"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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1844
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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. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : Printed for the proprietor [N. Dunn], 1844.

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170, that is, 166 pages : frontispiece, plates ; (8vo)

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Hundredth and one thousand.

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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.

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