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A String of Chinese Peach-Stones

By: Cornaby, W. Arthur

Price: NZ$108.00

Publisher: London, Charles H. Kelly: 1895

Seller ID: 22272

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Gutters split at hinge.; xv, [1], 479, [3 (blank)] pages + colour frontispiece + 1 colour plate. Numerous in-text illustrations. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering and Chinese characters on spine. No illustration to boards. Page dimensions: 216 x 147mm. The colour plate is "Charm Issued by the Taoist Pope", facing page 225.
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The Chinese: A General Description of The Empire of China and Its Inhabitants [two volumes]

By: Davis, John Francis

Price: NZ$370.00

Publisher: London, Charles Knight: 1836

Seller ID: 22264

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

Rebound in 20th century in 19th century style half leather and marbled papered boards. Later endpapers. Pages all very clean. The leaves appear to have been washed, removing most of the marbling from the page edges. Blind-stamp on title page of each volume: "St. Johnsbury Athenaeum 1870". No other institutional markings. Volume Two with 40mm tear and small chips to final leaf of index, with loss of a few letters of text on page 480. The missing letters have been written in pencil in the margin. Volume Two with 10 leaves (pages 267-286) detached from stitching (except at lower stitch), and stan...
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Category: China

A String of Chinese Peach-Stones

The Chinese: A General Description of The Empire of China and Its Inhabitants [two volumes]