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JUAN GONZALEZ DE MENDOZA (1540-1617)
Historia de las cosas mas notables, ritmos y costumbres del gran Reyno de la China. Y Nuevamente anãdida por el mesmo Autor Con un Itinerario del Nuevo Mundo. Madrid: Querino Gerardo Flamenco for Blas de Robles, 1586. 8° (140 x 90mm). Woodcut arms to title-page and Zz8 versos, woodcut initials, contemporary signature at foot of title-page and last leaf. (Title-page repaired at inner margin, first line of the title and a few leaves closely shaved at upper edge, a few with slight loss of type, water-stained at inner margin of first and last gatherings). Later tree calf, red and green morocco labels gilt, modern morocco-backed box.
RARE FIRST MADRID PRINTING and attractively bound copy of the definitive text of the most important early history of China. Without the printed Chinese characters of the first edition but with an additional five chapters in Book Three, Part II, Itinerario del Nuevo Mundo, crediting authorship to Gonzalez de Mendoza. Palau 105497; Sabin 27776; Medina, Hispano-Americana 302; Cordier, Sinica 9.
Historia de las cosas mas notables, ritmos y costumbres del gran Reyno de la China. Y Nuevamente anãdida por el mesmo Autor Con un Itinerario del Nuevo Mundo. Madrid: Querino Gerardo Flamenco for Blas de Robles, 1586. 8° (140 x 90mm). Woodcut arms to title-page and Zz
RARE FIRST MADRID PRINTING and attractively bound copy of the definitive text of the most important early history of China. Without the printed Chinese characters of the first edition but with an additional five chapters in Book Three, Part II, Itinerario del Nuevo Mundo, crediting authorship to Gonzalez de Mendoza. Palau 105497; Sabin 27776; Medina, Hispano-Americana 302; Cordier, Sinica 9.
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