Resultados de búsqueda: two volumes the junks and sampans de worcester g r

Shanghai: Statistical Department of the Inspectorate General of Customs [Sold by Kelly and Walsh], 1948. First editions. Hardcover with dust jackets. Very Good+/Fair and Very Good. 4to. Two vols., both in original bindings. Vol. I: Pp. xxviii; 245. Vol. II: Pp. 246 - 496. Vol. I with 83 plates, fold-out maps, 17 textual illustrations describing plans, rigging, anchors, hulls, rudders, etc. Prefatory note by Lester K. Little, Inspector General of Customs, in Vol. I. Both vols. with b&w photo frontispieces. Glossary. Vol I: Green silk moire with gilt lettering on cover and spine. Vol. II: Cloth matching shade of green in Vol. I, but not moire, as issued. Vol. I with a contemporary gift inscription (1949) on ffep, and light wear to fore-edge of front board. Offsetting to endpapers of both vols. Dust jackets with edge-wear; rear panel and flap of the first volume missing entirely. Both volumes are bright, which attests in part to the efficacy of the dust jackets. That the dust jackets exist in any… Leer más