A corner of Cathay: studies from life among the Chinese ... illustrated

by artists in the celebrated school of Go Leng, at Swatow, China by Adele M. Fielde

$100 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

New York and London: MacMillan and Co., 1894. First edition, 8vo, pp. xi, 1 286; frontispiece and 11 plates; original pictorial red cloth stamped in gilt, t.e.g.; spine slightly sunned and with a small indent; all else verry good, bright, sound, and clean. Fielde was a multi-talented scientist and missionary. She travelled to China following her fiancé, but upon arrival learned that he had passed away. She subsequently spent 15 years in China, doing

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