Cantonese Made Easy A Book Of Simple Sentences In The Cantonese Dialect With Free And Literal

by J Dyer Ball

$250 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

Hongkong, Shanghai, Singapore, and Yokohama: Kelly & Walsh, Ld. 1908. 8vo, pp. 12 , 294; lexicon in double column; later red cloth, gilt stamped spine; near fine throughout. Page 2 contains a list of 20 other works by Ball on Chinese languages and dialects. He was born in Canton in 1847 and was considered the most capable and knowledgeable European speaker of Cantonese of his time. Mr Ball is one of the most accomplished linguists in Hongkong ... and no

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