Author: Robert Coltman
Title: The Chinese, Their Present and Future: Medical, Political, and Social
Description: Philadelphia & London, F. A. Davis, 1891. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition of this illustrated anthropological study of China and its people. First edition. Scarce work. Illustrated with a frontispiece and fourteen plates. Collated complete. A detailed anthropological study from the author's travels across Northern China, with chapters on peasantry, characteristics, home life, diseases and medicine, missionaries and their work, business, politics, and future prospects. Written by Robert Coltman, an American physician. Publisher's advertisements to the rear. Rebacked with the original brown cloth binding. Externally, sound with rubbing and light fraying to the extremities. Minor loss to the board edges. The odd mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound with hinges sympathetically reinforced with cloth tape. Pages are bright and clean with the odd handling mark. Sympathetic repairs made with tape to the edges of some pages, with further repairs to closed tears across page 113/114. Contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .

Keywords: China Present Future Medical Present Social Coltman Not Stated


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