Mateer - A Course of Mandarin Lessons Based on Idiom - 1906





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Very rare edition (the first from 1892) of this important linguistic work on Mandarin. The author, Calvin Mateer, died in Tsingtao in 1908 after 44 years of missionary work in China. He devoted himself to teaching and founded the first Chinese Christian college: Tengchow College.
Calvin Mateer, A Course of Mandarin Lessons, Based on Idiom; Revised edition, Shanghai, American Presbyterian Mission Press, 1906.
PP.: LV, 3, 370. COMPLETE, with a large folding plate showing the sounds of five dialects: Beijing, Nanjing, Kiukiang, Tengchow and Weihien.
Copy with cards in overall good condition, but with numerous pencil notes (also colored) by a student of the period. Some wear to the folding plate. Usual signs of use and the passage of time.
Contemporary full-cloth binding in burgundy color, with some wear but solid and fairly well preserved overall. White endpapers.
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Very rare edition (the first from 1892) of this important linguistic work on Mandarin. The author, Calvin Mateer, died in Tsingtao in 1908 after 44 years of missionary work in China. He devoted himself to teaching and founded the first Chinese Christian college: Tengchow College.
Calvin Mateer, A Course of Mandarin Lessons, Based on Idiom; Revised edition, Shanghai, American Presbyterian Mission Press, 1906.
PP.: LV, 3, 370. COMPLETE, with a large folding plate showing the sounds of five dialects: Beijing, Nanjing, Kiukiang, Tengchow and Weihien.
Copy with cards in overall good condition, but with numerous pencil notes (also colored) by a student of the period. Some wear to the folding plate. Usual signs of use and the passage of time.
Contemporary full-cloth binding in burgundy color, with some wear but solid and fairly well preserved overall. White endpapers.

