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The Chater collection : pictures relating to China, Hong Kong, Macao, 1655-1860, with historical and descriptive letterpress / by James Orange.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Folio N5245 .C45 1924
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chater, Catchick Paul, Sir, 1846-1926.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art--Private collections.
- Art.
- Art--China--Hong Kong.
- British.
- China--Pictorial works.
- China.
- Macau (China : Special Administrative Region)--Pictorial works.
- Macau (China : Special Administrative Region).
- Hong Kong (China)--Pictorial works.
- Hong Kong (China).
- British--China.
- China--Hong Kong.
- Genre:
- Pictorial works.
- Illustrated works.
- Physical Description:
- 528 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits, color maps (some folded) ; 32 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Thornton Butterworth, 1924.
- Notes:
- Errata slip inserted.
- "This book is limited to 750 copies"--Half-t.p. verso.
- "List of books": pages 499-511.
- Includes indexes.
- Local Notes:
- RBC copy is one of a limited ed. of 750 copies, the copy number not supplied. Cf. half-t.p. verso.
- RBC copy: dust jacket retained.
- RBC copy has 6 engraved illustrations laid in: "Canton in China," "Hoe-Chue-Fou-Toe, chinesischer Fort bei Canton," "Insel und Fort Kiumen (China)," "Der Kaiser-Pallast im Peking," and "Peking in China" (2 copies).
- OCLC:
- 2960236
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