CHINA. – Harold Ivan HARDING. Diary of a Journey From Srinagar to Kashgar Via Gilgit. Kashgar: Swedish Mission Press, 1922. Limited edition, signed by the author, this being number 28 of an unspecified limitation, 8vo (204 x 139mm.) Folding coloured map to rear. (Mild toning.) Original multi-coloured Ikat cloth (some wear to spine, rubbing to extremities). Note: rare. On a printed leaf preceding the title the author writes ‘I send you a copy of the Diary of my journey from Srinagar to this place. It is bound in a stuff of which clothes are made in Central Asia and it is the first book, if I may be forgiven for calling it a book, to be published in this part of the world in any European language’. Provenance: ‘Fitzmaurice’ (gift inscribed to by the author on leaf preceding the title).