The history of that great and renowned monarchy of China
Subtitle: Wherein all the particular provinces are accurately described: as also the dispositions,manners, learning, lawes, militia, government, and religion of the people.  Together with the traffick and commodities of that countrey.  Lately written in Italian by F. Alvarez Semedo...Now put into English by a person of quality, and illustrated with several mapps and figures...
Contributors: Faria e Sousa, Manuel de, 1590-1649; Martini, Martino, 1614-1661
Publisher: Printed by E. Tyler for Iohn Crook and are to be sold at his shop ...
Published: 1655
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
Subjects: History; Description and travel; Jesuits
Other titles: Bellum tartaricum.
Work titles: Relação da propagação da fe no reyno da China e outros adjacentes
Notes: Original version published as: Relação da propagação da fé no reyno da China e outros adjacentes. Madrid, 1641. Manuel de Faria e Sousa revised and rearranged the original, republishing it as: Imperio de la China. Madrid : Iuan Sanchez, 1642.  It was this version that was translated into English. Cf. Backer and Sommervogel, v. 7, col. 1114.

P. [250]-304 are translation of Martini's De bello tartarico historia, with special t.p.: Bellum tartaricum, or, The conquest of the great and most renowned empire of China by the invasion of the Tartars ... / written originally in Latine by Martin Martinius ... and now faithfully translated into English. London : Printed for John Crook, 1655.

"To which is added the history of the late invasion, and conquest of that flourishing kingdom by the Tartars.  With an exact account of the other affairs of China, till these present times."

Rare Book copy: Imperfect: frontispiece portrait to the Bellum tartaricum (p. [249-250]), wanting.