China in the sixteenth century: the journals of Matthew Ricci: 1583-1610. Translated from the Latin by Louis J. Gallagher, S. J. With a Foreword by Richard J. Cushing, DD., LL.D., Archbishop of Boston
New York: Random House, [1953]. First edition, 8vo,, pp. xxii, 616, [2]; frontispiece; near fine copy in a very good, clipped dust jacket whih shows a couple of short tears but no substantial loss. Except for a few selections from Ricci's diary published in Purchas His Pilgrims in 1625, "in so far as we can ascertain, no complete translation of [the journal] was ever published in English before this present edition" (Translator's Preface, p. xvii). Item #63649
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