Publisher:
Paris, n. p
Date
Published: 1788
Description:
Tirés des Annales Chinoiser, Dédiés a Madame, Orné de 24
Estampsin 4°. Folio. Bound in full mottled sheepskin, gilt titles,
decoration and raised bands to spine, gilt rules to boards, narrow
gilt decorated dentelle, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt.
Twenty-four contemporary hand-coloured plates by Isidore
Stanislaus Henri Helman. Some wear to boards, expertly recornered
and rebacked to period style, some light foxing throughout, mostly
to margins, some water staining to last leaves.These
plates are reductions of the folio edition made for the Chinese
Emperor by Father Attiret. Binding a little worn, but the contents
fine. |