72 Pratt (A.E.). To The Snows of Tibet Through China, 1st ed., 1892, port. frontis., folding map at rear (small closed tear), b&w plts. mostly after photos, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed to extrems., large 8vo, together with D’Ewes (J.), China, Australia and the Pacific Islands in the Years 1855-56, 1st ed., 1857, tinted litho. frontis., eng. plt., stained and coming loose, orig. cloth gilt, spine faded, 8vo, plus DuBose (Rev. Hampden C.), The Dragon, Image, and Demon or the Three Religions of China, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism..., 1886, b&w illusts. to text throughout, orig. pict. cloth gilt, some rubbing to extrems., small 4to, and Backhouse (E. & Bland, J.O.P.), Annals & Memoirs of the Court of Peking (From the 16th to the 20th Century), 1st ed., 1914, num. b&w plts., orig. cloth gilt, some dampstaining, rubbed, 8vo, together with Hosie (Lady Dorothea), Two Gentlemen of China. An Intimate Description of the Private Life of Two Patrician Chinese Families, Their Homes, Loves..., 1924, num. b&w plts., several typed letters stapled to front endpaper, relating to the creation of a cheap edition of this volume, ‘file copy’ printed to side of vol., orig. cloth gilt in d.j., small sticker to lower spine, 8vo (5)
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73 Rennell (James). Memoir of a Map of Hindoostan; or the Mogul Empire: with an Introduction, Illustrative of the Geography and Present Division of that Country, 2nd ed., 1792, five engraved maps (incl. four folding), scattered spotting, page v/vi creased and torn, together with Firishtah (Muhammad Qasim Hindu Shah Astarabadi), Ferishta’s History of Dekkan, from the First Mahummedan Conquests...by Jonathan Scott, Captain in the East India Company’s Service..., 2 vols., Shrewsbury, 1794, untrimmed, scattered spotting and some text offsetting, plus one other defective book on India, all bound in 19th century qtr. black morocco, worn with some covers and endpapers detached, all 4to
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Ex public library copies with bookplate and library markings to spine. (4) £150-200
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