China: General Description of that Empire and Its Inhabitants; with the History of Foreign Intercourse Down to the Events which Produced the Dissolution of 1857: Two Volumes
London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1857. 3/4 brown leather, marbled boards, gilt spine lettering in brown and red title boxes. Marbled endpapers and text block. [50] bw illus. Volume I: xx, 480 pp. Volume II: vii, 427 pp. As-Is. Decent condition for age. Text is readable, unobscured by staining or other marks. Vol. I, Scrapes and wear to boards. Tightly bound with contents displaying even tanning without foxing. Vol. II, Staining to boards and wear to leather. Covers and spine detached from each other and text block, but present. Binding cracked at p. 214. Otherwise clean and tight, with tanning, as in Vol. I. Item #165967
Two volumes. (Laid-in news articles from 1940, re: Siamese cats).
OCLC: 8248403
Price: $100.00