Ying-Yai Sheng-Lan 'The Overall Survey of the Ocean's Shores' (1433)
by HUAN, MA & MILLS, J. V. G. (Trans & Ed)
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Hakluyt / Cambridge University Press 1970. Super octavo, dark blue buckram boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine, gilt chinese lettering to front board, folding map to rear pocket, frontispiece, xix + 393pp, illus/maps, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in pencil to ffep) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, light fading to spine, light foxing & soiling)
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- Title
- Ying-Yai Sheng-Lan 'The Overall Survey of the Ocean's Shores' (1433)
- Author
- HUAN, MA & MILLS, J. V. G. (Trans & Ed)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hakluyt / Cambridge University Press 1970
- Keywords
- exploration oceans ocean floor nautical China Chinese expeditions history 15th fifteenth century hakluyt society
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- Spine
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- Buckram
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