Beschreibung:

Jack (R. Logan). The Back Blocks of China. A Narrative of Experiences among the Chinese, Sifans, Lolos, Tibetans, Shans and Kachins, between Shanghai and the Irrawadi, 1st edition, London: Edward Arnold, 1904, 16 halftone photographic plates, 2 folding maps, 16 pp. advertisements, largely unopened, original black cloth, publisher's 'file copy' label mounted to front board obscuring part of author's name and decoration, 8vo, Wallace (Harold Frank). The Big Game of Central and Western China. Being an Account of a Journey from Shanghai to London overland across the Gobi Desert, 1st edition, London: John Murray 1913, half-title, 33 halftone plates including frontispiece, 2 maps, contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, original orange cloth, spine slightly sunned, a few marks, 8vo, Bigham (Clive, 2nd Viscount Mersey). A Year in China, 1899-1900, 1st edition, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1901, 37 halftone photographic plates, 4 folding maps, original red cloth, 8vo, Kemp (Emily Georgiana). Wanderings in Chinese Turkestan, 1st edition in book form, London: Wightman & Co., Ltd., 1914, 8 plates (one reinserted and with concomitant nicks to edges), original green cloth, 4to, Norman (Francis Martin . "Martello Tower" in China and the Pacific, in H.M.S. "Tribune" 1856-60, 1st edition, London: George Allen 1902, half-title, 22 plates, 4 pp. advertisements, occasional light spotting to text, top edge gilt, original green cloth gilt, 8vo, and 6 others, mainly Chinese travel, original cloth (not collated), including Franck, Wandering in China, 1st UK edition, 1924, Austin, A Scamper through the Far East, 1st edition, 1909, and similar (Qty: 11) Cordier Sinica 2170 (Jack), 4043 (Wallace), 2166 (Bigham), 2373 (Norman); Czech Asia p. 221 (Wallace). Bigham's work is a presentation copy to colonial administrator Sir Henry Blake (1840-1918), inscribed 'His Excell[ency] Sir Henry Blake ... from the author' on the front free endpaper. Blake was governor of Hong Kong from 1898 to 1903.