Designs of Chinese Buildings, Furniture, Dresses, Machines and Utensils
by Chambers, William Nisbet
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good-/No Jacket
- Seller
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Martinsville, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
U.S.A.: Benjamin Blom, 1968. Minor edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; small split in the head of the spine; corners are gently bumped and rubbed; no dj; some light shelf wear; ex-library with the usual library markings; overall a nice used copy! Red cloth with black illustration on the front and rear boards and gilt lettering on the spine and front board.. 40 historical and informative pages nicely enhanced by black and white illustrations! "It is difficult to avoid praifing too little or too much. The boundlefs pannegyricks which have been lavifhed upon the Chinefe learning, policy, and arts, fhew with what power novelty attracts regard, and how naturally efteem fwells into admiration. I am far from defiring to be numbered among the exaggerators of Chinefe excellence. I confider them as great, or wife, only in comparifon with the nations that furround them.........." ----- from the Preface.. Reprint (1757). Red Cloth. Good-/No Jacket. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Ex-Library.
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- Seller
- Conover Books
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 047387
- Title
- Designs of Chinese Buildings, Furniture, Dresses, Machines and Utensils
- Author
- Chambers, William Nisbet
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good-
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Reprint (1757)
- Publisher
- Benjamin Blom
- Place of Publication
- U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1968
- Keywords
- ARCHITECTURE DESIGN CHINA CHINESE 18TH CENTURY BUILDINGS FURNITURE DRESSES MACHINES UTENSILS HISTORY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture/Design;
- Size
- Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
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About the Seller
Conover Books
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Martinsville, Virginia
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- Spine
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- Folio
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
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- Jacket
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