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Item Details

Description

Heading:
Author: Colquhoun, Archibald Ross
Title: Amongst the Shans
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Scribner & Welford
Date Published: 1885
Description:

lv, 392 pp. Introduction by Terrien de Lacouperie. Historical sketch by Holt S. Hallett. With numerous plates from sketches and views. 22x14 cm (8¾x5½"), original green cloth lettered in gilt; fore and bottom edges deckled, endpapers renewed.

Travel narrative among the Shan peoples of southeast Asia. Institutional blind-stamp at title page.

Condition

Touches of rubbing to cloth at extremities, hinges cracked, sticker on page facing half-title, scattered faint foxing; very good.

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Colquhoun's study of the Shan people

Name: Colquhoun's study of the Shan people
SKU: 141582831
Price: 250 USD
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