Pictures Of The Chinese, Drawn By Themselves. Described by the Rev. R.H. Cobbold. Rector of Broseley, Salop, Late Archdeacon of Ningpo.

Published by London, John Murray, 1860 1st

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Seller: PROCTOR / THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP, DORCHESTER, United KingdomPROCTOR / THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP

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Hardback, approx 8 x 5 inches. In banded and textured green cloth cover with gilt lettering to spine and decorations to ends, gilt figurative illustration to front and blind embossed design to rear. In very good condition. Original green cloth cover. Cloth split at top end of spine, small nicks at bottom end. Corners bumped. Small chip/hole to cloth on rear spine edge. Later endpapers (original endpapers removed.) Neat glue repairs to binding of first couple of pages. Some occasional handling/thumb marks to pages, some very minor light foxing to a couple of plates. Else a very good clean and tight copy. Scarce. iv + 219pp. (220pp.) Illustrated with 34 toned plates (numbered 1-30, includes 4 plates ?The Cookshop?, and frontis plate.) Many B&W woodcuts within text, including some full page, and one on very last page. (Scarce in original binding.).

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Title
Pictures Of The Chinese, Drawn By Themselves. Described by the Rev. R.H. Cobbold. Rector of Broseley, Salop, Late Archdeacon of Ningpo.
Author
COBBOLD, Rev. R.H.:
Publisher
London, John Murray, 1860 1st
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PROCTOR / THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP

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T.A. PROCTOR T/A THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP,established 1976. Our shop in Puddletown,Dorset has been open since 1978. We are situated in the heart of the "HARDY COUNTRY", just outside Dorchester on the Road to Bournemouth. Our miscellaneous stock is interesting and changes frequently. We also stock some antique maps (mostly of Dorset) and some engravings of mostly local views. Member of ABA and ILAB.

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ESP. G. A. HENTY; H. G. WELLS;, 19TH.CENTURY AUTHORS, THOMAS HARDY; H. RIDER HAGGARD; JULES VERNE, FOREIGN & ENGLISH TRAVELS, ILLUSTRATED & CHILDREN'S BOOKS, GENERAL ENGLISH LITERATURE (1750 - 1970), ESP. BADMINTON LIBRARY, SPORTS & PASTIMES, E.G., DORSET TOPOGRAPHY & RELATED SUBJECTS, WILLIAM BARNES, FINE BINDINGS

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