Author: COLQUHOUN, ARCHIBALD R.,
Title: China in Transformation. Orig. edn.
Description: London and New York, Harper & Bros., 1898. Original publ. cloth, title in gilt on front boards and spine, ornamented gilt tooling to each corner of boards. 387pp. frontispiece, 4 fold. maps, one at front and three at very end, of which coloured and one rather large, black/white sketch-maps in text, many diagrams in text, list of literature consulted, index, extensive footnotes, table of contents, ex-libris pasted inside front boards. A geo-political history of China before the revolution. Still of great interest. Very good copy in orig. publ. cloth, untrimmed and partly unopened. (some brown offsetting to verso of last endpaper).

Keywords: china empire geography politics history economy administration cultural heritage population far east asia nineteenth century 19thc