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The Back Blocks of China.
A fine copy of this scarce account of Southern China and Tibet.
Robert Logan Jack (1845-1921) was government geologist in Australia for most of his life and in 1900 ventured to China prospecting. He and his fellow expedition members were in the Upper Yangtze in Sichuan when the Boxer Rebellion broke out and they had to flee from Chengdu through Eastern Tibet to Bhamo on the Burmese border.
First edition; 8vo (23 x 15.5 cm); 16 photographic plates including frontispiece, 2 large folding maps, largely unopened; publisher's original cloth, red panel with Chinese calligraphy and gilt lettering to upper board, gilt lettering to spine, a fine copy; xxii, 269, [2], [8] pp.
Yakushi J03.
Robert Logan Jack (1845-1921) was government geologist in Australia for most of his life and in 1900 ventured to China prospecting. He and his fellow expedition members were in the Upper Yangtze in Sichuan when the Boxer Rebellion broke out and they had to flee from Chengdu through Eastern Tibet to Bhamo on the Burmese border.
First edition; 8vo (23 x 15.5 cm); 16 photographic plates including frontispiece, 2 large folding maps, largely unopened; publisher's original cloth, red panel with Chinese calligraphy and gilt lettering to upper board, gilt lettering to spine, a fine copy; xxii, 269, [2], [8] pp.
Yakushi J03.
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A fine copy of this scarce account of Southern China and Tibet.
Robert Logan Jack (1845-1921) was government geologist in Australia for most of his life and in 1900 ventured to China prospecting. He and his fellow expedition members were in the Upper Yangtze in Sichuan when the Boxer Rebellion broke out and they had to flee from Chengdu through Eastern Tibet to Bhamo on the Burmese border.
First edition; 8vo (23 x 15.5 cm); 16 photographic plates including frontispiece, 2 large folding maps, largely unopened; publisher's original cloth, red panel with Chinese calligraphy and gilt lettering to upper board, gilt lettering to spine, a fine copy; xxii, 269, [2], [8] pp.
Yakushi J03.
Robert Logan Jack (1845-1921) was government geologist in Australia for most of his life and in 1900 ventured to China prospecting. He and his fellow expedition members were in the Upper Yangtze in Sichuan when the Boxer Rebellion broke out and they had to flee from Chengdu through Eastern Tibet to Bhamo on the Burmese border.
First edition; 8vo (23 x 15.5 cm); 16 photographic plates including frontispiece, 2 large folding maps, largely unopened; publisher's original cloth, red panel with Chinese calligraphy and gilt lettering to upper board, gilt lettering to spine, a fine copy; xxii, 269, [2], [8] pp.
Yakushi J03.
