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GONZÁLEZ DE MENDOZA, JUAN. Historia de las Cosas mas notables, Ritos y Costumbres, del gran Reyno del China. [30] (of [32]), 440 pages, including blank last preliminary leaf; lacks papal license leaf after title. 8vo, 165x105 mm, 18th-century vellum boards; marginal foxing and dampstains, old stamps on title, bookplate of Philippus à Podiomirteto on verso, accession number on facing page, small piece missing from outer margin of M1 just touching text. Rome: Bartolomeo Grassi, 1585
first edition. "For upwards of a century Mendoza's treatise remained the standard Western classic on the Celestial Empire" (Penrose). Pages 341-440 contain Martín Ignacio de Loyola's narrative of his 1582-84 westward circumnavigation passing through Puerto Rico, Santo Domingo, and Mexico on the way to China. Alden 585/37; Penrose, pages 285-86; Wagner, Spanish Southwest 7; Streit-Dindinger IV, 1972; Palau 105495.
