[MISSIONS - CHINA] - Lot 291

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[MISSIONS - CHINA] - Lot 291
[MISSIONS - CHINA] Edifying and Curious Letters, written from the Foreign Missions. New edition. Lyon, Vernarel ; Cabin & Cie, 1819. 14 volumes in-8. Illustrated with 48/50 plates out of text (28 of which are folding) including numerous maps. Ex-libris printed library of the boarding school of Sainte-Ursule de Lyon. Contemporary fawn granite basane, spines decorated with rubbed smooth edges, gilt roulette framing the boards, uniform rubbing, marbled edges. These letters are real reports on China, its mode of government, the particularities of its language, its mores and customs giving birth to the first European sinology.
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