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Asia - China - Mairan, J.J. de Dortous. Letters to the Rev. Fr. Parrenin, Jesuit, Missionary in Beijing; containing various questions about China. New edition, revised, corrected, and expanded with various short works on different subjects. With 1 plate and 2 text vignettes. Paris, Imp. Royale, 1770. 7 leaves, 368 pp., 1 leaf in contemporary leather. — Rubbed, bumped, binding with small losses With prefaces to the first and this second edition. Excerpt from the correspondence between Mairan and Parrenin, who had been in China since 1698 and corresponded with Mairan between 1728 and 1740. *
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