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First Edition. 8vo illus mustard cloth gilt spine lettering, prev owner name, slight scuffing to cover, slight spine fading. ow VG/ndj: 312pp, 99 bw photos that he took himself. Geil, an American evangelist, explorer, lecturer and photographer travelled in 1902 frpm Shanghai up the Yangtze River thru the Gorges to Burma, investigating the state of missionaries soon after the Boxer rebellion of 1900. He said to have been the first American to have travelled the whole length of the Great Wall. He authored several travel books illus by his numerous photos such as A Yankee in Pigmyland 1905, The Great Wall of China 1909, etc.

8vo illuswraps, titles to cover and spine heavily insect damaged, ow VG: x+598pp, index, order forms and Hoelscher-Buxkemper family flyerx2 tucked in; orig publ at $11 per copy

1stedn; 8vo Green cloth with white lettering. Binding remains firm. Pages are moderately tanned. unclipt dj ow VG/vgdj: xix,218pp map and illustrations; Authors travels in Yunnan province, South West China in the late 1930's A classic account of Goullart's (1902-1978) years in Yunnan Province, China, on the Tibetan border originally published in 1955.

8vo ochre cloth with gilt lettering, VG/ndj: 267pp, recounts the hapless and tragic bank robbery in Cisco, Texas in 1927 which took the lives of seven people. scarce 1stedn

1stedn; 8vo quarter leather over marbled paper. 4 raised bands; Cover moderately rubbed and toned. Spine sunned, Interior pages are clean throughout. Binding solid; Ex-Fathers Los Gatos Library with the usual treatments. Text in French ow VG/ndj: 177pp

1stedn; First Thus. 4to printed green tinted wraps (spine heavily chipped and deterioated, cover detached with chipping to edges, tears to rear cover with some loss, browning and wear to edges) 2ème plat abîmé, Dos abîmé, Quelques rousseurs. Ow some pages uncut, VG: 384pp, Quelques planches en noir et blanc, dont certaines dépliantes. illustrated with nine fold out plates and maps, "SOMMAIRE: 1. Rapport au ministre; 2. le mandara (extrait du catalogue); 3. Le myther de Venus, par M. Hignard; 4. de l'usage des batons de main, par M. chabas; 5. un ostracon egyptien, par M. e. naville; 6. Races connues des egypiens, par m. e. Lefebure; 7. Tableu du kali-youg, par M. Garcin de Tassy; 8. Le pessimisme brahmanique, Par M. paul Regnaud; 9. Le dix-septieme chapitre du natya-castra, mar m. Regnaud; 10. Vistes des Premiers bouddhas dans l'ile de Lanka, par le Rev. M. Alwis; 11. voyage au Yun-nan, par M. J. Dupuis, 139-201 pp. Large fold. map; 12. exegee chinoise, Par M. e. Philastre; 13. Le Feong-Shoui,… Read More