TEICHMAN, Eric, Sir.
Travels of a consular Officer in North-West China . . . With original Maps of Shensi and Kansu and illustrated by Photographs taken by the Author. Cambridge, University Press, 1921.
8vo, pp. xiii, [1], 219, [1], with 59 plates and 4 maps (2 folding); sporadic light foxing, but overall a very good copy, in the original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt; spine and top of front board a little sunned, front lower corner slightly bumped; pencil ownership inscription of P. A. Ledward dated 1941 to front pastedown.
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Travels of a consular Officer in North-West China . . . With original Maps of Shensi and Kansu and illustrated by Photographs taken by the Author.
First edition. ‘The following chapters give some account of a series of journeys through the North-Western Provinces of China, undertaken in connection with the Anglo-Chinese Opium Treaty and other matters requiring investigation on the spot in conjunction with Chinese officials … Shensi and Kansu are not very well known to foreigners generally owing to their isolation and to the absence of any towns open to foreign trade therein; but they contain many regions well worth visiting, and Kansu especially, with its profusion of game, European climate, and interesting mixed population of Chinese, Mahomedans, Tibetans, and Mongols, is in many respects one of the most attractive of the eighteen provinces’ (preface).
Sir Eric Teichman (1884–1944), diplomat and traveller, ‘one of British diplomacy’s dashing characters, [a] flamboyantly enigmatic explorer-cum-special agent’ (Winchester, The Man who loved China, 2008, p. 73), was awarded the Murchison grant by the Royal Geographical Society in 1925. His publications were considered of great value to contemporary students of East Asia.
Cordier, Sinica, col. 3340; Yakushi T24.