[Rarebooks] FS: Italian Jesuit's history of ancient China. Amsterdam: 1659

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(CHINA) Martini, Martin. SINICAE HISTORIAE DECAS PRIMA, Res a Gentis Origine 
ad Christum Natum in Extrema Asia, Sive Magno Sinarum Imperio Gestas Complexa. 
Amsterdam: Johannes Blaeu. 1659. 8vo. 413,(15)pp. Index. A few woodcut 
diagrams in the text. Cont. vellum, spine hand lettered. Vellum a bit soiled, 
otherwise a lovely clean copy. Small bookplate of the 19th century American 
collector George May Elwood.     $3,500.00 (trade discount allowed)
Second edition (the first is 1658, printed in Munich) of this important text 
on Chinese history by the Italian Jesuit Missionary Martini (1614-1661). In 
1638 he left for China and became the head of Hang-Tschou mission. He died in 
China in 1661. Cordier, SINICA, column 580; De Backer—Sommervogel, p. 650, #10; 
TENRI LIBRARY OF BOOKS ON CHRISTIAN MISSIONS (Vol. II), #108.

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