Gravure print

548p. + Frontis. Illustrated with numerous full page engravings. Title page ruled in red and printed in red and black. Paper beginning to brown at edges. Some soiling. A few leaves torn without loss. Inner hinges cracked. 8vo. Original full green cloth binding, decorated and lettered in gold and black. Binding very worn. Hardbound. The author, Isaac W. Wiley, was a pastor, medical and educational missionary, and influential bishop of the former Methodist Episcopal Church. Wiley College, founded in 1873 by the Freemen's Aid Society to educate newly freed slaves, was named for him. He served as a missionary for some years in China and returned to organize missionary activity in the Far East. This account of his travels makes interesting reading. He visited and describes many places, customs, sights, religions. In China: Shanghai; Peking; Kiukiang; Foochow; Hong Kong; Canton - in Japan: Yokohama; Nagasaki; Tokio (Tokyo); among other places. Scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! TRAVEL/3