China, topography – Catleen (Ellen), Peking Studies, shangha...

Hammer

£650

China, topography – Catleen (Ellen), Peking Studies, shanghai, Kelly & Walsh, 1934, large 4to, 87pp, traditional style tincture map of Peking (Beijing) numerous monochromatic photographs – portraits, social scenes, architecture and topography – some colourised, monochrome and colour printed vignettes to text, dedication on flyleaf dated 1935, buff boards, black printed title on red vertical strip mounted photograph and red printed vignette to front board, black spine titles, d. w. with tear at lower edge, in plastic protector; A Chinese-produced album with English sub-title translations, View and Custom [sic] of North China, Tien Tsin, S. Kojima 1909, landscape 4to, 92 mainly coloured plates of scenes, monuments and architecture, captioned in Chinese with English beneath, some with multiple images, grey endpapers, embossed faux basket weave brown boards gilt titles, with later plastic wrapper (2)