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‎Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society - No. XI, 1877‎

‎Shanghai, Celestial Empire Office, 1877. 1 volume in-8, XVI-184 pp., newly bound in full bordeaux morocco leather with marble endpapers, internal clean, a very nice copy.‎

‎Contents: Report of the Council for 1876 - Inaugural Address by the President, The Border Lands of Geology and History - Article I. Fort Zelandia, and the Dutch Occupation of Formosa by H. E. Hobson - Article II. The Vertebrata of the Province of Chihli with Notes on Chinese Zoological Nomenclature by O. F. von Mollendorff - Article III. On the Style of Chinese Epistolary Composition by Rev. W. A. P. Martin - Article IV. On Chinese Names for Boats and Boat Gear with Remarks on the Chinese use of the Mariners Compass by J. Edkins - Article V. Chinese Eunuchs by G. Carter Stent.‎