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A Diary of the Siege of the Legations in Peking during the Summer of 1900.
Longmans, Green and Co, London, 1901.
First Edition. ix, (ii), 227pp, including a number of diagrams in the text, and with a fold-out colour map at the end of the book. With the faint stamp on the half-title of Ampthill Lending Library. Contents otherwise clean and fresh, with slight creasing of the upper corners. In new binding of Victorian red buckram, boards ruled in blind, spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Original very worn but legible spine strip conserved on final blank, as is a spare lettering-piece for the spine. VG+. Very scarce.
Price: £180.00
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Japan and the Japan mission of the Church Missionary Society.
London: Church Missionary Society, 1905.
Fourth edition. 181pp, illustrated, plus folding map, and with green floral endpapers. Contents very fresh and clean. 1909 ownership name on half-title, and old jumble sale price on front free endpaper. In the original green pictorial cloth titled in gilt: clean and bright, but pale marks from silverfish nibblings encroach onto the surface of the upper board, and silverfish have nibbled a central section of the lower joint right through to the hinge, forming a fairly unobtrusive slit, but boards are still perfectly firm. Some rubbing to lower board, spine ends puckered and rubbed. VG.
Price: £65.00
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On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks. Brief Narrative of Three Expeditions in Innermost Asia and North-Western China. With numerous illustrations, colour plates, panoramas and map from original surveys.
London: Macmillan, 1933.
First edition. xxiv, 342pp. Minor foxing at pp 44-45, and slight browning to edge of map. Contents otherwise fresh and clean. Foxing to uncut edges of text block, but not intruding onto pages at all. Top edge gilt. Firm in the original smooth red-brown cloth with gilt medallion and spine title, bright and firm, corners good, slight puckering to spine ends. Exceptional copy. Near Fine.
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Price: £800.00
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Reworking China's Proletariat. Studies on the Chinese economy.
Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999.
First edition. xviii, 278 p. Unread copy. Contents pristine. In the original black cloth-textured binding lettered in gilt, in the black and white dust jacket. As New in as new dust-jacket.
Price: £75.00
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: : [They have Conquered the World: Chinese Export Porcelain in Qing Dynasty Collection].
Beijing: : Encyclopedia of China Publishing House / , 2010.
First edition. vi, 387pp, richly illustrated in colour. Chinese language throughout. Large quarto in flexible pictorial covers. Small knock to head of spine otherwise as new. Came to me in shrinkwrap. Beautiful book. Near Fine.
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Price: £65.00
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