MEMOIRS AND OBSERVATIONS TYPOGRAPHICAL, PHYSICAL, MATHEMATICAL, MECHANICAL, NATURAL, CIVIL, AND ECCLESIASTICAL, MADE IN A LATE JOURNEY THROUGH THE EMPIRE OF CHINA, AND PUBLISHED IN SEVERAL LETTERS PARTICULARLY UPON THE CHINESE POTTERY AND VARNISHING, THE SILK AND OTHER MANUFACTURES, THE PEARL FISHING, THE HISTORY OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS, DESCRIPTION OF THEIR CITIES AND PUBLICK WORKS, NUMBER OF PEOPLE, THEIR LANGUAGE, MANNERS AND COMMERCE, THEIR HABITS, OECONOMY, AND GOVERNMENT, THE PHILOSOPHY OF CONFUCIUS, THE STATE OF CHRISTIANITY : WITH MANY OTHER CURIOUS AND USEFUL REMARKS.1697.London, by Louis le Comte, [24], 527, [1] p., [5] leaves of plates, frontis. (port.), 3 plt. (2 fold.), folding table, the first English edition of his memoires originally published in French a year earlier, the engraved frontispiece portrait of Emperor Cam-hy [Kangxi] signed "M. Vander Gucht sculp.", other folding plates depicting "The throne of the emperor of China", "Outom-Chu, a tree in China", "The observatory at Pekin" (folding) and a folding table of "All the words that form the Chinese tongue", 20 x 12.5 x 4.3cm.Provenance: Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, 13 Tufton Street, London [bookplate]一六九七年倫敦 《中國近事情報道》英文版，李明Louis Le Comte (1655 – 1728) began his novitiate in October 1671, was sent to China as a mathematician and a member of the 1687 Jesuit mission under the leadership of Jean de Fontaney, and returned to Europe in 1691. The book, which includes a portrait of the Emperor Kangxi, was included in the National Palace Museum exhibition, Emperor Kangxi and the Sun King Louis XIV, 2011, cat. no. II-9.

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