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An Authentic Account of the Embassy of the Dutch East-India Company, to the Court of the Emperor of China, in the Years 1794 and 1795 - Cambridge Library Collection - East and South-East Asian History Andre Everard van Braam Houckgeest
An Authentic Account of the Embassy of the Dutch East-India Company, to the Court of the Emperor of China, in the Years 1794 and 1795 - Cambridge Library Collection - East and South-East Asian History
Andre Everard van Braam Houckgeest
First published in French in 1797 and in this English translation in 1798, van Braam Houckgeest's 'faithful description' of a recent Dutch embassy to Beijing was received with enthusiasm by British readers. Volume 2 includes one of the last Western descriptions of the spectacular Summer Palace, destroyed in 1860.
332 pages
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | June 9, 2011 |
| ISBN13 | 9781108029063 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 332 |
| Dimensions | 141 × 215 × 23 mm · 440 g |
| Language | English |
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