Verlag: London / Leipsic, T. Fisher Unwin, 1912
Gelber Originalgantleinen Einband mit Deckelillustration, 247 Seiten, mit 58 fotografischen Illustrationen, 6 farbigen, und 1 Karte im Anhang, Gutes Exemplar an den Rändern unbeschnitten. illustrated with 58 b/w plates + 6 in colours + 2 maps (1 folding), small legacy stamp , original publisher´s brown pictorial clothbound. Fine copy. Robert Sterling Clark (1877 - 1956) was an American art collector, horse breeder, philanthropist. Sterling Clark served in the military on the Philippines and during the Boxer rebellion. At least one source claims he served under General Smedley Butler. He financed a expedition (1909) which sought specimens from the Yellow River into Shaanxi and then to Kansu provinces of China. He recruited the explorer Arthur de Carle Sowerby as naturalist for the trip.