Author: TRIGAULT Nicolas (1577 - 1628) - Matteo RICCI (1552 -1610) :
Title: De Christiana Expeditione apud Sinas suscepta ab Societate Iesu, ex P. Matthaei Riccii eiusd[em] Soc. Co[m]mentariis, Libri V. ...in quibus Sinensis Reg. mores, leges atque instituta ed novae illius Ecclesiae difficilli ma primordia accurate ed summa fide describuntur. Auctore P. Nicolao Trigautio Belga ex. eadem Societ. Coloniae.... Editio recens ab eodem Auctore multis in locis aucta ed recognita.....
Description: Coloniae (Köln) , Sumptibus Bernardi Gualteri, 1617, in-8°, 168 x 102 mm, engraved architectural title page featuring a portico with the statues of Ricci and Franciscus Xaverius and a small map of China + (16) nn pp (typographical title, dedication to Pope Paul Vth, ad lectorum, index) + 712 pp + (21)(index rerum) + (1)(bl) + folding wood-engraved groundfloor bound in between pp. 704-705. Bound in contemporary ivory colored vellum. With a large gilt supra libro of Paul Carl Welser von Neunhof (1722 - 1788). A very fine complete copy in a nice binding, notwithstanding some very faint, but evenly browned pages. The Jesuit Niklaas Trigault ( or Trigaut ) (Douai 1577 - Hangzhou 1628) , Chinese name Jin Nige Sibaio, first visited China in 1610, he returned to Rome in 1614 . With him he brought the extensive notes made by Ricci on the history of the Jesuit mission in China, together with the first accurate western description of this country. He translated these notes in Latin and added himself many interesting observations on China and the Chinese. The book was published in Augsburg in 1615. Our book is a copy from the second enlarged edition, the first complete one, reworked by the author. This second edition was first published in Lyon in 1616. See De Backer-Sommervogel vol. VIII pp. col.239., article on Ricci by Sir Henry Yule (Enc. Brittanica 11th ed.). USTC N° 2095591 (Rare- 10 copies - 5 in Germany and the Netherlands ; 5 in the UK).. .

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