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Booksellers description: 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. In 1696 he published his Nouveaux m emories sur l' etat pr esent de la Chine causing great debate within the Chinese Rites Controversy. This is the first edition of the English translation of that work. ...The work is considered a classic in the field of early European accounts of China, of missions to and in China, and of travel in general.

Memoirs and Observations - Made in a Late Journey Through the Empire of China is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1697. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam in 1823, and the dissolution of the East India Company’s monopoly on the tea trade in 1833.