KOREA AND HER NEIGHBORS: A Narrative Of Travel, With An Account Of The Recent Vicissitudes And Present Position Of The Country. With Illustrations From Photographs By The Author, And Maps, Appendixes & Index.

Bishop, Isabella Bird (With A Preface By Sir Walter C. Hillier)

Published by Seoul Korea. 1970. Yonsei University Press reprint of the 1898 original.

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green cloth hardbound 8vo. ~ 8º (octavo). green satin marker ribbon. dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. near fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges lightly soiled. contents free of all markings. marker ribbon in fine cond. dustwrapper in vg cond. spine sunfaded, rubbing and soiling, not price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking , underlining, remainder markings etc ~ "No. 4 (of) A Series Of Western Books On Korea." v+488p. color foldout map of Korea in mint cond. approximately 36 glossy sepiatone photo illustrations. 5 appendices.index. world history. religion. anthropology. history of korea. memoirs. christian missionaries. travel & exploration. history of korea. history of russia. history of china. history of japan. the Kur~dong. the sailing of the sampan. on the river of golden sand. korean marriage customs. the korean pony. Korean roads and inns.diamond mountain monasteries. impending war. mukden .Chinese troops. Nagasaki. Vladivostok. Korean settlers in Siberia. trans~Siberian railroad. the assassination of the Queen. burial customs. the Pyongyang battlefield. song~do, a royal city. exorcisms and dancing women. the hair cropping edict. Daemonism or shamanism. notes on Daemonism concluded. Seoul in 1897. treaty between Japan and Russia. Seller Inventory # 1211302

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Title: KOREA AND HER NEIGHBORS: A Narrative Of ...

Publisher: Seoul Korea. 1970. Yonsei University Press reprint of the 1898 original.

Binding: Hardcover

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included