拍品 177
  • 177

White, Herbert C. and Hu Shih

估價
1,200 - 1,800 GBP
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描述

  • Peking the beautiful, comprising seventy photographic studies of the celebrated monuments of China’s northern capital and is environs complete with descriptive and historical notes. Shanghai: The Commerical Press, 1927
  • PAPER
FIRST EDITION, folio (396 x 313mm.), half-title, photographic frontispiece and 70 mounted photographic plates (including sepia and tinted images, 12 printed in colours), text illustrations, publisher’s embroidered dark blue silk, upper cover with title and image of a temple and floral border, flat spine, preserved in a modern box incorporating original pictorial label on lid, crease to one plate

出版

Western Travellers in China 121

Condition

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate.
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拍品資料及來源

A FINE COPY. The fine photographic images show Chinese buildings, gateways, pagodas, shrines, walls, bridges and palaces, together with altars, gardens, bronze and marble sculptures.