Travels on horseback in Mantchu Tartary: being a summer's ride beyond the Great Wall of China

Fleming, George

Published by Hurst and Blackett, London, 1863

About this Item

First edition, 8vo, pp. xvi, 579, [1], [8] ads; colored lithograph frontispiece, folding map hand-colored in outline, plus numerous wood-engraved illustrations in the text; 16-page pamphlet titled "The works of Charles Lever" tipped in; publisher's gilt-decorated blue cloth; spine toned, edges and joints rubbed, hinges cracked, foxed, good. Subscription library bookplate of W. H. Smith and Sons on upper pastedown. Lever catalog has one leaf with a defective fore-edge causing some loss of text. "An attempt to describe the general features of the country, and the special characteristics of the northern Chinese . together with the incidents inseparable from the wanderings of two adventurous Britons . for nearly 700 miles" (Preface). Cordier, Sinica, 2747.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Travels on horseback in Mantchu Tartary: being a summer's ride beyond the Great Wall of China
• Publisher: Hurst and Blackett, London
• Publication Date: 1863
• Edition: First Edition.
• Seller catalogs:
  • Travel
  • Asia
  • China