Across Chryse being a narrative of the journey of exploration through the South China borderlands from Canton to Mandalay

by Archibald R. Colquhoun

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New York: Scribner, Welford & Co., 1883. First American edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xxx, 420; xvi, 408, 2 ; 30 wood-engraved plates 4 folding , 3 colored maps 2 folding , and numerous wood-engraved illustrations in the text; original pictorial gray cloth stamped in brown and gilt; spines a touch soiled, otherwise a very good, sound copy. Colquhoun 1848-1914 , Scottish official and explorer, was born at sea. He arrived in Canton in 1882, and,

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