[Korea and China]
Pictorial Chosen and Manchuria
£605
Auction: 19 September 2024 from 10:00 BST
Description
compiled in Commemoration of the Decennial of the Bank of Chosen. Seoul: Bank of Chosen, 1919. First edition, 4to, original cloth, 316 pp., halftone photographic illustrations throughout, ex Manchester Public Free Libraries with manuscript shelfmark to foot of spine, library plate to front pastedown, ink-stamps to title-page verso and a few text-leaves, cloth dust-soiled;
Maudslay, Anne Cary & Alfred Percival. A Glimpse at Guatemala, and some Notes on the Ancient Monuments of Central America. London: John Murray, 1899. First edition, 4to, original quarter cloth, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, 44 plates (mainly photogravures), 10 lithographic plans, folding lithographic map to rear, photogravures, photogravures and tinted wood-engravings throughout the text, ex Manchester Public Free Libraries with remnants of paper shelfmark label to spine, library plate and cancellation ink-stamps stamps to front pastedown and endpaper respectively, ink accession stamp to verso of title-page, and small ink-stamps to versos of plates and plans, binding dust-soiled, wear to extremities;
Baddeley, John F. The Rugged Flanks of Caucasus. London: Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford, 1940. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, original cloth, dust jackets, 36 photogravure plates including frontispieces, 9 folding maps, ex Manchester Public Free Libraries with gilt shelfmarks to spines, plates and lending slips to endpapers, and ink-stamps to title-pages and to versos of plates, manuscript shelfmarks to dust jacket spine-panels, volume 2 dust jacket torn
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