A descriptive catalogue of the Chinese collection, in Philadelphia

with miscellaneous remarks upon the manners, customs, trade, and government of the celestial empire

A descriptive catalogue of the Chinese collec ...
Nathan Dunn, Nathan Dunn
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A descriptive catalogue of the Chinese collection, in Philadelphia

with miscellaneous remarks upon the manners, customs, trade, and government of the celestial empire

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Edition 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.

Checklist of American imprints, 55454, 57929

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Philadelphia
Other Titles
Wan tʻang jen wu ; Ten thousand Chinese things, Ten thousand Chinese things

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Library of Congress
DS714 .D9 1839

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120 pages
Number of pages
120

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OL43620605M
OCLC/WorldCat
37633916

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OL31907952W

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