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PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Octavo offprint, pp. 12; original printed tan wrappers with: 'With the author's compliments' printed at the top; upper wrap stained at the bottom, the paper a bit toned, light chipping; all else very good. "Ernst Faber was one of the most prolific German Protestant missionaries in 19th-century China. He enlisted with the Rhenish Missionary Society and was dispatched to work in Canton in 1864. A lifelong bachelor, Faber was able to devote himself to several areas of endeavour beyond Gospel dissemination. These included scientific discoveries and, though he was not a trained physician, the treatment of thousands of medical cases . In 1886, he moved to Shanghai and spent the remainder of his career there. Recognised as one of the foremost scholars of China of his time, he produced numerous volumes in Chinese, English and German on fields as disparate as comparative religion, theology, history, and botany. Faber wrote extensively on Confucianism and was one of the leading Western experts in the field of comparative religion" (Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity).…

8° , Halbleder. XVI, 250, XIV pp. Frontis plate of E. Faber with tissue guard. Leather binding rebacked, some pages with underlines, alltogether a good copy. From the library of the Denish Lutheran Mission in Harbin, Manchuria, Christian Madsen with his signature. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 550. …