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Lot 138
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8 vols. 8 vols.
Chinese Travel: Early 20th Century Photo Illustrated: Boerschmann, Ernst. Baukunst Und Landschaft in China. Berlin: Verlag Von Ernst Wasmuth, [c1926]. Folio, orig. gilt-lettered red cloth; spine faded, extremities worn. With photo illus. * Conger, Sarah Pike. Letters from China. Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1910. 3rd ed. 4to, orig. decorated red cloth. Illustrated with 80 photo plates & fold map. Some pages uncut. Internally clean. Previous owner's inscription to front paste-down. * [Li, Hongzhang]. Memoirs of the Viceroy Li Hung Chang. London: Constable and Co., 1913. 8vo, orig. blue cloth, spine faded. Photo. frontispiece. Internally generally clean. Some pages uncut. Frontispiece loose. * Backhouse, E. & Bland, J.O.P. Annals & Memoirs of the Court of Peking. London: William Heinemann, (1914). 4to, orig. gilt-pictorial brown cloth, spine faded, extremities worn. Photo. plates. Bookplate of former owner on front paste-down. * Warner, Langdon. The Long Old Road in China. N.Y: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1926. 1st ed. 4to, orig. two-tone blue bds, yellow paper lables; light wear to edges. Illus with photo plates. Internally clean. * Browne, G. Waldo. China: The Country and its People. Boston: Dana Estes, (1901). Lg. 4to, orig. pictorial cloth; extremities worn, scuffed. Photo plates. Some glue residue to rear endpapers. * Fung, Kwok Ying. China. N.Y: Henry Holt and Co., (1943). Folio, orig. red cloth; spine head and tail frayed, some fading and discoloration. Illus. with photos. * Claudel, Paul. Chine. [Geneva]: Albert Skira, [1946]. Folio, orig. wrappers, glassine; glassine chipped and discolored. With some dog-eared pages. With large photo. illus by Helene Hoppennot.