The junks and sampans of the Yangtze

by George Raleigh Gray Worcester

$100 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1971 . First Naval Institute Press edition; 4to, pp. 20 , 626; extensively illustrated throughout; fine copy in a very good dust jacket with some sunning to the spine. Worcester was an officer of the River Inspectorate, and for 30 years was employed in the Chinese Maritime Customs. He produced a total of five volumes on the watercraft of the Yangtze. The illustrations are primarily lines drawings, with scales. Indispensable

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