Name/Title
"THE OLDEST AND THE NEWEST EMPIRE: CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES"Entry/Object ID
2004.209.1.1Description
"THE OLDEST AND THE NEWEST EMPIRE: CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES"
Color: Brown; Gold
"The Oldest and the Newest Empire: China and the United States" by William Speer (Hartford: S. S. Scranton and Company,) 1870. The hardcover book has leather boards with black fields on the spine containing the title and author's last name. There are twenty-three chapters in the 672-page work covering the history of China and its people through the first thirteen chapters, American relations and the introduction of Chinese immigrants to the United States in subsequent chapters, and attempts to understand the future of China, the Chinese, and the United States at the concluding section. There are many illustrations in the book, which is in fair condition with rubbing on the cover edges and spine, acid burns on the edges of the first few pages, dented corners, soiling, page and cover discoloration, spine flaking, foxing on pages, losses at the top of the back cover and its bottom edge, scratches on the covers, a musty smell, stains on the bottom of the back cover, and tears at the bottom of the spine.Lexicon
Search Terms
Three-dimensional, Books, S. S. Scranton and Company, Chinese-Americans, China--History, United States--History--1849-1877
