Live auction - Lot 751
[China]
Matteo Ricci's scientific contribution to China. Translated by Edwards Chalmers Werner.
Beijing, Henri Vetch, 1935
€ 80 / 120
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Lot description
8vo.
Sewn, original wrappers. Uncut copy.
Monograph by the French Jesuit priest, missionary in China and sinologist Henri Bernard (1889-1975) about Matteo Ricci (1552-1610), an Italian Jesuit priest and one of the first representatives of the Jesuit China missions.
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