Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Jesu China monumentis, quà sacris quà profanis, nec non variis naturae & artis spectaculis, aliarumque rerum memorabilium argumentis illustrata, auspiciis Leopoldi Primi roman. imper
Athanasius Kircher's 1667 Amsterdam folio on China, published by Janssonius and Weyerstraet and drawn largely from Jesuit missionary reports for a learned European readership. The engraved plates show a Chinese monumental stone bridge with cartouche inscriptions, a robed scholar in an interior with calligraphic panels and writing implements, and costumed figures in paired registers, offering a designer restrained period line work, strong architectural perspective and carefully ordered figure grids.
