Item #46487 Manchu and Muscovite, being Letters from Manchuria Written during the Autumn of 1903, with an Historical Sketch entitled "Prologue to the Crisis" giving a Complete Account of the Manchurian Frontiers from the Earliest Days and the Growth and Final Meeting of the Russian and Chinese Empires in the Amur Regions. R. L. Putnam WEALE.

Manchu and Muscovite, being Letters from Manchuria Written during the Autumn of 1903, with an Historical Sketch entitled "Prologue to the Crisis" giving a Complete Account of the Manchurian Frontiers from the Earliest Days and the Growth and Final Meeting of the Russian and Chinese Empires in the Amur Regions.

London: Macmillan, 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Large thick octavo. xx + 552pp. Original red cloth gilt-lettered on spine. B/w frontis. & plates. Fold-out map at rear (has a short edge tear & a few miscreases, but otherwise remains clean & bright). Spine slightly faded, spine ends chafed, short tear at top of spine, page-edges browned, bumps to corners of boards, pencilled previous owner's names on two early pages, frontis. tissue-gaurd browned, occasional foxing to pages throughout, otherwise a solid near-VG copy (no dust jacket). Item #46487

Price: $65.00

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