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The Walls and Gates of Peking 1924

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Description

Heading: (China)
Author: Sirén, Osvald
Title: The Walls and Gates of Peking: Researches and Impressions by Osvald Sirén. Illustrated with 109 Photogravures after Photographs by the Author and Fifty Architectural Drawings Made by Chinese Artists
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Orientalia
Date Published: [c.1924]
Description:

xvii, [3], 239 pp. + 109 photogravure plates. 32.5x25 cm. (11¾x9¾"), original marbled boards, rebacked in modern cloth, leather spine label, endpapers renewed. No. 184 of 800 copies. First American Edition.

Bound from sheets printed in Great Britain. A new title page, with the Orientalia imprint, is added, otherwise identical to the English Edition of 1924. A striking work, capturing the architectural essence of old Peking.

Condition

Board edges worn; very good.

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The Walls and Gates of Peking 1924

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