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Eight items of travel and other ephemera concerning China, 1900 to 1930s, comprising:
Rare folding colour map of China, decorative thick paper wrappers, published in 1900 by G. Freytag & Berndt, Vienna and Leipzig. The map includes the European concession territories, besieged during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, which broke out in the year of the map's publication.
"Peiping (Peking) and Nanking. China's Old Capital and New". Illustrated folding pamphlet with decorative colour cover and colour map, published by China Travel Service, c. 1930s (post-1928, when Peking was first called Peiping).
"Branson de Cou and his Dream Pictures (Imperial Peiping and Manchukuo). A Musical Travelogue with Masterpieces of Art and Photography", 4 pages leaflet, 1934, New York. In 1935 Branson de Cou gave eight lectures in American cities on Peiping and Manchukuo.
Frank L. Norris, Bishop in North China. A Tour in North China. [1920s]. Stapled pamphlet, 16 pages.
Warren, Market Day. [1930s]. Published by China Inland Mission. Stapled pamphlet, 8 pages
Church General Hospital, American Church Mission, including many real photographic cards, Wuchang, China. Report for 1937. 1938, published by R.T.S. Press, Hankow, China. 37 pages, with photographs and Chairman's Report in Chinese as well as English. Thick paper wrappers, lettered in black. Scarce.
photographs of Peiping, c. 1930s. Two colour photographs, advertisements in Chinese and English, showing fashionably dressed women, 1930s.

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