Lettres d'un missionaire a` Pekin : contenant diverses questions sur la Chine, pour servir de supple?ment aux me?moires concernant l'histoire, les sciences, les arts, les moeurs, les usages des Chinois
by (les Missionaires des Pekin). (Jean-Jacques Dortous de Mairan)
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Salisbury, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Paris: Nyon, 1782. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Rebound in qaurter leather, black leatehr label spine. 8vo, vi+368, sides trimmed, stained red. Internals quite nice. Second edition, with advertisement for both first and second edition, plus errata sheet, in front. CHINA JESUITS.
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- Bookseller
- Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012596
- Title
- Lettres d'un missionaire a` Pekin : contenant diverses questions sur la Chine, pour servir de supple?ment aux me?moires concernant l'histoire, les sciences, les arts, les moeurs, les usages des Chinois
- Author
- (les Missionaires des Pekin). (Jean-Jacques Dortous de Mairan)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Publisher
- Nyon
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1782
- Keywords
- TA-VBF , ,
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Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB
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Salisbury, Connecticut
About Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB
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- Rebound
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- Errata
- Errata: aka Errata Slip A piece of paper either laid in to the book correcting errors found in the printed text after being...