ChinaA collection of 16 volumes, the majority on China, including:Allom (Thomas, illustrator) China in a Series of Views, displaying the Scenery, Architecture, and Social Habits, of that Ancient Empire, 4 vols. in 2, First edition, vignette title pages, 24 engraved plates, the majority browned with some spotting or staining, ink gift description dated 1914 to front free endpapers, original morocco with gilt-stamped images to boards, rubbed, spines discoloured, vol. 1 with spine detached internally, Fisher, Son and co., 1843; Bingham (J. Elliot) Narrative of the expedition to China…, 2 vols. Second edition, colour frontispiece, 3 plates, map, no adverts, block trimmed with some loss to plates’ publication lines, contemporary half calf gilt, rubbed, some damp staining to boards, Henry Colburn, 1843; Osborn (Sherard) Quedah; or, Stray Leaves from a Journal in Malayan Waters, First edition, lacking half-title, 4 tinted lithographic plates, folding map, repaired tear, library label to front pastedown, half calf, rubbed, later spine, Longman et al., 1857; with a first edition of Laurence Oliphant’s Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's Mission to China and Japan, 2 vols., lacking the map of China, 1859; v.s. (16)