Lewis comte jesuit (2 Ergebnisse)
Verlag: Printed by J. Hughs for Olive Payne, 1737
- Hardcover
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. London: Printed by J. Hughs for Olive Payne, 1737. Octavo (7 5/8" x 4 3/4", 195mm x 120mm). A New Translation from the best Paris edition, and adorned with Copper-Plates. Bound in calf with gilt. On the spine 5 raised bands with gilt morocco lettering piece in the second panel. Red speckled edge of… text block. Extremities rubbed. Staining around pastedowns. Some shading. Engraved frontisepiece of Confucius. With 3 engraved plates (first 2 folding) 1) Observartory at Pekin, 2) Throne of Emporer of China, 3) Out-om-Chu A Treet in China. Lewis le Comte, Jesuit (1655-1728) was a French Jesuit missionary to China under Jean de Fontaney. He arrived in China in 1688, returning to France in 1691. He was confessor to the Duchess of Burgundy, and one of Louis XIV's mathemeticians. Jean de Fontaney (1643-1710), another Jesuit, taught mathemetacts and astronomy and was asigned by the king to create the French mission in China. Armorial bookplate of Samuel James, Baron Waring. (1860-1940) a British industrialist. In 1897, he opened a branch his family's furniture company in London. During WW1, he organised the production of war materials.
Weitere BilderVerlag: James Hodges, at the Looking Glass, on London-Bridge, London, 1739
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Zustand: Very Good+. 2nd Edition. This book is in Very Good+ condition. Spine was sympathetically replaced and new blanks added. Original boards present with some scuffing and rounded corners. Leather over boards. Possibly repaired in China, first blank contains Chinese character stamp and last end paper contains sticker from th…e French Bookstore in Peking China. Owners stamp on first blank and older owner's signature on second (original) blank. Frontispiece contains an engraving of Confucious by W. H. Toms with minor water stain to the bottom portion of the page. Five additional copper plate engravings present including: fold out of the Throne of the Emperor, fold out of Pekin Observatory, fold out grid of Chinese word sounds, full page of a Tree of China, and ½ page of a map of islands. Pages remarkably clean and clear given the age of the book with very infrequent and minimal foxing (a few single dots on a few pages from my review). Pages:(10) 536 (4) Dimensions:8 x 5â x 1â.
