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A Chinese commercial guide, containing treaties, tariffs, regulations, tables, etc., useful in the trade to China & Eastern Asia, with an appendix of sailing directions for those seas and coasts / by S. Wells Williams.
LIBRA HF3773 .W7 1966
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Williams, S. Wells (Samuel Wells), 1812-1884.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tariff--China.
- Tariff.
- Commercial treaties.
- China.
- Pilot guides--China Sea.
- Pilot guides.
- China--Commerce.
- Commerce.
- China--Commercial treaties.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 387, 266 pages : illustrations, tables (part folded). ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- Fifth edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Taipei : Ch'eng-wen Pub. Co., 1966.
- Notes:
- Reprint of Hongkong, A. Shortrede & Co., 1863 (?) edition.
- The first edition was published in 1834 by the author, John R. Morrison. The second and third editions, published in 1844 and 1848 with Morrison's name appearing on the t.-p., were largely rewritten by Samuel Wells Williams. The revisions were so extensive that with the fourth edition Morrison's name was dropped and Williams' name appeared on the t.-p. as author. cf. Prefaces to the 2d and 4th editions and British museum. Catalogue of printed books.
- OCLC:
- 2103936
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