Author | Xu Guangqi 徐光啟, 1562-1633Maverick, Lewis A. (Lewis Adams), b. 1891Quesnay, François, 1694-1774 |
Place | San Antonio, TX |
Publisher | Paul Anderson |
Collection | Bibl. Sinensis Soc. Iesu |
Edition | |
Language | English |
Type | Book |
Series | |
Shelf | Director's Office |
Call Number | DS740.2.M4 1946 |
Description | 2 v. in 1 (334 p.) ; 24 cm. |
Note | China, a model for Europe / Lewis A. Maverick. "This study was prepared in two small volumes but it has been decided to bind them together." Bibliography: p. [305]-318. I. China's economy and government admired by seventeenth and eighteenth century Europeans -- II. Despotism in China; a translation of François Quesnay's Le despotisme de la Chine (Paris, 1767). Part I, Appendix II: Hsü Kuang-ch'i, Chinese agriculturalist and statesman of the Ming dynasty, with excerpts from his Complete treatise on Agriculture, Nung cheng ch'üan shu. |
LCCN | 46006265 |
Author | Xu Guangqi 徐光啟, 1562-1633 |
Place | Shanghai 上海 |
Publisher | |
Collection | Ricci Institute [AEC] |
Edition | |
Language | Chinese 中文 |
Type | Book (stitch-bound 線裝本), Book (Printed manuscript), Memorabilia |
Series | |
Shelf | Admin. Office |
Call Number | DS753.6.H87 X9 2008 |
Description | 2 vols. [81] [83] : facsims ; 31 cm.in presentation case |
Note | Wending shuxiang 文定書香 / by Xu Guangqi 徐光啟, 1562-1633. A special boxed reproduction produced on the occasion of the 2008 Olympics. Case, with wooden front, consists of 1) two traditionally-bound volumes containing reproductions of manuscript copies of "Nongzheng quanshu 農政全書" and of "Xu Guangqi jiashu 徐光啓家書" respectively; 2) a miniature wooden fan; and 3) a commemorative wooden medallion featuring an engraving consisting of a portrait of Xu Guangqi alongside images of him posing with Matteo Ricci, of a starry night sky with asterism and astronomical implements, of his writings, and of a city wall. Note that Wending 文定 is Xu's 諡號. |