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‎The Chater Collection - Pictures relating to China, Hongkong, Macao, 1655-1860, with Historical and Descriptive Letterpress by James Orange, Author of "Japanese Lacquer", "Bizenware", etc.‎

‎London, Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1924. 1 large and thick volume in-4, 528 pp., lavishly illustrated, 18 colour, 246 b. & w. plates, index, bibliography, 2 b. & w. maps, 2 fold-out maps, original green cloth gilt, , a very good copy. First and only edition of 750 copies (No 73). ‎

‎A superb volume presenting the fabulous collection of Sir C.P. Chater, consisting mostly of oil paintings, water-colours, sketches, prints, most of which are based on landscape scenes of the South China Treaty ports in the 18th and 19th centuries and on British activities in China. The collection was partly destroyed during WWII. The remaining paintings are now in Hong Kong Museum. ‎