Nouveaux memoires sur l'etat present de la Chine
By: par le p. Louis Le Comte de la Compagnie de Jesus, mathématicien du roy
Contributors: Ertinger, Franz, 1640-ca. 1710; Edelinck, Gérard, 1640-1707
Publisher: Chez Jean Anisson directeur de l'Imprimerie Royale...
Published: 1696
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Subjects: Jesuits; Early works to 1800; History; Description and travel; Missions
Notes: Vol. 1 has frontispiece port. of Kangxi emperor by Franz Ertinger. Some plates signed by Ertinger or Gérard Edelinck.

Signatures, v. 1: ã¹² ẽ² A-X¹² Y². Vol. 2: pi² A-Y¹² Z⁴.

Pagination, v. 1: [28], 508 p. Vol. 2: [4], 536 p.

Errata, ẽ2v.

Binding: 18th-century mottled goatskin(?). Boards stamped in gilt with arms of René-Jean, marquis d'Osmond (1707-1771); cf. E. Olivier, Reliures armoriées, 2469. Spine tooled in gilt, edges of boards gilt rolled. Page edges red. Green ribbon place markers (detached in v. 2).