[AMIOT (Joseph)]. Mémoires concernant l'histoire,... - Lot 5 - De Baecque et Associés

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[AMIOT (Joseph)]. Mémoires concernant l'histoire,... - Lot 5 - De Baecque et Associés
[AMIOT (Joseph)]. Mémoires concernant l'histoire, les sciences, les arts, les moeurs, les usages,..., des Chinois: By the Missionaries of Peking. Paris, Nyon, 1776-1784. 10 volumes in-4° (out of 16), marbled calf, spine ribbed, red edges (contemporary binding). "This collection contains valuable research and observations on objects of the greatest interest: it is undoubtedly the best work that the Jesuits have published on China" (Boucher de La Richarderie). First edition of this captivating and very important work for the history of China, illustrated in these first ten volumes with 169 plates (including 29 tables), not including the text, engraved on copper. The tenth volume contains the table, without the last six volumes, published between 1788 and 1814. Traces of humidity in the margins of the leaves of the first volume, a few brownish pages and scattered light freckles. (Chadenat n°375) (Boucher de La Richarderie V, 283).
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