Among the Mongols.
by GILMOUR, JAMES
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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About This Item
London.: Religious Tract Society.. [Reprint].. [1888]. Folding black and white map, black & white frontispiece and 32 black and white illustrations (some full-page) throughout the text. xviii + 383pp. Upper hinge split, lower starting, Navy blue cloth covered boards lettered gilt on spine, corners, head and tail of spine worn with minor loss, edges and corners rubbed, upper cover marked. A sound and generally clean copy. "This book aims at representing to the western reader whatever is most noteworthy and interesting in the home life, manners and customs, occupations and surroundings, modes of thought, superstitions and religious beliefs and practices of the Mongol tribes who inhabit the eastern portion of the plateau of Central Asia lying between Siberia on the north and China on the south." From the preface. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Asia Bookroom (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 169815
- Title
- Among the Mongols.
- Author
- GILMOUR, JAMES
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- [Reprint].
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Religious Tract Society.
- Place of Publication
- London.
- Date Published
- [1888]
- Keywords
- Mongolia, Mongols, North China, zz_Gallery_Antiquarian, zz_Gallery_Out_of_Print_and_Secondhand_Books
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Asia Bookroom is a large open shop specialising in books on Asia. We also have smaller sections on the Middle East and the Pacific. Our stock ranges from antiquarian books through to new books. We also carry ephemera relating to Asia including an interesting range of 19th and 20th Century ephemera published in East Asia in English, Chinese and Japanese.
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Asia Bookroom issues regular specialised book lists on Asia and invite you to let us know your interests so that we can let you know of new arrivals as they come in to stock. And if you are in Australia's capital city Canberra we hope you will visit our shop!
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