Nanjing China 1748 Qing Empire Landscape View Pagodas Didot engraved print Brussels Publisher's pictorial art nouveau color

Publisher's pictorial art nouveau color lithographed  paper wrappers

Illustrated throughout with 64 well printed chromo-lithographed plates

two large sea monsters and stipple oceans with interior detail impart a visual quality unique to this era

offered here entirely as issued

old ink stains off at right edge in side blank margin

Nanjing China 1748 Qing Empire Landscape View Pagodas Didot engraved print Brussels Publisher's pictorial art nouveau colorVue de Nanking tiree de Nieuhof. (Old Prints, 18th Century Prints, Landscape Views, Asia, Qing Empire, China, Nanjing, Farming, Pagoda Towers). Issued 1748, Paris by Didot. Lovely 18th century antique engraved birds eye prospect view with hand color. Minor light surface age wear and toning as typical, some faint minor foxing in the blank margins, overall the image is clean, well preserved and very attractive. Original center fold as issued. Sheet