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A Catalogue of the Library of the North China Branch... (Including the Library of Alex. Wylie), Systematically Classed. First edition. The North China branch was founded in Shanghai in 1857 by a group of Westerners including the sinologist Alexander Wylie, whose impressive book collection became the basis of the branch's famous library and the inspiration for Henri Cordier's monumental Bibliotheca Sinica.The catalogue lists 991 entries in six sections and has a numerical index of titles and authors.

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