Early Chinese Printing - Hien wun shoo - Chinese Moral Maxims - John Francis Davis - P. P. Thoms Macao 1823 15th century -2nd German Edition

-2nd German Edition

November 11

The reflection on the well known Biblical passage suggests that this verse is a personal act of devotion by a 19th Century Chinese Christian

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Early Chinese Printing - Hien wun shoo - Chinese Moral Maxims - John Francis Davis - P. P. Thoms Macao 1823 15th century -2nd German Edition"Hien wun shoo Chinese moral maxims" "With a free and verbal translation; affording examples of the grammatical structure of the language." "Compiled by John Francis Davis, F. R. S., Member of the Asiatic Society." London : John Murray, Albemarle Street. Macao, China. Printed at the Honorable Company's Press, by P. P. Thoms, 1823. Printed in Macao by P. P. Thoms (and sold in London by John Murray). First edition. Octavo (220 x 140 mm), 20th Century