China Illustrata

China Illustrata's frontispiece, depicting Schall von Bell and Matteo Ricci[1]

China Illustrata (Latin for "China Illustrated") is a book published in 1667 by the Jesuit Athanasius Kircher (1602–1680). Principally drawn from accounts of the Jesuit China Mission, it compiles 17th-century European knowledge on the Ming-era Chinese Empire and its neighboring countries.

  1. ^ Kircher (1667), Frontispiece.