An Italian painter travels to China

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Author: Gherardini, Giovanni Battista
Title: La Chine mieux connue: ou les Chinois tels qu'il faut les voir ... précédés d'un voyage a la Chine, etc.
Place Published: Paris
Publisher:Ponthieu
Date Published: 1796-1797
Description:

2 vol. in 1. 203, [3], 195 pp. (12mo) 13.5x8.5 cm (5¼x3¼"), full speckled calf, black morocco spine label, spine titled and tooled in gilt.

Account of travels to China by Giovanni Battista Gherardini, an Italian painter who later settled in France. While painting a Jesuit church, he was invited to travel to China, which he did in 1698. While in the country, he painted frescos in a French Jesuit mission built in the Forbidden City before returning to France in 1705.
Condition Report: Some wear and rubbing to covers; text block is trimmed with no loss to text, internal foxing and offsetting; overall very good.