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Blakeney | On the Coasts of Cathay and Cipango Forty Years ago, 1902

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November 12, 04:34 PM GMT

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800 - 1,200 GBP

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BLAKENEY, WILLIAM

On the Coasts of Cathay and Cipango Forty Years ago. A Record of Surveying Service on the China, Yellow and Japan Seas and on the Seaboard of Korea and Manchuria. London: Elliot Stock, 1902


FIRST EDITION, 8vo 223 x 137mm.), half-title, 19 maps (18 folding), 72 plates (1 coloured) which are included in the pagination, original pictorial yellow cloth, black endpapers, blue slipcase


PROVENANCE:

A. Hennings and Douglas H. Hennings, signatures on half-title; The Library of Franklin Brooke-Hitching, sale in these rooms, 27 March 2014, lot 136