Maggs Bros.

“The present volume is called a second edition of the ‘Chinese Commercial Guide’, partly because it is, like that work, designed to supply the merchant with details respecting the mode of conducting trade under the new regulations, and to furnish him with the necessary forms used in business, as well as give some collateral information respecting currency, weights, measures, &c.; and partly out of regard to its late author, to whom the merit of planning its compilation is due, and by whose name it has become generally known. This edition, however, contains but few pages of the first work, so entirely has the foreign trade been remodeled, and the contents of the book altered.” (Preface). The first edition was published in 1834. The author John Robert (1814-1843) was the son of the famous missionary Rev. Robert Morrison (1782-1834). Very rare Macao imprint. Cordier 2177; Lust 650.