Sale 2468 - Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books, March 8, 2018

248 249 248 c FERNÁNDEZ DE NAVARRETE, DOMINGO. Tratados Históricos, Políticos, Éthicos, y Religiosos de la Monarchía de China. Title in red and black within type ornament border. [20], 518, [26] pages. Folio, 301x201 mm, contemporary limp vellumwith spine title in ink,lacking ties; light dampstaining in upper outer corner of opening leaves, contents otherwise generally clean. Madrid: Juan García Infanzón for Florian Anisson, 1676 [2,000/3,000] first edition of the most extensive 17th-century Spanish work on China and the Philippines, by a Dominican missionary who spent a quarter century in the region. The book was openly critical of the Jesuit policy of accommodating native religious practices and drew European public attention to the Chinese Rites Controversy. A second volume was published in 1679; a continuation remained unpublished. Alden 676/72 (for the author’s voyages to the Philippines via Mexico); Hill 592; Lust 21; Palau 89431; Streit-Dindinger V, 2440. TRAVEL, continued 249 c FORREST, THOMAS. A Voyage to New Guinea, and the Moluccas, from Balambangan . . . performed in the Tartar Galley, belonging to the Honourable East India Company, during the Years 1774, 1775, and 1776 . . . to which is added, A Vocabulary of the Magindano Tongue. Engraved frontispiece portrait; 32 engraved plates and maps, including 18 folding. xxiii, [1], 388, 13, [2] pages. 4to, 285x225 mm, contemporary calf, expertly rebacked retaining original backstrip; varying offsetting from or onto engraved matter, contents otherwise clean. Bookplates of John Rogers and Frank S. Streeter (sale, Christie’s, 17 April 2007, lot 193). London: G. Scott for J. Robson et al., 1779 [800/1,200] first edition . Hill 623.