Author: Johnston, R.F.
Title: From Peking to Mandalay.
Description: London, John Murray, 1908. XII,460,(8) pp. B./w. photogr. frontispiece & b./w. photogr. ills. on plates. Bi-chrome folded map. Original blind-stamped & gilt-tooled green cloth. - Attractive copy, minimal shelfwear, some (but minimal) foxing (affecting mostly the fore-edges and endpapers). Decorative engraved bookplate on first endpaper.* Interesting provenance. From the library of Joseph Symonds Hooker, son of Joseph Dalton Hooker (famous Botanist who went to the Himalayas and would publish the famous book on the Rhododendrons of the area). Owner's inscription (by Joseph) in ink on the first free endpaper. The volume would later be part of the late Dr. W. van Spengen's library.

Keywords: Ethnography Asia Burma China Tibet Himalaya Etnografie Azië Birma