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With Boat and Gun in the Yangtze Valley. Shanghai: printed at the 'Shanghai Mercury' Office, 1895. 4° (255 x 210 mm). Photolithographic title, 3 folding lithographic maps. (Two maps torn into image area, one repaired, title slightly spotted.) Original moiré cloth, blocked in gilt on upper cover (hinges weak, light overall soiling). Provenance: W.H. Anderson (Shanghai, inscription dated 1895). RARE FIRST EDITION. Only a single copy (in poor condition) is listed as having sold at auction in the past thirty years. Cordier Sinica 126.
Together with 5 other works; The First Report of the Singapore Christian-Union. Singapore: printed at the Mission Press, 1830. 8° in fours (205 x 135mm). (Old dampstaining.) original blue paper wrappers (backstrip worn). Provenance: Davison (signature on title). The Sixth Annual Report of the Anglo-chinese College ... with an appendix. Malacca: printed at the Mission Press, 1828. 8205 x 135mm). 1 folding plate. Later wrappers. ['Dyak Spelling Book. Prepared by the Revd. H. Barnsstein of the Rhenish Missionary Socy., aided by a converted Chinese'. No place but Benjarmspring, Borneo: no date but 1820-1830]. 12° (173 x 113mm). 20pp. Early paper wrappers. VERY RARE. (Cai LIN. [The Maps of Provinces and Countries], 1902. 4/f; [Qing Dynasty Text books]. Shanghai: 1904. 8 volumes, 4°; [Poems and their illustrations. N.p.:] Fu Xiangcheng, 1924. 8°; John STRONACH. The Blessedness of Those who Die in the Lord. Singapore: 1842. 12°). (15)
With Boat and Gun in the Yangtze Valley. Shanghai: printed at the 'Shanghai Mercury' Office, 1895. 4° (255 x 210 mm). Photolithographic title, 3 folding lithographic maps. (Two maps torn into image area, one repaired, title slightly spotted.) Original moiré cloth, blocked in gilt on upper cover (hinges weak, light overall soiling). Provenance: W.H. Anderson (Shanghai, inscription dated 1895). RARE FIRST EDITION. Only a single copy (in poor condition) is listed as having sold at auction in the past thirty years. Cordier Sinica 126.
Together with 5 other works; The First Report of the Singapore Christian-Union. Singapore: printed at the Mission Press, 1830. 8° in fours (205 x 135mm). (Old dampstaining.) original blue paper wrappers (backstrip worn). Provenance: Davison (signature on title). The Sixth Annual Report of the Anglo-chinese College ... with an appendix. Malacca: printed at the Mission Press, 1828. 8205 x 135mm). 1 folding plate. Later wrappers. ['Dyak Spelling Book. Prepared by the Revd. H. Barnsstein of the Rhenish Missionary Socy., aided by a converted Chinese'. No place but Benjarmspring, Borneo: no date but 1820-1830]. 12° (173 x 113mm). 20pp. Early paper wrappers. VERY RARE. (Cai LIN. [The Maps of Provinces and Countries], 1902. 4/f; [Qing Dynasty Text books]. Shanghai: 1904. 8 volumes, 4°; [Poems and their illustrations. N.p.:] Fu Xiangcheng, 1924. 8°; John STRONACH. The Blessedness of Those who Die in the Lord. Singapore: 1842. 12°). (15)
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