Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Jesu China monumentis
Subtitle: qvà sacris quà profanis, nec non variis naturae & artis spectaculis, aliarumque rerum memorabilium argumentis illustrata, auspiciis Leopoldi Primi Roman. Imper. semper Augusti munificentissimi mecaenatis
Contributors: Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, 1640-1705, sponsor; Meurs, Jacob van, 1619-1680, printer; Janssonius van Waesberge, Johannes, active 1642-1681, bookseller; Weyerstraten, Elizaeus, -1667?, bookseller
Publisher: Apud Joannem Janssonium à Waesberge & Elizeum Weyerstraet
Published: 1667
Place of publication: Amstelodami
Language: lat
Number of pages: 237
Subjects: Chinese language; Early works to 1800; Description and travel; Social life and customs
Other titles: Athanasii Kircheri China illustrata; China illustrata; Athanasii Kircheri Soc. Iesv China illvst[rata]
Work titles: China monumentis qua sacris qua profanis ...
Description: This work, by Kircher's regular Amsterdam publishers, represents the 1st edition of his "China Illustrata" in Latin. A subsequent unauthorized edition, in a slightly smaller format but with the same text and with artfully copied engravings, was published by Amsterdam printer Jacob van Meurs, also in 1667. When the authorized printers, Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge and Elizaeus Weyerstraten (who died shortly thereafter) were apprised of the situation they called for a meeting with Van Meurs, to be mediated by a third Amsterdam printer and attended by a notary public. At this meeting, on 27 June 1667, the aggrieved parties demanded that Van Meurs hand over the entirety of his copy of the work: all his printed copies along with his copper and woodblock plates. Further, he was to cease and desist from publishing this work again. In return Van Meurs received 3,450 florins, which basically covered the costs of his "reprint." Subsequent printings at the shop of Janssonius van Waesberge and Weyerstraten (and later with Weyerstraten's widow) used the slightly smaller engravings that Van Meurs had commissioned, though the text remained precisely the same.
Notes: Added engraved title page bears title: Athanasii Kircheri Soc. Iesv China illvst[rata].

Added engraved title page has imprint: "Amstelodami. Apud Johannem Janszonium à Waesberge et Elizei Weyerstraet 1667."

Signatures: *-2*⁴ A-2H⁴.

Main body of text printed in double columns.

Initials, tailpieces, marginal notes.

Includes indexes.

"Elenchus librorum a P. Athanasio Kirchero ... editorum": 2 p. at end.
Table of contents: title: Monumenti syro-sinici interpretatio; title: De variis itineribus in Chinam susceptis; title: De idololatria ex Occidente primùm in Persidem, Indiam ac deinde in ultimas Orientis, Tartariæ, Chinæ, Japponiæ regiones successivâ propagatione introducta; title: China curiosis naturæ & artis miraculis illustrata; title: De architectonica cæterisque mechanicis artibus Sinensium; title: De Sinensium literatura.