The First Emperor of China: The Greatest Archaeological Find of Our Time
by Cotterell, Arthur; Yang, Chen Ching (Introduction by)
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0030598893
- ISBN 13
- 9780030598890
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New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1981. Cloth, 208 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 25 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Stated First American Edition. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover. CONTENTS: THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES. The tomb of Ch'in Shih-huang ti; The land within the passes; Hsienyang and the Wei river valley; THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT. Feudal decline; the Ch'un Ch'iu period, 770-481 B.C.; The triumph of Ch'in; the Chan Kuo period, 481-221 B.C.; An age of intellectual turmoil; THE CH'IN EMPIRE. Ch'in Shih-huang-ti, the First Emperor of China; Li Ssu; Grand Councillor and guiding genius of Ch'in; The fall of the Ch'in Dynasty.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. Collectible.
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- Title
- The First Emperor of China: The Greatest Archaeological Find of Our Time
- Author
- Cotterell, Arthur; Yang, Chen Ching (Introduction by)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0030598893
- ISBN 13
- 9780030598890
- Publisher
- Holt, Rinehart and Winston
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1981
- Size
- 4to
- Keywords
- Collectible
- Bookseller catalogs
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES; Asian / Chinese; Archaeology; Genre & Subject / Funerary;
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