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1965 · réf. 220091 — Hong Kong.: 龍們書店. Reprint. 1965. 1061pp text in traditional Chinese characters 26 x 19cm paper wrapper. A little browning endpapers edges and card covers upper cover damaged at lower corner with loss spine browned. The text block is clean and sound good copy. This large tome compiled by Sun Chengze in the early Qing Dynasty was first published around the late 17th century. It documents the institutions palaces temples geography and customs in Beijing during the Ming Dynasty. It includes rare records of ceremonies city layouts and bureaucratic systems blending historical facts with anecdotes and personal observations - a hybrid of scholarship and memoir. . 龍們書店. unknown