Fisher, Lt.-Colonel. [Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur A'Court Fisher, C.B., Royal Engineers]; [George Battye Fisher]. - Personal Narrative of Three Years' Service in China.London, Richard Bentley, Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty, 1863. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Pp. vi, (ii), 420. Plus wood-engraved frontispiece with facing tissue-guard; 2 full page wood-engraved plates; one full-page plan, and 6 wood-engraved vignette illustrations. Plus 3 folding engraved maps, bound at end. HARDCOVER, beautifully bound in recent three-quarter smooth black calf extra, attractive marbled paper over boards, sides decorated with blind rolls, spine in compartments between gilt-ruled raised bands, large gilt fleuron in five of six compartments, red morocco lettering-piece gilt in remainder, all edges polished smooth and dyed red. In exceptionally fine condition. An immaculate copy. ~ FIRST EDITION. Authorship attributed by some to Arthur A'Court Fisher; by others to George Battye Fisher. For that matter, see British Union Catalog and OCLC 9004104. A-3 . EUR 2200.00 [Appr.: US$ 2316.87 | £UK 1823.75 | JP¥ 348418] Book number 4194is offered by:
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