China, its costume, arts, manufactures, &c. : edited principally from the originals in the cabinet of the late M. Bertin, with observations explanatory, historical, and literary (1812)
Breton, M. (Jean Baptiste Joseph), Bertin, Henri-Léonard-Jean-Baptiste, 1719-1792, Freschi, Andrea, b. 1774 · London : Printed for J.J. Stockdale ... · leaf 143
s past, havemade the observation that their gravestpersonages preferred, to the most interest-ing physical machinery, master-pieces ofoptics, mechanism, and clock-work, fri-volous instruments, which would, in thispart of the world, only serve to pleasechildren; they would turn their backs ona… … ARTS, AND aiANUFACTURES. 109 PAPER CRANE OR KITE SELLER. The Chinese kites are not made likethose of Europe; they most commonlygive them the form of a crane, which in-deed is the name they are known by inChina; but they make them of every kindof shape, as is shewn in the annexedPrint, Some assume…
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