Author: Cummins, J. S. [ed.]
Title: The Travels and Controversies of Friar Domingo Navarrete
Description: Cambridge, Printed for the Hakluyt Society at the Cambridge University Press, 1962. Hardcover. pp. cxx, 163; x, 165-475. Bound in sky-blue cloth with lettering and decoration in gilt and blind. Maps and illustrations present as called-for. Light shelfwear, bookplate to ffeps, red ribbon page marker taped to rfeps, contents unmarked, binding sound; very good in good+ slightly worn and sunned dustjackets, showing minor spotting and short closed tears along top edge of volume II. Works issued by The Hakluyt Society, Second Series, Part 2, No. 118 & 119. "A translation of the autobiographical portions of the Tratados Historicos, with interpolations from his unpublished ‘Controversias' and other works. Describes travels in China and the outward and homeward journeys. The origin and nature of the Jesuit-Dominican controversy over the Chinese rites are summarized in the editor's Introduction. The main pagination of this and the following volume is continuous..Includes Navarrete's account of the island of Santo Domingo (1679) and appendices on various matters such as the detention of the missionaries in Canton, 1666-70, and Navarrete's relations with Richard Cony, governor of St Helena. .

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