Author: SPITZEL, GOTTLIEB (SPIZEL, THEOPHIL):
Title: De re literaria sinensium commentarius. Lugd. Bat., Ex officina Petri Hackii, 1660.
Description: . 12mo. Pp. xxiv, 306, (20). With engraved extra title (dated 1661), two engraved plates and one more plate, all included in the pagination. Small tear to title expertly repaired on verso. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt, lightly rubbed. Copy of Olov Bertil Andersson, Swedish sinologist. First edition. "Baroque dream of a China involved with the ancient Middle East, Classical antiquity, etc." (Lust). Cordier BS 1412. Lust 77 (no plates). Löwendahl 123. Walravens (1987) 163.

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