Comte Lewis (11 results)

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book presents a detailed report on the first European mission to China from the perspective of a Jesuit priest. It delivers an extensive account of the mission's perilous journey to Beijing and their efforts to gain a religious foothold in the region. The author's keen observations provide valuable insights into Chinese culture, beliefs, and politics during the 17th century. The book offers a firsthand look at the complex dynamics between European missionaries and the Chinese court, shedding light on the challenges and rewards of cultural exchange. With a wealth of historical and ethnographic information, this book serves as an invaluable resource for scholars of Chinese history, religion, and foreign relations. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 8vo. Pp (vi), 536. Frontis and 3 plates (2 folding) and a folding chart. Engraved vignette map to page 356. Full calf, worn with boards holding on cords. Scattered soiling and foxing, occasionally moderate.One of the folding plates is defective - only half the plate is present.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. London: Printed by J. Hughs for Olive Payne, 1737. Octavo (7 5/8" x 4 3/4", 195mm x 120mm). A New Translation from the best Paris edition, and adorned with Copper-Plates. Bound in calf with gilt. On the spine 5 raised bands with gilt morocco lettering piece in the second panel. Red speckled edge of text block. Extremities rubbed. Staining around pastedowns. Some shading. Engraved frontisepiece of Confucius. With 3 engraved plates (first 2 folding) 1) Observartory at Pekin, 2) Throne of Emporer of China, 3) Out-om-Chu A Treet in China. Lewis le Comte, Jesuit (1655-1728) was a French Jesuit missionary to China under Jean de Fontaney. He arrived in China in 1688, returning to France in 1691. He was confessor to the Duchess of Burgundy, and one of Louis XIV's mathemeticians. Jean de Fontaney (1643-1710), another Jesuit, taught mathemetacts and astronomy and was asigned by the king to create the French mission in China. Armorial bookplate of Samuel James, Baron Waring. (1860-1940) a British industrialist. In 1897, he opened a branch his family's furniture company in London. During WW1, he organised the production of war materials.

Condition: Good. Folio. First edition, one of 470 numbered copies on papier blanc du Marais from the total edition of 500, folio (40.2 x 28.2cm), original wrappers, [10] pp., 66 heliogravures on 56 sheets, printed in various colour tints, with captioned tissue-guards tipped in.Founded in 1894 by Robert Demachy and Constant Puyo, the Photo-club de Paris was the French equivalent of the Camera Club of New York and the Linked Ring in London, associations of photographers dedicated to the emergent philosophy of pictorialism, which promoted photography as a fine art rather than purely as a means of documenting reality. This overview of their first exhibition includes photographs by leading figures including Alfred Stieglitz, James Craig Annan and Rudolf Eickemeyer Jr, and numerous others. Printers incluce L'Imprimerie Chaix, Georges Petit Gallery (supplied, of Paris), T. Fillon/LeMercier & Cie (Paris), Richard Paulussen (Vienna), James Craig Annan (Glasgow), Paul Dujardin (Paris), J. Blechinger (Austria).t69 of the photographers accepted for this first exposition were from France but the material included was highly international. There were 30 photographers from Great Britain including Scotland and the Isle of Wight; Austria had 17 followed by Belgium and Holland with ten. Nine were from America: including Emilie Clarkson, John Bullock, John Dumont, Rudolph Eickemeyer, Emma Farnsworth, Clarence Moore, William Post, Robert Redfield and Alfred Stieglitz. Works from Germany, Italy, Spain, Russia and Switzerland were hung. Algeria was represented by at least one photograph by the Frenchman Emile Frechon. The work of the deceased, but influential, British photographer Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) was acknowledged by the exposition committee members and she had an unknown number of works accepted for hanging.OCLC number 889431269; Met Watsonline record number b12671320. .

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 8vo. Later full leather binding, printed paper spine labels. Speckled edges. Newer endpapers. [8], 536 pp. [4] copperplates + frontispiece portrait. A new translation from the best Paris edition and adorn'd with copperplates. Includes index. Nicely done calligraphic ownership inscription of John Wellock to flyleaf. Spine sunned, some rubbing to leather, scuffs to front board, some damp staining to spine and foot of rear board. Front hinge starting. A few spots of light foxing and staining, some faint pencil underlining to p. 519, else remarkably clean.

4to., 26.2cm, the First Edition in English, xxviii,476p., with 5 engraved folding maps; 1 engraved folding plate (of canoes), contemporary notation on the top of the title page "John Campbell given by his brother Robert", in early half dark brown calf, blind ruled raised bands, blind stamped center panel device decorations, gilt title, grey pressed linen boards, marbled endpapers, text somewhat toned, (about normal) on map slight over-folded, both interior hinges started but the binding is sound, there is a small whole in the margin of R3 and Dd3, (paper flaws), not affecting the text, overall a very good sound copy.(cgc). Hill 165. O'Reilly & Reitman 285. vide Borba de Moraes I, pp.115-116 (Dublin ed.). Sabin [6869]. Kroepelien 113. Dunmore, French Explorers in the Pacific I, pp,57-113. "This account confirmed . Rousseau's 'noble savage' concept, and inspired Denis Diderot to pen his denunciation of European contact with indigenous peoples." -(Hill) Sailing with the toile and the Boudeuse, de Bougainville's expedition was the first successful attempt by the French to sail around the world. After delivering the Falklands to Spain, as ordered by his government, he proceeded across the Pacific to the East Indies, visited Tahiti, Samoa, the New Hebrides, the Solomon Islands, etc., and returned to France three years later. The translation into English, as specified on the title, was by Johann Reinhold Forster, who was naturalist on Cook's second voyage, but there is thought to be the possibility that it was, in fact, done by his son, George Forster. An important work, "not only for its discoveries in the Pacific, but also for having been organized with true scientific precision." - (Borba de Moraes).

Condition: Very Good+. 2nd Edition. This book is in Very Good+ condition. Spine was sympathetically replaced and new blanks added. Original boards present with some scuffing and rounded corners. Leather over boards. Possibly repaired in China, first blank contains Chinese character stamp and last end paper contains sticker from the French Bookstore in Peking China. Owners stamp on first blank and older owner's signature on second (original) blank. Frontispiece contains an engraving of Confucious by W. H. Toms with minor water stain to the bottom portion of the page. Five additional copper plate engravings present including: fold out of the Throne of the Emperor, fold out of Pekin Observatory, fold out grid of Chinese word sounds, full page of a Tree of China, and ½ page of a map of islands. Pages remarkably clean and clear given the age of the book with very infrequent and minimal foxing (a few single dots on a few pages from my review). Pages:(10) 536 (4) Dimensions:8 x 5â x 1â.