Peking studies ... Sketches

by F. H. Schiff by Ellen Catleen

$1,100 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, Limited, 1934. First edition, folio, pp. 87, 1 ; photogravure illustrations throughout taken by the Rolleiflex camera ; original cream cloth with red cloth title label and pictorial pastedown; boards soiled, otherwise a very good, sound and clean copy. Stunning photographs by Catleen, the wife of the former Dutch diplomat, Willem Thorbecke. Born Ellen Kolban 1902-1973 she occupies a unique and forgotten position in the

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