Manuel de Faria y Sousa; Alvaro Semedo. IMPERIO DE LA CHINA, Y CULTURA EVANGELICA... Lisbon: En la Officina Herreriana, 1731. Second Spanish edition. Patterned leather boards, morocco label with gilt on spine, all edges stained, with patterned endpapers. Folio; [18], 252pp. Title page printed in red and black with woodcut coat of arms. Roman type with italic; text in Spanish. With dedication, index, head-pieces, ornaments, decorated initials. De Backer-Sommervogel 7/1114.

11 11/16 x 8 1/16 in.

From the Collection of Professor Roberto Severino, Washington, D.C.

Manuel de Faria y Sousa (1590-1649) was a Portuguese writer and historian who spent most of his life in Spain. He wrote this book about Chinese history and culture using the notes of Alvaro Semedo who worked as a Jesuit missionary in China.

Sturdy boards with light edgewear and scuffing/dents, joints mildly creased with one small wormhole, lower board slightly bent, sticker residue at head; cracking at hinges, bookplate and sticker at front paste-down, free endpaper with small tear; pages lightly toned with occasional very light grime, one wormhole moving through most leaves, otherwise pages extremely clean and crisp; a very good copy.