From Cleveland Book Company, ABAA, Rocky River, OH, U.S.A.
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AbeBooks Seller since 02 January 2017
About this Item
Oblong quarto. String-bound textured wraps with applied color illustration to front wrap, as issued. One unnumbered text leaf, plus 30 leaves of tipped-in plates, consisting of sepia-tinted collotypes. A fresh, clean copy, just about fine, with a few trivial creases to the wraps, and normal rippling to some of the leaves from the glue used to mount the plates. A fantastic album, with 30 large photographic plates, mostly measuting about 6" x 7" (15cm x 18cm). Each mount contains an identifying caption. The images depict major sites in and around Beijing just after the end of the Qing Dynasty. Though undated, the Preface mentions the fall of the dynasty (he calls it the "Manchu Dynasty" in 1912, and this album very obviously captures the nation before the Japanese invasions of the 1930s. OCLC records just four physical holdings, and two of those (NYPL, Yale) seem to be of an American issue, noting a different place of publication (Brooklyn). The only two holdings for this exact edition appear to be at the Cleveland Public Library and Universiteit Leiden in the Netherlands. Zumbrun's extensive photographic archive (likely containing the original negatives of the photographs reproduced herein) sold at auction several years ago for more than $300,000. Rare. Seller Inventory # 8489
Bibliographic Details
Title: Peking Art Series IV [cover title]
Publisher: J. D . Zumbrun, Peking, China [Beijing]
Publication Date: 1915
Binding: Sewn binding
Condition: Fine
Edition: First Edition (?).
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