Lettre de Pekin, sur le génie de la langue chinoise : et la nature de leur écriture symbolique, comparée avec celle des anciens Égyptiens; en réponse à celle de la Société royale des sciences de Londres, sur le même sujet: on y a joint l'extrait de deux ouvrages nouveaux de Mr. de Guignes... relatifs aux mêmes matieres
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Title: Lettre de Pekin, sur le génie de la langue chinoise : et la nature de leur écriture symbolique, comparée avec celle des anciens Égyptiens; en réponse à celle de la Société royale des sciences de Londres, sur le même sujet: on y a joint l'extrait de deux ouvrages nouveaux de Mr. de Guignes... relatifs aux mêmes matieres
Other titles: Lettres sur les caracteres chinois
Classmark: Anglo-French 13 1773/CIB
Creator(s): Cibot, Pierre Martial (1727-1780)
Additional creator(s): Amyot, Jacques (1513-1593) (Other); Needham, John Turberville (1713-1781) (Other); Guignes, Joseph de (1721-1800) (Other); Royal Society (Great Britain) (Other)
Related people: Amyot, Jacques; Needham, John Turberville; Guignes, Joseph de
Publisher: chez J. L. de Boubers
Publication city: Bruxelles
Date(s): 1773
Language: French
Size and medium: xxxviii, 46 (i.e. 49), [7]p, [27] leaves of plates (some folded)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/271103
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991018022999705181
Description
The "lettre" has special title-page: Lettre sur les caracteres chinois, par le reverend pere ****, de la compagnie de Jesus.
Page 49 numbered 46.
Ed. for the Royal Society of London by J. T. Needham. Written by P. M. Cibot. Sometimes wrongly attributed to Jacques Amyot.
Plates are numbered: Philos. trans. vol. LIX, tab. XX-XLVI.
Includes plates 20-46 from vol. 59 of the Philosophical Transactions, 1770.
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