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Abe, Stanley: AN ACCOUNT OF TWO VOYAGES - BACKHOFF AND WAGENER Acharya, Sanjay: Adams, Edward B: Alexander, William & Mason, George: Allen, H. M. ed: Andrews, F. H: ANNINGHE LIUYU DA SHI MU Yuhas, Louise ed: Asahi Shimbun ed: Asian Art Museum: THE ASIATIC JOURNAL AND MONTHLY MISCELLANY VOL II: THIRD SERIES |
ZZXBB1 Qin Feng ed: XIYANG BANHUA YU BEIJING CHENG. Western Prints and Beijing City. 西洋版畫與北京城. Chengdu, 2008. 237 pp. Colour and b/w illustrations throughout. 28x21 cm. Wrappers. GBP 70.00 Divided into two main sections. The first focuses on the events of the 1860 Anglo-French Expedition to Beijing which resulted in the looting and burning of the Yuanmingyuan. The second section covers the Boxer Rebellion and the Relief of the Legations by the Eight Nation Allied Army. The prints illustrated come from numerous sources, including the Illustrated London News and Le Petit Journal. Many of the illustrations are accompanied by legible texts. An interesting reference. Dual texts in Chinese and English. Out-of-print and scarce. Subjects: Illustrated Books Beijing Item 102 in List 214. URL for this record: hanshan.com/?q/ZZXBB1.HTM Record produced by Hanshan Tang Books, www.hanshan.com. |