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Asia - LE COMTE (Louis). New memoirs on the present state of China. Fourth [- third] edition. Paris, Anisson, 1701. 2 vol. in-12 of [16] ff, 410 pp; [2] ff, 435 pp, [9] pp, with a portrait-frontispiece by F. Ertinger (the Emperor Kangxi), and 21 plates out of text, including a folding table. Mottled fawn calf, spine ribbed and decorated, title and greevel pages, speckled boards (contemporary binding). Covers worn, beginning of a split at the upper jaws, tiny wormhole in the margin of half of volume 1. Otherwise a good copy. The first edition was published in 1696, also by Jean Anisson. The work is set against the backdrop of the interminable Querelle des rites, of which it is a masterpiece (and, as such, was condemned by the Sorbonne). The interesting plates depict the astronomical machines installed by Father Ferdinand Verbiest at the Peking observatory, as well as a number of types (schoolboy, soldier, colonel, mandarin, lady in negligee), and an interesting view of a craftsman operating a "magnet-cutting machine". Jesuit missionary Louis-Daniel Le Comte (1655-1728) was one of six mathematicians sent by Louis XIV on a religious and scientific mission to China in 1685. After two years in the kingdom of Siam, he arrived in Peking on February 8, 1687, where he was assigned the Chen-si mission, one of the most difficult in the empire due to its size, climate and the distance between the various churches. For five years, he criss-crossed a large part of China, gathering many valuable observations. (Backer & Sommervogel II, 1356. Cordier, Sinica, 39.) Handwritten bookplate De Moré Chappelain, dated 1706.

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Asia - LE COMTE (Louis). New memoirs on the present state of China. Fourth [- third] edition. Paris, Anisson, 1701. 2 vol. in-12 of [16] ff, 410 pp; [2] ff, 435 pp, [9] pp, with a portrait-frontispiece by F. Ertinger (the Emperor Kangxi), and 21 plates out of text, including a folding table. Mottled fawn calf, spine ribbed and decorated, title and greevel pages, speckled boards (contemporary binding). Covers worn, beginning of a split at the upper jaws, tiny wormhole in the margin of half of volume 1. Otherwise a good copy. The first edition was published in 1696, also by Jean Anisson. The work is set against the backdrop of the interminable Querelle des rites, of which it is a masterpiece (and, as such, was condemned by the Sorbonne). The interesting plates depict the astronomical machines installed by Father Ferdinand Verbiest at the Peking observatory, as well as a number of types (schoolboy, soldier, colonel, mandarin, lady in negligee), and an interesting view of a craftsman operating a "magnet-cutting machine". Jesuit missionary Louis-Daniel Le Comte (1655-1728) was one of six mathematicians sent by Louis XIV on a religious and scientific mission to China in 1685. After two years in the kingdom of Siam, he arrived in Peking on February 8, 1687, where he was assigned the Chen-si mission, one of the most difficult in the empire due to its size, climate and the distance between the various churches. For five years, he criss-crossed a large part of China, gathering many valuable observations. (Backer & Sommervogel II, 1356. Cordier, Sinica, 39.) Handwritten bookplate De Moré Chappelain, dated 1706.

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