河北省承德市地名资料汇编 / Hebei Sheng Chengde Shi di ming zi liao hui bian = Compliation of place name information for Chengde City, Hebei Province

by Chengde Place Names Office

$175 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

Chengde : Chengde Place Names Office, 1985. First edition, limited to 4000 copies, 7 x 5 in., pp. 2 , 2, 9, 5 , 308, 2 ; 2 color folding maps, 25 pages of plates, tan cloth gilt, fine. Inscription on upper endpaper dated 1987, 闻发報 承德記者站. 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,

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