Overland to China

Colquhoun, Archibald R.

Published by Harper & Bros, London & New York, 1900

About this Item

First edition, 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 464, [1]; frontispiece portrait, plates, illustrations in the text, 4 folding color maps; very good in original blue cloth gilt, slight wear to edges, ownership inscription on recto of the frontispiece (partially showing through), one folding map bound into gutter improperly and not openable without possible damage; clean and sound. Colquhoun (1848-1914) was a British explorer and the first Administrator of Southern Rhodesia. In the 1880s he took part in several exploratory expeditions to Burma, Indo-China and southern China, for which he was awarded the 1884 Founder's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society. This book concerns his travels on a return trip to China in connection with railway negotiations, and in 1898 and 1899 he traveled by train through Siberia, eastern Mongolia, and through China from north to south. Not in Yakushi. See Howgego IV, p. 197.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Overland to China
• Publisher: Harper & Bros, London & New York
• Publication Date: 1900
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Seller catalogs:
  • Travel
  • Asia
  • China