Documenti e titoli sul privato fondatore dell'attuale R. Istituto (antico Collegio dei cinesi in Napoli) Matteo Ripa sulle missioni in Cina nel secolo XVIII e sulla costituzione e consistenza patrimoniale della antica fondazione / R. Istituto orientale in Napoli ; per Gherardo de Vincentiis.
On spine: Documenti e titoli sul privato fondatore dello attuale R. Istituto sulle missioni in Cina nel secolo XVIII e sulla costituzione e consistenza patrimoniale della antica fondazione.
"Documenti Inediti, biografici, storici, politici, con introduzione e con note critico-illustrative e copiosi facsimili"
100 copies printed.
Parte Prima: Matteo Ripa, l'opera sua di artista e missionario ; In Cina: la questione dei Riti Cinesi dal 1700 al 1750, preistoria e primi inizi della fondazione.
Added Keywords: missionary artists and the Qing court, sources of the Chinese terms and rites controversy, Kilian Stumpf correspondence, Bernardino della Chiesa, Teodorico Pedrini etc.

Doc Italia '89/90 (Istituto universitario orientale; Naples; originally Collegio dei cinesi, f. 4-7-1732; name changed 9-12-1869 to Real Collegio asiatico; came under state admin. in 1878; name changed 12-27-1888 to Istituto orientale di Napoli; name enlarged in 1925 to include adj. "superiore," and this was changed to "universitario" in 1937; nationalized by Law no. 1210, 12-3-57. -- (Email to LC from C. Campbell, Casalini, May 24, 2004 in a phone call to Istituto universitario orientale was given verbal confirmation that the institute changed names a few years ago and is now officially the Università degli studi di Napoli "L'Orientale" --LC authority record.

Part 1 of: Qingting san da shice quantu ji 清廷三大實測全圖集 / Wang Qianjin, Liu Quofang zhengli 汪前進, 劉若芳整理.
Originally published 1929-1932.
Each case includes maps accompanied by index volume (179 p., 29 x 42 cm.).

Notes from OCLC #55078047 (北京: 全國圖書館文獻縮微復制中心, 2003 ed.)
Original 104 copper plates were engraved in 1760 under French missionary Michel Benoist. Beiping Gu Gong Bo Wu Yuan reprinted in 1932. Covers from Arctic Ocean in the north to the Indian Ocean in the south ; from Baltic Sea, Mediterranean Sea, and Red Sea in the west to the Korea and East China Sea in the East. Shows the territory, administrative divisions, topographic features of Qing Empire. Also shows the continent of Asia. Relief shown pictorially. Reprint of the copper plates engraved in 1760. One of the earliest map of the continent of Asia.

References:
Theodore N. Foss, “A Western Interpretation of China: Jesuit Cartography” in East Meets West (1988), pp. 109-251.
Endymion Wilkinson, Chinese history, a manual (2000), p. 148.
Joseph Needham, Science & civilisation in China (1954), v. 3, pp. 583-586.
N. Standaert, Handbook of Christianity in China (2001), p. 700, 759-763.
J.B. Harley and David Woodward. The history of cartography (1987), v. 2.2.
Ad Dudink & Nicolas Standaert, Chinese Christian Texts Database (CCT-Database).

Keywords: Cardinal de Tournon imprisonment ; Macao ; painting ; craftsmen ; Description of Beijing ; navigation ; Nanjiang huo ; Chinese medical practices ; Chinese customs and traditions ; Engravers and engraving ; the Great Wall, Jehol, the Emperor Kangxi ; food and delicacies, fireworks, womens feet, landscape gardening, wrestling and archery, beards ; Chinese College ; Russian embassy, Count Ismailof, missionaries ; death of the Emperor Kangxi ; Chinese students.

Keywords: Cardinal de Tournon imprisonment ; Macao ; painting ; craftsmen ; Description of Beijing ; navigation ; Nanjiang huo ; Chinese medical practices ; Chinese customs and traditions ; Engravers and engraving ; the Great Wall, Jehol, the Emperor Kangxi ; food and delicacies, fireworks, womens feet, landscape gardening, wrestling and archery, beards ; Chinese College ; Russian embassy, Count Ismailof, missionaries ; death of the Emperor Kangxi ; Chinese students.

Library copy bound with: Journal of a residence among the Negroes in the West Indies, by Matthew Gregory Lewis, London, 1845.

Keywords: Cardinal de Tournon imprisonment ; Macao ; painting ; craftsmen ; Description of Beijing ; navigation ; Nanjiang huo ; Chinese medical practices ; Chinese customs and traditions ; Engravers and engraving ; the Great Wall, Jehol, the Emperor Kangxi ; food and delicacies, fireworks, womens feet, landscape gardening, wrestling and archery, beards ; Chinese College ; Russian embassy, Count Ismailof, missionaries ; death of the Emperor Kangxi ; Chinese students.