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<B>Lot of Four Books on Peking and the Empress Dowager of China.</B></I> The group includes:<BR><B>Philip W. Sergeant<I> The Great Empress Dowager of China.</B></I></B></I> (London: Hutchinson & Company, 1910), first edition, 344 pages, original red cloth boards with gilt titles and decoration, 16 photographic illustrations, 8vo (6" x 9"), age darkening to spine, moderate wear to boards, lightly bumped corners, former owner's bookplate on the inside front cover, very good condition.<BR><B>Princess Der Ling <I>Two Years in the Forbidden City.</B></I></B></I> (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1912), first English edition, 383 pages, original orange cloth boards with gilt titles, 22 photographic illustrations, 8vo (5.75" x 8"), spine faded, 1" tear at the top of the front hinge, inside hinges starting to crack, bumped corners, former owner's bookplate on the inside front cover, contents sound, else good condition. <BR><B>Reginald F. Johnson<I> Twilight in the Forbidden City</B></I></B></I> (London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1934), first edition, 486 pages, original green cloth boards with gilt titles, 43 photographic illustrations, spine and periphery of boards faded, corners lightly bumped, inside hinges cracked, former owner's bookplate on the inside front cover, else very good.<BR><B>J.O.P. Bland and E. Backhouse<I> China Under the Empress Dowager</B></I></B></I> <I>The History of the Life and Times of Tz'u His.</B></I> (Peking: Henri Vetch, 1939), revised Peking edition, 470 pages, original yellow cloth boards, endpaper maps, 31 photographic illustrations, two fold-out maps, 4to (6.5" x 10"), moderate shelf wear to boards, soiling to spine, inside hinges cracked, former owner's bookplate on recto of frontis, internal contents sound and tight, very good condition.<BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Books & Catalogs (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)
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