Series 2: "Illustrations of China: Depicting Their Amusements, Commerce, Industries, Manners and Customs, Punishments, etc."

A collection of early Chinese export watercolors including "Street Trades," on paper with J. Whatman watermark, similar in format and subject to those published in an 1800 British work by George Mason, and also including children's toys, boats, mandarins, butterflies, and Chinese scenes probably ca. 1790; a small bound volume of "Illustrations of China," also similar in style and subject to the Mason engravings; a set of 24 watercolors on "The Culture of Tea & Silk;" a set of later watercolors on pith paper illustrating birds, boats, fruits, flowers, punishments, people, and court life in the 1850s, probably late 19th century; and individual volumes of street signs by Chou Chi-ming and Chou Pei-ch'un, paintings of Chinese robes illustrating rank by Chou Chi-ming, and paintings of Peking street scenes by Wang Yüan-hsün.