Notizie varie dell'imperio della China e di qualche altro paese adiacente. Con la vita di Confucio [...].

12mo: xv-[1]-185-[3] pp. (some light foxing, small stain in upper margin, sm. stamp on t.-p. rubbed out with loss of a few letters).

Cont. mottled sheepskin, gilt decorated spine on raised bands, sprinkled edges (head and tail lacking, joints split, large scratches on front cover, rubbed, corners bumped, ms. entries - one modern - and handwriting exercises on flyleaves).

First edition of this work on China, adjacent countries and Confucius. Illustrated with 2 woodcut emblems of the Accademia della Crusca. Consists of: "Relazione della China cavata da un ragionamento tenuto col padre Giovanni Grueber [...]" (results of a meeting between the Jesuit missionary Johann Grueber (1623-1680), Lorenzo Magalotti and Carlo Dati held in Florence in 1665),- letters of Grueber,- a life of Confucius and the "Scientiae sinicae inter Confucii libros secundus" (Latin transl. by Prospero Intorcetta, Jesuit missionary, parts of his work "Sinarum scientia politico-moralis" or "Tchoung-Young", published in 1667). Ref. Cordier, Sinica, I:668 and II:1402. - DBS III:1885:6 and IV:641:4.