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Tea Books & Ephemera
Making of Tea Chests
by [Tea; China]
London, 1821. Very good. Aquatint from Ackermann's Repository of Arts, illustrated British periodical published from 1809-1829. Pl 33 Vol XII. Charming print of Chinese Tea Industries workers on a porch sawing, hammering and assembling tea chests. 5 3/8 x 3 1/2"
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NZ$162.64
Oriental and Occidental Tea Co., New York, advertising trade card
by [Tea] Advertising trade cards
Color trade card showing western children in a Japanese setting being served tea by a Japanese woman in a kimono. Advertising card with text on the back of the card: "The Best is the Cheapest in the End" with further text. 3 x 5 ". Slt damage to text in two places at lower end of card, o/w very good. HKD190.
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NZ$42.80
Stereoscopic view, Chinese Coolies, Hong Kong, China
by China Stereoscopic view
New York: Underwood and Underwood, 1896. Very good condition. A crowded street scene near the harbour in Hong Kong, with street vendors and coolie workers. Very bright. Stereoscopic photo card on tan card stock, curved mounts, with printed caption. The image shows a congested street scene with men working with bricks in the foreground, many workers in the distance. The number 49 is handwritten above the images. The caption is translated on verso into various languages. Approx. 7x3 1/2". Image...
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NZ$171.20
Carre Casse-Tete
by [China] High Life Tailor Montmartre, Paris
Otherwise very good condition. French advertising card with color illustration of a two young Chinese gilrs working on a Chinese geometric paper puzzle, and instructions on how to do the puzzle printed below in French. With advertising text for the Parisian tailor on the verso. Not dated. 2 1/2 x 4 1/4", two small ares of text missing on verso. HK581.
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NZ$128.40
J. Young, Tea Dealer, Grocer & Cheesemonger, (Richmond Road, Malvern Link), handbill
by TEA; Advertising; Sri Lanka
UK: J. Young, 1850. Very good condition. A wood block printed handbill for advertising with image of a mountain and temple and surrounding trees. The Ambustella Dagoba Mihintala Ceylon "is a mountain carved into a temple.' Mihintale is believed by Sri Lankans to be the site of a meeting between the Buddhist monk Mahinda and King Devanampiyatissa which began Buddhism in Sri Lanka. 9 3/8 x 6 3/8" yellow paper with black text.
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NZ$299.60
Photograph of Tea Leaf Harvest in Ceylon
Scowen and Co.. c1885. Thin unmounted albumen print with caption in white: "Plucking tea leaf. Holton Estate. Panwila," which is an area of Ceylon (Sri Lanka). 11 x 8 1/2"
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NZ$410.88
What Is Chanoyu
by Mittwer, Gretchen
Kyoto: Tankosha, 2008. Fine/Fine. As new 8vo softcover in Fine dj with obi, 176 pages, ills colour & bw, 13 x 19 cm. 'What Is Chanoyu?' is an informative book about the Japanese tea ceremony. It was originally conceived as an aid for any Japanese person who wants to know more about chanoyu and be able to offer a solid, basic explanation to anyone who does not speak Japanese. The text is written in a straightforward and enlightening way, opening up the often esoteric realm of chanoyu to the familiar...
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NZ$51.27
Printed orihon (accordion) shunga, consisting of 28 woodblock color-printed panels, two of which have flaps to reveal a four-panel sex scene
by TEA CEREMONY MITATE (見立て) EROTICA
A total of 17 panels with color-printed woodcuts (one double-page & one four panels wide). Oblong 12mo (70 x 84 mm.), orig. wooden boards, orig. purple silk title label (but no title!) on upper cover. [Japan]: late 19th century. A very rare kind of shunga, this is an example of a mitate, an "appropriation of a classical source...then used to portray the modern, urban demi-monde."-C. Andrew Gerstle, "Shunga and Parody" in Timothy Clark et al., eds., Shunga. Sex and Pleasure in Japanese Art (British...
