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Due lettere annue della Cina del 1610 e del 1611. Rome: Bartolomeo Zannetti, 1615.
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TRIGAULT, Nicolas (1577-1628)
Due lettere annue della Cina del 1610 e del 1611. Rome: Bartolomeo Zannetti, 1615.
First edition, from the library of Cardinal Scipione Borghese Caffarelli (1576-1633), nephew of Pope Paul V. ‘These letters stress the importance of keeping Peking at the centre of the missionary effort in China, the need to respect Chinese ways of dealing with foreigners, the contrast between the peace and order in China and the turbulence in Japan, and the desirability of making China into an independent province of the Society’ (D.F. Lach, Asia in the Making of Europe, Chicago, IL and London: University of Chicago Press, 1993, III, p.372). Another Italian edition appeared at Milan and Latin editions were issued at Augsburg and Antwerp, all in 1615, before a Polish translation was published at Cracow the following year. Cordier, Sinica 808; Lowendahl 55.
Octavo (160 x 105mm). Title woodcut, initials (dampstaining in a few fore-margins, E5 with chip in blank margin). Contemporary limp vellum, ornately gilt with the arms of Cardinal Scipione Borghese Caffarelli on covers, lettered in manuscript on upper cover (lacking ties, hinges discreetly restored).
Due lettere annue della Cina del 1610 e del 1611. Rome: Bartolomeo Zannetti, 1615.
First edition, from the library of Cardinal Scipione Borghese Caffarelli (1576-1633), nephew of Pope Paul V. ‘These letters stress the importance of keeping Peking at the centre of the missionary effort in China, the need to respect Chinese ways of dealing with foreigners, the contrast between the peace and order in China and the turbulence in Japan, and the desirability of making China into an independent province of the Society’ (D.F. Lach, Asia in the Making of Europe, Chicago, IL and London: University of Chicago Press, 1993, III, p.372). Another Italian edition appeared at Milan and Latin editions were issued at Augsburg and Antwerp, all in 1615, before a Polish translation was published at Cracow the following year. Cordier, Sinica 808; Lowendahl 55.
Octavo (160 x 105mm). Title woodcut, initials (dampstaining in a few fore-margins, E5 with chip in blank margin). Contemporary limp vellum, ornately gilt with the arms of Cardinal Scipione Borghese Caffarelli on covers, lettered in manuscript on upper cover (lacking ties, hinges discreetly restored).
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