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JARRIC, Pierre du. Histoire des Choses plus memorables advenues tantes Indes Orientales, que autres Pais. Bordeaux, S. Millanges, [1608-10-14].
Scarce first edition, complete with the rare third volume of one of the major syntheses of the Jesuit mission overseas, relying heavily on Guerreiro, both his published chronicles as well as unpublished materials provided by Guerreiro to the author.
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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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SEMEDO, Alvaro. Relatione della Grande Monarchia della Cina. Rome, Heirs of Herman Scheuss, 1643.
First Italian and according to Lach, the preferred edition of one of the most important 17th-century histories of China for the Ming Period.
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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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