China proper

[London]: Naval Intelligence Division, 1944-1945. First edition, 8vo, pp. xvi, 542; xii, 370; xiv, 653, [1]; text illustrations, 61 maps and diagrams (one folding), 367 plates, large color folding map in back pocket; original green cloth; spines sunned and foxed, ownership signature of a "Parry-Williams" on endpapers; good and sound. Part of the Geographical Handbook Series, a classified publication "for the use of persons in H. M. Service only and must not be shown, or made available, to the Press or to any member of the public," later declassified. "The purpose of the books is primarily naval. They are designed first to provide, for the use of Commanding Officers, information in a comprehensive and convenient form about countries which they may be called upon to visit ...Their contents are, however, by no means confined to matters of purely naval interest. For many purposes (e.g. history, administration, resources, communications, etc.) countries must necessarily be treated as a whole, and no attempt is made to limit their treatment exclusively to costal zones" (preface). Item #73656

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