New York: The John Day Company, [1940]. First Edition. small quarto, dark blue boards with gold stamping, blue pictorial jacket, 203 pages illustrations, plates, color frontispiece, color plates ; index ; 28 cm Near fine, mild toning and foxing, light rubbing to spine good jacket sunning to spine, light foxing and tears to edges and folds Now in archival mylar. Hardcover.
Contents: About the author. Foreword. Nature in Chinese art. Birds. Animals. The chinese lion. Domestic animals. Reptiles, fishes, and invertebrates. Flora. Rocks, mountains, and water. Includes appendices, chronology, and index. Notes: "Animals in the Shang pictographs" and "Agriculture in the Shang pictographs," by Harry E. Gibson: p. 169-189. Press clippings and ephemera included
