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1847 NARRATIVE OF AN EXPLORATORY VISIT CITIES OF CHINA antique TRAVEL

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1847 NARRATIVE OF AN EXPLORATORY VISIT CITIES OF CHINA antique TRAVEL

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Smith, Rev. George.
A Narrative of an Exploratory Visit to each of the Consular Cities of China, and to the islands of Hong Kong and Chusan, in behalf of the Church Missionary Society, in the years 1844, 1845, 1846.
Harper & Brothers, New York, 1847
First American Edition
Size 5 1/4 by 8"
xv, [1], 467 pp.
Complete with 12 plates and folding map of China, title in red & black.
Publishers brown cloth boards and spine, rebacked in modern gray cloth with original spine mounted.
with Vassar Library markings.
Minor wear, some foxing.

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