GROSIER, JEAN BAPTISTE GABRIEL ALEXANDER: - Description générale de la Chine, ou tableau de l'état actuel de cet empire; Contenant, 1. la description topographique des quinze provinces qui le composent, celle de la Tartarie, des Isles, & autres pays tributaires qui en dépendent; le nombre & la situation de ses villes, ... 2. un précis des connoissances le plus récemment parvenues en Europe sur le gouvernement, la religion, les moeurs & les usages, les arts & les sciences des chinois. Paris, chez Moutard, 1785.

. 4to. Pp. (iv), 798. Contemporary calf, spine gilt with five raised bands and red title-label, rubbed, hinges weak. Marbled endpapers and edges. First edition of this interesting and detailed work on China, based on Jesuit reports. Originally intended as the 13th volume of De Mailla's "Histoire générale de la Chine", translated from the Chinese by De Mailla. The manuscript was stored at Lyon when Grosier got hold of it and decided to publish it. Cordier BS 60. See Walravens, China illustrata, no. 87.

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