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A general description of China : containing the topography of the fifteen provinces which compose this vast empire, that of Tartary, the isles, and other tributary countries : the number and situation of its cities, the state of its population, the natural history of its animals, vegetables and minerals : together with the latest accounts that have reached Europe of the government, religion, manners, customs, arts and sciences of the Chinese : illustrated by a new and correct map of China, and other copper plates / translated from the French of Abbé Grosier.

J.-B. Grosier (Jean-Baptiste), 1743-1823

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The Chinese as they are : their moral, social, and literary character ; a new analysis of the language ; with succinct views of their principal arts and sciences.

George Tradescant Lay 1825-1945.

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The origin and progress of the art of writing : a connected narrative of the development of the art, its primeval phases in Egypt, China, Mexico, etc ; its middle state in the cuneatic systems of Nineveh and Persepolis, to its introduction to Europe through the medium of the Hebrew, Phœnician, and Greek systems, and its subsequent progress to the present day / by Henry Noel Humphreys ; illustrated by a number of specimens of the writing of all ages, and a series of facsimiles from autograph letters from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century.

Henry Noel Humphreys 1810-1879

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The art of glass : shewing how to make all sorts of glass, crystal and enamel : likewise the making of pearls, precious stones, china and looking-glasses : to which is added, the method of painting on glass and enameling : also how to extract the colours from minerals, metals, herbs and flowers : a work containing many secrets and curiosities never before discovered : illustrated with proper sculptures / written originally in French, by Mr. H. Blancourt, and now first translated into English.

Jean Haudicquer de Blancourt approximately 1650-

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Œuvres complètes de Fréret, secrétaire de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres / Édition augmentée de plusieurs ouvrages inédits, et rédigée par feu M. de Septchênes.

Œuvres complètes de Fréret, secrétaire de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres / Édition augmentée de plusieurs ouvrages inédits, et rédigée par feu M. de Septchênes.

Nicolas Fréret 1688-1749

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