Yun-Nan: The Link Between India and the Yangtze Major H. R. Davies Asia

Illustrated throughout with photographic plates, this is the first edition of Davies's geographical and ethnographical study of the Chinese province of Yunnan. A first edition, first impression.Henry Rodolph Davies examines the region's terrain, river systems, trade routes, and strategic significance as a corridor between India, Burma, and China, with detailed accounts of its peoples, languages, and local customs.Illustrated with a frontispiece, seventy-three plates, and with seven folding tables in a pocket to the rear pastedown. Collated, lacking the folding map that should appear in the pocket to the rear.With stamps of the Ministry of Defence Library Services to the title page, but no further library stamps.Rebacked, in the publisher's original cloth binding, with back strip laid down. Endpapers renewed.With the bookplate of Francis E. B. Witts to the front pastedown. He was a Church of England clergyman and amateur bell-ringer.Major-General Henry Rodolph Davies was a British Army officer who commanded the 11th (Northern) Division during the First World War. Rebacked, in the publisher's original cloth binding, with back strip laid down and retaining the original boards. Endpapers renewed. Laid down back strip age toned with losses to perimeters. Charts loosely inserted in a new pocket to the rear pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Library stamps to title page. Pages clean and bright, with only the odd pencil notation to margins. Lacking folding map in pocket to rear. Good