THE WALLS AND GATES OF PEKING: RESEARCHES AND IMPRESSIONS BY OSVALD SIREN. Illustrated with 109 photogravures after photographs by the author and fifty architectural drawings made by Chinese artists. First edition, first printing. Year of publication 1924 printed on its copyright page. Limited and numbered to 800 copies, this is number 6. Original spine with original boards, and original title-piece. Some wear and foxing to extremities of outer covers, page edges uncut, top edge tinted red, light binding, crisp interior. Overall a very good copy. This work combines the beautiful photogravures after photographs taken by the author with illustrations of measured drawings of a number of the gates made by Chinese artists under Siren's supervision, and historical and descriptive text Estimate $4,000-6,000
PROVENANCE: Ex. coll. J. Van Antwerp MacMurray, minister to China in 1930s, and later Ambassador to Turkey; subsequently ambassador to Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia (concurrently).
