Histoire d'une dame chrétienne de la Chine
Subtitle: ou par occasion les usages de ces peuples, l'établissement de la religion, les manieres des missionaires, & les exercices de pieté des nouveaux chrétiens sont expliquez
Contributors: Orléans, Pierre Joseph d', 1641-1698; Louvemont, François de, 1648- engraver; Michallet, Estienne, 1630?-1699, printer
Publisher: Chez Estienne Michallet, imprimeur du roy, ruë S. Jacques, à l'image S. Paul, prés la fontaine Saint Severin
Published: 1688
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 152
Subjects: Christian biography; Early works to 1800; Christian converts; Biography; Missions; Jesuits
Other titles: Histoire d'une dame de la Chine
Work titles: Historia nobilis feminae Candidae Hiu, Christianae Sinensis
Notes: Signed at end: P.C. procureur general des missions de la Chine, de la Compagnie de Jesus. Backer-Sommervogel attributes the translation to Pierre Joseph d'Orléans from Philippe Couplet's unpublished Latin manuscript.

Signatures: pi1 A-F¹² G⁴ H1.

Title vignette or printer's device on title page.

Headpieces; initial.

Portrait of Madame Candide Hiu is signed "a Paris chez Nolin CP." The folded engraving, "Figure de la Croix auec laquelle les chrestiens de la Chine ont accoustumé de se faire enseuelir," is signed "F. de Louvemont sculp. a Paris chez Nolin."

Approbations on recto of last leaf, with the printed letter "H" at the foot of the page; verso blank.

LC copy imperfect: "a Paris chez Nolin CP" for portrait of Madame Candide Hiu wanting (trimmed?); "F. de Louvemont sculp. a Paris chez Nolin" for folded engraving wanting (trimmed?)

Backer-Sommervogel II, column 1563, no. 8