JUNKS AND SAMPANS OF THE UPPER YANGTZE.
Published by Order of the Inspector General of Customs. Pp. xii+98(last blank), frontispiece with tissue guard, plus 52 plates (2 coloured, 4 folding), full page plan, text diagrams; demy 4to; qr. dark green morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, green moire silk over bevelled boards, upper board lettered and ruled in gilt, edges of boards lightly bruised, a couple of slight scratches to upper board, spine faded and rubbed, with a few small grazes; later (not recent) green endpapers, bottom fore-corner of a few leaves slightly creased, a little light foxing; Inspectorate General of Customs, Shanghai, 1946. First edition. China. The Maritime Customs. III. Miscellaneous Series: No. 51. *Loosely inserted is the publisher's prospectus for this work, and the 'With Compliments' card of Sir Frederick Maze, Inspector General of Chinese Maritime Customs, who wrote the Prefatory Note to this volume. After a stint in the Royal Navy, G. R. G. Worcester (1890-1969) worked as a River Inspector in China for 30 years, becoming an acknowledged expert on the river craft of the region. Item #167767
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