Semedo, Alvaro. The history of that great and renowned monarchy of China : 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 countrey

Folger bibliographic ID: 266889
ESTC number: R22006
Wing number: S2490
Folger call number: 161- 327q
Folger holdings ID: 352872
Accession Number: 161327

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Signatures: A⁴ (A)1 B-2Q⁴ 2R⁴ (-2R4); 2C2 missigned 'Dd2'; 2K1 is blank on recto, verso contains an engraving (counted in pagination) The history of the invasion by the Tartars, p. [249]-304, has special title page on leaf 2K2r: Bellum tartaricum, or, The conquest of the great and most renovvned empire of China, by the invasion of the Tartars ... Written originally in Latine by Martin Martinius ... London : Printed for J. Crook, 1655 Frontispiece and one other plate signed by Thomas Cross Also available on microfilm and as a digital reproduction Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. University Microfilms, 1969. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700; 334:2). Reproduction of an original in the Harvard University Library

Item information about Folger 161- 327q

Armorial bookplate (motto: Clareo foueoque): The Revd. M.O. Clare, A.M. Manuscript shelfmark. Corner of front free endpaper cut off; autograph removed? Bound in plain brown sheep with gold-tooling and title on spine. Purchased from Quaritch (764:1499) 10 April 1957

Uniform title: Relação da propagação da fe no reyno da China e outros adjacentes. English
Extended title: The history of that great and renowned monarchy of China : 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 countrey / lately written in Italian by F. Alvarez , a Portughess ... ; now put into English by a person of quality, and illustrated with several mapps and figures ... ; to which is added the history of the late invasion, and conquest of that flourishing kingdom by the Tartars, with an exact account of the other affairs of China, till these present times

China Catholic Church Tatars

author: Semedo, Alvaro, 1585-1658
subject: Catholic Church
printer: Tyler, Evan
bookseller: Crook, John, -1669
printmaker: Cross, Thomas, active 1632-1682
former owner: Clare, M. O., A.M.