Danie?l Veelwaard, Kaart van Nederlands Oostindische Bezittingen, 1843, text in Dutch, engraving on wove paper, sight 17-3/4 x 30-1/2 in.; Map of the Burman Empire including also Siam, Cochin-China, Ton-King and Malaya, publisher James Wyld, circa 1870s(?), engraving on wove paper with hand colored highlights, sight 13-3/4 x 9-1/2 in.; The Empire of Kublai Khan, Fifteenth Period, A.D. 1294, drawn and engraved by W. Hughes, published Burnside & Seely, London, 1846, engraving on wove paper with hand colored highlights, sight 13 x 20 in.; all framed, largest 21-1/4 x 34 in.

Note: William Joseph Roache and his family moved from Australia to Hong Kong in the early 1960s. He was employed as an Agronomist, and his job took him out into the Chinese countryside. In these travels, he purchased Chinese art, typically porcelains, from locals and shops. Mr. Roache then moved to Singapore in the late 1960s and continued his passion for collecting. After moving to the United States, he and his family retired to a horse farm in Rutherfordton, North Carolina where he lived surrounded by his beloved objects.

Provenance: Collection of William Joseph Roache, Rutherfordton, North Carolina; by descent in family

all with scattered light staining and foxing, not examined out of frames; Dutch Indonesia map with handling creases, scattered small holes/losses at top; frames with light wear and abrasions