The opium question and the Northern campaigns : (signed presentation copy)

A$2,500 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Signed

including notices of some strictures by reviewers of the former ; and indications of the salient points of the latter, down to the Treaty of Nanking Canton : [s.n.], 1875. Large octavo, original printed wrappers with bookseller s ticket of F. R. Wetmore, Yokohama, (brittle and chipped along edges, as usual), stamp from New York State Library to upper wrapper, pp [20], 26, [17]-68, [14]; internally clean and sound; with a signed presentation inscription from Nye to the upper wrapper. American diplomat and merchant Gideon Nye s study of the First Opium War (1839-1842) and its political and economic consequences. Rare.

• Binding: Hardcover

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