A descriptive catalogue of the Chinese collection, in Philadelphia
Subtitle: with miscellaneous remarks upon the manners, customs, trade, and government of the celestial empire
By: [entered by Nathan Dunn]
Contributors: Langdon, William B.; Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Publisher: Printed for the proprietor
Published: 1839
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 120
Subjects: Exhibitions; Art collections; Chinese Art objects; Decorative arts; Civilization; Social life and customs; Objets d'art chinois; Expositions; Arts décoratifs; Mœurs et coutumes; Art; Private collections; Manners and customs
Other titles: Wan tʻang jen wu ; Ten thousand Chinese things; Ten thousand Chinese things
Notes: Catalog of exhibition of private collection made by Nathan Dunn and deposited at Peale's Museum in Philadelphia; it was removed to London in 1842.

Curated by William B. Langdon.

"Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1839, by Nathan Dunn, (The proprietor of the Chinese Collection,) in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania."--Verso of title page.

"The Chinese Collection occupies the lower saloon of that vast and splendid edifice, recently erected at the corner of Ninth and George streets by the Philadelphia Museum Company ...": page 3.

Avery Classics (Offsite) copy: Bound with other titles.

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