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Lot 191
Sale 6330 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
May 8, 2025
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$600 -
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$6,400
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Lot Description
[CHINA - TRAVEL]. A group of 46 titles in English, including:
DENBY, Jay. Letters of a Shanghai Griffin. Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, Limited, 1923. -- FINDLAY, Alexander George (1812-1875). A Directory for the Navigation of the Indian Archipelago, and the Coast of China... London: Richard Holmes Laurie, 1889. -- GEIL, William Edgar (1865-1925). Eighteen Capitals of China. London: Constable & Co., Ltd., 1911. -- KENT, Percy Horace Braund (1876-1963). Railway Enterprise in China. London: Edward Arnold, 1907. -- PERRY-AYSCOUGH, Henry George Charles and OTTER-BARRY, Robert Bruere. With the Russians in Mongolia. London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1914. -- PICKERING, William Alexander (1840-1907). Pioneering in Formosa. London: Hurst & Blackett, Limited, 1898. -- ROCKHILL, William Woodville (1854-1914). The Land of the Lamas. New York: The Century Co., 1891. -- SMYTH, Herbert Warington (1867-1943). Five Years in Siam. London: John Murray, 1898. 2 volumes. -- WILSON, Ernest Henry (1876-1930). A Naturalist in Western China. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, & Co., 1913. 2 volumes. -- YOUNGHUSBAND, Francis, Sir (1863-1942). Peking to Lhasa. London: Constable & Co., Ltd., 1925.
And 36 others. Together, 46 works in 51 volumes, various 8vo sizes, most in publisher's original cloth, condition generally fine. Complete available upon request.
