Sir Robert Hart. The romance of a great career

by Juliet Bredon

$100 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

London: Hutchinsonson & Co., 1910. Second edition, 8vo, pp. viii, 251, 1 ; photogravure portrait frontispiece and 32 plates, full blue cloth, t.e.g.; light wear to boards, upper hinge starting, text clean, very good. Hart was an British Diplomat who spent his career in China, becoming the most influential westerner of his time there. He is credited with the modernization of the Chinese Customs agency. Item #72930

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