1852 NINGPO DIALECT 2 Volumes CHINA Chinese W.A.P. MARTIN Missionary NINGBO Rare
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DI LI SHU LIN VAEN-KOH KWU-KYING Z-T'I YIU-TIN KONG-TSING. Two volumes (2 ts'e) (CUSTOMS OF WESTERN NATIONS IN NINGPO ROMANIZED DIALECT). By W. A. P. Martin.Nyingpo: Church Missionary Society (Presbyterians), 1852. VOLUME I: 75 pages, 3 leaves of plates on two folded leaves, title page vignette. VOLUME I has extra pages 69-72 laid in. These pages are completely different from pages 69-72 in the book. I don't have any idea of the purpose of these extra pages. VOLUME II: pages [76] to 120, 2 leaves of plates, 1 folding. In the original plain brown wraps with Chinese tie binding. CONDITION: Collated and complete. Both volumes have an institutional stamp on front cover with proper withdrawn stamps. There appears to be old label residue to the lower left corners of both volumes. No other markings are present. The strings are loose on volume I. The title page has a few tears at edge. Cover soil to the wraps. The upper right corner of the leaves show, in some cases, light stains. The folded illustrations show some separation at folds especially the 2-sided illustration SI PUN GYIU and TONG PUN GYIU. There is extremely small penciling above some of the Ningpo words (translations into English). Of course, these can be erased, but I feel they are an important aspect of these books. They could be contemporary (of the period). This also could
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