China – Organisation, Warfare, Dress and Weapons (Armies of the Nineteenth Century: Asia , Volume II)

First edition, first impression.  174pp, with numerous illustrations and maps in text.  Green cloth-covered boards with gilt decorations on the upper panel and gilt lettering on the spine.  4to..  Cloth a little brushed and gently pushed in at spine tips.  Internally neat, clean, bright and tight.  

A well illustrated study of Chinese armed forces during the turbulent 19th century – their tactics, weaponry, dress and history, including a series of embarrassing defeats in wars against Western powers, right up to the occupation of Peking in 1900 when a combined expeditionary force sent in to rescue foreign nationals from the xenophobic Boxer rebels.