Old Beijing in Panorama Tapa dura - 1992

Xin hua shu dian Beijing fa xing, 1992-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1.2000 in x 11.1000 in x 8.5000 in. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket.

Very Good. Clean text and illustrations. Large book. Boards beautiful, DJ shows tears and creases. Red ribbon bookmark stitched in. In English and Chinese. 1991. Tight binding. Ships from NYC.

Large-format volume, measuring approximately 9" x 11.5", is bound in maroon leatherette with stamped gilt lettering and characters to spine. Pictorial design is stamped on front cover. Book is in fine condition, with solid binding, pictorial endpapers, clean and bright pages, and red ribbon bookmark. Profusely illustrated with b&w photos. Dust jacket shows light bubbling on surface and wear at top of spine panel. Text is bilingual in Chinese and English. 314 pages."Included in this volume are well over six hundred photos, which reflect, from various angles, all aspects of Beijing in the hundred years from the later period of the Qing Dynasty to early 1940s, as well as the storm and stress it had witnessed in those years.Thanks to the hard work of the photographers and collectors, the reader is able to see from this album Beijing's places of scenic and historic interest, the local customs, the ruins of the Yuanmingyuan Park reduced to ashes by the Anglo-French forces in 1860, and the traces left by the… Leer más

People's China Publishing House, N.A. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 315p (mainly map) Size: 29cm