The history of the great and mighty kingdom of China and the situation thereof / compiled by Juan Gonzalez de Mendoza and now reprinted from the early translation of R. Parke ; edited by Sir George T. Staunton ; with an introduction by R.H. Major.
1853
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Title
The history of the great and mighty kingdom of China and the situation thereof / compiled by Juan Gonzalez de Mendoza and now reprinted from the early translation of R. Parke ; edited by Sir George T. Staunton ; with an introduction by R.H. Major.
Uniform title
Historia de las cosas más notables. English
Created/published
London : Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1853-1854.
Description
2 v. ; 22 cm
Associated name
Series statement
Works issued by the Hakluyt Society ; no.14-15
Note
Translation of: Historia de las cosas mas notables, ritos y cost umbres del gran reyno de la China.
"The second part ... is diuided into three parts. The first containeth such thinges as the fathers, Frier Martin de Herrada, prouinciall of the order of Sainte Augustine, in the ilands Philipinas, and his companion Fryer Geronimo Martin, and other souldiers that went with them, did see and had intelligence of in that kingdom. The second containeth the miraculous voiage that was made by Frier Pedro de Alfaro, of the order of S. Francis, and his companions, vnto the said kingdome. The third containeth a briefe declaration by the said frier, and of Frier Martin Ignacio, that went out of Spaine vnto China and returned into Spaine againe by the Orientall India, after that he had compassed the world."
"The second part ... is diuided into three parts. The first containeth such thinges as the fathers, Frier Martin de Herrada, prouinciall of the order of Sainte Augustine, in the ilands Philipinas, and his companion Fryer Geronimo Martin, and other souldiers that went with them, did see and had intelligence of in that kingdom. The second containeth the miraculous voiage that was made by Frier Pedro de Alfaro, of the order of S. Francis, and his companions, vnto the said kingdome. The third containeth a briefe declaration by the said frier, and of Frier Martin Ignacio, that went out of Spaine vnto China and returned into Spaine againe by the Orientall India, after that he had compassed the world."
Series
Works issued by the Hakluyt Society ; no.14-15.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Call number
G161 .H21 no.14, 15