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Verlag: Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2008
ISBN 10: 1437352618ISBN 13: 9781437352610
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Zustand: Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.
Verlag: White Lotus Co Ltd, 2001
ISBN 10: 9747534525ISBN 13: 9789747534528
Anbieter: Ammareal, Morangis, Frankreich
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Softcover. Zustand: Bon. Légères traces d'usure sur la couverture. Tampon ou marque sur la face intérieure de la couverture. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Good. Slight signs of wear on the cover. Stamp or mark on the inside cover page. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.
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Verlag: Routledge, 2020
ISBN 10: 1138616478ISBN 13: 9781138616479
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Verlag: White Lotus Press., Bangkok., 2002
Anbieter: Asia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB, Canberra, ACT, Australien
Reprint. Foldout map inserted back cover, black and white photographic plates, lii + 302pp, pho language excercises and vocabulary, index, bookseller's chop front free endpaper, a very good paperback copy.
Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2015
ISBN 10: 1332226574ISBN 13: 9781332226573
Anbieter: Buchpark, Trebbin, Deutschland
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Zustand: Wie neu. Zustand: Wie neu | Seiten: 208.
Verlag: Ch'eng Wen, Taipei, 1972
Anbieter: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, USA
hardcover. Zustand: very good(+). Frontis. xxvii + 302pp., ,8vo, red cloth. Taipei: Ch'eng Wen Publishing Company, 1972. A very good (+) copy. Facsimile of the London, 1897 second edition.
Verlag: CHIZINE PUBN, 2018
ISBN 10: 1376789922ISBN 13: 9781376789928
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
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Zustand: New.
Verlag: CHIZINE PUBN, 2018
ISBN 10: 1377055582ISBN 13: 9781377055589
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
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Zustand: New.
Verlag: British Library, Historical Print Editions, 2011
ISBN 10: 1241193622ISBN 13: 9781241193621
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
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Zustand: New.
Verlag: J.B. Millet, Boston
Anbieter: Spafford Books (ABAC / ILAB), Regina, SK, Kanada
1910, Limited/Numbered. (Full leather) Very good. 320pp. Frontispiece (colour), illus. - plates with tissues. Gilt printed spine. T.e.g. Front hinge started. Richly textured flexible leather covers. Oriental Series, Ambassador's Edition, no.620 / 750 copies.
Verlag: SWING, 2015
ISBN 10: 1340007983ISBN 13: 9781340007980
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
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Gebunden. Zustand: New.
Verlag: SAGWAN PR, 2015
ISBN 10: 1340313928ISBN 13: 9781340313920
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Gebunden. Zustand: New. KlappentextThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the origina.
Verlag: London, Methuen, 1904 (2nd edition)., 1904
Anbieter: Books and Beaches, Anna Bechteler, Icking, Deutschland
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Zustand: Sehr gut. Original cloth binding, xi, 293 pages, 16 illustrations on plates, some tables, large folding map, small (nice) contemporary red library stamp on the title, faint ghost of a label on spine, no other library markings, faint light foxing on the edges, endpapers browned, still a very good copy. The author worked for the British Consular Service and was in charge of a British Consulate in Manchuria, on the Mongolian border, living there from 1894 to 1897 and 1899/1900. Uncommon, more so in collectable condition. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 680.
Anbieter: RARE ORIENTAL BOOK CO., ABAA, ILAB, Aptos, CA, USA
Boston [1910], Millet. White spine over boards, very good, 320p., index, 6 color photos. Vol. 14 from the Oriental SERIES, complete in itself. Describes visit to Kiren and journey along eastern and northern frontiers to join Siberian Railway at Stretensk, & makes a study of the country, people, products, industries and trade. Also the Russo-Japanese War, Port Arthur & along the Eastern frontier. On the Amur. Manchurian boundaries, physical features, climate, agriculture & agricultural prod- ucts, animal & mineral products, special industries, trade.
Verlag: Taylor & Francis 2018-07-31, London, 2018
ISBN 10: 1138616435ISBN 13: 9781138616431
Anbieter: Blackwell's, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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hardback. Zustand: New. Language: ENG.
