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[CHINA]. SEMEDO (Alvarez). • The History of that Great and Renowned Monarchy of China […]. •• Bellum Tartaricum, or the Conquest of the Great and Most Renowned Empire of China by the Invasion of the Tartars […]. London, Printed by E. Tyler for John Crook, 1655. In-4°, contemporary sheepskin. [X] + 308 + [II] pp., signed: A4, (A)1, B-Z4, Aa-Qq4, Rr3. First English edition. Continuous pagination. • A portrait of the author as a frontispiece, a folded map, and another engraved plate. •• A portrait as a frontispiece (K1 v°), and a small engraved map (Kk3 v°). Complete with the bookseller’s catalog at the end. A few handwritten corrections in the text. Binding damaged; large folded map torn, with a small loss, and restored.
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