Colombo publishing company (3 resultados)

Softcover. Condición: Très bon. Edition 2021. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Very good. Edition 2021. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.

FIRST EDITION. Large 4to. (30 x 23.5 cm). pp.606. Original publisher's full black morocco rebacked with original spine laid down, sides ruled in gilt and blind, gilt armorial device stamped to upper cover, spine with raised bands and gilt-decorated compartments, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Photographic frontispiece of Queen Wilhelmina and extensive monochrome illustrations throughout. Some loss to original spine, some rubbing to boards, contents clean, generally a very good copy. …

Maps, numerous black and white photographic illustrations, 848pp; full pebble-grained morocco, gilt decorated, spine gilt-lettered and ruled between raised compartments, edges fully gilt, 31 x 24cm, modern marbled endpapers and hinges neatly strengthened, worming to the boards and (mainly) affecting the preliminary leaves and the final fifty leaves, the boards with a little edgewear, a few gatherings a little proud, but otherwise a good, sound, clean and complete copy of a work uncommon on the market. A good copy of a now remarkably scarce work profusely illustrated with remarkable black and white photographic portraits and panoramas, and detailed chapters on everything from history, geography, culture and specific industries like shipping, manufacturing, agriculture, and trade. Whilst earlier works in the series focussed exclusively on British colonial interests (Western Australia, Natal, Ceylon and British Malaya), the editor notes that: "More than one half the imports and exports of China passes through the various Treaty Ports, and it would have been a negation of one of the avowed objects of these publications if no attempt had been to show the present-day tendency of this trade and how the proportion borne by the British Empire compares with that of its competitors". The series served as a handsome soft power testament to British colonial might and aspiration.…