Navy cloth binding with gilt title on the spine and the front board.

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The second edition of two of Archibald Colquhoun’s popular and vivid travel works about China, lavishly illustrated including with folding maps. Two second edition travel works.’China in Transformation’, published in 1898. An in-depth study on China, looking at the country’s geography, foreign relations, economics, commercial development, government, people, and more. Illustrated with a frontispiece, four colour folding maps, and in-text maps. Collated, complete.’The “Overland” to China’, published in 1900. An interesting travel work that works along the Trans-Siberian Railway only a few years after it opened, a vivid look at the countries it passes through. Illustrated with a frontispiece, four colour folding maps, twenty- two plates, and in-text illustrations. Collated, complete.Written by Archibald Colquhoun. In the original publisher’s cloth binding. Externally, smart. Some light marks to the boards and spines. Prior owner’s ink inscription to the recto of the front endpaper of ‘The “Overland” to China’. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with only the very odd spot, including to the fore edges. Very Good Indeed.