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King's Regulations International Regulations Rules Orders Notifications and Rules of Court. Issued under the China Orders in Council 1904 to 1919 During the Year 1919.
1920Best.-Nr. 185017Likely Shanghai: no stated publisher 1920. Held in only one institutional library First edition the majority of the 31 notices concerning pilotage harbours and port sanitation. Accompanying the text are two anchorage plans and the full bilingual text of the 1918 Ningbo harbour regulations which were formally propagated in 1919. The ports and harbours covered include Shanghai Wenzhou Chefoo Tianjin Hankou Fuzhou Amoy Swatow Santuao and Canton. While some notices merely repeal or tweak existing orders 14 provide substantial new directions for navigators and shipping often extending across multiple pages. This and one other copy were sometime deaccessioned from the Foreign Office Library. The library's retained copy held in the FCDO Historical Collection at King's College London is the only other example we have traced. Octavo. With folding plans of Ningbo and Zhenhai anchorages 4 folding text sheets with Ningbo harbour regulations in English and Chinese. Original buff boards brown cloth backstrip front cover lettered in black. Ex-Foreign Office Library with its date label and stamps on boards bookplate accession notation and withdrawal stamp. Volume hole-punched top left throughout contents unaffected save for numerical code at head of first page boards toned folding matter well preserved: very good. hardcover
Peter Harrington · Vereinigtes Königreich750,00 £≈ 895,76 €
