THE HISTORY OF THAT GREAT AND RENOWNED MONARCHY OF CHINA with Second Part: BELLUM TARTARICUM or the CONQUEST of the Great and most Renowned Empire of CHINA by the INVASION of the TARTARS.

Language: English

Published by London E. Tyler for John Crook and are to be sold at his Shop at the Sign of the Ship in S. Pauls Church-yard, 1655

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TITLE TO FIRST PART CONTINUED: Wherein all the particular Provinces are accurately described, as also the Dispositions, Manners, Learning, Lawes, Militia, Government, and Religion of the People. Together with the Traffick and Commodities of that Country. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION 1655, IN TWO PARTS, EX LIBRARY COPY. 4to, approximately 280 x 180 mm, 11 x 7 inches, portrait frontispiece, LARGE FOLDING MAP OF CHINA, costume plate, portrait frontispiece facing title page of Bellum followed by a map, all engraved, pages: [10], 1-308, plus 2 pages of adverts, nicely rebound in full modern calf, gilt lettered label with gilt rules and date to spine, gilt design to upper cover, blind decoration to both covers, marbled endpapers. Blind stamp to frontispiece hardly visible, faint round ink stamp to the blank side of both title pages and 1 in an outer margin not affecting text, pale withdrawn stamp under the round stamp on verso first title page (see attached image), lower corner on blank side of frontispiece soiled and just showing on recto, title page slightly dusty, small closed tear running into image of large folding map neatly repaired on blank side, no loss to image and hardly visible, 2 small tears to top margins neatly repaired, not affecting text, 2 tiny rust holes, 1 in lower margin not affecting text, the other in the text just affecting 1 letter either side, text easily legible, pale age-browning and foxing to 4 pages at beginning and 4 at rear and several margins, otherwise a very good copy. See: Bjorn Lowendahl, Sino-Western Relations, Conceptions of China, Cultural Influences and the Development of Sinology, Supplement Volume, page 12, No.1564 for Bellum; John Lust, Western Books on China Published up to 1850, page 20, No. 72; Henri Cordier, Bibliotheca Sinica, Volume 1, page 25; ESTC R22006. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. Postage at cost and al parcels sent fully tracked and fully insured.…

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Title
THE HISTORY OF THAT GREAT AND RENOWNED MONARCHY OF CHINA with Second Part: BELLUM TARTARICUM or the CONQUEST of the Great and most Renowned Empire of CHINA by the INVASION of the TARTARS.
Author
SEMEDO, F. Alvarez. and Martin Martinius.
Publisher
London E. Tyler for John Crook and are to be sold at his Shop at the Sign of the Ship in S. Pauls Church-yard
Publication year
1655
Condition
Very good
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
Edition
1st Edition
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