SCARBOROUGH, William.

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A Collection of Chinese Proverbs. First edition of this scholarly compilation by a Wesleyan Missionary based in Hankou. The hundreds of sayings are arranged thematically and indexed across over 700 entries, such as "Boasting", "Opium smoking", and "Wine, a dreadful poison".This copy is from the library of Lieutenant-Colonel Victor S. M. de Guinzbourg (1906-1976), a World War II and Cold War intelligence operative, with his distinctive "cloak and dagger" bookplate. De Guinzbourg compiled a sizeable collection of works relating to proverbs and published several collections of political aphorisms sourced from colleagues at the United Nations.

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