Apr 21, 2009 - Sale 2176

Sale 2176 - Lot 61

Price Realized: $ 1,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
GONZÁLES DE MENDOZA, JUAN. Historia del Gran Regno Della China. 508, [80] pages. 12mo, later 19th-century Jansenist-style navy morocco by Darlaud, scuffed; margins trimmed affecting some sidenotes, contents washed with slight residual toning, occasional early underscoring and cropped marginalia. Faint stamp of the Paris bookseller Charles Chadenat on front endpaper. Venice: Andrea Muschio [i. e., London: John Wolfe], 1587
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Comprehensive work on China and its people first published in Spanish in 1585 and in Italian in 1586, "for upwards of a century . . . the standard Western classic on the Celestial Empire" (Penrose). The book is also the first European publication to give a substantial account of the Philippines, and includes narratives by Martín Ignacio de Loyola of his travels around the world and by Antonio de Espejo of his expedition to New Mexico. Alden 587/23; Cordier (Sinica) 11; Palau 105505; Penrose, pages 285-86; STC 12004; Streit-Dindinger IV, 1994; Woodfield 28.