China Pictorial, Descriptive, and Historical. With Some Account of Ava and the Burmese, Siam, and Anam, with Nearly One Hundred Illustrations Alpine Frontispiece and three additional illustrated

Frontispiece and three additional illustrated title-pages

London: Chatto & Windus

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Paris: Norma

A few spots of foxing to spine and offsetting to endpapers

China Pictorial, Descriptive, and Historical. With Some Account of Ava and the Burmese, Siam, and Anam, with Nearly One Hundred Illustrations Alpine Frontispiece and three additional illustratedLondon: Henry Bohn, 1853. First Edition. Medium 8vo (7. 5 x 5 ins); pp xx + [522] + [24] Bohm's book catalogue. Colour tinted map of China Empire and Japan as frontispiece, with tissue guard. Half title present. Publisher's green cloth, gilt title lettering to spine, tips of corners and edges of the spine a touch rubbed. An excellent copy with bright gilt. "Earlier portion of this work, to p265, which relates exclusively to China, was written by Miss