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China. Medhurst (Walter Henry) & Baxter (G., illustrator), China: its State and Prospects, with especial reference to the Spread of the Gospel: containing allusions to the Antiquity, Extent, Population, Civilization, Literature and Religion of the Chinese, third edition, London: John Snow, 1842, engraved title-page and 10 plates over 4 sheets, lacking frontispiece and one full-page plate, title foxed, with a stable vertical tear, chipped edges and reinforced at the gutter, some further chipped fore-margins, some browning and foxing, light stains in places, all growing fainter, contemporary black quarter-calf over cloth, rubbed, repaired pastedown inner-gutters, 8vo

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Auction Date: 15th Aug 2023 at 10am

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