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Nuremburg Chronicle
The Nuremburg Chronicle is an illustrated world history, and an important example of early printing. The work concerns human history as related in the Bible, but also includes the history of a number of European cities. Although Hartmann Schedel…
Nuremburg Chronicle
The Nuremburg Chronicle is an illustrated world history, and an important example of early printing. The work concerns human history as related in the Bible, but also includes the history of a number of European cities. Although Hartmann Schedel…
The most noble and famous travels of Marco Polo [title page].
Apart from the general interest attaching itself to an Elizabethan translation of the Travels of Marco Polo, the present edition aims at supplying a long-felt want in Polian research - a series of maps embodying the latest work and discoveries of…
The most noble and famous travels of Marco Polo [title page of the first edition].
At the age of seventeen, the Venetian Marco Polo (1254-1324) travelled with his merchant father, Nicolo, and his uncle, Maffeo, to the court of Kublai Khan. Polo was away from Venice for twenty-four years. His account of his travels and of the Peking…
The Tea Industry in China [12].
This painting, which depicts pickers unloading their baskets is one of a set of colorful paintings depicting the tea industry in China.
The Tea Industry in China [11].
This painting, which depicts two men standing in chests of tea is one of a set of colorful paintings depicting the tea industry in China.
The Tea Industry in China [10].
This painting which shows one of the machines used in the tea-industry is one of a set of colorful paintings depicting the tea industry in China.
The Tea Industry in China [09].
This painting which shows workers securing the lids on boxes of tea being sampled inside by two men is one of a set of colorful paintings depicting the tea industry in China.
The Tea Industry in China [07].
This painting is one of a set of colorful paintings depicting the tea industry in China.
The Tea industry in China [06].
This painting which shows workers drying the tea leaves is one of a set of colorful paintings depicting the tea industry in China.
The Tea industry in China [05].
This painting which shows workers carrying tea in boxes to be sampled by two men is one of a set of colorful paintings depicting the tea industry in China.
The Tea industry in China [04].
After the tea has been dried so that it is brittle and black, it is ready for the final process of sifting. The tea is screened through a sieve before it is put into storage boxes. This painting is one of a set of colorful paintings depicting the…
The Tea industry in China [03].
This painting is one of a set of colorful paintings depicting the tea industry in China.
The Tea Industry in China [02].
Among these tea-shrubs are women and children picking tea. Only the top two or three tender leaves are picked, and these must be nipped off cleanly, without bruising or breaking the stem or stalk.
The Tea Industry in China [01].
This painting is one of a set of colorful paintings depicting the tea industry in China.
Japan, an attempt at interpretation [front cover].
Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) is almost as Japanese as haiku. Both are an art form, an institution in Japan. Haiku is indigenous to the nation; Hearn became a Japanese citizen and married a Japanese [Setsu Koizumi], taking the name Yakumo Koizumi. His…
The retinue of the Dutch Ambassadors in their journey to Court.
In 1691 Kaempfer (a physician) travelled with the Dutch ambassadors from Nagasaki to Yedo, seeking an audience with Shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi. The retinue of the Dutch Ambassadors, in their journey to court, compos'd of the following persons. 1,…
Engagement at Okutuku.
Lower centre (l.c.) in ink: Engagement at Okutuku; label in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Sketch of the second attack on Otukutu, 7th Nov. 1868, drawn by a soldier who was present. The fight, which took place about 8 miles east of Patea, is sometimes…