Buy this book on-line Crocker, Antoinette Cheney : FRANK WOODBRIDGE CHENEY TWO YEARS IN CHINA AND JAPAN 1859-1861Privately Printed, 1970
A highly collectible tight clean copy, no inscriptions or markings ,number 283 of a privately printed limited (and 1st) edition. By his Granddaughter, Antoinette Cheney Crocker. 214, [4] p., illus.; 26 cm.; Frank Woodbridge C heney (1832-1909) was twenty-eight years old in 1859 when Cheney Bros. sent him to buy raw silk in the Orient. His father, Charles, and [seven] uncles ... had started the silk business in Manchester, Connecticut in 1834...' Ch eney arrived in Japan only five years after Commodore Mathew Perry had ente red the country. During Cheney's stay in China, the Taiping Rebellion raged around him. This collection of long, lucid letters with narrative connecti ve links describes Cheney's travels through the silk-manufacturing countrie s of Europe and onward through East Asia., Fine/No DJ as Issued Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Crocker, Antoinette Cheney : FRANK WOODBRIDGE CHENEY TWO YEARS IN CHINA AND JAPAN 1859-1861. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including libri antichi, collectables, fine bindings, rare books and livres illustrées. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |