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SOUTH CHINA IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY: Being the Narratives of Galeote Pereire, F
by BOXER, C.R. ed
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
London 1953, Haklut. Blue cloth, very good, 388p., index,ap- pendix, bibliography, glossary, chronology, 12 b.w. plates, 8 maps, SUBTITLE: cont. Rada, O.E.S.A. S C A R C E This volume contains three narratives describing South China as it appeared to Iberian or Portuguese & Spanish visitors to that country in the years 1550-1575. Gaspar da Cruz also visited Cambodia in 1556 and the gave important commentaires about the ruler of that Kindgom. This resource also has es- says refering to Vietnam and Cambodia, as wlll as the subj- ect of trade through Laos to Cambodia via the Mekong river. A grand translation, covers the coming of the Franks: the Portuguese & Spanish, the writers and their narratives, rep- orts, the treatise, and relations. With useful glossaries of Chinese and Japanese names, titles, index of persons and places. Scholarly work, quite readable! * THE ORIGINAL EDITION: This is the original fine edition, nicely bound in cloth, printed on heavy paper, with stunning photographs. This is NOT !! the shoddy, substandard reprint, done on thin paper with fuzzy printing & unclear miserable photographs ! * .
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- Title
- SOUTH CHINA IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY: Being the Narratives of Galeote Pereire, F
- Author
- BOXER, C.R. ed
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- Used -
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Keywords
- China: Social Science, Eclectic, All Subjects & Disciplines [no Art]; Jesuits In China: Missions, All Aspects, All Periods; Foreign Missionaries & Missions In China:: Old, Scarce & Primary Works; Foreigners In China: All Periods; Cambodia;
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