BEIJING.

Inquire · Offered by Peter Harrington

The Map of Peiping, First edition, first printing, of this large and colourful map with 280 numbered institutions and organizations identified in the corresponding directory. Copies are decidedly ephemeral, with just four traced in institutional collections. This example is in splendid condition, without the tears and repairs often associated with large folding maps from this period.We have also traced a version bound in buff wrappers, with no priority between the two.WorldCat records copies at New York University, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Max Plank Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, and Evangelical University and Central Library of Württemberg.

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