Gonzalez de Mendoza, Juan
First edition of the first major survey of China, and an early Americana, noted by Sabin as the “First European book in which Chinese characters occur” (Sabin); it was translated into Italian, French, Latin, German, and English by order of Richard Hakluyt by Robert Parke. It was a true 16th century best seller and the first serious work on China, influential for over a century. Finally, it also contains significant material on the Philippines.
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8vo, (152 x 98 mm). 15 ff., 440 pp. Seventeenth or eighteenth century calf, raised bands to spine, dark lettering piece, compartments richly gilt, split inner hinge, red-speckled edges slightly worn, some worming and wear to spine head. Title lightly browned, with a faint contemporary signature “Antoini Pillot(?)”and an erased signature at an early time, text somewhat trimmed, overall clean with only occasional foxing and light browning, dampstaining to pp. 289-337, 353-370, 391-420, else a very fine copy.
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