Anbieter: RARE ORIENTAL BOOK CO., ABAA, ILAB, Aptos, CA, USA
Shanghai 1922, Kelly Walsh. Half green cloth over boards, 185+7p., index, 2 large fold-out maps, clean x-library copy. Trade history of the province from 1876. R A R E Detailed coverage of physical features, climate, soil, agricultural & horticultural products, animal products, minerals and mineral products. Includes tea, tobacco, opium, textiles and silk culture, honey, jade, gold & silver. A useful study. * THE AUTHOR: Hosie, Sir Alexander Hosie [1853-1925], was diplomatist and was H.M. British Consul-General in Tientsin. He was also an explorer, and traveled widely throughout China with his wife, Lady Hosie. He was also a prolific author and wrote: * MANCHUIA: Its people, resources and recent history * Mr. Hose's journey to Tibet, 1904 : a report to His Majesty's Consul at Chengtu, on a journey from Chengtu to the Eastern Frontier of Tibet. * THREE YEARS IN WESTERN CHINA: A narrative of three journeys in Ssu'-ch'uan, Kuei-chow, and Yun-nan. * SZECHWAN: its products, industries and resources. * Report by Mr. Hosie of a journey through Central Ssu-chu an in June and July, 1884 / presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty, 1885. * ON THE TRAIL OF THE OPIUM POPPY: A narrative of travel in the chief opium-producing provinces of China. * Please inquire with us to see which of these titles are in stock today. *.
Anbieter: RARE ORIENTAL BOOK CO., ABAA, ILAB, Aptos, CA, USA
Boston [1910], Millet. Red cloth, very good, 293p., 16 b.w. photos, color map, appendices, t.e.g. R A R E Describes visit to Kiren and journey along eastern and northern frontiers to join Siberian Railway at Stretensk, & makes a study of the country, people, products, industries and trade. Also the Russo-Japanese War, Port Arthur & along the Eastern frontier. On the Amur. Manchurian boundaries, physical features, climate, agriculture & agricultural prod- ucts, animal & mineral products, special industries, trade.
Anbieter: RARE ORIENTAL BOOK CO., ABAA, ILAB, Aptos, CA, USA
London 1904, Methuen. Red cloth, top gilt, 293p., 16 b.w. photos, color map, appendices, lower right corner faint damp nicely polished out, contents unaffected. S C A R C E Describes visit to Kiren and journey along eastern and northern frontiers to join Siberian Railway at Stretensk, & makes a study of the country, people, products, industries and trade. Also the Russo-Japanese War, Port Arthur & along the Eastern frontier. On the Amur. Manchurian boundaries, physical features, climate, agriculture & agricultural prod- ucts, animal & mineral products, special industries, trade.
Anbieter: RARE ORIENTAL BOOK CO., ABAA, ILAB, Aptos, CA, USA
Shanghai 1922, Kelly Walsh. Half green cloth over boards, 185+7p., index, 2 large fold-out maps [1 taped], spine worn bit soiled. Trade history of the province from 1876. R A R E FIRST EDITION Detailed coverage of physical features, climate, soil, agricultural & horticultural products, animal products, minerals and mineral products. Includes tea, tobacco, opium, textiles and silk culture, honey, jade, gold & silver. A useful study. * THE AUTHOR: Hosie, Sir Alexander Hosie [1853-1925], was diplomatist and was H.M. British Consul-General in Tientsin. He was also an explorer, and traveled widely throughout China with his wife, Lady Hosie. He was also a prolific author and wrote: * MANCHUIA: Its people, resources and recent history * Mr. Hose's journey to Tibet, 1904 : a report to His Majesty's Consul at Chengtu, on a journey from Chengtu to the Eastern Frontier of Tibet. * THREE YEARS IN WESTERN CHINA: A narrative of three journeys in Ssu'-ch'uan, Kuei-chow, and Yun-nan. * SZECHWAN: its products, industries and resources. * Report by Mr. Hosie of a journey through Central Ssu-chu an in June and July, 1884 / presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty, 1885. * ON THE TRAIL OF THE OPIUM POPPY: A narrative of travel in the chief opium-producing provinces of China. * Please inquire with us to see which of these titles are in stock today. *.
