- 3164
Grüber, Johann (1623-1680) and Albert d'Orville (d. 1662), S.J.
Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Description
- Voyage fait a la Chine en 1665 (Viaggio del P. Giovanni Grueber tornando per terra da China in Europa. Ex literis Grueberi Kirchero inscriptis; Autres pieces sur le suiet du voyage [in French and Latin]). Paris: G. Clousier & A. Cramoisy, 1673
folio (283 x 192mm.), [2], 23, [1]; 23pp., illustration: plate of alphabet on p.[24] of part 1, and portrait of Father Schall on p.23 of part 2, binding: nineteenth-century half calf by Hatton of Manchester, title-page (and p.[1]) soiled, slightly torn and repaired at edge
Literature
D.F. Lach & E.J. van Kley, Asia in the making of Europe III, i, p. 385
Catalogue Note
The two Jesuits Grüber and d'Orville were despatched from Beijing to explore the land-route from China through Tibet to Agra. D'Orville died in Agra and his companion continued to Rome accompanied by another Jesuit, Heinrich Roth. On his arrival Grüber was questioned, and some of his answers appear in China monumentis by Kircher, published in 1667. Summaries of others appeared in French in 1670.
These two texts were printed as part of Thévenot's great Recueil, as is demonstrated by the presence at the bottom of some pages of the words "IV. Partie".