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    Juan. Histoire du grand royaume de la Chine
    GONZALÉZ DE MENDOZA
    Juan. Histoire du grand royaume de la Chine

    Lot 33. GONZALÉZ DE MENDOZA, Juan.

    Histoire du grand royaume de la Chine,

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    Histoire du grand royaume de la Chine, 93794
    situé aux Indes orientales: contenant la situation, antiquité, fertilité, religion … dudit royaume: plus, trois voyages faits vers iceluy en l’an 1577, 1579, & 1581 … ensemble un itineraire du nouveau monde, & le descouvrement du nouveau Mexique en l’an 1583. Translated by Luc de La Porte.
    [Geneva]: Jean Arnaud, 1606

    Fourth edition in French of Historia de las cosas mas notables y costumbres del gran reyno de la China (first published in Spanish in Rome, 1585), the first serious survey of China. “”This work is mainly a compilation from the narratives of Gaspar de Cruz, Martin de Rada (Herrada), and Pedro de Alforo, missionaries, to which is added the Itinerary of Father Martin Ignaxio”” (Cox I, p. 322, quoting Library of Congress). The sixth book contains the Itineraire du Nouvveau Monde by Ignacio de Loyola (d. 1606). According to Ortelius, the final part concerning China, provided him with more information than any other single treatise.

    Description

    8vo (15.9 x 9.6 cm). (Some browning and staining.) Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt neat repairs to extremities, an excellent example.

    Provenance: some early inscriptions on flyleaves.

    Bibliography

    Brunet, II, 1662; Cordier Sinica I, 13; JCB (1919) II, p. 39; Palau 105510; Sabin 27780.