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A Hong Kong Sketch Book
Hong Kong, Ye Olde Printerie Limited, 1931. 1 large volume in-4, 21 pp., rebound in modern leather, endpapers with double maps (Aerial View of Hong Kong and the New Territories), illustrated with a coloured Frontispice (Dragon Boat Festival in Aberdeen) and 13 full page drawings and 29 small drawings in the text, a very good copy.
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A rare copy of this charming Sketch Book on Hong Kong. "This book is not a Guide to Hong Kong in the accepted sense of the term. It gives no more than a few glimpses of Hong Kong, Kowloon and the New Territories but I have endeavored to make the glimpses as illuminating and representative as possible." (Extract from the Preface by Sweet). Contents cover: Hong Kong from the Clouds - Roads and Rickshaws - Bathing and Beaches - Over the Hills - In the Old City - A Heath Robinson Hut - Junks and Sampans - Typhoons and Umbrellas - In the New City.
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Librairie Ancienne Indosiam
M. Yves Azemar
89 Hollywood Road Apt A 1/F - Central / Adresse Postale : P.O. BOX 35565 King's Road Post Office North Point
00000 Hong Kong
China
852 95539385
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A Hong Kong Sketch Book
Hong Kong, Ye Olde Printerie Limited, 1931. 1 large volume in-4, 21 pp., rebound in modern leather, endpapers with double maps (Aerial View of Hong Kong and the New Territories), illustrated with a coloured Frontispice (Dragon Boat Festival in Aberdeen) and 13 full page drawings and 29 small drawings in the text, a very good copy.
A rare copy of this charming Sketch Book on Hong Kong. "This book is not a Guide to Hong Kong in the accepted sense of the term. It gives no more than a few glimpses of Hong Kong, Kowloon and the New Territories but I have endeavored to make the glimpses as illuminating and representative as possible." (Extract from the Preface by Sweet). Contents cover: Hong Kong from the Clouds - Roads and Rickshaws - Bathing and Beaches - Over the Hills - In the Old City - A Heath Robinson Hut - Junks and Sampans - Typhoons and Umbrellas - In the New City.