London 1883, Harrison. White wrappers, very clean solid, 20 x 31.5 cm., hand stitched 2 fasciles, bright example, 37p., 5 appendicies, 31p. essay + itinerary chart & Miao-Tzu list of vocabulary. FIRST & ONLY RARE EDITION . *** **** *** . . . PRESENTED TO BOTH HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT BY COMMAND . . . OF HER MAJESTY 1883 . * * Sir Alexander Hosie was a Scottish diplomat & explorer of China. In 1903, he was appointed as the first consul-general at Chengtu in Szechuan, Tianjin in Qing dynasty, China, . * This is a very copious and fascinating report, written by an experienced and capable author of many books about China and Korea. . With a 31 page essay on the commercial products of the area and chances for British trade. . One remarkable item Hosie immediately knew was of good commercial value to Britain, that is hand-made paper from bamboo & paddy straw. He outlines a brief method of production, after noticing a large quantity of paper being moved to Ch'ung k'ing. . Silk worm feeding on oaks was noticed as an inferior quality similar to that of "Shantung" type silk. Opium poppy, hemp, barley, wheat ad beans were everywhere to be seen. Smelting of iron pans found at Kan-shui. Tea plants were also in abundance around at Tai-kung-p'u. gall nuts & gourds. Opium poppys are grown freey in many places. . Upon meeting good looking young Miao-tzu girls, and eventually created the Miao-tzu vocabulary [Appendix 1], attached. Tsun-i coal-mines were being worked. . * APPENDICES: 1. List of Miao tzu words 2. Tunnel ling within the district of T'ung tzu [coal] 3-5. Itinerary . *** CONDITION: Excellent example bright, clean and solid, no issues. . *** REFERENCES: .
Verlag: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1890
Anbieter: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, USA
hardcover. Zustand: Good. Ex-library copy with usual markings. Cover and edges shows shelf wear. Pages are clean and intact.
New York, Dodd Mead & Company, n.d. [1890]. XXXIV,302,(6) pp. B./w. photogr. frontispiece, b./w. plates, & fold. chromo-lithogr. map. Decorated cloth. - Spine-ends very sl. worn, inner-joints sl. loosening.
London 1884, Harrison. White stitched wrappers, 20.2 x 31.3 cm., 95p., hand stitched bound in 5 fasciles, very bright, a clean & solid example. FIRST & ONLY EDITION . *** **** *** . . A SUPERB PRIMARY REPORT OF A JOURNEY ON FOOT . . . THROUGH THE PROVINCES OF SSU-CH'UAN, YUNNAN & KUEI CHOU . . . FEBRUARY 11 TO JUNE 14, 1883 . * Sir Alexander Hosie was a Scottish diplomat & explorer of China. In 1903, he was appointed as the first consul-general at Chengtu in Szechuan, Tianjin in Qing dynasty, China, . * This is a very copious and fascinating report, written by an experienced and capable author of many books about China and Korea. . The report was address to Grosvenor to Earl Granville. It also covers the usual charts with date, place, distances, mean temperatures, remarks for each of the places he visited and inspected. This covers the first 63 pages of his personal commentaries and narrative of the cities & villages visited, varieties and kinds of goods observed, the potential for trade always a major consideration. . The more important aspects of the report cover products of commercial commerce value, and the prospects of trading these goods. Opium poppys are grown freey in many places. . With 7 appendices: 1. List of Si fan and Lolo words [a vocabulary] 2. Native map of Ch'eng tu [lacking] 3-7. Itinerary of the whole trip, pages 63-95, complete . *** CONDITION: The work is hand stitched at the spine as usual for a work of this size. . The white paper covers are exceptionally clean and fresh, there are no marks or negative issues. Bright and very solid example. Seldom found in such far and above average condition. . *** REFERENCES:
Verlag: Dodd Mead, New York, 1890
Anbieter: Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints, ABAA, Garrison, NY, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very good condition. Sir Alexander Hosie (1853 - 1925) describes his 5,000 mile journeys (undertaken from 1882 to 1884), in southwest China, where he served as British consular agent in Chongqing. On the third journey to China Hosie traveled, "mainly with a view to collecting information upon the subject of Chinese Insect Wax, for the benefit of the Royal Gardens at Kew" (xxii). Contents include: the Yang-tsze to western China; Ch'ung K'ing to Kuei-Chow; west to Yun-Nan; northeastern Yun-Nan to the Yang-tsze; Ch'ung-K'ing to capital of Ssu-Ch'uan; Lolodom and the valley of Chien-Ch'ang; Caindu to Carajan; Ta-Li Fu to Yun-Nan Fu; Kuei-Chow to Yang-Tsze; The White Wax country; Chinese Insect White Wax; trade; the Pho; and Note on Opium cultivation in China and India. With presentation inscription, "To Geo. A.Taplin, from Dodd, Mead & Company, Xmas 1893". 8vo, silver gilt and red illustrated blue cloth with title in Chinese style typeface at front board; with silver gilt title at illustrated spine. Boards and spine ends a bit rubbed, rear end paper lacking. 8vo, xxxiv, 302pp, index, 4pp ads, folding color map. The Introduction by Archibald Little; with Note on Opium cultivation in China and India. OCLC 5761175.
