INVENTORY #160775
The I. G. in Peking: Letters of Robert Hart, Chinese Maritime Customs, 1868-1907. Vols. I & II
FAIRBANK, John King; BRUNER, Katherine Frost; MATHESON, Elizabeth MacLeod
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$75.00 CAD
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The weekly and fortnightly letters sent by Sir Robert Hart, Inspector General of China's Imperial Maritime Customs, to his London commissioner, James Duncan Campbell. Captures Hart's private thoughts, administrative struggles, isolation as an Englishman in Qing Dynasty Beijing. Introduction by L. K. Little.
Publication Info
- Publisher: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
- Edition: n/a
- Date Published: 1975
- Place Published: Cambridge
- ISBN: 0674443209;0674443209
Details
- Condition: Near fine
- Signed: No
- Dust Jacket: Yes
- Jacket Condition: Very good
- Details:
2 vols.: xxvi, 825; vi, 829-1625 p. 26 cm. Green cloth in mylar-covered dustjackets. Jacket spines faded and have perhaps the slightest of wear to edges. Former owner signatures on title pages.