Picturesque representations of the dress and manners of the Chinese. Illustrated in fifty coloured engravings. With descriptions
$2,000 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books
London: printed for Thomas M'Lean, Haymarket, n.d., ca. mid 1820s . Approx. 9½ x 7 , pp. 104 plus 50 hand-colored engravings, each accompanied by a leaf of descriptive text; plates with a J. Murray 1814 imprint, but several of the plates bear an 1825 watermark indicating a second edition; contemporary red morocco-backed, red cloth-covered boards, smooth gilt-decorated spine, t.e.g. by Zaehnsdorf; lightly rubbed but overall very good, sound and
- Binding: Leather
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