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Author	Ricci, Matteo, 1552-1610.
Title	China in the sixteenth century : the journals of Matthew Ricci, 1583-1610 / translated from the Latin by Louis J. Gallagher, S.J. ; with a foreword by Richard J. Cushing, D.D., LL.D. Archbishop of Boston.
Publication Info.	New York : Random House, [1953]

Location	Call No.	Status
Stack 2	266 R	IN LIBRARY

Description	xxii, 616 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note	Translation of Trigault's 1615 Latin version of the Ricci commentaries [entitled De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas suscepta ab Societate Jesu].
	Includes indexes.
	Library copy from the Sharaff/Sze Collection. Annotated in Mai-mai Sze's hand, pencil, on p. xvii. Dust jacket intact. ZNS
Subject	Ricci, Matteo, 1552-1610.
	China -- History -- 16th century.
	Jesuits -- Missions -- China -- History -- 16th century.
	Jesuits -- China -- History -- 16th century.
	Missions -- China -- History -- 16th century.
Genre or Form	Dust jackets (Binding) -- United States -- 20th century.
	Contemporary bindings (Binding) -- United States -- 20th century.
	Annotations (Provenance) -- United States -- 20th century.
Added Author	Trigault, Nicolas, 1577-1628.
	Gallagher, Louis J. (Louis Joseph), b. 1885, translator.
	Cushing, Richard, 1895-1970, author of introduction.
	Sze, Mai-mai, annotator.
	Sharaff/Sze Collection (New York Society Library). ZNS
Added Title	De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas suscepta ab Societate Jesu. English
	China in the 16th century
	China in the XVI century
	Journals of Matthew Ricci, 1583-1610

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