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The Grandeur of the Gorges: Fifty Photographic Studies, with Descriptive Notes, of China’s Great Waterway, the Yangtze Kiange, including twelve hand-colored prints. Shanghai: A.S. Watson & Company / Kelly & Walsh Limited, 1926 First Edition. One Thousand Numbered Copies, This being number 36, “A Stanton Merrill”. Presumed to be Aaron Stanton Merrill’s copy as he commanded the gunboat Elcano (PG-38) on the Yangtze River in the middle 1920’s and later was an Admiral in the Pacific during World War Two. 12 3/4″ H x 10 1/2″ W x 1 1/2″ D. Provenance: The living estate of Dr. and Mrs. Benjamin H. Caldwell, Nashville, TN. CONDITION: Bound in decorative cloth over boards. Some fraying at the extremities. Interior in very good condition. All plates present and in very good condition. completely collated. Very slight foxing to two plates and a half inch tear to one leaf not affecting plate.
