London. 1738. Six engraved architectural plans, together 36 x 21.6 cms; 40.2 x 25.3 cms (sheet), age-toning, inner margin with paper loss to plate mark (not affecting the engravings), overall very good condition. An attractive suite of engravings depicting six walled cities of Chinese Qing dynasty provinces: Yun-nan Fu, Ta-li..... More
London. 1738. Five engraved architectural plans and a key, together 36 x 21.6 cms; 40.2 x 25.3 cms (sheet), age-toning, small tide-mark affecting an upper corner, but overall in very good condition. Attractive group of engravings depicting walled cities of the Chinese Qing dynasty province of Pe-Che-Li (today Zhili province)..... More
London. 1738. Five engraved architectural plans, together 36 x 21.6 cms; 40.2 x 25.3 cms (sheet), age-toning, small repaired edge tear, overall very good condition. Suite of 18th Century engravings from an English edition of Jean Baptiste Du Halde's encyclopedic compendium of the written accounts of some 27 Jesuits in..... More
London. 1738. Six engraved architectural plans, together 36 x 21.6 cms; 40.2 x 25.3 cms (sheet), age-toning, short edge tear at lower corner, soft creasing at upper left corner, very good condition. An attractive suite of engravings depicting six walled cities of the Chinese Qing dynasty province of Shen-si (now..... More
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(London). (circa 1744). Engraving on laid paper 21.5 x 28.4 cm (trimmed to the image), in very good condition. Wonderfully detailed engraving showing with great flourish, the retinue of the Chinese Emperor, published in "An Account of the Empire of China" by Dominick Fernandez Navarette, extracted from the great 18th..... More