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Mr Medhurst In Conversation With Choo-Tih-Lang, Attended By A Malay Boy

1838. Baxter colour patent print, annotated in pencil on mount verso, 13.1 x 10.6cm (image). Replaced missing portion to lower left corner below image, slight crease to upper right corner of image, trimmed margins.

Annotations include “George Baxter, Missions in China. Published in 1838. Mr Medhurst was a missionary for the London Missionary Society in China for 20 years. Choo-Tih-Lang was his translator.”

Walter Henry Medhurst (1796–1857), an English Congregationalist missionary to China, was one of the early translators of the Bible into the Chinese language (Mandarin).

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Item #CL173-4

Price (AUD): $1,450.00  other currencies