Shop of the Chinese Baker, Esing Alum , at Victoria, Hong Kong

by Hong Kong - Antique Print

A$27 · Offered by Asia Bookroom

London. Illustrated London News. 1857. Black and white wood engraving measuring approximately 17 x 22.5cm. The print of the Chinese Baker's Shop at Hong Kong relates to a celebrated incident during the Second Opium War in which several hundred European residents of Hong Kong were poisoned non-lethally by arsenic. When..... More

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