Catalogue of Chinese printed books, manuscripts and drawings in the library of the British Museum

by Robert Kennaway Douglas

$200 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

London: sold by Longmans & Co. ... B. M. Pickering ... B. Quaritch ... and A. Asker and Co., 1877. First edition, large 4to, pp. vii, 1 , 344; catalogue in double column; 20th-century black cloth, gilt-stamped spine; bookplate on verso of title page, several old library rubberstamps in the margins throughout; all else very good, sound, and clean. It is believed to be the first catalogue ever published in Europe of an extensive Chinese library George

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