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‎A Cycle of Cathay or, China, South and North with Personal Reminiscences. ‎

‎Edinburgh/London, Oliphant Anderson & Ferrier, 1896, in-8vo, front. + 464 p. with many text ill. + 15 full page plates + 1 folding map (China), orig. cloth gilt, slightly dusty. - Generally a very good copy.‎

‎First english edition issued the same year as the american - W. A. P. Martin was President of the Chinese Tungwen College, Membre de l'Institut de droit international etc. "My position in a college closely connected with the Board of Foreign Affairs gave me exeptional opportunities for observing the course of diplomacy in the Chinas capital for nearly thirty years. Yet my object is not so much to write a history of events as to exhibit the Chinese as I have seen them, in their social and political life" (from the Preface). ‎