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Lot 159
Sale 6330 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
May 8, 2025
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$3,520
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Lot Description
MAYERS, William F., DENNYS, Nicholas Belfield, and Charles KING, editors. The Treaty Ports of China and Japan. A complete guide to the open ports of those countries, together with Peking, Yedo, Hongkong and Macao. Forming a guide book & vade mecum for travellers, merchants, and residents in general. London: Trubner and Co.; Hong Kong: A. Shortrede and Co., 1867.
8vo. 29 wood-engraved maps, plates and plans, most folding and in color; 26pp. publisher's catalogue of "books on China." (A few repaired in gutter). Contemporary half red morocco, marbled boards (rebacked with original spine preserved, boards rubbed). Provenance: George R. Brush, M.D., U.S. Navy (rubberstamp on title-page).
FIRST EDITION, of what is considered to be the first book of its kind relating to China and Eastern Asia. Rarely seen with all 29 maps.