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[CHINA] Horatio B. HAWKINS - Geography of China. Shanghai, Commercial Press, 1911. In-4, 315 x 225 mm, later bound in eggplant basane, five-ribbed spine, title-piece, renewed endpapers (rings of wetness in the upper margin, small marginal restoration to a few leaves). ORIGINAL EDITION of this geography course for Chinese teachers and students, which took three years to prepare and write. It highlights the progress made in the railway system. It was also written as a reaction to imported textbooks that overemphasized foreign countries. At the end of the volume, an index of names and an index of places in English and Chinese. The illustration includes 1 map of the relief of China with a double-page color map of China on the reverse side, 27 plates out of text illustrated with maps and views, many vignettes in the text.
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