Chinese Export Porcelain for the American Trade, 1785-1835


Book Description

This revised edition of a book first published in 1962 is still the only work that goes to fresh, primary shipping sources to tell the story of America's trade in export Chinese porcelain. There are over one hundred photographs in the book covering all the major types of export porcelain both common and uncommon, made for America. Illustrated.




Drowne Family Papers


Book Description

Broadsides in the collection (1809-1829) include some annotated by Dr. Solomon Drowne or with extensive notes in his hand. Among these: Exercises of Commencement, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 1809 September 6; with notes on botany (recto and verso), dated 1812 April 23.