Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Jesu China monumentis qvà sacris quà profanis, nec non variis naturæ et artis spectaculis, aliarumque rerum memorabilium argumentis illustrata. Auspiciis Leopoldi Primi roman. imper ...
Athanasius Kircher's 1667 Jesuit account of China, printed in Amsterdam by Janssonius and Weyerstraet and dedicated to the Holy Roman emperor Leopold I, is a scholarly survey of Chinese monuments, nature and learned matters. Its engravings include a decorated map with ornamental cartouche figures and a fantastical bridge over a waterfall, showing a spare, precise line style that a designer might borrow for cartographic borders and landscape vignettes.
