[Tokyo: publisher not identified], 1932. 8vo, pp. [2], viii, 47, [1]; original printed cream wrappers; pressure stamp of the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and a release surplus stamp fom the Library of Congress; several short tears, label removed from the upper wrapper; a good copy. Nearly half the text..... More
London: Hutchinson & Co., [1936]. Second impression (as usual); 8vo, pp. 285. [1]; frontispiece and 16 illustrations from photographs on 15 plates; original terracotta cloth stamped in black on the spine; extremities a little faded, else a very good, sound and clean copy. "A Russian hunter and trapper, Baikov relates..... More
Heidelberg, Berlin, Magdeburg: Kurt Vowinckel, 1941. First edition, 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 448; 26 maps (7 folding), 89 illustrations, mostly from photographs by the author, on rectos and versos of 23 plates; original tan cloth-backed boards stamped in brown on upper cover and spine, preserving the original printed dust jacket;..... More
London and New York: Harper & Brothers, 1903. First edition, 8vo, pp. xxx, 478; 76 illustrations from photographs on 66 plates; original blue cloth, gilt-stamped spine and upper cover; cloth slightly bubbled on lower cover but in all a very good, sound, and clean copy. Ownership signature of Fred M...... More
London: Methuen & Co., 1904. Second edition, 8vo, xi, [1], 293, [1], 31 (ads), [1]; frontispiece, 15 plates, and folding map; publisher's red cloth, gilt title on spine; fine. Hosie (1853–1925 ), diplomatist and explorer, was a consul to China and a respected plant collector. He was also an undisputed..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company. 1929. First American edition, 8vo, pp. xiv, [2], 373, [1]; map endpapers, 40 illustrations on 32 plates; fine, bright copy in original black cloth stamped in orange, preserving the uncommon dust jacket which has some modest loss at the bottom of the front panel and..... More
New York: Macmillan Company, 1932. First edition, 8vo, pp. xvi, 311, [1]; 2 folding maps; newspaper shadow on rear endpapers, else a near fine copy in original red cloth, and in a very good dust jacket with minor chipping at the spine ends. Owen Lattimore lived and traveled in Manchuria..... More
New York: Macmillan Company, 1935. First revised edition, 8vo, pp. xviii, 333, [1]; 2 folding maps; near fine copy in original maroon cloth, and in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Includes 2 new chapters not in the first edition of 1932. Owen Lattimore lived and traveled in Manchuria for..... More
New York: John Day Company, [1934]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 311, [1]; 3 maps (2 folding on a single sheet); fine copy in a slightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket. Owen Lattimore (1900-1989) was a noted scholar of China and central Asia, most notably of Mongolia. He lived and traveled in..... More
London: Humphrey Milford, 1915. 8vo, pp. xxiv, 789, [1]; 4 color maps (3 folding), map endpapers; per maps, 4 additional color maps (3 folding) by B.V. Darbishire; original green clothg, gilt-stamped spine; ex-Minnesota Historfical Society, with a bookplate marked withdrawn, perforated stamp in title page, and a shelf label on..... More
Paisley: J. and R. Parlane. London: Houlston and Sons, 1880. 8vo, pp. xxxii, 751, [1], 4 ads; frontispiece, 2 maps, plan of Peking (i.e. Beijing), several illustrations and tables in the text; original brown pictorial cloth, recased and rebacked in tan calf lettered in gilt; perforated stamp in bottom margin..... More
Berlin: R. Friedländer & Sohn, 1935. First edition, 8vo, pp. 94, [2]; 17 illustrations from photographs on plates and in the text; original printed pale blue wrappers; two small spots on the front cover else very good, sound, and clean. Issued as no. 83 in the Journal für Ornithologie series..... More
