China, early 20th century – Cleveland (Harold Irwin), Massac...

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£450 - £700

China, early 20th century – Cleveland (Harold Irwin), Massacres of Christians by Heathen Chinese and the Horrors of the Boxers, New Haven Conn., Butler and Alger, 1900, 8vo, xvi + 612pp, numerous monochrome illus., double frontis of Edwin G. Conger and Mrs. Edwin H. Conger, library embossing Whiting Library, Chester V[ermon]t, bkpl. ‘Presented to Whiting Library by Mrs. Geo. L. Fletcher’, printed endpapers, gilt and colour embossed boards, mounted with vignette on a lozenge, spine titles; Anon., The Sino-Japanese Disturbances Souvenir Album, Shanghai 1932, bilingual, landscape large 8vo, unpaginated, plans and numerous monochrome illus., floral brocade green silk boards, black printed titles, to cream reserve, bound royal blue ties to right edge, in publisher’s plain cardboard slipcase; Chandler (Helen D.), Lowry (Katharine M.), Payne (Alice Bryson) & Robinson (Marian R.) and others, Chinese Papers from the Book of Stanley Club, Tientsin, privately printed, 1935, 8vo, 180pp, bkpl. Ruth F. Martin with signature, quarter green cloth over light green boards, printed titles, leat to top of spine; Bland (J. O. P.),& Backhouse (E.), China Under the Empress Dowager: Being the History of the Life and Times of Tz’u Hsi, Compiled from State Papers and the Private Diary of the Comptroller of her Household, Peking, Henri Vetch, 1939, royal 8vo,m xxv _+ 470pp, frontis & 31 monochrome plates, two maps, one folding plan of Peking in 1907, maps to endpapers, red and black printed yellow boards, black spine titles, d. w. (slight tears to edges) (4)