ORLÉANS, PIERRE JOSEPH D': - Histoire des deux conquérans tartares qui ont subjugué la Chine. Paris, Claude Barbin, 1688.

. Pp. xxx, 320 + 37. (Half title not present). Contemporary calf, spine with five raised bands, richly gilt and red title label, rubbed. Bookplate. First edition, first issue. A second issue appeared in 1689. An historical account of the conquest of the Manchu based on the works of Martini and Schall, including the two journeys of the Flemish Jesuit Verbiest with the emperor K'ang-hsi'; one to Manchuria in 1682 and one to Mongolia in 1683. Cordier BS 629. Löwendahl 190. Streit (1929) 2596.

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