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PAUW (Corneille de):
Philosophical Researches on the Egyptians and the Chinese, by M. de P***.
Amsterdam & Leiden, Barth. Vlam & J. Murray, 1773.
2 vols. in 12mo, comprising XIV-1f. 330pp. and 2ff. 320pp., illustrated with a large folded engraved map; bound in contemporary marbled sheepskin, spine smooth and intact. Decorated, marbled edges, binding very slightly rubbed.
Split joints on the front cover (Volume I).
A scholarly work which attracted a great deal of criticism for its author, particularly from the Jesuits. Dorbon no. 6394
“A work in which the assertions of the Jesuit missionaries are quite vehemently refuted.” – Caillet no. 8392.
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