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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
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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.
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First English ed.
Published
London : Printed for the proprietor, 1842.
Physical Description
150 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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Title also in Chinese at head of t.p.
Title on cover: Chinese collection, Hyde Park Corner.
"The present volume ... is nearly double the size of the original; in consequence, not only of the increased number of specimens, but also of the additional information it contains.": verso 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--Scharf and Westcott, History of Philadelphia, 1884, v.2, p. 948-949.
Microfilm. New Haven, CT : Yale University Library, 1995. 1 reel. 35 mm.
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Chinese collection, Hyde Park Corner.
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Language
English
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June 01, 2002
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