Artist: Johan Nieuhof (1618 - 1672), after.
Engraver: Michel Aubert (French, 1700–1757 Paris).
Title: Prestres ou Moines de Fo, tires de Nieuhof (Buddhist priests or monks taken from Nieuhof).
Titled, Signes and Numbered: Prestres ou Moines de Fo, tires de Nieuhof. M Aubert sculp. T.VI. No. XXIX.
Dimensions: Image 7 5/8" x 5 1/2". Sheet 10" x 7".
Publisher: François Didot 1689-1757. Colleges highly esteemed this prominent publisher. He even was elected Syndic of the Booksellers' Corporation. He published "Histoire des voyages..." (20 volumes), widely recognized for polygraphy perfection.
Edition: Histoire générale des voyages ou Nouvelle collection de toutes les relations de voyages par mer et par terre, qui ont été publiées jusqu'à présent dans les differentes langues de toutes les nations connues,... Enrichie de Cartes géographiques. Nouvellement composées sur les observations les plus authentiques,... Nouvelle édition, revue sur l'original anglois,...[Translated from English and compiled by Prévost].
Date: 1748.
Materials and Techniques: copper-plate engraving on laid paper. Indistinct watermark.
Condition: Trimmed margins. A detailed condition report is available on demand.
Part of: Histoire des Voyages by Abbe Prevost. Paris, Tome VI, 1748.
Museums and Libraries: Biodiversity Heritage Library.
The Title page https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50807313
The Engraving https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50807712
Note: Priests of China Skull. The Ushnisha is the thirty-second of the 32 major marks of the Buddha. The thirty-second of these is that the Buddha has a fleshy or cranial protuberance at the top of his head (Wiki).
Johan Nieuhof (1618 – 1672) was a Dutch traveler who described his journeys to China in the book compiled and developed by his brother Hendrik "An embassy from the East-India Company". Dutch edition 1665, the French and English translations were published in the same year.
Title page https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42546350
Engraving https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42546707