1697 Jesuit Le Comte Journey in CHINA Illustrated Chinese Rites Confucius Asia

1697 Jesuit Le Comte Journey in CHINA Illustrated Chinese Rites Confucius Asia

Kangxi, Astronomy Peking Observatory, & more

Louis le Comte (1655–1728), also Louis-Daniel Lecomte, was a French Jesuit who participated in the 1687 French Jesuit mission to China under Jean de Fontaney. He arrived in China on 7 February 1688. His Nouveau mémoire sur l’état présent de la Chine, which was published in Paris in 1696, caused great debate within the Chinese Rites Controversy.

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Main author: Louis Le Comte

Title: Nouveaux mémoires sur l’état present de la Chine. Par le P. Louis Le Comte de la compagnie de Jésus, mathématicien du Roy.

Published: Paris, J. Anisson, 1697.

Language: French

Notes & contents:

• Incredible contents!
  • Various Chinese empires
    • K’ang His
    • Kangxi
  • Jesuit voyages to China
• 18 incredible engravings!
  • ‘Throne of the Emperor of China’
  • Observations of Peking
    • Astrological devices
    • Star viewing
  • Zodiac Machine
  • Equinox Machine
  • Azimuthal Machine
  • Chinese canals and boats
  • Chinese Mandarin ceremonial clothing
  • Chinese colonel
  • Chinese scholar
  • Chinese soldier
  • Chinese woman and child
  • Full-page botany plate, leaves trees…
  • Chinese to French translation table
  • Rare Portrait of Confucius
  • Lodestone cutting machine
  • Navigating Chinese rivers

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Binding: tight and secure leather binding

Pages: complete with all 410 pages; plus indexes, prefaces, and such

Illustrations: 18 incredible plates

Publisher: Paris, J. Anisson, 1697.

Size: ~6.5in X 4in (16.5cm x 10cm)

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