Apresso Muschio, 1586. The information on Japan is found on pp. This translation into Italian comes only one year after the initial edition appeared in Spanish at Rome. Too often this edition is listed as the first Italian edition, but in fact it is the third. Title-page soiled and with early writing, partially lined through.
Occasional light stain here and there.
Jesuit missionaries did much to bring China into the mainstream of European consciousness. Besides dynastic, institutional, and religious history, the work studies society, art and ornamentation, language, literature, and culture. This set lacks the atlas volume and the volume of Grosier's later history of China. Wilberforce Eames's set, with his signature in each volume. Eames was head of the New York Public Library during the early decades of the 20th century and a noted bibliographer and book collector.