Sidelights on Chinese life
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Limited, 1907. First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, 367, [1]; 12 color plates (including frontispiece) by Montagu Smyth, 28 black & white plates showing 31 photographic illustratioons; original pictorial black cloth stamped in gilt on upperf cover and spine, t.e.g.; light wear but generally a very good, sound, and clean copy. John Macgowan (1835-1922) was a Belfast-born missionary to China with the London Missionary Society, and the author of at least a dozen boooks on China, the Chinese language, folk lore, etc. Item #73071
Price: $350.00
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