The China that was
Subtitle: China as discovered by the Jesuits at the close of the sixteenth century
By: [by] L. J. Gallagher, S. J., from the Latin of Nicholas Trigault, S. J.
Contributors: Ricci, Matteo, 1552-1610.; Gallagher, Louis J. b. 1885, tr.
Publisher: The Bruce publishing company
Published: 1942
Place of publication: Milwaukee
Language: eng; lat; ita
Number of pages: 199
Subjects: China -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: First published, 1615, as Trigault's introduction to De christiana expeditione apud Sinas suscepta, ab Societate Jesu, originally written in Italian by Matteo Ricci as a mission diary and rendered into Latin by Trigault.  cf. Pref.