陕西省西安市地名志 / Shaanxisheng Xi'anshi dimingzhi = Shaanxi Province Xi An City gazetteer

by Xi An Geographical Names Committee

$175 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

Xian: Xi An Geographical Names Committee, 1986 . First edition limited to 5000 copies, large 8vo, pp. 6 , 428, 2 ; 8 pages of plates, 11 color maps, 9 of them double-page; full red cloth gilt; a touch of edgewear, administrative stamps on title page and foreedge, near fine. Place name dictionaries, also called gazetteers, were produced by local governments to normalize terms, provide etymological information, and usually included demographic and historical

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