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.- E. Rare edition printed in Macao, 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 edition, the second work to be produced at the Saint Joseph Seminary, includes much of the text in Sinic characters. Untouched copy, with the title page signed and restored. Half leather binding, recent, with gold closed panels on the spine. Inocêncio, IV, p. 57. Samodães, 1433. Macanese Bibliography, 5269. Jack M. Braga (Primórdios, Appendix III), 19.