English and Chinese reader, with a dictionary

by Ira Miller Condit

$250 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

New York: American Tract Society, 1882 . Small 8vo, 2 parts in 1; pp. 4 , 144; 4 , 134; original maroon cloth stamped in black in Chinese on upper cover; very good, clean and sound. The Reader contains a number of vignette wood engravings throughout. This small dictionary, compiled by Reverend I. M. Condit, a 'missionary to the Chinese', was undoubtedly meant to be used for teaching English to Chinese residents in the United States, especially in New York

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