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Percival, William Spencer; The Land of the Dragon. My Boating and Shooting Excursions to the Gorges of the Upper Yangtze, Hurst and Blackett, London 1889, first edition, illustrated frontispiece, woodcut illustration vignette to title page, 338 numbered pages plus preliminaries, with fold-out map, bound in publisher's pictorial blue cloth and further titled in gilt to the spine, decorative endpapers, approx 22 x 14.5cm; together with Ready, Oliver G; Life and Sport in China, Chapman & Hall, London 1903, first edition, photographic frontispiece and twelve further plates, 238 pages plus preliminaries, bound in gilt-tooled blue cloth, approx 22 x 15cm; Lesdain, Count Jacques de; From Pekin To Sikkim: Through the Ordos the Gobi Desert and Tibet, John Murray, London 1908, first edition, illustrated frontispiece, fold-out maps and full page plates, 297 numbered pages plus preliminaries, bound in gilt-tooled red cloth with decorative detail and title to spine, with armorial bookplate for Adrian Matthews Whitty Cryan; Lindley, Captain Augustus F.; A Cruise in Chinese Waters. Being the Log of "the Fortuna.", fourth edition, Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co, London, Paris & New York, nd, illustrated frontispiece, illustrations throughout, bound in original decorative cloth, with school award bookplate; Fleming, Peter; One's Company - A Journey to China, Jonathan Cape, London 1934, first edition, photographic frontispiece, fold-out map and further photographic plates, 319 pages plus preliminaries, bound in pictorial embossed green cloth, with dustjacket; Carles, W.R; Life in Corea, Macmillan & Co, London and New York 1888, illustrated frontispiece, 314 numbered pages with preliminaries and illustrations within text, bound in pictorial gilt-tooled red calf; and a 1925 Pocket Guide to Japan, published by the Japanese Government Railways, the Japan Tourist Bureau, and the Japan Hotel Association, with fold-out map (7)
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"Decoded Messages," "Ancient China," and More Chinese Art and History Books
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£14.32
Est: £9.06

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