SWINHOE, Robert. Narrative of the North China Campaign of 1860; Containing Personal Experiences of Chinese Character, and of the Moral and Social Condition of the Country; Together with a Description of the Interior of Pekin. London, Smith Elder, 1861.
8vo. Original cloth, ornnamented and lettered in blind and gilt; pp. viii, 391, (i), 16 (publisher's catalogue, browned), tinted lithographed portrait frontispiece after a photograph by Felix Beato, 4 lithograph plates, double-page plan; binding with expert restorations; occasional toning or spotting, still a good copy of an uncommon book.
First edition.
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