[Rarebooks] FS: Important Jesuit account of China, New English Translation. London: 1738

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(CHINA) Le Comte, Louis. MEMOIRS AND REMARKS, GEOGRAPHICAL, HISTORICAL... 
MILITARY, MERCANTILE, POLITICAL, AND ECCLESIASTICAL. Made in Above Ten Years 
Travel Through the Empire of Japan: Particularly, Upon Their Pottery and 
Varnishing, Silk and Other Manufactures... A New Translation from the Best Paris, 
Edition, and Adorn’d with Copper-Plates. London: Printed by John Hughes for Olive 
Payne. 1738. (8),538pp. Index. Illustrated with a copper engraved frontispiece, 
3 folding copper engraved plates, and 1 engraved text plate. Title printed in 
red & black. Modern full polished calf, red morocco spine label.     $750.00 
(trade discount allowed)
An important French Jesuit account.

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