A Guide to the City and Suburbs of Canton.
Hong Kong. Kelly & Walsh. 1889. Fourth Edition. Stock ID #171509 Dr Kerr's A Guide to the City and Suburbs of Canton was the most successful tourist guide for Canton/Guangzhou in the late nineteenth century, being reprinted from the 1870s into the first decade of the twentieth century. In this edition many of the streets of the Western Suburbs, the Old and New Cities, Eastern Suburbs and Honam are listed and brief details about what might be found on the street are given. Suggested itineraries and excursions are listed and a large folding map of the city by American missionary Reverend D. Vrooman is included with place names in Chinese and English. When referring to this item please quote stockid 171509.
Large folding map of Canton and suburbs 41.5 x 60.6cm, full page plan, 8 full page black and white plates. Original wrappers and map a trifle foxed. Neat stamp of Geo. R. Brush, M.D., US Navy on reverse of map. Small closed tear with old repair upper cover. 41pp. Advertisments for Kelly and Walsh products and services inside upper wrappers and lower wrappers. Lower wrapper advertises Kelly & Walsh's "large and important collection of photographs of Hongkong, Canton and Macao" with mention that they are special agents for Afong's Unmounted Views. A very good copy of an early edition of a scarce guide.
The author, John Glasgow Kerr (1824-1901), was a physician and medical missionary to China with the American Presbyterian Mission. He arrived in Canton in 1854 and took over the Ophthalmic Hospital at the Guangzhou Boji Hospital (The Canton Hospital), where he worked for 47 years. Dr Kerr pioneered mental health care in China, and in 1887 became the first president of the Medical Missionary Association of China. He translated thirty-four volumes of Materia Medica into Chinese as well as other medical books. He was respected and appreciated by the Cantonese for his humanitarian efforts, and a favourite tour guide for visitors into the 1870s. He died in 1901 and was buried in the Protestant cemetery outside Canton. (Wikipedia).
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