HISTORY OF TONQUEEN. [First Engish Translation, 1811]

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London 1811, Longman. Recent stiff grey wraps, small folio, 22 x 27.7cm., pp.708-771, title in facsimilie, very clean & bright copy, original article, complete as issued. . *** **** *** . .THE FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION FROM THE FRENCH 1788 EDITION . . . * A fascinating and very early primary resource. . * Chapter 1: general description of Tonquin, temperature of the climate, variety of the seasons, hurricanes or typhoons, what may be their cause, winds and tides, its division into provinces, an island abounding in antelopes, increase of land next to the sea. * Chapter 2: typographical description, capital, King's Palace, chief cities, great roads, inhabitants of the mountainous country, productions and culture of the lands, fertility of the soil, grounds and lakes filled with fish, fruits, flowers, domestic and wild animals. * Chapter 3: population, character and differences of the inhabitants, manners, person and corporeal qualities, dress. * Chapter 4: taxes, public works, right of inheritance, language, marriages, divorce, sumptuary laws, customs of adoption, debtors and creditors. * Chapter 5: visits, customs of society, manner of dividing times and distances, festivals and superstitions of the New Year, singing houses, cock-fighting. * Chapter 6: of the food, wines &c., diseases, medicine and surgery. * Chapter 7: funeral ceremonies of the different ranks, preparations, piety towards the dead. * Chapter 8: religious customs, sect of Bout [Buddhism] or Idols, sect of magicians, sect of the learned, peculiar superstitions, sages of philosophers. * Chapter 9: sciences, arts and trades, fisheries. * Chapter 10: interior and exterior commerce, money, price of gold and silver. * Chapter 11: government, revolutions, divisions of the power between two sovereigns. * Chapter 12: of the forces of the Kingdom. * Chapter 13: revenue and wealth of the King of Tonquin. * Chapter 14: civil and criminal laws, and the judiciary. *** Extracted from Churchill's Collection of Voyages & Travels. . *** Color photos are posted to our website. . *** REFERENCE: . BREBION, Antoine.: BIBLIOGRAPHIE DES VOYAGES DANS L'INDOCHINE FRANCAIS DU IX AU XIX SIECLE, see p.145. . *.

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HISTORY OF TONQUEEN. [First Engish Translation, 1811]
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RICHARD, [Jerome] [SAINT-PHALLE, Abbe de]
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