Illustrations of China and Its People. Vol. 1 (London, 1873)





Text and photographs by John Thomson,
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      Illustrations of China and Its People, a Series of Two Hundred Photographs
      with Letterpress Description of the Places and People Represented,
by John Thomson.
      4 vols. (London: Sampson Low, Marston Low, and Searle,
      1873 [vols. 1 and 2] and 1874 [vols. 3 and 4])

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