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8vo, 170x110mm. Contemporary account of the Manchu conquest of China, culminating in the transition from Ming to Qing dynasty by 1683. First French edition, published in the same year as the original Spanish edition and a year before the first English edition. "Contenant plusieurs choses remarquables, touchant la Religion, les Moeurs, & les Coûtumes de ces deux Nations, & principalement de la derniere. Ecrite en Espagnol par M. de Palafox, Evesque d'Osma, Et traduite en François par le Sieur Collé. Dedié à Monseigneur Le Dauphin." pp(4)/(16)478(2)/(4) including two blank preliminary leaves and two blank final leaves; with engraved frontispiece of Tartar horsemen above map of China, and imprimatur "A Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Barthelemy Vitré M. DC. LXIX." at recto of leaf following page 478. Edges of text-block red-speckled. Title-page and frontispiece a little toned & handling-marked. Contents up to and including page 16 a little proud of text-block fore-edge. Four consecutive leaves - pages 393-400 - with faint meniscus-shaped dampstain of width up to 6mm along 30mm of upper parts of fore-edges, well away from print. Child's ink doodles/scribbles of some age on recto of first blank preliminary leaf and to greater extent on both blank final leaves. Contents otherwise occasionally lightly toned, with isolated spots, and with a little loss confined to margins at one or two lower outer corners. Edges of text-block a little toned, top edge also lightly dust-marked. Contemporary full calf. Spine with five raised bands, gilt title, and gilt decorations. Boards with gilt decorated edges. Original marbled endpapers. Spine rubbed and densely surface-cracked, with associated flaking and noticeable loss to gilt title & decorations, and with loss of hide at head and at a few spots elsewheres. Rear board with loss of hide at lower outer corner and at a few small spots, around which only a thin layer of hide remaining within patch of peeled hide of length 70mm and width up to 25mm. Board surfaces otherwise rubbed and a little pitted. Tips of outer corners of front board and tip of upper outer corner of rear variably rubbed and a little curled, with slight loss of hide at tips of both upper outer corners. Rear board with loss of hide at edges around lower outer corner, and a little loss at fore-edge. Board edges otherwise variably rubbed, with some loss of gilt decoration. Binding a little wanting in appearance, but holding firmly; contents generally clean and tight. GOOD copy. N° de ref. del artículo 26563
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