
GONZALEZ DE MENDOZA (JUAN) Dell' historia della China descritta dal P.M. Gio. Gonzalez di Mendozza... nella lingua Spagnuola. Et tradotta nell' Italiana dal Magn. M. Francesco Avanzo, Citadino originario di Venetia. Parti due, divise in tre libri, & in tre viaggi fatti in quei paesi da i Padri Agostiniani, & Fraciscani, Venice, Andrea Muschio, 1586
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GONZALEZ DE MENDOZA (JUAN)
Footnotes
LORD MACARTNEY'S COPY OF THE FIRST SERIOUS SURVEY OF CHINA. Although Mendoza never went to China himself, he amassed a large number of reports from missionaries and had access to a collection of works in Chinese acquired by P. Martin de Rada in Fukien in 1575. His immensely successful book was first published in Rome as Historia de las cosas mas notables... del gran reyno de la China, 1585, and the following year saw the appearance of several Italian editions, including this first Venetian printing.
Provenance: George 1st Earl of Macartney (1737-1806), leader of the celebrated embassy to China in 1792, bookplate.