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Palafox y Mendoza, Juan de (1600-1659).
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- The History of the Conquest of China by the Tartars. Together with an account of several remarkable things, concerning the religion, manners and customs of both nations, but especially the latter. London: by W. Godbid, and sold by M[oses] Pitt, 1676
8vo (170 x 106mm.), [24], 588, [4 (bookseller's advertisements)] pp., binding: contemporary calf, spine in five compartments gilt, joints cracked, spine somewhat worn, corners rubbed
Literature
Wing P201; Lust 450; Cordier, Sinica 627
Catalogue Note
Second English edition. The manuscript of this work was found among the papers of Palafox y Mendoza, Bishop of Puebla, Mexico, when he died. During his lifetime he had been in correspondence, via the Philippines, with China, from where he received news twice a year. From these letters he compiled this history, together with an analysis of the final Ming years, based on Montanus.