Item #89780 Western China: A Journey to the Great Buddhist Centre of Mount Omei. Virgil C. Hart.
Western China: A Journey to the Great Buddhist Centre of Mount Omei
Western China: A Journey to the Great Buddhist Centre of Mount Omei

Western China: A Journey to the Great Buddhist Centre of Mount Omei

Boston: Tickner and Company, 1888. 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis, illustrations, folding map, index, xi, [13]-306p. Original dark cloth. 20cm. Laid is is an unpaginated [8]-page Ticknor and Company leaflet prmotin their publication. Backstrip slightly scuffed. Ends of backstrip slightly rubbed. Bookplate ("Publisher's First-edition Copy. Not to be Taken Away. George F. Godfrey") with handwritten date Oct. 10th 1888. Hart began the travels described in this book at Hankow in April 1887 with two fellow missionaries for the purpose of re-establishing the American Methodist Episcopal Mission at Chungking [Chongqing].As to the bookplate, George F. Godfrey was Thomas Tickner's partner in Ticknor & Company from 1885 to 1889 when the firm merged with Houghton Mifflin & Co. Very Good. Item #89780

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