[CHINA] DAVIES, HENRY RODOLPH. Yün-Nan. The Link between India and the Yangtze. Cambridge: University Press, 1909. First edition. Original green cloth, in the Brooke-Hitching slipcase. 9 1/4 x 6 inches (23.5 x 15 cm); xii, 432, folding map, 3 folding tables (in the rear cover pocket), 104 photo illustrations on 74 plates. A few minute spots of foxing, else an excellent example, the Brooke-Hitching copy. Davies conducted a mission at the behest of British intelligence to survey potential routes for rail connection between British-occupied Burma with the upper Yangtze river and through to Sichuan. Yakushi (1994) D108. C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
[CHINA] DAVIES, HENRY RODOLPH. Yün-Nan. The Link between India and the Yangtze. Cambridge: University Press, 1909. First edition. Original green cloth, in the Brooke-Hitching slipcase. 9 1/4 x 6 inches (23.5 x 15 cm); xii, 432, folding map, 3 folding tables (in the rear cover pocket), 104 photo illustrations on 74 plates. A few minute spots of foxing, else an excellent example, the Brooke-Hitching copy. Davies conducted a mission at the behest of British intelligence to survey potential routes for rail connection between British-occupied Burma with the upper Yangtze river and through to Sichuan. Yakushi (1994) D108. C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
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