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  "A work of immeasurable value to China and to the world, as an authentic record of picturesque Peking": Rare First edition of Herbert C. White's Peking The Beautiful; in exceptional condition

  WHITE, Herbert C. [Art Director]. Introduction by Hu Shih.

  Peking The Beautiful.

  Shanghai, China: The Commercial Press, Limited, 1927.

  First edition of White's fine photographic study of the monuments of Shanghai. Folio, original royal blue embroidered silk pictorial boards, illustrated with seventy mounted color and monochrome photographic plates of the celebrated monuments of China's Northern Capital and its environs complete with descriptive and historical notes by Herbert C. White, Art Director of Signed of the Times Publishing House, Shanghai. Introduction by Hu Shih, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy at the National University of Peking. In fine condition. Housed in the original publisher's box. Very rare in such fine condition.

  Price: $9,800.00     Item Number: 149511

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