FREEMAN-MITFORD, A. B. [Algernon, Lord Redesdale]

The Attaché at Peking

London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd., 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. lviii, 386, [18] of publisher advertising. Illustrated with a fold-out map of Peking. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles and bat illustrations, TEG. Moderate spine lean, spine head chipped, hinges parting, foxed endpapers, gift inscription on a blank preliminary dated Christmas 1908. Good+. Item #9769

Experiences and views of the British diplomat presented as letters written from Peking in the 1860s. Although the condition of the spine is a bit rough, the front and rear covers' flying bat motif in gilt remains bright. Now housed in a removable, clear archival sleeve.

Price: $200.00