Welcome to the Archive Catalogue for the Royal Asiatic Society. The Society’s Collections were established with the founding of the Society in 1823. Many early members were generous benefactors, and throughout the Society’s history there have been further additions.| royalasiaticarchives.org
Two copies of Imperially Commissioned Illustrations of Tilling and Weaving (Yuzhi gengzhi tu 御製耕織圖), a book illustrating the processes of rice growing and silk production which was first printed in 1696 by order of the Qing emperor Kangxi. The two copies are both woodblock-printed, but are different editions.| royalasiaticarchives.org