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.
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
Provenance: some early inscriptions on flyleaves.
Bibliography
Brunet, II, 1662; Cordier Sinica I, 13; JCB (1919) II, p. 39; Palau 105510; Sabin 27780.