A Chinese biographical dictionary

by Herbert A. Giles

$325 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

London: Bernard Quaritch; Shanghai & Yokohama: Kelly & Walsh, Limited, 1898 i.e. 1939 . Large 8vo, pp. xii, 1022; publisher's buckram stamped in red on spine; spine faded, edges a little toned, but in all a good, sound copy. The first comprehensive national biography of China in English, with rather extensive accounts of better than 2500 persons from all walks of life. With an index in Chinese at the back of literary names, sobriquets, canonizations,

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