Athanasii Kircheri ... China monumentis qua sacris qua profanis, nec non variis naturae & artis spectaculis, aliarumque rerum memorabilium argumentis illustrata ...
China Illustrata is a 1667 Latin folio by the Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher, printed in Amsterdam by Jacobus a Meurs for scholars of Europe, and assembled from missionary reports on China's monuments, customs and natural wonders. Its engravings show a rocky mountain landscape with small towers, a seated ruler attended by servants receiving a kneeling figure, and an altar scene with a cross and kneeling worshipper, rendered in dense, finely hatched black-and-white line work that a designer could study for crowded, labelled plate composition.
