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[London 1811, Longman].Full recent green leather, very clean & solid copy, pp .656-707, series title & p.707 in facsimle, else original, extracted article, 22 x 28.7 cm.,bright paper small folio. * * RARE FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATED EDITION * * . *** **** *** . . . AN EARLY PRIMARY RESOURCE ON TONKIN [ANCIENT VIETNAM] . . . A SUPERB AND STUNNING MID-17TH CENTURY ACCOUNT . . BY ONE OF THE EARLIEST DUTCH-VIETNAMESE RESIDENTS . . . **** . . This Contains One Superb Article Extracted From: . . JOHN PINKERTON . . A GENERAL COLLECTION OF THE BEST AND MOST INTERESTING . . VOYAGES AND TRAVELS IN ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD; . . MANY OF WHICH ARE NOW FIRST TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH . . DIGESTED ON A NEW PLAN . . London 1811 Longman, Hurst, . . *** One of the earliest English language accounts of life among the Tonkinese prior to the arrival of Europeans. . A fascinating early primary resource, written by a native of Tonkin in 1648, describing the ancient empire of Tonkin. . Containing much detail, the author's primary impressions & narrative of the customs, traditions, ceremonies, the King and social structure of the ancient Tonkinese. . This is a superb early English language resource on all aspects of the life, culture, ceremonies, and practices of Tonkin, ancient North Viet-Nam and that costal region. . A superbly RARE, fascinating and early primary resource. . *** THE AUTHOR: SAMUEL BARON . He was born of a Vietnamese mother and Dutch father in mid-17th century in Hanoi. . His father Hendrik Baron was employed by the Dutch East India Company during the mid-1700's. He was fluent in Vietnamese, therefore Samuel easily learned Vietnamese from both his mother, father and the Hanoi community. . In 1659, [during his teens] Samuel was sent by his father to England for education. he returned to Hanoi after his studies. He associated and identified with the English, who challenged the Dutch in Asia. . In 1685-6, Samuel Baron wrote from Fort St George, the English East India Company (EIC) headquarters in Madras to Robert Hooke and Robert Hoskins, members of the Royal Society of London. He enclosed a draft of his "Description of Tonqueen" (Baron 1686). Liberally extracted from Dror & Taylor, see below. . This was written in response to Jean-Baptiste Tavernier s (1676) account of the northern Vietnamese kingdom. The manuscript was not published immediately, but appeared in the sixth volume of the second and subsequent editions of a collection of travel writing by the Churchill brothers (Churchill and Churchill 1732). The above liberally quoted from Winterbottom, see below. . *** THE AUTHOR'S ATTACK ON TAVERNIER: The author, Samuel Baron takes on Tavernier's first account, to dispute his description of Tonking. See Tavernier below. . He contradicts much of Tavernier's essay on Tonkin. He discusses the situation extent, nature and productions, riches, trace and money, manners of the people, marriages, learned men, physicians & diseases, government, law, politics, religion and funerals. . Please inquire at our website as we may have this title in stock. . Issued at a similar time, Baron author found a need to attack Tavernier's description of that region which contained copious errors in his opinion. He states his case against the Tavernier essay, based on his residence in the country and personal knowledge of the Tonkinese. . See us for a copy of the Tavernier it might be in stock. . *** SUBJECT CONTENT BY CHAPTERS: . 1. TAVERNIER'S ACCOUNT OF TONQUEEN ANIMADVERTED ON. . 2. OF THE SITUATION AND EXTEND OF TONQUEEN. . 3. OF THE NATURE AND PRODUCTIONS OF THE KINGDOM OF TONQUEEN. . 4. OF THE RICHES, TRADE, AND MONEY OF THE KINGDOM OF . . TONQUEEN . 5. OF THE STRENGTH OF THE KINGDOM OF TONQUEEN . 6. OF THE MANNERS OF THE PEOPLE OF TONQUEEN . 7. MARRIAGES OF THE TONQEENESE . 8. OF THE OF THE VISITS AND PASTIMES OF THE TONQUEENS. . 9. OF THE LEARNED MEN OF TONQUEEN . 10. OF THE PHYSICIANS AND DISEASES OF THE TONQUEENESE . 11. OF THE ORIGINAL GOVERNMENT, LAW, & P.
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