Oct 27, 2015 - Sale 2395

Sale 2395 - Lot 289

Price Realized: $ 375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
RICCI, MATTEO, S.J.; and TRIGAULT, NICOLAS, S.J. De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas suscepta ab Societate Jesu. [16] (of [18]), 712, [21] pages; lacks engraved additional title and folding plan. 8vo, 161x100 mm, disbound; contents browned, dark stain in upper outer corners in middle of volume, St. Charles Borromeo Seminary stamp and accession number on leaf after title. Cologne: Bernhard Walter, 1617

Additional Details

Third edition of the 1615 work on the Jesuit mission to China, translated and enlarged by Trigault from Ricci's manuscript journal. Lust 837; Streit-Dindinger V, 2099.