Lot 685 , A large Map of China compiled by John A. Diakoff, c.1931, paper laid on linen, 147 x 198cm, damage and repair

A large Map of China compiled by John A. Diakoff, c.1931, paper laid on linen, 147 x 198cm, damage and repair Scientific Colaborator of the Former Russian Orientalist's Society, Drawn by G. Primakoff, Engraved by Mr. S. Sergeeff, pub. Northern Trading Company, 1931,
Estimate £80-120


Provenance - Alfred Theodore Arber-Cooke (c.1905-1993); thence by family descent. Arber-Cooke was an antiquarian and avid collector of Asian works of art, coins and antiquities principally collecting from the 1930s to the 1970s. He amassed a good reference library on Chinese & Asian coins and wrote on several occasions (1969-70) to to the academic F.A. Turk regarding the study of coin amulets and other non-currency coinages of China.


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Sold for £1,000