Imperial China, social history – Doolittle (Revd. Justus), S...

Hammer

£65

Imperial China, social history – Doolittle (Revd. Justus), Social Life of the Chinese with some Account of their Religious, Governmental, Educational and Business Customs and Opinions with Special but not exclusive reference to Fuchan, 2 vols. (matched), New York, Harper, 1865, small 8vo, frontis. and over 150 woodcut illus., xvi + 459 and xii + 490, Vol. 1 bound black boards, with original blue covers with gilt lines and titles neatly re-mounted, Vol. II original green boards, gilt lines and titles, flyleaf MS inscr. ‘Presented to my daughter/Elizabeth J. Hoyt/Jan. 1st 1875/C. B. Jackson’; Giles (Professor Herbert Allen LLD), China and the Chinese, New York, Colombia University Press, 1902, 122mo, ix + 229pp, MS inside front cover ‘W. P. Pemberton/Victoria B C’. blue boards, gilt university badge and titles to front board (3)