Author: MARTINI, MARTINO:
Title: Histoire de la Chine, traduite de Latin. Two volumes. Paris, Claude Barbin & Arnoul Seneuze, 1692.
Description: . 12mo. Pp. (xxii) (probably one blank leaf missing), pp. 527 with one engraved frontispiece (arms of de Beauvillier) and nine engraved plates; pp. (ii), 462 with five engraved plates. Contemporary full calf, richly gilt spines with five raised bands and red title labels, rubbed, weak joints, volume one's head of spine slightly chipped. Old ownership signature on front endpapers. Some minor spotting to the first volume but overall a very handsome copy.Rare first French edition of this important early European work on Chinese ancient history mainly based on Chinese sources. First published in Latin in 1658. It deals with Chinese rulers from the beginning of Chinese history (about 3000 BC) until the Christian era (Han dynasty). Martini's work remained for more than a century the only serious history of ancient China written by a European. He intended a sequel, but fell ill and died within a few years after this first part was published. "One of the first works to outline the problem posed on Chinese history to the Biblically based chronology of Europeans and especially to that based on the Vulgate" (Mungello). Martini (1614-61) was an Italian-born Jesuit, historian and cartographer who went to China when he was young and became a successful missionary ending his career as superior at the Hangzhou mission. Cordier BS 187. See Löwendahl 120 (Latin edition). Mungello (1989) pp. 124-33. Walravens (1987) p. 17.
Keywords: East Asia, china, chine, kina, chinese, history, historical, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, exploration, travel, jesuit,
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Title: Histoire de la Chine, traduite de Latin. Two volumes. Paris, Claude Barbin & Arnoul Seneuze, 1692.
Description: . 12mo. Pp. (xxii) (probably one blank leaf missing), pp. 527 with one engraved frontispiece (arms of de Beauvillier) and nine engraved plates; pp. (ii), 462 with five engraved plates. Contemporary full calf, richly gilt spines with five raised bands and red title labels, rubbed, weak joints, volume one's head of spine slightly chipped. Old ownership signature on front endpapers. Some minor spotting to the first volume but overall a very handsome copy.Rare first French edition of this important early European work on Chinese ancient history mainly based on Chinese sources. First published in Latin in 1658. It deals with Chinese rulers from the beginning of Chinese history (about 3000 BC) until the Christian era (Han dynasty). Martini's work remained for more than a century the only serious history of ancient China written by a European. He intended a sequel, but fell ill and died within a few years after this first part was published. "One of the first works to outline the problem posed on Chinese history to the Biblically based chronology of Europeans and especially to that based on the Vulgate" (Mungello). Martini (1614-61) was an Italian-born Jesuit, historian and cartographer who went to China when he was young and became a successful missionary ending his career as superior at the Hangzhou mission. Cordier BS 187. See Löwendahl 120 (Latin edition). Mungello (1989) pp. 124-33. Walravens (1987) p. 17.
Keywords: East Asia, china, chine, kina, chinese, history, historical, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, exploration, travel, jesuit,
Price: EUR 3500.00 = appr. US$ 3803.96 Seller: Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books
- Book number: 120271
- Book number: 120271
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