The Chinese classics

by Confucius, Mencius, James Legge

$175 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

Worcester, MA: Z. Baker, et al. , 1866 . First American edition, 8vo, 2 vols in 1; pp. 163, 1 ; 219, 1 ; original half black roan over marbled boards, red stained edges, edges rubbed, spine chipped, text clean and sound. Not the first appearance of Confucius in America, with fragments of translations appearing as early as 1855, but the first of Legge's translations to be published here. Item #55717

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