China 1848, 2 vol.

CHINA 1848 (2). WILLIAMS, SAMUEL WELLS. The Middle Kingdom, a Survey of the Geography, Government, Education, Social Liofe, Arts, Religion, &c. of the Chinese Empire and its Inhabitants. With a New Map of the Empire, and Illustrations, Principally Engraved by J. W. Orr. By S. Wells Williams, Author of "Easay Lessons in Chinese", "English and Chinese Vocabulary", &c. In Two Volumes. I-II. New York and London, Wiley and Putnam, 1848.
8vo. 202 x 140 mm. XXII, 590, (2), VIII, 614 pp. Woodcut illustrations in the text. 1 folding engraved map, 2 engraved portraits, 2 engraved extra titles, 3 woodcut plates in pagination. Worn publisher´s clothspine with printed boards. Spine cloth to volume I loose and fragmented, tears and som loss in spine to volume II. Foxing throughout, minor stains, some tears and losses of paper in margins, some damp in margins. Exlibris of William H. Ludlow. 2 volumes.

First edition. Rare, but in need of repair. Spine fragments to volume I separately. Samuel Wells Williams (1812-1884), American linguist, diplomat, missionary and Sinologist. 1848-51 he was the editor of The Chinese Repository, a leading Western journal published in China.

From the library of Swedish antiquarian bookdealer Björn Löwendahl (1941-2013).

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