8vo (234 x 159 mm). A few headings and phrases printed in Chinese throughout. (Some mostly marginal worming to a few leaves with a few leaves repaired, some staining.) Modern half blue calf gilt. Provenance: Biblioteca da reparticao do Expediente Sinco (stamp on title-page); Alfredo Guimaraes (bookseller's label on verso of front flyleaf); a few manuscript annotations.

FIRST EDITION. Frederick Porter Smith, one of the first British medical missionaries to China, was sent to Hankow China by the Wesleyan Missionary Committee in 1863; he wrote many works on China during his time in that country. Cordier Sinica 1477. RARE: According to online records, only three copies of Smith's work have sold at auction in the last 45 years.