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Description geographique, historique, chronologique, politique, et physique de l'empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie chinoise.

Cornerstone of any collection of books on China, which is also among the rarest and most desirable of important Americana.This, "the first definitive European work o...

$12000 / ≈ €10571
Maker / Publisher: DU HALDE, Jean Baptiste.
Place & Date: Paris, P. G. Le Mercier, (vol. 1-3) 1770 / (vol.4),1735

 


Vue et Description de Quelques-Uns des Principaux Forts des Hollandois dans les Indes .

Interesting sheet with seven detailed views illustrating the most important Dutch V.O.C. trading outposts and fortified colonial possessions in the East Indies, including...

$175 / ≈ €154
Maker / Publisher: CHATELAIN, H.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720

 


Les honneurs du Panthéon . . . . (Plate 433 from La Caricature.)

On the front wall is written: "To the great men and women, our country is grateful". This lithograph shows people hanging in front of the Panthéon, and may be ...

$400 / ≈ €352
Maker / Publisher: DAUMIER, H.
Place & Date: Paris, October 23, 1834

 


L'Isle Formose et parties des Costes de la Chine. . .

This well-known map of Taiwan was prepared by Jacques Nicolas Bellin and was based on Jesuit information. The text along the island's east coast claims: Of this coast, ...

$700 / ≈ €617
Maker / Publisher: BELLIN, J.N.
Place & Date: Paris, 1763