Nouveaux Memoires Sur L'etat Present De La Chine

by P. Louis Le Comte

$2,500 · Offered by Heritage Book Shop

First edition

Paris: Jean Anisson, 1696. First edition. Two twelvemo volumes 6 1/4 x 3 3/4 inches; 158 x 97 mm . 28 , 508; 4 , 536 pp. Complete with frontispiece portrait in volume I and 20 additional plates in two volumes, 4 of which are folding. With engraved headpieces.Full mottled calf. Boards double ruled in gilt. With cherubs as central and corner devices. Spines stamped in gilt with cherubs. Each spine with two red

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