Description:
pp. vi, 96. [48 full-page illustrations included in the pagination]. Stitched as double-pages within limp green silk covers, the 'front' cover lettered in gilt in Chinese characters with a gilt portrait, in excellent condition.
*JISC[COPC] records two UK copies - the V&A and SOAS. WORLDCAT gives two further records - PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM USA and the NATIONAL LIBRARY AUSTRALIA.
Photo-Lithographed from the Original Chinese Edition with Brief Translations in English by the Tien-Shih-Chai Photo-Lithographic Works. Shanghai.
Date Published: 1879.
Stock No. 63723
Price: £2,000.00