Cornaby w arthur 1860 1921 (3 risultati)

Condizione: New.

First Edition. [Travel] FIRST EDITION, uncommon. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.96. With frequent in-text illustrations. Publisher's green cloth, pictorial designs and titles blocked in black and blue to upper board and spine. Text lightly toned throughout, one or two faint marks here and there, otherwise clean. Heavier toning to endpapers, preliminaries, and rear blanks. Pictorial bookplate of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society to front pastedown. Top edge toned. Toning and light marking to boards and spine. Mild edgewear. Very good. Cornaby was a Protestant missionary operating in China; here he takes the reader on an historical, topographical, and cultural journey through the Hubei province. An exhibition of lantern slides showing illustrations accompanying sections of this book was displayed at the Wesleyan Mission House, London, shortly after its publication.…

Condizione: New. Print on Demand pp. 340.