China, life and history – O’Neill (Hugh B.) Companion to Chi...

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China, life and history – O’Neill (Hugh B.) Companion to Chinese History, New York, Facts on File, 1987, 8vo, 397pp + 14 maps at end, red & black boards, gilt titles, d. w. in plastic protector; Nourse (Mary A.), The Four Hundred Million: History of the Chinese, Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st edn. ,1935, 8vo, 375pp, monochrome frontis., and 28 other photographic plates, blue boards re-bound and re-mounted; Kuo (Sung T’ao), Liu (His-Hung) & Chang (Te-Yi), trans. J. D. Frodsham, The First Chinese Embassy to the West, Oxford, Clarendon, 1974 8vo, lxiv + 222, 8 monochrome plates, MS signature of translator to dedication dated 10/1/1979 to flyleaf, blue boards, gilt titles, d.w.; Gascoyne-Cecil (Rt. Revd. Lord Rupert Ernest William, 1863-1936 & Cecil (Lady Florence Mary), Changing China, 3rd impression, London, James Nisbet, 1910, small 87vo, xvi + 342pp, railway map to frontis., 32 monochrome photographic plates, blue boards, gilt titles to spine, ex .library copy; Davis (Sir John Francis 1st Bt., FRS 1795-1890) The Chinese: A General Description of the Empire of China and its Inhabitants, 2 Vols., New York, Bradley, n. d. 16mo, viii + 383pp with 12 woodcuts, Vol. II: viii + 440pp, 13 woodcut illustrations, rebound red cloth; Headland (Prof. Isaac Taylor), Court Life in China: The Capitol, it’s Officials and People, New York, Flemming H . Revell, 1909 8vo, 372pp, 20 photographic plates, blue and black embossed illustration and titles on yello9w boards, black spine titles with dragon; Krausse (Alexis), China in Decay: the Story of a Disappearing Empire, 3rd edn., (issued for circulation in India and the Colonies only), London, George Bell, 1900 8vo, xvii + 418pp, 15 monochromatic photographic plates, five mostly folding maps, bookseller’s label in side front cover Luzac & Co., Great Russell Street, London, yellow boards, black titles and spine titles, plastic protector; Chang (Peng-Chun, PhD), foreword by Professor Eileen Power, China at the Crossroads: the Chinese Situation in Perspective, London, Evans rothers n. d. (1936), 179pp, 2 maps, MS dedication to Mr. Edward Evans (publisher) from the author, August 1936, yellow boards, black titles, d. w. with plastic protector; Withrow (William Henry, DD, FRSC) China and its Peoples, Toronto, John Briggs, 1894, small 98vo, vi + 304pp, woodcut illus. frontis, map, some staining to title pages, colour and gilt embossed decorative brown boards and titles, cover somewhat worn (10)