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Major November Auction (471)
10:00 AM PT - Nov 9th, 2008

 

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Clars Auction Gallery

 

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Oakland, CA 94609
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Lot 6077 save

Peking Juliet Bredon Bland Tzu

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(lot of 5) Books including ''Peking'' Juliet Bredon, Kelly and Walsh, Shanghai, 1931, inscribed and signed by the author, though cover is scuffed, book is in excellent condition, London (1922) Laurie, orange cloth, very good, 523p., large fold out map, 6 maps, index, 24 b.w. photos, fold out plans, wear to top, bottom edges of covers; ''China Under the Empress Dowager'', J.O.P. Bland and E. Backhouse, William Heinemann, London, 1910, Being the history of the life and times of Tzu Hsi, complied form state papers and the private diary of the comptroller of her household, 59 indexed maps of Peking, 29 illustrations, worn blue leather spine, yellowed pages, overall good condition; ''The Chinese Drama: From the Earliest Times Until Today'', Arlington, L.C., Kelly and Walsh, Limited, Shanghai, 1930, a signed first edition, limited to 750 copies of which this is a copy number 262, illustrations were reproduced through the medium of stone lithography, 115 plates in color, the cover and end sheets are peacock feather with gold leaf design, the cover is a bit faded, but good condition; ''Peking'', Von Perckhammer, Albertus-Verlag, Berlin, 1928, Author's foreword and index in German, 200 pages maps and photographs, gray cloth cover, very good condition; ''Indian Domestic Architecture,'' De Forest, Lockwood, Heliotype printing company, Boston, 1885, Illustrated with 25 plates, each plate separated with tissue paper, brown cover, green spine, fair condition

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