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- Lot 455
Samuel Victor CONSTANT - Calls, sounds and merchandise of the Peking street peddler. Peking, The Camel Bell, [1936]. In-8 Italian style (19 x 27 cm), bound in Chinese style, in patterned silk cover, title label on first board, hardback folder (one side of the folder partially split, without slipcase). xiv, 185 [i.e. 187] pp. f. between pp. 86 & 87 not numbered. 78 illustrations. This academic work presented by S. V. Constant (1894-1989), an American officer, member of the military mission of the US embassy in Peking from 1923 to 1936, in view of obtaining a "Master of Arts" at the Californian College in Peking, describes the activity of itinerant merchants, small trades and hawkers operating in Peking, according to the four seasons: melon sellers, barbers, healers, match sellers, turnip & radish sellers... It is finely illustrated with 60 color lithographs, 16 small photographs, a paper cut-out model and a black plate "Pa Kua" showing 8 diagrams. Beautiful publication.
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