MICHIE, Alexander

The Englishman in China During the Victorian Era as Illustrated in the Career of Sir Rutherford Alcock.

London: Blackwood, 1900. 1st Edition. 8vo. Cloth. 2 vols. Frontispieces, complete with plates, illustrations & maps (one folding). Contemporary original cloth. Neat gilt stamps on front boards and stamps to title pages. Endpapers and frontispiece foxed. Mitchie was one of the more notable authors writing on China towards the end of the 19th Century. This work is based on the career of Sir Rutherford Alcock, sometime Consul and Minister in China and Japan in the mid 19th C. A remarkably clean, bright and unused copy. Very Good. Item #020823

Price: $3,500.00 NZD