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- Lot 236
CHINA] Fritz JOBST - Geschichte des Tempels Tjä Tai Tze. Mit Photographien und einem Faksimileschnitt. Mit Karten gezeichnet von Braun. Tientsin, Verlag der Brigade-Zeitung, 1905. In-4, publisher's orange-red silk, inscription in Chinese characters on the front cover (spine faded, hinge and seams very fragile). [8], 14, [2], [2 bl.] pp. ORIGINAL EDITION of this monograph by a lieutenant and officer-interpreter of the 2nd regiment of the "Ostasiatische Infanterie-Regiment". Illustrated with 14 original photographs. Without the facsimile sheet of a Chinese poem, but with the 2 maps (the temple and the surroundings) on loose sheets preserved in a bellows, which are often missing. Unique edition of 530 numbered copies (n° 30). According to Susan Naquin, "The first appearance of Tanzhe on a foreign map seems to be in Jobst, Geschichte (1905)."
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