Guide To Or Descriptive Catalogue Of The Chinese Museum In The Marlboro Chapel Boston With

by John R Peters

$650 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

Boston: Eastburn's Press, 1845. 8vo, pp. 152; original pictorial green front wrapper, back wrapper wanting, and front wrapper present, but detached; moderate foxing; all else very good. Five characters in Chinese are printed upside down on wrapper and title page, suggesting this is an early if not first state as all previous copies we have seen are correct. A case-by-case description of the contents of the museum's exhibit. Most of the descriptions are

• Printing: first

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