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Title: Relatione della grande monarchia della Cina. Rome, sumptibus Hermann Scheus, 1643.
Description: . Small 4to. Pp. (viii), 309, index (14). With one engraved portrait. Title within woodcut frame. Contemporary vellum, stained. New end-papers. First three leaves reinforced at inner margin. Text partly browned.First Italian edition of this informative treatise on China mainly written for the support of the Jesuit mission there. Prepared by Giambattista Giattinio and based on the first Spanish edition (Madrid in 1642). It includes some amendments as well as additional material. This Italian version is the preferred edition according to Lach & Van Kley. çlvaro Semedo (1586-1658), Portuguese Jesuit, lived and worked in China for over twenty years (1617-37). This account deals with various provinces, inhabitants, manners and customs, language, government, military art, etc. Cordier BS 24. Lust 74. Löwendahl, Sino-Western Relations, 95. Walravens (1987) 17. Streit (1929), 2182.
Keywords: East Asia, china. chine, chinese, kina, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration, voyage
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Title: Relatione della grande monarchia della Cina. Rome, sumptibus Hermann Scheus, 1643.
Description: . Small 4to. Pp. (viii), 309, index (14). With one engraved portrait. Title within woodcut frame. Contemporary vellum, stained. New end-papers. First three leaves reinforced at inner margin. Text partly browned.First Italian edition of this informative treatise on China mainly written for the support of the Jesuit mission there. Prepared by Giambattista Giattinio and based on the first Spanish edition (Madrid in 1642). It includes some amendments as well as additional material. This Italian version is the preferred edition according to Lach & Van Kley. çlvaro Semedo (1586-1658), Portuguese Jesuit, lived and worked in China for over twenty years (1617-37). This account deals with various provinces, inhabitants, manners and customs, language, government, military art, etc. Cordier BS 24. Lust 74. Löwendahl, Sino-Western Relations, 95. Walravens (1987) 17. Streit (1929), 2182.
Keywords: East Asia, china. chine, chinese, kina, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration, voyage
Price: EUR 3000.00 = appr. US$ 3260.54 Seller: Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books
- Book number: 99798
- Book number: 99798
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