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BARD, Émile - Chinese Life in Town and Country. Adapted from the French of Émile Bard by H. Twitchell. [First edition].

New York and London, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1905. 22 x 14 cm. [4],xiii,[1],285 pp. Original decorated half cloth, top edge gilt. With frontispiece in colour, and 58 b/w plates after photographs. - First English edition. - 'I have seen China and the Chinese with the eyes of a man of affairs; I have attempted to avoid, within the limits of the possible, the exaggerated optimism of certain writers on this country, - chiefly travellers and missionaries, - and I also have been careful not to fall into the spirit of systematic depreciation common to Europeans in referring to the Celestial Empire and its inhabitants.' [Preface]. - Sides a bit chafed, name on upper paste down, else a very good copy
EUR 90.00 [Appr.: US$ 97.45 | £UK 77.5 | JP¥ 15231] Book number 13220

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