Art | History | China

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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

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

Megaliths of the world / edited by Luc Laporte, Jean-Marc Large, Laurent Nespoulous, Chris Scarre, Tara Steimer-Herbet.