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A new history of China : containing a description of the most considerable particulars of that vast empire / written by Gabriel Magaillans, of the Society of Jesus ... ; done out of French.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Swift's Reading Collection DS708 .M1713 1688
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Magalhães, Gabriel de, 1609-1677.
- Standardized Title:
- Doze excelências da China. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Portuguese
- Subjects (All):
- China--Description and travel.
- China.
- Magalhães, Gabriel de, 1609-1677.
- Magalhães, Gabriel de.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vienken, Heinz J. (honoree) (Swift's Library and Reading Coll. copy)
- Elias, Susan Homans (honoree) (Swift's Library and Reading Coll. copy)
- Bonnell, Henry H. (Henry Houston), 1859-1926 (autograph) (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 24 unnumbered pages, 352, that is, 308 pages, 1 folded leaf of plates : plan ; 20 cm (8vo)
- Other Title:
- New relation of China
- Fingerprint:
- t,to seve n-to whve (3)1688 (A)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for Thomas Newborough ..., 1688.
- Language Note:
- Translation into English of: Doze excelências da China.
- Notes:
- Signatures: A⁸ a⁴ B-K⁸ L² N-Y⁸.
- Pages 149-192 omitted in sequence.
- Leaf L2 missigned K2.
- Title page within woodcut borders.
- "An abridgment of The life and death of F. Gabriel Magaillans ... written by F. Lewis Buglio ..."--P. 340-352.
- Translation by John Ogilby.
- Local Notes:
- This title is part of The Library and Reading of Jonathan Swift: a Partial Replication, a collection given to the University of Pennsylvania Rare Book & Manuscript Library in 2005 in memory of Susan Homans Elias and in honor of the late Heinz J. Vienken.
- Swift's Library and Reading Coll. copy with p. 273-274 (S1) damaged with some loss of text.
- Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of Henry H. Bonnell.
- Cited in:
- ESTC, R12530
- Wing (2nd ed.), M247
- Contains:
- Buglio, Luigi, 1606-1682. Abridgment of the life and death of F. Gabriel Magailans.
- Abridgment of the life and death of F. Gabriel Magaillans.
- OCLC:
- 13145035
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