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JUAN DE PALAFOX Y MENDOÇA (1600-1659)
Historia de la Conquista de la China por el Tartaro. Escrita Por el Illustrissimo Señor, Don Juan de Palafox y Mendoça, siendo Obispo de la Puebla de los Angeles, y Virrey de la Nueva-España. Paris: Acosta de Antonio Bertier, 1670. 8° (165 x 100mm). Engraved frontispiece, woodcut title-page vignette. (Frontispiece stained on verso, light stains at some lower corners, contemporary inscription on title-page.) Contemporary vellum with ties, manuscript-lettered spine, modern morocco-backed box.
FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION and the only work on China by this Jesuit author. Mexico from 1640-1649 was in Palafox and was in charge of the dispatch of vessels to the Philippines, giving him access to the Jesuit letters from China which were sent to Mexico via Macao and Manila. From these letters he compiled this account of the conquest of the Ming Dynasty by the Manchus in 1644. The fall of the Ming, under which the Jesuits had established themselves in China, would have been a vital concern to them. A French translation was hurriedly prepared and printed by Bertier in Paris the same year as his first Spanish printing. Palau notes a Madrid printing in folio, 1670 of which no trace can be found. Palafox is best known for his large literary output on New Spain and as a critic of Spain's treatment of the Indians. Cordier Sinica 627; Palau 209789; Lust 447 for the French edition.
Historia de la Conquista de la China por el Tartaro. Escrita Por el Illustrissimo Señor, Don Juan de Palafox y Mendoça, siendo Obispo de la Puebla de los Angeles, y Virrey de la Nueva-España. Paris: Acosta de Antonio Bertier, 1670. 8° (165 x 100mm). Engraved frontispiece, woodcut title-page vignette. (Frontispiece stained on verso, light stains at some lower corners, contemporary inscription on title-page.) Contemporary vellum with ties, manuscript-lettered spine, modern morocco-backed box.
FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION and the only work on China by this Jesuit author. Mexico from 1640-1649 was in Palafox and was in charge of the dispatch of vessels to the Philippines, giving him access to the Jesuit letters from China which were sent to Mexico via Macao and Manila. From these letters he compiled this account of the conquest of the Ming Dynasty by the Manchus in 1644. The fall of the Ming, under which the Jesuits had established themselves in China, would have been a vital concern to them. A French translation was hurriedly prepared and printed by Bertier in Paris the same year as his first Spanish printing. Palau notes a Madrid printing in folio, 1670 of which no trace can be found. Palafox is best known for his large literary output on New Spain and as a critic of Spain's treatment of the Indians. Cordier Sinica 627; Palau 209789; Lust 447 for the French edition.
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