Guide to Peiping and its environs. With maps and illustrations

Peiping [i.e., Beijing]: The Peking Bookshop, 1946. First edition, 12mo, pp. [2], viii, 144, [2] ads; 26 illustrations from photographs printed in blue on rectos and versos of 8 plates (numbered I-XVI); original pictorial yellow wrappers; textblock toned, vertical crease an evidence of a small sticker removal on the upper cover; all else about very good. Includes a history of the city, table of the principal dynasties, features of Chinese architecture, festivals and temple fairs, an English-Chinese vocabulary, details of 15 suggested tours of the city, and information on the suburbs, the Great Wall, the Ming Tombs, etc. Item #67837

Price: $200.00