The Land of the Boxers, or China under the Allies
London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1903.
Octavo, xvi, 308, 40 (advertisements, '10,000/1/03') pages with a plan of Peking plus 12 pages of plates (from photographs).
Red cloth (lettered in gilt on the spine) a little sunned, marked and bumped at the extremities; edges uncut and substantially unopened; endpapers and adjacent leaves a little tanned; a few leaves carelessly opened with some minor loss to the leading margin; a very good copy.
A first-hand account of the Boxer Rebellion, and a travelogue of China under the occupation of the Eight-Nation Alliance. Provenance: the verso of the half-title has an early gift inscription ('Souvenir from Mr & Mrs Woodzell, to dear Joe, for his Barmitzvah'); the half-title is signed 'Joe W. Myers'.
Item #139345
Price (AUD):
$750.00