London. James Nesbit & Co., 1870. 1st Edition. Engraved portrait frontispiece with tissue-guard, title-page with engraved vignette, viii + 596pp and 8 pages of publisher's adverts, appendix. Maroon coloured cloth boards, sunned on the spine with a small mark where a label has been removed, stamped in blind on front..... More
London. Church of England Zenana Missionary Society. No date. (circa1900). Nine printed sheets each printed with people or items and showing the cut lines. Original chromolithograph card box repaired with acid free archival tape along folds. Some occasional light foxing on sheets, card covers browned and worn in places, a...... More
Chicago. SMCL Presbyterian Board. (circa1880). 395pp, upper corner stained, some very light browning, tan cloth very lightly worn and marked. A good copy. Student Missionary Campaign Library. "Tbe object of the story is to give a fair view of woman's life among the lower and middle classes in Southern China."..... More
London. Religious Tract Society. 1897. Black & white frontispiece and four full-page photographic plates,158pp + 2 pages of publisher's adverts, first and last leaves foxed, prize book label on front paste-down dated Feb.1902. Tan coloured cloth lettered in gilt on the upper spine and upper board and a black stamped..... More
New York. Anson D.F. Randolph & Co., 1894. 1st Edition. Black and white photographic portrait frontispiece, and a further 9 plates, 1plate lacking. 301pp, appendix, yellow cloth covered boards, darkened spine and edges, soiling to covers, inner gutters cracked but holding firm, endpapers trifle browned but generally a clean and..... More
London. London Missionary Society. 1899. 1st Edition. Sixty-four black and white illustrations, vii + 216pp, original shiny black endpapers have a few marks, a small label has been removed and the black ink mark has leaked through to the rear of the front free endpaper. Spine very faintly sunned and..... More
London. Snow. 1857. Fifth thousand. Folding map of the maritime provinces of China, xv + 584pp, appendix, evenly browned throughout, St Cuthbert's Society Durham bookplate front pastedown, hinges split, final gathering loosening. Original blind stamped cloth worn with loss at corners and head and tail of spine, cloth at head..... More
London. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 1914. Two folding maps, one colour with a map of Great Britain inset in the lower right hand corner, black and white frontispiece and photographic plates, xiv + 469pp, index. Tan cloth covered boards, covers and spine soiled and little worn at extremities, light..... More
London. Church Missionary Society. 1903. 1st Edition. Numerous black and white illustrations and photographs throughout the text. Blue cloth stamped and lettered in black, spine sunned, head and tail starting to fray, corners bumped with slight discolouration to the edges. Gift inscription dated Christmas 1903, vi + 72pp. Internally a...... More
New York. Fleming H. Revell Company. 1912. 1st American edition. 12 hand-coloured photgraphic plates, black & white portrait frontispiece with tissue-guard and 33 toned photo-illustrations. Original green cloth covered boards, blind stamped title within a border on upper front board and lettered in gilt on the spine. faint scattered foxing..... More
London. Religious Tract Society. Paternoster Row. 1884. Folding map of the provinces of Shantung and Chih-li, black and white frontispiece and 17 illustrations throughout the text. 227pp, plus 12 pages of illustrated advertisements for the Religious Tract Society's list of new illustrated books. Pictorial tan cloth stamped in gilt. The..... More
