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[CHINA] PEIPING - PEKING. LOT OF 4 TRAVEL GUIDES, years '30, '40 & '50. - A Guide to Peiping and its environs. With maps and illustrations. Peiping, The Peking Bookshop 1946. 180 x 130 mm, paperback, yellow illustrated cover. [2], viii, 144, [2] pp. 4 folding maps or plans (1. Peiping city map, 2. The sites of Peiping, 3. Tours in the forbidden city, 4. Peiping and environs), 16 plates printed in blue and white, 2 f.n.ch. of advertisements interspersed in the text and 1 small flyer indicating the names of the photographers of the plates: S. Vargassoff (II, III, X); the other plates from the Hedda Hammer collection. Serge Vargassoff (Smolensk, Russia, 1906 - Sydney, Australia, 1965) Russian photographer active in Beijing from 1926 to 1940, he then settled in Hong Kong. - F. H. L. THOMSEN - The Peiping (Peking) shopping guide. Second edition. Tientsin, Peiyang Press, 1936. 160 x 120 mm, paperback (title annotated in ballpoint pen on spine, minor soiling on first cover). [8], 130, [3], [1 bl.] pp. 1 large folding colour map of Beijing. Well completed with the pink f. between pp. 10-11, the flyer with the name and address of the Yung Hua Jewelry Store (pp. 64-65)(transfer) and the advertisement between pp. 72-73. Among the business sections is the photographers' section, which includes S. Vargassoff's studio. - Guide to "Peking". Revised edition. Peking, Peiping Chronicle, 1935. 200 x 140 mm, later bound in aubergine basane, five-ribbed spine, title page, cover preserved. No. 1 from "China chronicle". [6], v, [3], 193, [3] pp. Illustrated with 2 folding maps "Tourist's map" & "The diplomatic quarter", 1 map included in the pagination "Map of municipality of Peiping", numerous illustrations and advertisements in the text or on full page included in the pagination. In his disclaimer, the editor answers the question "Why 'Guide to Peking' when this is Peiping ? One of the arguments made is that "Peiping is so new a name that many of the tourists still feel more familiar with the name Peking, and are more apt to buy a 'Guide to Peking' than a 'Guide to Peiping'." - [American Red Cross, publ. by] - Peiping. (Tientsin & Peking, The Peiyang Press), [1946]. 222 x 142 mm, paperback (missing spine). [7], 129 pp. Color frontispiece featuring an imaginary map of Peking, a plan of Peking and its surroundings and some illustrations in the text. According to L. R. Jones, brigadier general of the Marine Corps stationed in Beijing, who wrote the preface, this is the first guide to Beijing prepared for American military personnel based in China.
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