Mémoires concernant l'histoire, les sciences, les arts, les mœurs, les usages, & c. des Chinois: par les missionnaires de Pekin. 1–15.

Paris, chez Nyon (1–4) & chez Nyon l’aîné (5–12), 1776–86. 4to. iv + xvi + 489 + 474–488 pp. (last leaf blank); + viii + 652 pp. (last leaf blank); + 504; + iv + 512 pp. (last leaf blank); + iv + 520; + iv + 380; + [xviii] + 396; + viii + 376; + xxiv + 472 pp. (last leaf blank); + xii + 512 pp. (last leaf blank); + xxiv + 612 pp. (last leaf blank); + iv + viii + 532 pp.; + iv + xvi + 308 pp. + iv pp. + pp. 309–544; + xvi + 564 pp. (last leaf blank); + iv + xx + 516 pp + 166 engraved plates, engraved portraits, engraved maps and tables (some folding). Vols. 1–12 bound in contemporary tree calf, neatly rebacked with spines decorated in gilt imitating the original decor, edges yellow; lacks final, blank leaf in vols. 1, 2, 4, 5 and 9. All volumes with oval stamp “Bibliothèque de Tsarskoe Selo” on half-title or title and bookplate of Calvin Bullock; vols. 13–15 sewn as issued, entirely uncut, in original wrappers, vol. 15 somewhat loose in binding.
Vols. 1–12 from the library of Alexander I at Tsarskoe Selo, and probably first in the library of Catherine the Great (1729–1796). Tsarskoe Selo, Catherine the Great’s favorite palace, was the third imperial residence to be graced with Western European chinoiserie. Without vol. 16, published in 1814. Cordier, BS, 1, cols. 54–55. China illustrata nova h, 589, 596, 601, 605, 607, 608, 628, 629, 633, 643, 648, 649, 658, and 675.

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