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Louis Daniel Le Comte (1655-1728)
Memoirs and Observations Topographical, Physical, Mathematical, Mechanical, Natural, Civil and Ecclesiatical. Made in a late Journey through the Empire of China, London: for Benjamin Tooke and Samuel Buckley, 1697. 8° (193 x 112mm.). 4 engraved plates and a folding table. (L1 with repaired corner, occasional spotting, browning and dampstaining). Modern cloth (lightly rubbed).
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Cox I, 330: "The author was a Jesuit, confessor to the Duchess of Burgundy, one of the Royal Mathematicians, and later missionary to the Far East"; Lust 51.
Memoirs and Observations Topographical, Physical, Mathematical, Mechanical, Natural, Civil and Ecclesiatical. Made in a late Journey through the Empire of China, London: for Benjamin Tooke and Samuel Buckley, 1697. 8° (193 x 112mm.). 4 engraved plates and a folding table. (L1 with repaired corner, occasional spotting, browning and dampstaining). Modern cloth (lightly rubbed).
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Cox I, 330: "The author was a Jesuit, confessor to the Duchess of Burgundy, one of the Royal Mathematicians, and later missionary to the Far East"; Lust 51.
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