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Pilgrims Book House Pilgrims Books , pp. xiv + 279, Map, Indices. Papeback. New.

London: Kegan Paul French Trubner, 1932. Book. Near Very Good. Original Cloth. First Edition.. Book has slightly bumped corners, light cover soiling to edges thus near very good. Dj has small chips, creases light soiling. All plates are present..

Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, London, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1st UK Edition: xiv [1] 278 pages, illusrated, b/w photos, line drawings. Original covers, no dust jacket. Shelf wear, some minor spotting, mainly to page edges, contents clean, discrete booksellers stamp verso rear cover. "Translated from the Swedish by E.G. Nash." Sven Hedin was a Swedish explorer who devoted a number of years to exploring Turkestan and the Gobi Desert. "Jehol, the City of emperors, is truly a dead city. The founders of the Manchu Dynasty, K'ang Hai and Ch'ien Lung, created it as a place for hunting, military exercises, and that religious devotion which they knew so well how to combine with a certain Machiavellianism in mundane affairs. Now, its glories have almost departed and it is doomed to complete ruin in the space of a few years." Chapters include: The road to Jehol; The Potala; The flight of the Torgot; The Hsien-Kung… Read More

Dutton, New York, 1933. 1st Edition, 4th Impression. HARDCOVER. Thick 8vo in yellow cloth, red lettering to spine and front cover, 278pp, 62pp photo plates, line illustrations in text, index etc __CONDITION : A well preserved VERY GOOD+ very clean and tight unmarked copy (covers faintly foxed, slight sunning to spine). A nice copy. ... __We always ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS