Author: Le Comte, Louis.
Title: Memoirs and observations topographical, physical, mathematical, mechanical, natural, civil, and ecclesiastical: Made in a late journey through the empire of China, and published in several letters.
Description: London: Printed for Benj. Tooke at the Middle Temple Gate, and Sam. Buckley at the Dolphin over against St. Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet, 1697. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. [24], 527, [1]pp. A4, a8, B8-LL8. First edition. Title-page enclosed in a plain rule-border. Contemporary calf, rebacked. With 4 plates, 3 folding. With engraved frontispiece portrait (plate) of Emperor Cam-hy [i.e. K'ang-hsi] signed: M. Vander Gucht sculp. Wing L831; Cordier, Sinica 40-41; Lust 51; Cox I, 330; ESTC R15898. Good.

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