1st ed. "Matteo Ricci, a Wise Man of whom the West may well be proud, went to China as a Christian missionary in 1582. He died there twenty-eight years later having come to know the country initimately and to love it well." Pp.300,col. portrait frontis.+ 9 further b/w plates, 1 dbl page map + another map drawn by K.C.Jordan. Maroon cloth, portrait illustrated d/w slight spotting to spine. VG/G+.

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