Nan yuan cong gao 南園叢稿 Assembled Drafts from the Southern Garden

by Xiangwen 張相文 Zhang

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First edition

Four vols. Tall 8vo, orig. wrappers, orig. title-slips first one not present , orig. stitching. Beijing: Zhongguo di xue hui 中國地學會, 1929. First edition of this collection of writings by one of the pioneers of Chinese geographical studies. Zhang Xiangwen 1867-1933 was from a poor family in Jiangsu and made a living as a teacher. One of the subjects Zhang taught was geography, and he did so at a time when this field of study did

• Binding: Wrappers

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