Jun 03, 2014 - Sale 2352

Sale 2352 - Lot 180

Price Realized: $ 1,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
IMPORTANT CHINESE REFERENCE (MAP REFERENCE--CHINA.) The Evolution of Chinese Geography * The Chinese Historical Geography. Numerous plates, tables, and maps, some folding, and text in Chinese. Issues 1-72, 75-82 (missing numbers possibly not issued?), in 7 volumes bound as 6. Thick 8vo, 255x185 mm, contemporary 1/2 cloth, gilt lettered backstrips; the woodpulp paper is toned and quite fragile but in very good condition considering. Beijing, 1934-37

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"The first journal of historical geography in China."-- Berkshire Encyclopedia of China, pages 1032-33.