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Creator:
Dunn, Nathan, 1782–1844
Title(s):
"Ten thousand Chinese things." A descriptive catalogue of the Chinese collection, now exhibiting at St. George's Place, Hyde Park Corner; with condensed accounts of the genius, government, history, literature, agriculture, arts, trade, manners, customs, and social life of the people of the Celestial empire. By William B. Langdon ...
Edition:
Hundredth and one thousand.
Published/Created:
London, Printed for the proprietor, 1844.
Physical Description:
1 p.l., [7]-170 p. front., plates. 22 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
DS714 D927 1844
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
BAC : Plates by B.M. and P. Cruik, after W.H. Prior and A. Crowquill.
BAC : "Printed by G. M'Kewan."
Title also in Chinese at head of t.-p.
A private collection, made by Nathan Dunn and first exhibited in 1839 at the Philadelphia museum, whence it was removed to London in 1842.--Cf. Scharf and Westcott, History of Philadelphia, 1884, v. 2, p. 948-949.
Subject Terms:
China -- Civilization.
China -- Social life and customs.
Molesworth, William, Sir, 1810–1855 -- Bookplate.
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