Scarce 1917 second edition of the Complete Atlas of China, specially prepared by Edward Stanford for the China Inland Mission. This is the revised edition of an important early 20th-century cartographic work documenting China and its surrounding dependencies during the early Republic period. Bibliographic records confirm this second edition was published by the China Inland Mission in 1917.

The atlas contains 23 maps in total: a key map, separate maps of the eighteen provinces of China Proper, and four maps covering the then-described great dependencies of Sinkiang (Xinjiang), Manchuria, Tibet and Mongolia. The provincial maps are on a scale of 1:3,000,000, while the dependency maps are on a scale of 1:7,500,000.

The work is particularly detailed, marking railways, telegraph stations, ports and Protestant mission stations, and includes an extensive index giving the latitude and longitude of places named on the maps. The atlas used contemporary survey material from a wide range of sources including the British War Office, Admiralty, Royal Geographical Society, Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs and missionary organisations.

The preface states that the first atlas appeared in 1908, followed by revised wall maps in 1909, 1911, 1913 and 1916. This 1917 second edition was effectively the fifth major revision of the cartographic work, newly lithographed and incorporating updated geographical information, railway and telegraph data, mission stations and revised routes.

Contents include maps of Kwangtung, Fukien, Chekiang, Kiangsu, Shantung, Chihli, Hupeh, Kiangsi, Honan, Anhwei, Hunan, Kansu, Shensi, Shansi, Szechwan, Yunnan, Kweichow and Kwangsi, followed by Sinkiang, Manchuria, Tibet and Mongolia.

A particularly desirable atlas for collectors of China, Chinese cartography, missionary history, early railway history, Tibet, Mongolia, Manchuria and Central Asia.