KIRCHER, Athanasius (1602-80). La Chine ... Illustrée de Plusieurs Monuments Tant Sacrés que Profanes, et de Quantité de Recherchés de la Nature & de l' Art, Amsterdam: Jean Jansson à Waesberge & les Heritiers d' Elizée Weyerstraet, 1670. 2° (380 x 250mm.). Additional engraved allegorical title dated 1667, 2 double-page maps, 8 engraved letterpress plates, one folding, 8 plates, one folding, 58 engraved illustrations. (One plate and one text leaf detached, a few tears, some plates and leaves lightly browned and stained, occasional spotting). Contemporary calf, gilt-stamped armorial on covers. (Joints split, rather worn). Brunet III, 667.