[Rarebooks] FS 1898 1st Edit_PIONEERING IN FORMOSA by W.A. Pickering / TAIWAN / CHINA /

[Levant Books]

Pioneering in Formosa. Recollections and Adventures Among Mandarins Wreckers & Head-Hunting Savages, by W[illiam] A[lexander] Pickering, CMG ... with an appendix on British policy and interest in China and the Far East and twenty-five illustrations from photographs and sketches by the author

London, Hurst & Blackett, 1898.
1st Edition. 200 pages.
Ex-Library:  Discarded from Skinner Library in Manchester Vermont in 1931.
Vintage black library cloth binding stamped with gilt title; label on bottom of the spine.
Library Bookplate on front pastedown; Residue from pocket removal on rear pastedown.Blind stamp on Title page.

Contents complete and clean without repairs or marking or stains.
A copy that obviously was not in much demand from library patrons.
Illustrated with black/white photographs
SCARCE.

$450.00 Postpaid in USA.
International postage with insurance additional.
Payment by PayPal.

Robert Azzi
Exeter NH