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Social Life of the Chinese.

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Item #51227
Social Life of the Chinese.
Doolittle, Rev. Justus.
Harper & Brothers, ( 1865), New York
b/w plates, ills. 2 vols. xvi-459; xii-490 pp.
Price: $250

First edition. “With Some Account of Their Religious, Governmental, Educational and Business Customs and Opinions.” A well-illustrated look at life in China immediately after the Opium Wars had opened it to the west. With an entire chapter devoted to the practice of opium smoking. A charming set of a lively work, “with over 150 illustrations” – both full-page plates and illustrations in text. See Cordier, p. 91. Taylor, “Books on China” 166. Bound in publisher’s cloth with gold lettering and spine decoration. Backstrips lightly sunned, else very good condition.