Verlag: London: Philip 1922?., 1922
Anbieter: Plurabelle Books Ltd, Cambridge, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: GIAQ
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Hardback. Zustand: Good. Very large folding map in terracotta cloth covers with black lettering, cloth-backed folded map, 1600mm x 1200mm approx, (5x6=30 panels) still very good condition, wear to covers commensurate with age, binding and folds intact, map clean and neat, light signs of use and age, text and line very clear and sharp, colour bright, a good copy of a very rare map. The index pages show a little crease. Language: English.
Boston [1914], Maynard. Green pictorial cloth, 2 vol. set, 300+308p., 42 b.w. photos & plates, 2 folded color maps, two appendices, 15 x 23.5 cm., very good, clean, bright set, top edges gilt, gold stamped decorations. FIRST & ONLY EDITION This excellent primary resource and monograph covers the authors sojourn and travel throughout the country searching out the opium poppy, & its cultivators. Covers travels from Peking to the Yellow river, to Hsi-an Fu, capital of the province of Shensi. Hsian Fu to the frontier of Kansu, to the capital, along the Northern road from Lan-chou Fui back to Shensi. * Then across Shensi from Kansu to Shansi, return to Peking through Shansi and Chihli. Peking to Szechuan, from Wan Hsien to Chungking by river and land. Chunking to Chengtu, capital of Szechuan. Chengtu to Yunnan, South through Yunnan, off and on the highroad in Yunnan. From Yunnan Fu to the Western frontier of Kueichou province & again off the high-road. Kuei-yang Fu to Hunan province. * With great photographs by the author, shows the scenery of the lands, poppy flowers and fields, public water pipe use, provincial maps, stacks of opium pipes ready for burning. Architectural scenic sights, stone bridges, suspension bridge, water-lifting bamboo wheel, temples, camel caravan, pagoda, gates, rice paddy fields, view of Yunnan, irrigation baskets, provincial maps, a superb and copious travel document. * Hosie was Consul-General in Tientsin when he wrote the book and had spent much time exploring China from the early 1880's on. Although a primary travel narrative the author gives an authoritative account of the opium industry at the time. THE AUTHOR: Hosie, Sir Alexander Hosie [1853-1925], was diplomatist and also H.M. British Consul-General in Tientsin. He was also an explorer, and traveled widely throughout China from the 1880's onwards. He often traveled with his wife, Lady Hosie who also authored three lovely books on China. Alexander was a prolific writer on China and several titles. His other titles are: * MANCHUIA: Its people, resources and recent history. * Mr. Hosie's journey to Tibet, 1904 : a report to His Majesty's Consul at Chengtu, on a journey from Chengtu to the Eastern Frontier of Tibet. * THREE YEARS IN WESTERN CHINA: A narrative of three journeys in Ssu'-ch'uan, Kuei-chow, and Yun-nan. * SZECHWAN: its products, industries and resources. * Report by Mr. Hosie of a journey through Central Ssu-chu an in June and July, 1884 / presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty, 1885. * Please inquire with us to see which of these titles are in stock today. *.
