Early 20th Century Illustrated Folio, Herbert C. White's Peking the Beautiful - 1 Book

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White, Herbert C. Peking the Beautiful. Comprising seventy Photographic Studies of the Celebrated Monuments of China's Northern Capital and its … Read more White, Herbert C. Peking the Beautiful. Comprising seventy Photographic Studies of the Celebrated Monuments of China's Northern Capital and its Environs Complete with Descriptive and Historical Notes.

Shanghai: The Commercial Press, Limited, 1927. First edition. Fo; [2] 155 pp. Publisher's embroidered silk, padded hardcover, slightly rubbed at spine crown/heel, illustrated with 71 tipped-in monochrome and colour photographic plates. Original two-part pictorial box, sympathetic lower box corner restoration, light handling wear, new glycine paper. See less