Author: James W. Davidson
Title: The Island of Formosa Past and Present: History, People, Resources, and Commercial Prospects. Tea, Camphor, Sugar, Gold, Coal, Sulphur, Economical Plants, and Other Productions
Description: Taipei , SMC Publishing Inc. 2005. Cloth. An attractive new edition of James W. Davidson's comprehensive history of the short-lived Republic of Formosa. A new edition of this work. First published by Macmillan in 1903. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper. This work's original publication stood as the only comprehensive study of Taiwan in the English language, resulting from Davidson's dedicated research on the subject in many languages to produce his magnum opus. The book has gone through several reprints, and remains a central work in the study of the history of Taiwan, tracing from the beginning of Dutch rule in 1514 to the early 20th-century. This edition illustrated with two new coloured maps (one of which is folding), coloured frontispiece, thirty-five plates containing many illustrations from photographs, and a coloured reproduction of two Chinese posters. Collated, complete.  In the original decorative cloth binding. With the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, lovely. Dust wrapper is excellent, with only minor shelf wear. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Fine/Near Fine.

Keywords: The Island of Formosa James W. Davidson History Folding Map James W. Davidson Not Stated


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