Guide to Peking and its Environs Near and Far (second edition 1924, with the large colour folding map, 'Plan of Peking Inside its Walls')

Fei-Shi [Emil Sigmund Fischer]

Published by Tientsin Press, Peking, 1924

About this Item

Revised (2nd) ed., octavo, pp.(xiv), 237, (ii), (xii, adverts), ex-lib stamp to recto of t.p., owner's stamp to dedication page and book-plate to front paste-down, profusely illustrated with b&w plates, several addendum slips tipped-in, 5 folding maps with a large folding and hand-coloured map of "Plan of Peking inside its Walls" showing Tartar City and Chinese City and street names on verso, this map is in end-pocket. Other maps are "Legation Quarter and its Surroundings" (folding plan) ; "Nearer Vicinity of Peking" (coloured folding map) ; "The Western Hills and the Wu Tai Ranges" (large coloured folding map) ; "Amphiteatre Surrounding the Hsi-Ling - Western Manchu Mausoleum" (folding plan). Original green pictorial boards with some restoration, contents generally clean with all maps clean and in very good condition. Originally published in 1909. This is the second revised edition with the large plan of Peking. Seller Inventory # 97427

Bibliographic Details

Title: Guide to Peking and its Environs Near and ...

Publisher: Tientsin Press, Peking

Publication Date: 1924

Binding: Pictorial Cloth Boards

Edition: 2nd Revised.