Lot
4149
Lot 4149
China, life, biography, history – Bovet (Mlle. Marie-Anne), ...
Hammer
£80
China, life, biography, history – Bovet (Mlle. Marie-Anne), Le Général Gordon, Paris, Librairie de Firmin-Didot 1890, 8vo, 191pp, frontis and five engravings, black and gilt embossed red boards, black spine titles; Wortham (H. E), Chinese Gordon, Boston, Little, Brown, 1933, 8vo, ix + 384pp, frontis and 15 monochrome illus., 4 maps and plans, green boards, black titles and to spine; Lin (Yutang), Moment in Peking : A Novel of contemporary Chinese Life, New York, John Day, 1939, 8vo, 895pp, review pasted to inside end board, bkplt. Max Harison, orange boards, black spine titles; Chiang (Kai-Shek, Gen.), Resistance and Reconstruction: Messages During China’s Six Years of War 1937-1943, New York, Harper Bros., 1943, 8vo, xxiv + 322pp, blue boards, black spine titles on green reserve; Huc (Evariste Regis, Abbé), The Chinese Empire: Forming a Sequel to the Work Entitled ‘Recollections of a Journey through Tartary and Tibet’ 2 vols., 2nd edn., London Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1855, 8vo, ex Tate Library Brixton stamps, and Labeth Public Libraries Reference Section (bkpl.), marbled edges, rebound blue cloth gilt titles, Vol. I: xxxii + 421pp; Vol. II: viii + 440pp,. with folding map (6)
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