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NZ$8,474.40
'Blind Shampoo'
by [Japan]
1880. Ca. 1880 original hand colored albumen print titled 'Blind Shampoo'. Showing the traditional Japanese shampoo, a form of massage performed by a blind person. The image shows a reclining woman in kimono, under a green quilt, with a blind shampooer dressed in a red robe behind her. A tea pot resting on a brazier is in the foreground. The lady rests on her side, possibly reading or writing. 10 1/2 x 8 1/2 in, mounted on board. Image slt faint at upper half of print, o/w very good. HKD775.
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NZ$171.20
Tea Pickers With Baskets
by [Tea]
Very good condition. Hand tinted albumen photograph of a large group of women and children (mostly girls) tea pickers, standing in a group before heading out to pick tea, 2 holding hats, 3 in shawls, 18 bare headed with a steep green slope behind them. Some of the children are quite young; there is an adult male hiding his face behind a girl and a shaven head boy with his back toward the camera. 10 x 8 1/2", laid on paper.
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NZ$214.00
A General Description of the hearbe cha... most noble drink
by Ogilby, John after Nieuhof; Hollar
London, 1673. Print. Very good condition. An early image of a tea plant from "An Embassy from the East India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham, Emperor of China..." Ogilby's English edition was a translation of the original by Joan Nieuhof, first published in Dutch in 1665. The image including text is 7 x 13 1/2" on paper 9 3/4 x 15 1/2"
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NZ$470.80
Monographie du The. Description Botanique, Torrefaction, Composition Chimique, Proprietes Hygieniques de cette Feuille
by [Tea] Houssaye, J.G
Paris: Published by the author, 1843. First edition. Hardcover. Finely illustrated important monograph on tea and tea manufacturing. Contents include the history of tea cultivation, origin, chemical composition of tea, medical properties of tea, and preparation of tea. Includes an important bibliography of books written about tea, to that date. 8vo, (iv,) 160pp, 17 full page engraved plates. Plum cloth, gilt decoration & title on spine. Back cover lower corner chipped, foredge sunned. Internally, some...
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NZ$556.40
Photograph Album of images of Japan
by [Photography; Japan]
1893. Hardcover. A collection of 74 hand-tinted albumen photographs on paper, loosely tipped into album pages. The original owners name on the inside front cover reads "E. M. Griffill (or Griffin?) Yokohama, March 12th 1902." The photographers are not identified, but these are stock images, measuring approx. 5 1/8 x 3 1/2". Subjects include landscapes in many towns, predominantly Nikko, Kyoto, Nara and Osaka, tea cultivation and river tea house, geishas, shrines, etc. A sample of some titles - 746...
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NZ$2,140.00
Gold Joss Chop. Choicest New Seasons Formosa Ooloong No. Tea chest label
by [Tea] [Tait & Co.]
1890. Very good condition. Tea chest label for Tait & Co. Printed in gold & black on handsome red paper. Printed on laid paper, with decorative floral border. A gold buddha sits in the middle. 10 1/2 x 12"
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NZ$214.00
The Book Of Chanoyu Tea The Master Key To Japanese Culture
by Channell Soei, Randy
Kyoto: Tankosha, 2016. Fine/Fine. As new large 8vo softcover in Fine DJ and obi, 96 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 26 cm, Japanese/English text. Authored by tea master Randy Channell Soei, a Canadian who came to Japan in 1985 to study martial arts and now lives and works in Kyoto, this insider's look at the traditions, rituals, and terminology surrounding 'chanoyu' (the way of tea) describes and illustrates every aspect of the Japanese tea ceremony in vivid detail. Not only does the book provide...
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NZ$48.79
Plaatjes-Album Vaderlandsche Historie
by C. van Son
Serie I, Rotterdam ('Zuid-Hollandsche koffie-en thee handel'), 1926, 29 pages. Complete with 80 illustrations.
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NZ$59.76
Japan, Arbuckle Coffee Co. geographical Advertising Card
by Japan] Arbuckle Bros. Coffee Co
New York: Arbuckle Bros., 1893. the Japanese have the most advanced civilization of any nation on Asiatic soil" Postcard size lithographed advertising card, with scenes of Japanese dancers portrayed on a fan, and with a juggler to the right and an acrobat to the left. On the verso is a description of "Grind your Coffee at Home." and text on Japan, describing Japanese jugglers, acrobats, Festivals, and wrestlers. Text slt rubbed at verso, o/w very good.
