[CHINA -- TRAVEL & EXPLORATION]. ALLOM, Thomas (1804-1872), illustrator. -- WRIGHT, George Newenham (1794-1877). China in a Series of Views, Displayin

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  [CHINA -- TRAVEL & EXPLORATION]. ALLOM, Thomas (1804-1872), illustrator. -- WRIGHT, George Newenham (1794-1877). China in a Series of Views, Displaying the Scenery, Architecture, and Social Habits, of that Ancient Empire. London: Fisher, Son & Co., preface dated 1843.  
  
  4to (268 x 210 mm). 4 volumes in 2. 128 steel-engraved plates (including 4 engraved titles) after Thomas Allom. (Some spotting to a few plates.) Contemporary red gilt-stamped morocco, edges gilt (rubbing to spine and extremities). Provenance: Blumenthal (bookplate). Later edition, with numerous plates after Allom illustrating "the scenery, customs, arts, manufactures, religious ceremonies and political institutions" of the Chinese people (preface).  
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  ALLOM. -- WRIGHT. Chinese Empire Illustrated. London: Printing and Publishing Company, [ca 1860]. 2 volumes (of 7), comprising vols. 3 and 4, 4to (267 x 214 mm). 48 steel-engraved plates, most after Thomas Allom. Original publisher 's gilt-stamped pictorial red cloth (spines defective, boards detached vol.4 and separating vol.3, wear). Provenance: Shirley Baker (signatures). Later edition.
  
  
  Property from a Prominent Chicago Collection

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