
Lot 38•
CHINA - BEIJING DORN (FRANK) A Map and History of Peiping. With Explanatory Booklet, FIRST EDITION, Tientsin-Peiping, Peiyang Press, 1936
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CHINA - BEIJING
DORN (FRANK) A Map and History of Peiping. With Explanatory Booklet, FIRST EDITION, large folding colour lithographed map of Peking (865 x 755mm.), with 22pp. of text, the map loose as issued in pocket inside lower cover publisher's printed cloth-backed paper wrappers, original printed slipcase (slightly worn) [Pegg, Cartographic Traditions in East Asian Maps, pp.54-55], small 4to (183 x 185mm.), Tientsin-Peiping, Peiyang Press, 1936
Footnotes
A FINE COPY, WITH BRIGHT COLOURS, OF THE FIRST EDITION OF A HIGHLY DECORATIVE MAP OF BEIJING, depicting the principal sites and occupations of the inhabitants of the city, within a pictographic border showing Chinese history, the whole enlivened with amusing vignettes of the everyday life and sights of the city.