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KIRCHER, Athanase SJ

Toonneel van China, Door veel, Zo Geestelijke als Werreltlijke, Geheugteekenen, Verscheide Vertoningen van de Natuur en Kunst, en Blijken van veel andere Gedenkwaerdige dingen, geopent en verheerlykt... en van J.H. Glazemaker vertaalt. Met een groot getal
Amsterdam
Janssonius van Waesberge
1668
€280 - €360

In-folio (38 x 25 cm), [xii]- 286- [10] pp. Engraved allegorical title page (dated 1667), illustrated with 20 (of 24) plates (2 double maps, costumes, Oriental script specimina, natural history, etc.), over 50 copper engraving i.t. Lacking pp. 141-142, 161-162, 175-178, 225-226, 237-238. Poor copy, brown stain until p. 50 (worse at the engraved title), (marginal) tears, tear with loss in the plate after p. 16. Contemporary vellum binding, spine torn, stains, soiled. Not subject to return

Ref. Lust 39 ; Cordier Sinica 26 ; Tiele 137. Monumental work on China by the German Jesuit scholar Kircher (1602-1680). First & only edition of the Dutch translation by J.H. Glazemaker. ""one of the most influential books in shaping the European conception of China in its day