The Manchus, or the reigning dynasty of China: their rise and progress

Paisley: J. and R. Parlane. London: Houlston and Sons, 1880. 8vo, pp. xxxii, 751, [1], 4 ads; frontispiece, 2 maps, plan of Peking (i.e. Beijing), several illustrations and tables in the text; original brown pictorial cloth, recased and rebacked in tan calf lettered in gilt; perforated stamp in bottom margin of title page, small rubberstamp at the bottom of the last page of text; all else very good, sound and clean. Reverend John Ross (1842 - 1915), was a Scottish United Presbyterian Missionary to Northeast China (then, Manchuria), and known for translating the first Korean Bible and being the first to introduce spacing to Korean punctuation. He lived in Northeast China from 1872 to 1910. (Inventory #: 69058)