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  • 06 Oct 2014 09:07
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    Thanks Annie - I struggle with the French too! I console myself with the fact that it's 1840's French!
  • 06 Oct 2014 00:48
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    I've just slowly and painfully downloaded it.  As you say, gorgeous illustrations, but the text is testing my French!  However, if I download it and read it on my Kobo e-reader, I can at least look up the words in the French-English dictionary that comes with it.  Thanks for all these things you are discovering, Chris.  I envy your intellectual energy!
  • 04 Oct 2014 11:57
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    OK - I uploaded the reduced version to box: Documents->Chris Gallienne->Paris. 3.4 MB it contains the title and introductory pages and the section on China with relevant illustrations. I will upload the full version later.
  • 04 Oct 2014 10:55
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    Perhaps the small PDF could be added to the library as a download for all?
  • 04 Oct 2014 00:34
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    Hi Chris,

    I'd be most interested in a copy.
  • 03 Oct 2014 11:46
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    I wonder if members are aware of this book, published in 1841:

    Essai sur le Construction Navale des Peuples Extra-Europeenne by Francois-Edmond Paris.

    Pre-dating Worcester by over a century it contains some wonderful illustrations of Chinese vessels (rather better than those in Worcester), such as the Salt Junk shown here.

    I have a very large pdf of this book which I obtained last year while writing part 1 of the history. It's not in our library and perhaps should be. I have extracted the section on China as a smaller pdf if anyone is interested (all in French).



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