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London.: Murray.. Second edition.. 1917.. Large general folding map of China at back (small marginal tear), 16 maps (8 folding, 8 full page of which some are just sketch maps), frontispiece showing Ricci and Paul Zi in the costume of the Ming Dynasty, newspaper cutting showing the Great Wall tipped-in on early blank, glossary, index. Upper hinge split, endpapers marked and browned, occasional marking prelims, elegant bookplate tipped in front free endpaper, original cloth a little flecked, lower corners bumped, head and tail of spine worn with loss particularly at head of spine, lettering on spine very worn and now barely legible. The contents are sound and clean. Comprehensive work which includes the arrival of the Europeans, aspects of trade, the government, population, revenue, social life and the rise of the Chinese. Professor Parker who held the chair in Chinese at Manchester's Victorian University, had previously been in a consular post in China. .