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COUPLET, PHILIPPE, S. J. Historia de una Gran Señora, Christiana de la China, llamada Doña Candida Hiù. Folding engraved portrait of Madame Xu; folding engraved plate of Chinese burial crucifixes. [16], 246, [2] pages. 8vo, 145x95 mm, contemporary limp vellum with thong ties, book block loose in binding; contents toned with light marginal dampstaining, scattered ink blots, first gathering loose with vertical paper crack in preliminary ¶6, bottom portion of both engravings torn off with image and text loss, repaired clean tear in crucifix plate. Armorial bookplate of Don Joseph Pardo de Figueroa dated 1733 on front pastedown; unidentified Franciscan branded ownership mark on top and bottom edges. Madrid: Antonio Roman, 1691
first edition in spanish of a biography of Candida Xu, granddaughter of the scholar, government official, and Catholic convert Xu Guangqi, originally published in 1688 in French. Palau 66364 (noting the scarcity of copies with the portrait and plate); Streit-Dindinger V, 2649; not in RBH or ABPC.
