Author: GRILL ABRAHAMSSON, JEAN ABRAHAM:
Title: Tal, om silfvers årliga förande til China, huruvida det är för Europa nyttigt eller skadeligt. Stockholm, L. Salvius, 1774.
Description: . Pp. 30. Copy without engraved vignette on title. Uncut and unopened copy with paper spine strip. An oration about export of silver to China given at a meeting of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science in 1774. Grill (1736-92) was a Swedish merchant and director of the Swedish East India Company. He resided for about seven years in Canton as resident supercargo in the 1760's. Löwendahl 578. 

Keywords: East Asia, asia, asie, asien, orient, east, asiatica, far east, east india, china, kina, chine, silver, travel, exploration


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