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GROSIER, Jean Baptiste Gabriel Alexandre

Description générale de la Chine
Paris
chez Moutard, Imprimeur-Libraire de la Reine, de Madame ...
1787
€160 - €240

2 vol. in-8°, xxiv, 647 ; 512 pp. Seconde édition refondue au format in-8°, illustrée d'une grande carte dépliante de la Chine par Brion de La Tour, et de 15 planches dépliantes représentant étendards, ustensiles, chars de guerre, etc. Quelques feuilles de texte jaunies, sinon en très bel état. Reliures de l'époque en basane marbré, tranches jaspées jaunes

Ref. Cordier, 61 ; Lust, 30. ""General description of China, originally intended as the 13th volume of De Mailla's history of China. Very rich in the observation and detail amassed by the Jesuits. Picture of an attractive country before semi-colonization set in.

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