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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM W. APPLETON
WHITE, Herbert C. Peking the Beautiful. Shanghai, China: The Commercial Press, Limited, 1927.
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WHITE, Herbert C. Peking the Beautiful. Shanghai, China: The Commercial Press, Limited, 1927.
4° (395 x 315 mm). 70 photographic plates mounted, numerous illustrations in text. (A few light marginal stains, light offsetting.) Original embroidered silk padded pictorial boards, edges uncut.
FIRST EDITION, with an introduction by Hu Shih, former Professor of Philosophy at the National University of Peking, comprising photographic studies of the celebrated monuments of China’s northern capital with descriptive and historical notes. Rare with the binding in such fine condition.
4° (395 x 315 mm). 70 photographic plates mounted, numerous illustrations in text. (A few light marginal stains, light offsetting.) Original embroidered silk padded pictorial boards, edges uncut.
FIRST EDITION, with an introduction by Hu Shih, former Professor of Philosophy at the National University of Peking, comprising photographic studies of the celebrated monuments of China’s northern capital with descriptive and historical notes. Rare with the binding in such fine condition.