Miscellaneous pieces relating to the Chinese
Series: British culture series
Publisher: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley
Published: 1966
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: China.
Notes: Micro-opaque of the original in the Wisconsin State Historical Society Library. Louisville, Ky., Lost Cause Press, 1966. 13 cards. (British culture series)
Table of contents: value: v. 1. A dissertation on the language and characters of the Chinese. Rules of Conduct, by a Chinese author. Translated from the French of P. Parrenin. The little orphan of the House of Chao: A Chinese tragedy. Translated from the French version, published in the grand folio edition of P. du Halde's Description de l'Empire de la Chine, &c. Paris, 1735, tome 3.; value: v. 2. Authentic memoirs of the Christian church in China: from the German of J.L. de Mosheim. Of the art of laying out gardens among the Chinese, by Mr. Chambers, architect. A description of the Emperor's garden and pleasure houses near Peking, from the French of Frere Attitet, Jesuit. A description of the solemnities observed at Peking on the Emperor's mother entering on the sixtieth year of her age, from the French of P. Amyot, Jesuit.