The Chinese; or, some short accounts of the country and people of China

by Uncle Adam

$125 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

London: The Religious Tract Society, ca. 1860 . 32mo, pp. 128; text illustrations throughout; publisher's blue cloth, gilt title on upper cover; boards toned and rubbed, upper free endpaper perished, owner's signature on recto of frontispiece; good and sound. A fictional dialog between a child and their Uncle Adam who explains many aspects of China from a missionary perspective. It includes a description of the Chinese collection at Hyde park, Chinese

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