Vandermonde, Jacques François, -1746, physician. Extract from the Pen-ts'ao chang-mu by Li Chi Tsin, beginning, "Traduction du Chinois en françois, d'une histoire des drogues que porte pour titre Kan mo ou principale extrait des auteurs qui ont ecrits de la medecine," and an original essay beginning, "La Maladie que les Portuguais de l'Inde nomment Mordexin est une indigestion d'estomac...", 1730? -
- Containers:
- Bound Bound
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- Bound in vellum
- Pagination is numbered 1-111 and 150-168
- Translation begins with the fifth book
- Chinese characters of all names in the text written in corresponding margin
- Writer does not mention his own name but refers to his personal experiences at Canton in 1728 and at Macao in 1729-1730
- Present volume used by Edouard Constant Biot, 1803-1850, engineer, sinologue, for his article in Journal Asiatique, VIII, Paris, 1839, p. 206-230.
- Formerly in the library of Paul Pelliot, 1878-1945, orientalist; leaf with note in Pelliot's hand laid in front of volume
- Acquisition information:
- Purchased. Alain Brieux, Paris. 1973.
- Physical description:
- Autograph document 119 p. 36 cm.
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