Author: MARTINI, Martino.
Title: De bello Tartarico historia; in quâ pacto Tartari hac nostra aetate Sinicum Imperium invaserint, ac ferč totum occuparint, narratur; eorumque mores breviter describuntur.
Description: Antverpiae, ex off. Plantiniana Balthasaris Moreti, 1654. Sm.8vo. Modern calf, spine ribbed with red morocco title label to spine. With woodcut on title-page and folding engraved map. 166,(2) pp. First edition. - 'Martino Martini's book became the best-known description of the Manchu conquest available to Europeans during the seventeenth century. The Latin text was republished seven times, and it was translated into nine other European languages. Altogether at least twenty-five editions and translations appeared before the end of the century' (Lach III,1, p.526). Martini (1614-1661) was an Austrian Jesuit missionary, cartographer and historian. He entered China in 1643 at Zhejiang during a time of internal unrest and upheaval. He was able to travel widely throughout the interior of China as far north as the Great Wall, surveying the region with exceptional accuracy for the first time. In 1650 he was sent back to Rome to deliver a realistic account of the Jesuits' practices. On his homeward voyage he stayed for seven months in Batavia. He left again for China in 1658 and reached Macao in 1659 and remained in China until his death. De bello Tartarico historia is considered important in Chinese history, as Martini was an eyewitness to and lived through the frightful occurrences which brought about the violent overthrow of the ancient Ming dynasty in the years 1643-1644. - At the time the best general description of China. - Scarce. Cordier, BS, col. 623; Lust 440; Walravens, China illustrata, 101; Löwendahl 107; Howgego p.689.
Keywords: Asia China
Title: De bello Tartarico historia; in quâ pacto Tartari hac nostra aetate Sinicum Imperium invaserint, ac ferč totum occuparint, narratur; eorumque mores breviter describuntur.
Description: Antverpiae, ex off. Plantiniana Balthasaris Moreti, 1654. Sm.8vo. Modern calf, spine ribbed with red morocco title label to spine. With woodcut on title-page and folding engraved map. 166,(2) pp. First edition. - 'Martino Martini's book became the best-known description of the Manchu conquest available to Europeans during the seventeenth century. The Latin text was republished seven times, and it was translated into nine other European languages. Altogether at least twenty-five editions and translations appeared before the end of the century' (Lach III,1, p.526). Martini (1614-1661) was an Austrian Jesuit missionary, cartographer and historian. He entered China in 1643 at Zhejiang during a time of internal unrest and upheaval. He was able to travel widely throughout the interior of China as far north as the Great Wall, surveying the region with exceptional accuracy for the first time. In 1650 he was sent back to Rome to deliver a realistic account of the Jesuits' practices. On his homeward voyage he stayed for seven months in Batavia. He left again for China in 1658 and reached Macao in 1659 and remained in China until his death. De bello Tartarico historia is considered important in Chinese history, as Martini was an eyewitness to and lived through the frightful occurrences which brought about the violent overthrow of the ancient Ming dynasty in the years 1643-1644. - At the time the best general description of China. - Scarce. Cordier, BS, col. 623; Lust 440; Walravens, China illustrata, 101; Löwendahl 107; Howgego p.689.
Keywords: Asia China
Price: EUR 1650.00 = appr. US$ 1793.30 Seller: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)
- Book number: 10224
- Book number: 10224