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Jehol: City of Emperors by Sven Hedin; E. G. Nash (trans.) - 1932

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Jehol: City of Emperors by Sven Hedin; E. G. Nash (trans.) - 1932

Jehol: City of Emperors

by Sven Hedin; E. G. Nash (trans.)

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London: Kegan Paul, 1932. First Edition in English. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 1932, First Edition in English. Hardcover, brown cloth. 278 pp., 63 b&w illustrations. Very Good in a Good dust jacket. Minor foxing to the endpapers; otherwise a sound, square, clean copy with minimal shelfwear to the cloth. The DJ is faded and stained along the spine; tearing to the top edge of the front panel; other light fading and soil. DJ now in mylar. Handsome copy of this classic work.
  • Bookseller Shadyside Books US (US)
  • Format/Binding Hardcover
  • Book Condition Used - Very Good
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  • Edition First Edition in English
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher Kegan Paul
  • Place of Publication London
  • Date Published 1932

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Jehol, City of Emperors

by E.G. Nash Sven Hedin

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Pilgrims Book House Pilgrims Books , pp. xiv + 279, Map, Indices. Papeback. New.
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Jehol City of Emperors

by Hedin, Sven (E. G. Nash, Trans.)

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London: Kegan Paul French Trubner, 1932. Book. Near Very Good. Original Cloth. First Edition.. Book has slightly bumped corners, light cover soiling to edges thus near very good. Dj has small chips, creases light soiling. All plates are present..
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Jehol - City of Emperors

by HEDIN, Sven (translated by E G Nash)

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Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, London, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1st UK Edition: xiv [1] 278 pages, illusrated, b/w photos, line drawings. Original covers, no dust jacket. Shelf wear, some minor spotting, mainly to page edges, contents clean, discrete booksellers stamp verso rear cover. "Translated from the Swedish by E.G. Nash." Sven Hedin was a Swedish explorer who devoted a number of years to exploring Turkestan and the Gobi Desert. "Jehol, the City of emperors, is truly a dead city. The founders of the Manchu Dynasty, K'ang Hai and Ch'ien Lung, created it as a place for hunting, military exercises, and that religious devotion which they knew so well how to combine with a certain Machiavellianism in mundane affairs. Now, its glories have almost departed and it is doomed to complete ruin in the space of a few years." Chapters include: The road to Jehol; The Potala; The flight of the Torgot; The Hsien-Kung… Read More
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Jehol - City of Emperors

by HEDIN, Sven (translated by E G Nash)

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Dutton, New York, 1933. 1st Edition, 4th Impression. HARDCOVER. Thick 8vo in yellow cloth, red lettering to spine and front cover, 278pp, 62pp photo plates, line illustrations in text, index etc __CONDITION : A well preserved VERY GOOD+ very clean and tight unmarked copy (covers faintly foxed, slight sunning to spine). A nice copy. ... __We always ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS
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