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THE MANDEVILLE OF HIS DAY
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[JAPAN] MENDES PINTO, Ferdinand / tr. FIGUIER, Bernard. Les Voyages Avantageux ... . Paris, Mathurin Henault, 1628.
Rare first French edition of the earliest written eyewitness account of Japan, by the adventurer, pirate, missionary and mercenary who was among the first Europeans to visit that country.
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[CHINA] PANTOJA, Diego de /ALBERTINUS, Aegidius (tr.). Histori und eigentliche beschreibung erstlich was gestalt vermittelst sonderbarer Huelff und Schickung deß Allmaechtigen dann auch der Ehrwuerdigen Vaeter der Societet IESU.. Munich, Adam Berg, 1608.
Rare first German edition of this influential Jesuit letterbook from China describing Matteo Ricci’s acceptance at the court of Peking and marking a shift in European perceptions of China from “a view of China as seen from Macao to a view of China from within.” (de Paula Nogueira, p. 426)
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THE GREAT JESUIT WORK ON THE CHINESE RITES CONTROVERSY
XYLOGRAPHIC BOOK PRINTED IN PEKING
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[CHINA / RITES CONTROVERSY/ THOMAS, Antoine]. Brevis relatio eorum, quae spectant ad Declarationem Sinarum Imperatoris Kam Hi circa coeli, cumfucii, et Avorum cultum, datam anno 1700. Accedunt Primatum, Doctissimorum virorum, et antiquissimae Traditionis testimonia. . Peking, 29 July 1701.
Rare first edition of these key documents in the ‘Chinese Rites Controversy’—a conflict about whether Chinese Christians should be allowed to maintain Confucian practices—that divided the Church and threatened to halt the Jesuits’ mission in China.
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Russian Vodka and Caviar
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[MARBAULT]. Essai sur le Commerce de Russie. Avec L’Histoire de ses Découvertes. Amsterdam, n.p., 1777.
First edition of one of the first French works on commerce in Russia, including a noteworthy early map of Alaska. "Extremely detailed and worth studying" (Lada-Mocarski).
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