The awakening of China

by William Alexander Parsons Martin

$250 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1907. First edition, large 8vo, pp. xvi, 328; title page printed in red and black, frontispiece and 57 illustrations on 47 plates; light wear at the spine extremities else a very good, sound copy in original green cloth, gilt-stamped spine. Martin edited the Peking Scientific Magazine, printed in Chinese, from 1875 till 1878, and in 1898 Martin was appointed by the Guangxu Emperor as the inaugural president of the Imperial

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