Missions to the East
WALLAYS, Edmond; Edward Harper PARKER, translator.
The Missions Étrangères. History of the churches of India, Burma, Siam, the Malay Peninsula, Cambodia, Annam, China, Tibet, Corea, and Japan, entrusted to the Society of the ‘Missions Étrangères’. Reprinted from the ‘China Review’.
Hong Kong, ‘China Mail’ Office, 1896.
8vo, pp. [2], 136; somewhat toned, pp. 40-41 browned; overall good, stab-stitched in original light blue printed wrappers; spine wanting, light marks and abrasions to covers, a few small creases to edges; ink stamp of ‘H.J. Timperley’ to upper cover; preserved in a slipcase.
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The Missions Étrangères. History of the churches of India, Burma, Siam, the Malay Peninsula, Cambodia, Annam, China, Tibet, Corea, and Japan, entrusted to the Society of the ‘Missions Étrangères’. Reprinted from the ‘China Review’.
Scarce account of French missionary activity in Asia by the Belgian priest Edmond Wallays (1842-1925), translated from his Latin original into English by the sinologist Edward Harper Parker (1849-1926).
Opening with a general account of the Missions Étrangères, the text details the history of the preaching of the gospel in the East, with particular attention paid to China and Korea. Parker writes in his preface, dated 1893: ‘Since the following chapters were published in the China Review, I have had the privilege of seeing the learned and courtly author at Penang once more, and he has been good enough to revise the whole.’
Provenance: Harold John Timperley (1898-1954), Australian journalist active in China.
OCLC finds 2 copies only in the US (Columbia University and Yale); Library Hub records a single copy (Bodleian).
