Search Results: the history of the great and by semedo alvarez

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Primary Sources, Historical Collections, 2011-02-18. Paperback. Good.

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London, E. Tyler for John Crook, and are to be sold at his Shop at the Sign of the Ship in S. Pauls Church-yard, 1655.. TITLE CONTINUED: Wherein all the particular Provinces are accurately described, as also the Dispositions, Manners, Learning, Lawes, Militia, Government, and Religion of the People. Together with the Traffick and Commodities of that Country. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION 1655, IN TWO PARTS, EX LIBRARY COPY. 4to, approximately 280 x 180 mm, 11 x 7 inches, portrait frontispiece, large folding map, costume plate, portrait frontispiece before the title page of Bellum followed by a map, all engraved, pages: [10], 1-308, plus 2 pages of adverts, rebound in full modern calf, gilt lettered label with gilt rules and date to spine, gilt design to upper cover, blind decoration to both covers, marbled endpapers. Blind stamp to frontispiece hardly visible, round ink stamp to the blank side of both title pages and 1 in an outer margin not affecting text, pale withdrawn stamp under the round stamp on verso… Read More

London 1655, Crook. Recent full calf, etched folding map, 2 etched plates, 19 x 29.2 cm., lower edge of map in facsimile else clean, firm, solid, internally clean & bright,very good plus example, parts 1,2, 248p. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION . *** **** *** . . . A FABULOUS & EARLY JESUIT ACCOUNT . . . OF LIFE IN CHINA . . . A FASCINATING 1655 PRIMARY RESOURCE . *** SUBTITLE: continued: "Together with the Traffic & Commodities of that Country. Now put into English by a Person of Quality, and Illustrated with Several Maps and Figures, to Satisfy the Curious & Advance the Trade of Great Britain." . THE FIRST & BEST ENGLISH EDITION: This is the First English translation of the original Italian title Semedo wrote in 1643: RELATIONE DELLA GRANDE MONARCHIA DELLA CINA, translated into English, by "A Person of Quality." . *** WRITTEN IN "OLD" ENGLISH" These two titles were written in "Old English" of the period & commonly used "F" for… Read More

London 1655, Crook. Full old leather, raised bands, 308p., copper etched folded map, facsimile frontispiece, 2 parts bound in 1, very good, 18 x 28.5 cm., complete with Bellum solid copy, 18 x 29.5 cm., firm & solid.*FIRST ENG. EDITION* . *** **** *** . . . A FABULOUS & EARLY JESUIT ACCOUNT . . . OF LIFE IN CHINA . . . A FASCINATING 1655 PRIMARY RESOURCE . *** SUBTITLE: continued: "Together with the Traffic & Commodities of that Country. Now put into English by a Person of Quality, and Illustrated with Several Maps and Figures, to Satisfy the Curious & Advance the Trade of Great Britain." . THE FIRST & BEST ENGLISH EDITION: This is the First English translation of the original Italian title Semedo wrote in 1643: RELATIONE DELLA GRANDE MONARCHIA DELLA CINA, translated into English, by "A Person of Quality." . *** WRITTEN IN "OLD" ENGLISH" These two titles were written in "Old English" of the period & commonly used "F" for… Read More

London 1655, Crook.Recent full calf, 308p., 2 etched maps, 1 folding, 3 etched plates, 2 parts in 1, nicely bound, firm & solid, very clean+ copy, complete with 'Bellum & Addition,' 18 x 29.5 cm., a few tiny mends. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION . *** **** *** . . . A FABULOUS & EARLY JESUIT ACCOUNT . . . OF LIFE IN CHINA . . . A FASCINATING 1655 PRIMARY RESOURCE . *** SUBTITLE: continued: "Together with the Traffic & Commodities of that Country. Now put into English by a Person of Quality, and Illustrated with Several Maps and Figures, to Satisfy the Curious & Advance the Trade of Great Britain." . THE FIRST & BEST ENGLISH EDITION: This is the First English translation of the original Italian title Semedo wrote in 1643: RELATIONE DELLA GRANDE MONARCHIA DELLA CINA, translated into English, by "A Person of Quality." . *** WRITTEN IN "OLD" ENGLISH" These two titles were written in "Old English" of the period & commonly used… Read More

London: Printed for John Crook, and are to be Sold at His Shop at the Sign of the Ship .., 1655. First Edition. Full Leather. Very Good. Quarto. Pp. [10], 308, [2] - publisher's adverts, engraved frontispiece portrait plus 1 engraved plate, folding map. On a separate title-page: 'Bellum Tartaricum, or the Conquest of The Great and most Renowned Empire of China, By the Invasion of the Tartars, who in these last seven years, have wholly subdued that vast Empire. ... Written originally in Latine by Martin Martinius, present in the Countrey at most of the Passages herein related, And now faithfully Translated into English," (at page [249] - 308), engraved frontispiece portrait, engraved map dated 1654. Period style rebind in full calf, 5 raised bands, gilt-stamped spine title, sewn headbands, new endpapers distressed, folding map now mounted, dust soiling and thumbing to margins as to be expected, otherwise a superb copy of a very important book. Alvarez Semedo served as Portuguese Procurado General for… Read More