Guide Peiping Environs (4 results)

Couverture souple. Condition: Assez bon. VIII + 144 p. Texte en Anglais / Text in English ! Guide with three folding maps and illustrations. 16 photographic plates. Some commercial ads. Scarce. 16 planches photos h-t. 3 cartes dépliantes. Quelques publicités commerciales. RARE ! 1er plat illustré. L'un des premiers guides de Péking et de ses monuments. 13x18 cm. 144 p. Broché. Etat correct. Papier bruni un peu fragile. Quelques coins supérieurs manques (cf. pages cornées). Quelques pages avec plis. Couverture légèrement défraîchie. Petits plis. Infimes déchirures marginales avec infimes manques : voir photos ou me demander svp ! in-12°. …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. 12mo, pp viii, 128, with 27 blue tinted photo illustrations on sixteen numbered plates and four maps. Three of the maps are folding. Bound in mustard coloured soft card wraps with decoration to the upper cover in black. Pages and maps are tanned. Overall in Very Good Minus condition.…

, [2, advertisements] title iii-viii 1-144 [2, advertisements] pages, XVI monochrome photographic illustrations, 3 of 4 line drawn maps, the Forbidden City map is missing , the binding has failed and has an old tape repair, the plan of the city has been taken out, it is present but damaged, the fold-out map of Peiping and its Environs is torn but holding, the leaves are fragile, loose and chipping, the cover is marked and worn, it is in fair condition , bound in stiff illustrated and printed paper , 18 x 13cm Paperback ISBN.…

First Edition. First edition, 12mo, pp. [2], viii, 144, [2] ads; 26 illustrations from photographs printed in blue on rectos and versos of 8 plates (numbered I-XVI); original pictorial yellow wrappers; textblock toned, vertical crease an evidence of a small sticker removal on the upper cover; all else about very good. Includes a history of the city, table of the principal dynasties, features of Chinese architecture, festivals and temple fairs, an English-Chinese vocabulary, details of 15 suggested tours of the city, and information on the suburbs, the Great Wall, the Ming Tombs, etc.…