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HardPress Publishing, 2013-01-28. Paperback. Good.

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NY & Tokyo: Harper & Bros, 1899. Book. Illus. by Folding Map, Diagrams, Frontispiece. Near Fine. Cloth. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. An exceptionally clean copy. Gilt on spine and front bright. Clean and tight inside and out. Three color, folding maps in a rear pocket, in addition to one attached to the text. The author was the London Times correspondent in China for some years. This is the second of several printings, one year after the first. .

Harper & Bros, 1912. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1898. 396+ pages, plus four folding maps. Light wear on spine where a small library sticker was removed. Ink stamp of a masonic lodge is seen on the upper edge of the text block. Private library book plate on front paste down. Otherwise a tight and clean copy.. First Edition. Cloth - Hard Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket.

New York:: Harper & Brothers,, 1900.. Second edition.. publisher's gilt-lettered cloth.. Old private owner's stamp; a tight, sound, almost fine copy.. 8vo,. With frontispiece, maps and diagrams..

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. ix, 397 pp. 8vo. Red cloth binding with gold embossed titling to cover and spine which has darkened ever so slightly. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Folding map facing first chapter is in Fine condition, illustrated in text throughout, three folding maps are tucked in tipped in folder at rear and are in Fine condition as well.

New York 1900 (1898 first edition) Harper. Hardcover. Octavo, 397pp., illustrations, text map, 3 large foldout maps in rear pocket, publisher ads, original green cloth with gilt lettering. VG Plus. no dj. excellent condition. no owner marks. .

Hardback. 1898. vii, 398pp frontispiece, 4 folding coloured maps, 12 diagrams in text, Harper & Bros., London 1898. Very good copy in the original gilt-decorated blue cloth. .

New York : White Lotus Press, 1912. Paperback. Good/no dj. 0.60. China in Transformation

New York 1899, Harper. Blue cloth, 391p., very good, index, glossary, bibliograpy, frontispiece, 25 maps, illustrations, bookplate. Covering China at the turn of the century with focus on the critical questions dealing with geography, economics, foreign relations & communication. England's objectives in terms of commercial development, government, administration, diplomatic intercourse, the native press, democracy and political questions are well covered. This work is authorat- ive because of the author's keen observation while in China for several years as a special correspondent of the London Times. .

NY: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1912. Light aging, else textblock is clean and tight, textual maps and folded maps. Dust soiled top edge. Spine-sunned red cloth, bumped spine extremities, Lacks the original paper dust jacket, now protected by fitted, clear, five-mil mylar; 303p., including appendix.. First Edition. Red Cloth. Very Good. Illus. by Two Maps, Facsimiles, 16 Half-tones, Four-color Frontispiece. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

Harper & Brothers, 1899. Hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. [An English View of China at the 19th Century's End] A particularly attractive copy. Bound in publisher's green cloth, with gold lettering. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. First few pages and front hinge starting. Clean, unmarked pages. ix, [1], 397 p. : illus., folding maps in rear pocket ; 22 cm.

New York: Harper & Bros, 1898. First edition. Frontispiece, 8 illustrations, 7 maps (including three in pocket inside back cover). 397 pp., including index. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green cloth. Front hinge just starting, else VG. First edition. Frontispiece, 8 illustrations, 7 maps (including three in pocket inside back cover). 397 pp., including index. 1 vols. 8vo.

London: Harper & Brothers, 1898. Some foxing, very good.. Octavo, frontispiece, four folding maps and other illustrations;, in contemporary half vellum, banded spine with double brown morocco labels, gilt. Second edition of this treatise on China at the turn of the century. Colquhoun, who spent several years in China as a special correspondent of the London Times, addresses a number of issues including economics, foreign relations, and England's objective in China. .

London: Harper & Brothers, 1898-1900. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 9" by 6". Various. The second edition of two of Archibald Colquhoun's popular and vivid travel works about China, lavishly illustrated including with folding maps. Two second edition travel works.'China in Transformation', published in 1898. An in-depth study on China, looking at the country's geography, foreign relations, economics, commercial development, government, people, and more. Illustrated with a frontispiece, four colour folding maps, and in-text maps. Collated, complete.'The "Overland" to China', published in 1900. An interesting travel work that works along the Trans-Siberian Railway only a few years after it opened, a vivid look at the countries it passes through. Illustrated with a frontispiece, four colour folding maps, twenty- two plates, and in-text illustrations. Collated, complete.Written by Archibald Colquhoun. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. Very light bumping to the head and… Read More