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NZ$77.04
Tea and Tea Blending
by Lewis & Co
London: Eden Fisher, 1894. Fourth edition. Hardcover. Very good. Sections on tea in England; tea duty; statistics; China, India and Ceylon tea; tea blending including sample blends. Large 12mo, (vii), 151pp, Index (xv), 13pp ads. Brown gilt cloth, with gilt title running diagonally across front cover and gilt title on brown spine. Covers are rubbed, esp at corners and at top of spine. Internally, pages toned and front inner hinge starting. Owner signature on half title.
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NZ$214.00
The Story of Ty-phoo and the Birmingham Tea Industry
by Williams, Ken
London: Quiller Press. 1990. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in purpose-made plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. 132 pages. Cleverly entwines the early days of the tea trade with the story of Birmingham from its time as a small town. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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NZ$19.89
China Crusades and the Tea Trade in Littell's Living Age, Volume XXXVIII, 1853
by [China; Tea]
Boston: Littell & Gay, later Littell, Son & Company, 1853. Hardcover. Very good overall. Material on the rebellion in China and the instability of the Tartar dynasty, as well as the tea trade with China. Littell's Living Age was a magazine that comprised sophisticated selections from various British and American magazines and newspapers, a "Reader's Digest" of it's day. It was generally published on a weekly basis for almost a century, from 1844 to 1941. It was also often the first US publication of...
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NZ$162.64
Overland Tea
by [China] Tea chest label
China. Very good. Tea chest label, 13 x 14 3/4", black & red printed on tissue with black floral border. Text reads "Overland, NH P B No. 3. Extra Choicest New Season's First Crop Gunpowder Tea, Direct From China". Mounted on foam core & shrink wrapped, very good. HKD850.
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NZ$188.32
Le The Le Chocolat: Dans L'Alimentation Publique
by Pelletier, Eugene Et Auguste
Paris: à la Compagnie Française des Chocolats et des Thés, 1861. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 142pp. [Private library?] stamp on front wraps and endpaper, foxed throughout, with a contemporary ink name towards the rear, wraps darkened and rubbed with some loss to the spine, else a good example. Bitting 363.
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NZ$256.80
Tea & spice receipt, Arnaud & Green (Late Blakistons & Green) Grocers and Tea Dealers, No. 29 Strand, near York Buildings, London, February 1795
by [Tea]
Receipt from London tea dealer listing tea (Fine Green Tea, Fine Souchong) as well as sugar, coffee, split pease (sic), and grits. To a Mr. Michie. Three horizontal folds, very slightly creased, short split at folds. Handwritten note at verso "Grocer's bill 1795". 7 1/2 x 9 3/4" HK3490.
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NZ$770.40
Tea & spice receipt, Samuel Yockney Tea Dealer & Grocer at the Golden Canister, Bedford Street Corner of Chandos Street, (Covent Garden), London, August 7, 1800
by [Tea]
Receipt from London tea dealer listing tea (Fine Hyson) as well as sugar, starch, wht ginger, blk pepper, cloves and nutmeg. To a Sam.l Fayster Esq. One vertical and three horizontal folds. Handwritten addition on verso. 7 3/4 x 6 1/4". Small chip at upper right corner, otherwise very good overall. HK2130.
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NZ$470.80
Gathering of Tea. Aquatint
by Sutherland, Thomas; Robert John Thornton
London: Thornton, 1808. Very good overall. Sweeping view of tea gathering in China, a large impressive aquatint, after the Chinese artist Sango-so. The commanding scene shows a trio of tea gatherers in the foreground at work in a large tea plantation, two additional tea gatherers in the middle ground near an elegant pavilion, and mountains in the distance. From Thornton's 'The Philosophy of Botany, Being Botanical and Philosophical Extracts'. 21 1/2 x 17 1/4" on paper with wide margins. Faint toning...
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NZ$1,284.00
