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Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Chinese.

 Subject
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Julius von Klaproth letters

 Collection — Manuscript box 65 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065257895]
Identifier: 4229
Scope and content

Letters to Professor Antonio Montucci of Berlin and others regarding Lord Amherst's Embassy to China and controversies about the Chinese dictionaries of de Guignes and Morrison. Also, a comparison of the dictionaries of Montucci and Morrison, possibly written by Klaproth, titled "Urh-chih-tsze-teen-se-yin-pe-keaou."

Dates: 1817-[ca. 1820]