The encylopaedia Sinica

by Samuel Couling

$100 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, Limited, 1917. 4to, pp. viii, 633, 1 ; text in double column; original full brown cloth; light edgewear, endpapers foxed, underlining in text, good. Samuel Couling was a British missionary to China and active member of the Asiatic Society. His Encyclopaedia was written largely by himself, with contributions from Paul Plliot, Arthur Stanley, Arnold Foster, and others. The preface admits the incompleteness of the work, but still

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