Toonneel van China, Door veel, Zo Geestelijke als Werreltijke, Geheugteekenen, Verscheide Vertoningen van de Natuur en Kunst, first edition in Dutch, translated from the Latin by J.H. Glazemaker, additional engraved title (detached, minute wormhole), double-page map of China, folding map of Asia showing trade routes (cleanly torn with loss), and 22 plates (2 folding, one torn without loss), all as called for on directions to binder, 60 engravings in the text (mostly half-page), eighteenth century calf-backed boards, heavily rubbed [Cordier Sinica, 26; Lust 39], folio (360 x 235mm.), Amsterdam, J. Janssonius van Waesberge and widow of E. Weyerstraet, 1668

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The first Dutch edition of China Illustrata, "one of the most influential books in shaping the European conception of China in its day" (B. Löwendahl, Sino-Western Relations... in Western Printed Books 1477-1877, 2008). This edition was published a year after the first two Latin editions. The plates include a fine portrait of Johann Adam Schall von Bell and eight of Chinese calligraphy; amongst the richly-printed illustrations are plants and fruit including tea, rhubarb, papaya and pineapple.

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KIRCHER (ATHANASIUS) Toonneel van China, Door veel, Zo Geestelijke als Werreltijke, Geheugteekenen, Verscheide Vertoningen van de Natuur en Kunst, Amsterdam, J. Janssonius van Waesberge and widow of E. Weyerstraet, 1668

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