Fleming, George. - Travels on Horseback in Mantchu Tartary: Being a Summer's Ride Beyond the Great Wall of China.London, Hurst and Blackett, Successors to Henry Colburn, 1863. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Crown quarto. Pp. xvi, 579. Chromolithograph frontispiece. Fold-out map with additional colour added in lithography, small tears neatly repaired on verso. With 54 wood-engraved illustrations. HARDCOVER, bound in contemporary half polished calf and forest-green ribbed cloth, sides and corners roll-tooled in blind, spine gilt; bit worn and chafed in places, foxed, finger soiled in places. In good condition. ~ FIRST EDITION. Cordier BS, 2747. [Provenance:] With the contemporary armorial bookplate, "Auspicium Melioris Aevi" (an omen of a better age, motto of the Order of St. Michael and St. George). D-2 . EUR 380.00 [Appr.: US$ 400.19 | £UK 315 | JP¥ 60181] Book number 4191is offered by:
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