Boston [1914], Maynard. Green pictorial cloth, 2 vol. set, 300+308p., 42 b.w. photos & plates, 2 folded color maps, two appendices, 15 x 23.5 cm., very good, clean, bright set, top edges gilt, gold stamped decorations. FIRST & ONLY EDITION This excellent primary resource and monograph covers the authors sojourn and travel throughout the country searching out the opium poppy, & its cultivators. Covers travels from Peking to the Yellow river, to Hsi-an Fu, capital of the province of Shensi. Hsian Fu to the frontier of Kansu, to the capital, along the Northern road from Lan-chou Fui back to Shensi. * Then across Shensi from Kansu to Shansi, return to Peking through Shansi and Chihli. Peking to Szechuan, from Wan Hsien to Chungking by river and land. Chunking to Chengtu, capital of Szechuan. Chengtu to Yunnan, South through Yunnan, off and on the highroad in Yunnan. From Yunnan Fu to the Western frontier of Kueichou province & again off the high-road. Kuei-yang Fu to Hunan province. * With great photographs by the author, shows the scenery of the lands, poppy flowers and fields, public water pipe use, provincial maps, stacks of opium pipes ready for burning. Architectural scenic sights, stone bridges, suspension bridge, water-lifting bamboo wheel, temples, camel caravan, pagoda, gates, rice paddy fields, view of Yunnan, irrigation baskets, provincial maps, a superb and copious travel document. * Hosie was Consul-General in Tientsin when he wrote the book and had spent much time exploring China from the early 1880's on. Although a primary travel narrative the author gives an authoritative account of the opium industry at the time. THE AUTHOR: Hosie, Sir Alexander Hosie [1853-1925], was diplomatist and also H.M. British Consul-General in Tientsin. He was also an explorer, and traveled widely throughout China from the 1880's onwards. He often traveled with his wife, Lady Hosie who also authored three lovely books on China. Alexander was a prolific writer on China and several titles. His other titles are: * MANCHUIA: Its people, resources and recent history. * Mr. Hosie's journey to Tibet, 1904 : a report to His Majesty's Consul at Chengtu, on a journey from Chengtu to the Eastern Frontier of Tibet. * THREE YEARS IN WESTERN CHINA: A narrative of three journeys in Ssu'-ch'uan, Kuei-chow, and Yun-nan. * SZECHWAN: its products, industries and resources. * Report by Mr. Hosie of a journey through Central Ssu-chu an in June and July, 1884 / presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty, 1885. * Please inquire with us to see which of these titles are in stock today. *.
Verlag: HMSO. 1883- 1905., London., 1883
Anbieter: Asia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB, Canberra, ACT, Australien
Reports included in this collection are: China No.1 (1883). Despatch from Her Majesty's Chargé D'Affaires at Peking, Forwarding a Report by Mr. A. Hosie, Student Interpreter in the China Consular Service of a Journey through the Provinces of Kueichow and Yünnan. 37pp. China No.2 (1884). Report by Mr. Hosie of a Journey through the Provinces of Ssu-Ch'uan, Yünnan, and Kuei Chou: February 11 to June 14, 1883. 95pp. China No.2 (1885). Report by Mr. Hosie of a Journey through Central Ssu-Ch'uan in June and July, 1884. 37pp. First 6 pages evenly browned. China No.5 (1904). Report by Consul-General Hosie on the Province of Ss?ch'uan. 2 folding black and white maps. 100pp. Last leaf of text and the two maps detached but present. 1904. China No.1 (1905). Report by Mr. A. Hosie, His Majesty's Consul-General at Chengtu, on a Journey to the Eastern Frontier of Thibet. Folding colour map. 87pp. Disbound, each report separate. Quarto. Very good copies. These five reports by (Sir) Alexander Hosie (1853-1925) of the British Consular Service in China record journeys he made in Western China in the early 1880s and again in the early 1900s. They were all considered valuable by the British Ministers to China of the day, and were printed for the information of both Houses of the British Parliament. The earlier reports are mainly on travel in the western provinces, then not as well-explored or well-known as they had become by the time of his later journeys, and one was specifically concerned with investigating insect white wax, a valuable local export commodity and securing specimens of the trees from which it was taken, as requested by the Director of Kew Gardens. Hosie?s accounts create a vivid picture of people and places, officials and soldiers, trade routes and burden bearers, products and scenery, mountains and rivers, and we can form a view of the man himself, and of his humanity. They were all