[Rarebooks] FS: CHINESE PROVERBS & SAYINGS

Norman Kane nkane at kanebooks.com
Sun Apr 10 18:47:19 EDT 2005


WE CAN SUPPLY:

SMITH, ARTHUR H.  PROVERBS AND COMMON SAYINGS FROM THE CHINESE.  TOGETHER 
WITH MUCH RELATED AND UNRELATED MATTER . . .  OBSERVATIONS ON CHINESE 
THINGS-IN-GENERAL.  NEW & REVISED EDITION.
Shanghai: Printed at the American Presbyterian Mission Press, 1902.   8vo, 
half leather with marbled edges, [2], vii, 374, xxix, [1] pages.  Errata on 
last page.  Excellent copy.  There is a general index & an index of Chinese 
proverbs.  In English, but much use is made of Chinese characters.  (Smith 
was the author of, among other works, "Chinese Village Life" & "China in 
Convulsion.")  $90.00
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