The Chinese Classics. With a Translation, Critical and Exegetical Notes, Prolegomena, and Copious Indexes

by James Legge

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Folding maps. Five vols. in four. Large thick 8vo, cont. half-sheep & cloth-covered boards, spines lettered in gilt. Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1893-95- 1939 - 1939 -1872 & on verso of all titles, “Hong Kong: Printed at the London Missionary Society’s Printing Office, Reprinted in China, 1939” . A complete set and in fine condition; this work remains much used today by the scholarly community. Legge 1815-97 , Sinologist, wrote this work

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