made at first hand, for in his three years in West China, Hosie is credited with having travelled 5,000 miles, mainly on foot and horseback. (P.D. Coates - The China Consuls (Hong Kong, OUP, 1988), p. 313.) The record of the journey to the Tibetan frontier in mid 1904 took place when a British force crossed into Southern Tibet, overcame opposition, and occupied the capital Lhasa. In fact, Hosie was on the Chinese frontier at that very time, and was not permitted to cross into Tibetan territory. Always a shrewd observer, Hosie was also an accomplished writer who could entertain as well as inform. His account of this journey is one of his best. The other 1904 publication is devoted to a detailed description of the products of Western China, listed under vegetable, animal and mineral heads, and ends with his opinion that, however desirable, promotion of the export trade by any seem-ingly possible river route was in fact impractical. Along with Hosie?s reports on other travels conducted in the 1890s when he had twice been British Consul at Newchang in Manchuria, and the account of his later travels to check the location and extent of cultivation of the opium poppy in the early 1910s, the reports on China?s western provinces were also used in the four books which he published on these subjects between 1890 and 1922: namely, Three Years in Western China ? (editions in 1890 and 1897); Manchuria: Its People, Resources and History (1904); On the Trail of the Opium Poppy ? , two vols, 1914); and Szechuan: Its Products, Industries and Resources, 1922). These books notwithstanding, the official publications, which contain the original accounts and are well produced (the last two with large folding maps) have an abiding charm and long-term value of their own.
Verlag: George Philip & Son. No date. (circa1937)., [London]., 1937
Anbieter: Asia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB, Canberra, ACT, Australien
Very large, handsome coloured linen backed map 167.5 x 114.5cm, folds into cloth boards 29.5 x 24.5cm. Scale 1:3,000,000 or 48 miles to an inch. Marbled front free endpaper creased and torn with some loss. Ribbon ties detached, cloth soiled, corners of corners worn and bumped, cloth along case joints torn in places. Although the case shows wear this striking map is in excellent condition. The map features three inset maps: Shanghai/Nanking District; Peking Tsinan District and Sinkiang. A key gives reference to the symbols of communities used which include animal and vegetable products, mineral products and manufactured products. A scarce map packed with fascinating detail of China at a crucial time in the country's history.
Verlag: J. B. Millet and Company, Boston; Tokyo, 1910
Anbieter: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
Leather. Zustand: Very Good. Various (illustrator). A set of four volumes exploring Asia, a vivid travel work with illustrations to each volume, a scarce limited 'Occidental Edition'. Four volumes of a total of twenty-four from the 'Oriental Series', this set comprising of Volumes XIV, XVII, XIX, and XX.The 'Occidental Edition', limited to 750 copies, of which these are numbered 28. This 'Occidental Edition' is the scarcer series, than the more commonly seen 'Ambassador's Edition'.A beautiful travel work series, exploring Asia. These volumes look at Manchuria, Burma, India, and Persia.'Manchuria', by Alexander Hosie, illustrated with a colour frontispiece, and five plates. Collated, complete.'Burma', by R. Talbot Kelly, illustrated with a colour frontispiece, and five plates. Collated, complete.'India', by J. D. Rees, illustrated with a colour frontispiece, and five plates. Collated, complete.'Persia', by F. B. Bradley-Birt, and five plates. Collated, complete.This series explores each country in brilliant detail, providing an insight into their history and cultures, and the West's fascination with the East at the beginning of the twentieth century. In a full morocco binding. Externally, generally smart, rubbed to the joints and spines. Lifting to the head of the spine of 'Manchuria'. Minor bumping to the extremities. Only a few minor marks to the boards. Small bump to the rear board of 'Manchuria', joints are starting a little, more so to the rear joint. Front joint of 'Burma' is a little strained but remains firm. Front hinge of 'India' is starting but firm, rear hinge is a little strained. Front joint of 'Persia' is a little strained but remains firm, front hinge is starting. Very small tide mark to the front paste down of 'Manchuria'. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, pages unopened to the fore edge. Very Good. book.