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Tue, Jun 26, 2018 08:30PM EDT
Lot 241

Four Titles Regarding Travel in Japan and China.

Estimate: $150 - $250

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[Asia] Four Titles Regarding Travel in Japan and China. Including Narrative of the British Embassy to China in the years 1792, 1793, and 1794 (London, 1796; third edition), half-title, 455 [456]pp., edges stained red, old calf, weak hinges held crudely with tape; The Ainu of Japan (New York/Chicago, ca. 1892); Unbeaten Tracks in Japan (1885; abridged edition; marbled flyleaf detached); a late nineteenth century Chinese almanac, block-printed, illustrated; sold with a defective copy of Narrative of a Residence at the Capitol of the Kingdom of Siam (London, 1852), 2 of 3 plates, lacking map and frontis [as is]. Others with ex-library marks and stamps.