THE HISTORY OF THAT GREAT AND RENOWNED MONARCHY OF CHINA, and BELLUM TARTARICUM or the CONQUEST of the Great and most Renowned Empire of CHINA. by the INVASION of the TARTARS.

London, E. Tyler for John Crook, and are to be sold at his Shop at the Sign of the Ship in S. Pauls Church-yard, 1655.. TITLE CONTINUED: 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 Country. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION 1655, IN TWO PARTS, EX LIBRARY COPY. 4to, approximately 280 x 180 mm, 11 x 7 inches, portrait frontispiece, large folding map, costume plate, portrait frontispiece before the title page of Bellum followed by a map, all engraved, pages: [10], 1-308, plus 2 pages of adverts, rebound in full modern calf, gilt lettered label with gilt rules and date to spine, gilt design to upper cover, blind decoration to both covers, marbled endpapers. Blind stamp to frontispiece hardly visible, round ink stamp to the blank side of both title pages and 1 in an outer margin not affecting text, pale withdrawn stamp under the round stamp on verso first title page (see attached image), lower corner on blank side of frontispiece soiled and just showing on the recto, title page slightly dusty, small closed tear running into image of large folding map neatly repaired on blank side, no loss to image and hardly visible, 2 small tears to top margins neatly repaired, not affecting text, 2 tiny rust holes, 1 in lower margin not affecting text, the other in the text just affecting 1 letter either side, text easily legible, pale age-browning and foxing to 4 pages at beginning and 4 at rear and several margins, otherwise a very good copy. See: Bjorn Lowendahl, Sino-Western Relations, Conceptions of China, Cultural Influences and the Development of Sinology, Supplement Volume, page 12, No.1564 for Bellum; John Lust, Western Books on China Published up to 1850, page 20, No. 72; Henri Cordier, Bibliotheca Sinica, Volume 1, page 25; ESTC R22006. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.