Things Chinese or notes connected with China ... Fifth edition revised

by E. Chalmers Werner by J. Dyer Ball

$75 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

London: John Murray, 1926. 8vo, pp. 2 , iv, 766, 2 ; original terra cotta cloth, gilt title on board and spine; text clean and sound, later owner's signature on pastedown very good, with clipped panel of dust jacket laid in. An alphabetical accounting, from abacus to zoology, in encyclopedic form of things Chinese. Eight pages are devoted to opium, four pages to chess, and twenty-seven to plague. Item #72068

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