Beautés de l'histoire de la Chine, du Japon et des Tartares, ou Tableau des principaux événemens de l'histoire de ces peuples [...], orné de douze planches en taille-douce.

2 vol. 12mo: front.-8-435, front.-[4]-480 pp.; 10 pl. (browning, some foxing and soiling).

Contemp. mottled calf, gilt-orn. flat spines with labels (scratches on covers, corners sl. rubbed, head of vol. 2 missing). Slipcases.

Ill. with 12 beautiful copper-engr. plates. Works intended for the youth aiming at perfecting its education while making known the history of these so exotic countries in the eyes of the Westerners, by the historian Francois-Marie Marchant de Beaumont (1769-1832).
Ref. BnF.
Prov. 19th-c. ms. entry.