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Fragments of Confucian Lore: A Selection of Short Quotations with The Original Text
by Ferguson, Thos T.H. [Thomas]
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Whitby, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Shanghai: North-China Daily News & Herald, Ltd, 1920. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. First edition, first printing. 41 p.p. English with original Chinese. Quarter bound in brown cloth with tan paper boards, brown lettering to front. Boards have some damp staining and darkening to edges, some rubbing to edges and wear to corners. Hinge cracking to interior, but binding remains firm. Ex libris bookplate of former United Nations staff interpreter Lt. Colonel Victor de Guinzbourg to front pastedown. A collection of quotations and aphorisms from the works of Confucious on such topics as virtue, heaven, knowledge and learning, governing, family, war, and music.
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- Bookseller
- Minotavros Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002585
- Title
- Fragments of Confucian Lore: A Selection of Short Quotations with The Original Text
- Author
- Ferguson, Thos T.H. [Thomas]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- North-China Daily News & Herald, Ltd
- Place of Publication
- Shanghai
- Date Published
- 1920
- Keywords
- Thomas Ferguson, China, Customs, Lore, Chinese Lore, Confucian Lore, Confucius, Religion, Philosophy, Ethics, Chinese Philosophy
- Bookseller catalogs
- Religion; Philosophy; Chinese;
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