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China Trade.- Chinese Export School (19th century) An album of six fine pith paper drawings of flowers and butterflies, watercolour and bodycolour, loosely mounted onto album leaves with silk edges, each approx. 150 x 210 mm. (5 7/8 x 8 1/4 in), minor nicks and small areas of loss, contemporary patterned boards with silk ties, large oblong 8vo, [ca. 1840-1860]; together with another album with matching decorative boards, with 10 further pith paper drawings depicting Chinese torture scenes, watercolour and bodycolour, each approx. 153 x 200 mm. (6 x 7 7/8 in), folding concertina style, mounted with blue silk edges, some tears and areas of loss, surface dirt, oblong 8vo, [ca. 1840-1860] (2).