijing, Jiujiang, Wuhan, Fuzhou, and Macao; photographic albums depicting Guizhou, Mongolia, Tibet, Manchuria, and Macao; a fine watercolour of 1840s Macao painted by one of Hong Kong's earliest architects; a hand-coloured woodblock world map by ‘the founder of Japanese geography’; sketches and photographs of India, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Korea; and one of the last manuscripts of Marco Polo's Travels in private hands.
Alongside these we will be taking with us a selection of highlights in English literature and history, early Continental printing, and medieval and Islamic manuscripts.
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