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FERNÁNDEZ DE NAVARRETE, DOMINGO. Tratados Históricos, Políticos, Éthicos, y Religiosos de la Monarchía de China. Title in red and black within type ornament border. [20], 518, [26] pages. Folio, 300x203 mm, contemporary limp vellum with spine title in ink and remnants of thong ties, front cover detached; contents toned with scattered foxing and stains, small paper fault in M2 affecting a several words, hole in blank lower outer corner of 2S4. Unidentified branded ownership mark on top, fore, and bottom edges. Madrid: Juan García Infanzón for Florian Anisson, 1676
first edition of the most extensive 17th-century Spanish work on China and the Philippines, by a Dominican missionary who spent a quarter century in the region. The book was openly critical of the Jesuit policy of accommodating native religious practices and drew European public attention to the Chinese Rites Controversy. A second volume was published in 1679; a continuation remained unpublished. Alden 676/72 (for the author's voyages to the Philippines via Mexico); Hill 592; Lust 21; Palau 89431; Streit V, 2440.
