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The Costume of China.
London, William Miller, 1805. 32 x 26 cm. With half title, title, 48 lvs. [text to plates], index, advertisement. Rebound in blind half-leather, marbled edges. With sepia dedication plate, and 48 hand-coloured aquatint plates. - William Alexander was born in Maidstone, Kent, in Southeast England, in 1767. He became a student at the Royal Academy in 1784. In 1792, at the age of just 25, he was given the opportunity of a lifetime: he was chosen to accompany Lord Macartney's embassy to China as a junior draughtsman [...] However, the images of China that Alexander produced on the two year journey were a new, reliable and exciting glimpse into Chinese life, art, landscape, architecture and customs. Like no artist before, Alexander shaped the West?s image of this far away country.See: Alexandra Loske - Shaping an image of China in the West: William Alexander (1767-1816) - Copy rebound in blind half-leather with new endpapers, contents in good condition.
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Catalogue: reizen; china
Three Years in Western China; A Narrative of Three Journeys in Ssu-Ch'uan, Kuei-Chow, and Yün-Nan. Second edition.
London, George Philip & Son, 1897. 22 x 14.5 cm. xxvii,[1],290 pp. Original cloth. With b/w frontispiece, and large folding map coloured in outline. - Good copy
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Catalogue: reizen; china
Love and hate in China.
New York / Toronto / London, McGraw-Hill, [1966]. 22 x 14.5 cm. 150 pp. Clothbacked boards. Good copy
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€ 12.50 [Appr.: US$ 14.25 | £UK 10.75 | JP¥ 2063]
Catalogue: reizen; china / japan
Delhi-Chungking - A Travel Diary. Foreword by Jawaharlal Nehru.
Geoffrey Cumberlege / Oxford University Press, 1947. 22.5 x 14.5 cm. viii,[4],257 pp. Original blue cloth with dustjacket. With 2 folding maps in rear-pocket, and 19 b/w illustrations on plates. - In 1944 India's diplomatic representative in China made an overland journey by horse, yak, foot, station wagon and aeroplane to Chungking. This is the diary of his 125-day pilgrimage - a diary not meant for publication, in which we can comfortably enjoy the fatigues of crossing the Roof of the World [...] - Flap .- K.P.S. Menon (1898-1982), was also the first independent Foreign Secretary - serving from 1948 to 1952 - of India. - A very good copy with unclipped dustjacket. - tsjoengking - chongqing
kAdeBoeken AntiquariaatProfessional sellerBook number: 25931
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Catalogue: reizen; china
An Australian in China. Being the narrative of a quiet journey across China to Burma. [Second edition].
London, Horace Cox, 1895. 21.5 x 14.5 cm. xii,299 pp. Original cloth [rebound], marbled edges. With 2 folding maps, and 30 plates, nearly all after photographs - "Morrison, as the correspondent of 'The Times' of London in Peking - Beijing - had probably been the most influential foreigner in China at the turn of the century, that he had witnessed and chronicled the last days of the Chinese Empire, and the birth of the Chinese Republic and that his expertise had been sought by powerbrokers, presidents and diplomats, Chinese and Western alike.'' [Angus McDonald, Five foot road]. - Skilfully rebound, the gilt-lettered spine faded, margin of 1 leaf supplemented, name and date on title, else a fine copy
kAdeBoeken AntiquariaatProfessional sellerBook number: 12571
€ 250.00 [Appr.: US$ 284.95 | £UK 210.75 | JP¥ 41256]
Catalogue: reizen; china
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