The back blocks of China. A narrative of experiences among the Chinese, Sifans, Lolos, Tibetans, Shans and Kachins, between Shanghai and the Irrawadi

by R. Logan Jack

$650 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

London: Edward Arnold, publisher to the India Office, 1904. First edition, 8vo, pp. xxii, 269, 1 , 2 ads, 16 Arnold catalogue ; largely unopened; frontispiece, 2 folding maps, 15 plates showing 27 illustrations from photographs; original pictorial black cloth stamped in red and gilt on upper cover, in gilt on spine; a very good, sound, and clean copy. The author and three others were prospecting along the Upper Yangtze in Szechuan when the Boxer Rebellion

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