Author: The Earl of Ronaldshay. [Lawrence John Lumley Dundas, Marquess of Zetland].
Title: A Wandering Student in the Far East, I-II. [TWO VOLUMES].
Description: Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood, 1908. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes. Royal octavo. Pp. xviii, 317, plus a folding map, coloured along route, bound at end; viii, 360. Plus different frontispiece to each volume, with tissue-guard, and numerous photographic plates. HARDCOVER, uniformly bound in the original publisher's full green cloth, embossed lettering on cover, spine gilt, contemporary inscription to one volume. A very good set in overall fine condition, a bit foxed in places. ~ FIRST EDITION. Lawrence John Lumley Dundas, Marquess of Zetland (1876-1971), a British politician, Secretary of State for India in the late 1930s. Beside with China, his travelogue deals also with Japan, Korea, Manchuria. The map, well preserved, appears here in two separate parts, one loosely inserted, probably due to error in trimming the bookblock before binding. TIMO-5 OUT .

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