白城市 地名录 / Baicheng Shi di ming lu = Gazeteer of Baicheng City

by Baicheng Place Names Committee

$150 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

Baicheng : Baicheng Place Names Committee, 1984. 5.25 x 7.5 in., pp. 2 , 2, 2, 171, 1 ; four folding maps, two in color; text in Chinese; red cloth gilt; boards mildly soiled, administrative stamp on title page, text clean and sound, very good. Place name dictionaries, also called gazetteers, were produced by local governments to normalize terms, provide etymological information, and usually included demographic and historical information as well, as this one

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