Author: CONWELL, R.H.,
Title: Why and How. Why the Chinese emigrate, and the means they adopt for the purpose of reaching America. Sketches of Travel, Amusing Incidents, Social Customs, &c. First edn.
Description: Boston-New York, Lee and Shepard/Lee and Shepard Dillingham, 1871. sm.8°. orig. cloth, richly gilt tooled pictorial front boards and spine. (iv), 283pp. frontisp. (with tissue guard), 7 other woodcut plates all after drawings by Hammatt Billings, decorative head-and-tail pieces, 1 full-p. table listing numbers of chinese immigrants and their destinations, list of contents. A very nice & attractive copy in orig. publ. cloth. Rare.

Keywords: chinese immigration united states cuba america history 19thc.