China Under the Empress Dowager. Being the history of the life and times of Tzu Hsi. Compiled from state papers and the private diary of the comptroller of her household
by BLAND, J.O.P. & BACKHOUSE, E
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- Hardcover
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Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: William Heinemann, 1910.. First edition, large 8vo, (xvi), 525, (1) pp. Photographic portrait frontispiece and 25 mostly photographic plate, plus a double page map of Peking and a facsimile page from the diary in the text. Original green cloth, spine sunned, otherwise a very good copy.
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- Bookseller
- Bow Windows Bookshop (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45063
- Title
- China Under the Empress Dowager. Being the history of the life and times of Tzu Hsi. Compiled from state papers and the private diary of the comptroller of her household
- Author
- BLAND, J.O.P. & BACKHOUSE, E
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: William Heinemann
- Date Published
- 1910.
- Keywords
- Travel China
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Bow Windows Bookshop has a large general stock of old and fine books and maps. Owned in partnership by Ric Latham and Jonathan Menezes, we buy and sell all manner of titles from early leatherbound volumes to modern first editions. We exhibit at bookfairs in the UK and North America and issue regular printed catalogues. Located in the beautiful county town of Lewes in the south-east of England, we are open six days a week. All our books are described as accurately as possible and we abide by the Code of Good Practice of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association
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