1st Edition

The History of the great and mighty Kingdom of China and the Situation Thereof Volume I: Compiled by the Padre Juan Gonzalez de Mendoza, and now Reprinted from the early Translation of R. Parke

By R.H. Major, Sir George T. Staunton Copyright 2010
    272 Pages
    by Routledge

    From the 1588 black-letter edition, after the 1586 Madrid edition. The supplementary material includes the 1852 annual report. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1853.

    Contents: Introduction; Dedication; The Printer, to the Christian reader; Part I of The Historie of the Mightie Kingdom of China, in which is contained the notable things of that kingdome, touching all that which is naturall.

    Biography

    Sir George T. Staunton, R.H. Major