Das mächtige Kayser-Reich Sina und die Asiatische Tartarey: vor Augen gestellet, in aussführlicher Beschreibung der Königreiche, Provinzien, Landschafften, Städte, Flüsse.).

With engraved head-piece on opening page, woodcut initials, 16 engr. plates (of 33) with 24 illus. (7) leaves (frontispiece and main title lacking), misnumbered 167 (of 168 pp., lacking pp. 138/139, small portion of p. 127 remargined, no loss of text), 2 ff. index. Folio. Modern vellum (rebacked). (Augsburg, Jacob Koppmayer, 1688). (Bound with: THE SAME). Anhang, Welcher Zu Vollführung derer dem dritten Theil beygefügten Beschreibung der annoch wehrendne Siegriechen Progressen Ihro Kayerl. Majest. und dero hohen Alliirten Waffen wider den Erb-Feind vorgestellet. Die Kriegs-Begebenheiten dess 1686. und 1687. Jahres. 84 pp. Augsburg, Jacob Koppmayer, 1688. L"Delineatio provinciarum Pannoniae et imperii Turcici in Oriente", part 3. Ad I: First German edition of Joh. Chr. Wagner's well-known description of the Orient which helped shape the Western world's image of Muslims. It was written after the Ottomans were defeated in 1683. Wagner from Nuremberg (1640-c. 1701) was a theologian and a scholar. It seems that he has emigrated to Augsburg in 1683. He never traveled himself but devoted most of his life to geographical studies. The illustrations in this present incomplete work show views of cities, costumes, the Great Wall, a.o. Some engravings are partly copied after Kirchner's "China" since in the China literature of the 17th century illustrations are rather rare. A few illustrations were done by H. Irnsinger, J. Chr. and Melchior Haffner, Ulm artists. Most of the views are lacking. Contains: Engr. head-piece; double-page plate with view of Nanking (Nanjing); full-page plate with 2 views of Nanking (Nanjing); full-page illustration Hoher Turm aus Porcellan aus Nanking (Nanjing); full-page plate with each 2 images costumes and Great Wall; full-page plate with botanical illustrations; full-page plate with 2 botanical illustrations each; full-page plate with portrait of the Imperator; full-page plate with standards, pennants and other objects; full-page plate depicting Matzou (Temple of the Goddes Matzou); full-page plate of the Flying Bridge in Xensi (Shaanxi); double-page map of Tartaria; full-page plate with costumes of two tartars; full-page plate with portraits of Han and Deva, below costumes of courtiers in Tangut; full-page plate with two illus. of male and female costumes from the Kingdom of China; full-page female costumes from Coin, male costume from Necbal; full-page plate with two costumes of Lamas and female costumes from Necbal. - VD17 3:301601H; Lipperheide Le 5; cf. Paisey IV, W 59. ORIENT ; yes ; ASIA: CHINA ; GEOGRAPHY: TRAVEL ;