![RICCI, Matteo -- Nicolas TRIGAULT, editor. Histoire de l'expedition chrestienne au royaume de la Chine entreprinse [sic] par les pp. de la Compagnie de Iesus. Comprinse en cinq livres esquels est traicté fort exactement et fidelement des moeurs, loix et coustumes du pays, et des commencemens tres-difficiles de l'eglise naissante en ce royaume. Tirée des comentaires du Matthieu Riccius par Nicolas Trigault de la mesme compagnie. Translated into French by D. F. de Riquebourg-Trigault. Lyon: Horace Cardon, 1616.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2016/NYR/2016_NYR_12259_0185_000(ricci_matteo_--_nicolas_trigault_editor_histoire_de_lexpedition_chrest111548).jpg?w=1)
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RICCI, Matteo -- Nicolas TRIGAULT, editor. Histoire de l'expedition chrestienne au royaume de la Chine entreprinse [sic] par les pp. de la Compagnie de Iesus. Comprinse en cinq livres esquels est traicté fort exactement et fidelement des moeurs, loix et coustumes du pays, et des commencemens tres-difficiles de l'eglise naissante en ce royaume. Tirée des comentaires du Matthieu Riccius par Nicolas Trigault de la mesme compagnie. Translated into French by D. F. de Riquebourg-Trigault. Lyon: Horace Cardon, 1616.
8° (169 x 106 mm). Engraved title, frontispiece portrait and folding woodcut and letterpress plate. (Some minor pale foxing and spotting.) Contemporary limp vellum, title inscribed in manuscript on spine.
FIRST FRENCH EDITION. First published in Augsburg by Christopher Mangius, 1615 (see lot 183). The Latin edition consists of Trigault's translation from the Italian manuscript original of Ricci's diary, to which Trigault added other Ricci materials and a description of Ricci's death and burial.
Brunet V 946; Cordier Sinica I, 809; De Backer & Sommervogel VIII, 240; Streit V: 2096.
8° (169 x 106 mm). Engraved title, frontispiece portrait and folding woodcut and letterpress plate. (Some minor pale foxing and spotting.) Contemporary limp vellum, title inscribed in manuscript on spine.
FIRST FRENCH EDITION. First published in Augsburg by Christopher Mangius, 1615 (see lot 183). The Latin edition consists of Trigault's translation from the Italian manuscript original of Ricci's diary, to which Trigault added other Ricci materials and a description of Ricci's death and burial.
Brunet V 946; Cordier Sinica I, 809; De Backer & Sommervogel VIII, 240; Streit V: 2096.