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Kuan-Hua: Tsan-Mei Shi "Hymns in Romanized Official Mandarin Chinese".
1873187498Iang-Ceo "Yangzhou": Ie-Su Tang In-Tih 1873. First edition of this scarce Protestant missionary imprint of which we have traced only one other copy issued for the use of Westerners proselytizing in Yangzhou and across Jiangsu province. The text includes a corresponding English-language index of first lines. This copy was owned by Sarah Fanny Rossier later Clarke d.1883 a missionary with the China Inland Mission from the mid-1870s and has her signature on the title page. She was the organization's first Swiss member. In 1880 she relocated to Guizhou becoming the first Western woman to live in the province. Copies were issued bound in wrappers or in the case of the other known example our stock number 187497 in cloth. Duodecimo. Original blue wrappers xianzhuang stitching. Light sunning and marking to wrappers: very good. hardcover
Peter Harrington · Royaume-Uni500,00 £GB≈ 570,90 €
