Asian Collection (#71)

Cambodia - Phnom-Penh - The Kings Young Dancers Date: 1910s

Traditional National Costume of Croatia - Privlaka Peasant
Javanese Women (Indonesia) making patterned batik fabric using traditional techniques. Date: circa 1910s

Lima - Peru - Palacio Torre Tagle Date: circa 1930s

The Bosphorus, Turkey - The Coasts of Asia and Europe Date: 1899

Parisian stage entertainer in (vaguely!) Siamese costume
Dramatic photograph of a Parisian stage entertainer in her wonderful two-piece oriental-style costume Date: circa 1920s

Physiognomy - Northern Russian Type - Woman (1 / 2)
Physiognomy - Northern Russian Type - Woman (1/2) - full face front view. Date: 1902

A Burmese Oilfield - showing a vast forest of wooden drilling rigs. Date: circa 1910s

Girl Guides - 1941 - Thinking Day
Girl Guides of the world united during wartime - 1941 - Thinking Day - sent from the 10th Dudley Troupe Date: 1941

The Silk Road - Camel Train in Soviet Central Asia, crossing the desert. Date: 1933

Turkestan - Camel Trader passes below an archway
The Golden Road to Turkestan. Tourist Guide to Turkestan - (then in) Soviet Central Asia. Date: 1933

Ukbekistan - Mail Carrier distributing newspapers
Ukbekistan (former Soviet Central Asia) - A horseback Mail Carrier distributing newspapers in the native language. Date: 1933

Angkor Wat, Cambodia - North end of the West Facade Date: circa 1910s

Border marker between Europe and Asia in the Urals
Border marker between Europe and Asis in the Urals. Date: 1908

Chinese Actor in elaborate costume - Singapore Date: circa 1909

Douglas World Cruiser The Chicago
Douglas World Cruiser. The Chicago photographed over Asian waters during the historic 1924 flight circumnavigating the globe. Date: 1924

Design for Dress Silk or Print with Japanese figures

Pongo pygmaeus, Orang utan
This glorious orang utan was shot by naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace in the mid-1800s

Philautus maia, shrub frog

Shu No Kigen, Tokyo, 1914
This is the first edition of the Japanese translation of The Origin of Species. The book was published as a pocket-size edition in five volumes and includes a folding image of a speciation tree

Portrait of a Gentleman study
Opening page of The Malay Archipelago, The Land of the Orang-Utan and the Bird of Paradise. A Narrative of travel with studies of Man and Nature. By Alfred Russel Wallace, 1874

Specimens (including butterflies) from the Paul Hermann Coll
Specimens from the Paul Hermann collection of five volumes of specimens and drawings from Sri Lanka (Ceylon) 1672-1677. Held at The Natural History Museum, London

Mamenchisaurus
Living about 150 million years ago the dinosaur Mamenchisaurus was 22 metres long, 4 metres wide and weighed up to 30 tonnes. It is the largest animal ever found in China

A collection of eggs from western Asia

Python molurus, tiger python
Skeleton of a tiger python (Python molurus) from Southeast Asia, now part of the collections of the Natural History Museum, London

Elephas maximus, Asian elephant & rhinoceros
Plate 221 from Capter 11 of Gleanings of Natural History by George Edwards (1694-1773), published 1758-1764

Le deluge asiatique
Fig 312 from La Terre Avant Le Deluge (1863) by Par Louis Figuier

Moschus chrysogaster, alpine musk deer
Plate 191 from the collection of drawings of mammals and birds from Nepal, 1818-1858, by Bryan Houghton Hodgson (1800-1894)

Paragonimus sp. parasitic worm
Human lung fluke, a parasitic worm. Common in South East Asia, in 1980 there were thought to be 3 million people infected

The Malay Archipelago
Title page of The Malay Archipelago, The Land of the Orang-Utan and the Bird of Paradise. A Narrative of travel with studies of Man and Nature. By Alfred Russel Wallace, 1874

Siler semiglaucus, jumping spider
A close-up head-on view of the four eyes and fangs of the jumping spider (Siler semiglaucus) from Sri Lanka

Ailurus fulgens, red panda
Plate 96 from the collection of drawings of mammals and birds from Nepal, 1818-1858, by Bryan Houghton Hodgson (1800-1894)

Nephilengys malabarensis, orb-web spider
A tropical orb-weaving spider (Nephilengys malabarensis) on its web, photographed in Sri Lanka

A Hayu or Vayu of Nepal, age 60, c. 1840
Photograph, plate 33, from the collection made by Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800-1894), an employee of the Indian Civil Service from 1818-1843

Plate 16 from Brian Hodgsons watercolour collection
Plate 16, watercolour by Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800-1894) from his collection of reptiles, fish, mammals and birds of Nepal

Ochotona curzoniae, black-lipped pika
Plate 119a from the collection of drawings of mammals and birds from Nepal, 1818-1858, by Bryan Houghton Hodgson (1800-1894)

A Bontava Kiranti of Nepal, age 55. c. 1840
Lithograph, Plate 32, from the collection made by Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800-1894), an employee of the Indian Civil Service from 1818-1843

Cricetinae (subfamily), dwarf hamster
Plate 12 from Recherches pour servir a l histoire naturelle des Mammifcres, Vols. 1-4, 1868-74, by Dr. Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885) & Dr. Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900)

Cervus xanthopygus, deer
Plate 21 from Recherches pour servir a l histoire naturelle des Mammifcres, Vols. 1-4, 1868-74, by Dr. Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885) & Dr. Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900)

Bungarus fasciatus, banded krait (top)
LS Plate 109 from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China 1774-1856

Plate 94 from the John Reeves Collection
John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

Anourosorex squamipes, mole shrew
& Talpa longirostris, long nosed mole. Plate 38 from Recherches pour servir a l histoire naturelle des Mammiferes by Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885). Published Paris, 1868-74

Putorius fontanierii & P. astutus
Plate 61 from Recherches pour servir a l histoire naturelle des Mammifcres, Vols. 1-4, 1868-74, by Dr. Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885) & Dr. Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900)

LS Plate 103 from the John Reeves Collection (Zoology)
LS Plate 103 from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China 1774-1856

LS Plate 118 from the John Reeves Collection
John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

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