GONÇALVES, Pe. Joaquim Afonso, S.J.- Arte china constante de alphabeto e grammatica comprehendendo modelos das differentes composiçoens / composta por J. A. Gonçalves sacerdote da Congregação da Missão.- Macao: Impressa com licença regia no Real Collegio de S. Jose., anno de 1829.- [2[, VIII, 502, [1 br.], 46, [2] p.; 19 cm.- B. Rare edition printed in Macau, authored, according to Couling (Encyclopaedia Sinica, p. 208), by one of the most eminent sinologists of the 19th century, who devoted himself passionately, for 30 years of his life, to the study of the Chinese language. A member of the Royal Asiatic Society and the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, he was highly regarded within the Chinese intellectual community itself. The loosely printed edition includes much of the text in chinese characters. Intonous copy, with some jagged edges, but generally clean. Inocêncio, IV, p. 57. Samodães, 1433. Bibliografia macaense, 5269. Jack M. Braga (Primórdios, apêndice III), 19.