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Fellow traveller of John Bargrave ( - )

Unidentified source of Chinese books acquired (evidently given) by John Bargrave Relationships: Fellow traveller of John Bargrave was a source of object(s) for John Bargrave (1610-1680)

 References in Documents:
Bargrave's catalogue: Rara, Antiqua, et Numismata Bargraviana (Canterbury Cathedral Lit MS E 16a)

(52). Item, a rare antiquity and curiosity: two Chinese books, in quarto, printed in the Chyna language upon I know not what material,—I think either silk, or rather on the barks of trees,[*] It is the ordinary Chinese paper. —every leaf being double, and having in every page an ill-favoured design or drauft of picture. They were left me as a legacy and curiosity by one that had formerly binn my fellow traveller.