Through Shên-Kan. The Account of the Clark Expedition in North China 1908-9

by Robert Sterling Clark, Arthur de Carle Sowerby

$700 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition. 4to. Publisher's ochre cloth over boards with title and small pictorial of a man riding a horse in black to front cover. Fine. Item #317048 This work is an account of the 1908-9 expedition from Taiyuan in Northern Shanxi to the Shensi and Kansu provinces of northern China, paid for by Robert Sterling Clark, heir to the Singer Sewing Machine fortune. Clark was joined by the naturalist and

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