- 3196
Le Comte, Louis (1655-1728), S.J.
Estimate
200 - 300 GBP
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Description
- Memoirs and remarks geographical, historical... and ecclesiastical. Made in above ten years travels through the empire of China... Written by the learned Lewis le Comte, Jesuit... A new translation from the best Paris edition, and adorn’d with copper-plates. London: John Hughs, 1738
8vo (200 x 118mm.), [8], 536pp., title printed in red and black, illustration: engraved frontispiece, 3 plates, 2 folding, engraved illustration in text, folding letterpress table, binding: contemporary mottled calf, spine in compartments gilt, frontispiece lightly offset onto title, preliminary blank detached, upper hinge split, lacking lettering piece, rubbed
Literature
Lust 53; Cordier, Sinica 41