Library has v. 2 only.
Digital ed.: [Staunton-Embassy.pdf (v.1-3)]
Vol.1 Internet Archive.
Vol.2 Internet Archive.
Vol.3 Internet Archive.

Links to this plus French, German and Dutch editions online at Bibliotheca Sinica 2.0.

"Hailu 海錄 (Maritime records), Xie Qinggao 謝清高 (1765-1822). Xie boarded a trading vessel (probably Portuguese) and sailed to America, Europe, and Asia. On losing his eyesight, he returned home and dictated his recollections in 1820 to Yang Bingnan. See Kenneth Ch’en, “Hai lu: Forerunner of Chinese Travel Accounts of Western Countries,” MS 7: 208-26 (1942). The work indicates how little was known at the beginning of the nineteenth century in China about the West (contrast Japanese knowledge at this time about not only the West, but also China)." Cf. Wilkinson, Chinese history, a manual, Harvard University Press, 2000, p. 748.

List of illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction : views from different seas -- Part 1. The voyage of the Keying -- Origins, purchase and commissioning -- The ship's name -- The crew and the voyage to New York -- The troubled stay in New York -- The final leg : towards journey's end -- Journey's end : the London stay -- The endgame -- Part 2. The ship itself : type, build, performance -- What kind of vessel was the Keying? -- A re-appraisal of the Keying's likely shape -- The Keying's dimensions and shape -- How fast could she go? -- Part 3. The scrapyard of history -- Voyage over -- Appendix. The images of the Keying -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

"In December 1846, the Keying, a Chinese junk purchased by British investors, set sail from Hong Kong for London. Named after the Chinese Imperial Commissioner who had signed away Hong Kong to the British, manned by a Chinese and European crew, and carrying a traveling exhibition of Chinese items, the Keying had a troubled voyage. After quarrels on the way and a diversion to New York, culminating in a legal dispute over arrears of wages for Chinese members of the crew, it finally reached London in 1848, where it went on exhibition on the River Thames until 1853. It was then auctioned off, towed to Liverpool, and finally broken up. In this account of the ship, the crew and the voyage, Stephen Davies tells a story of missed opportunities, with an erratic course, overambitious aims, and achievements born of lucky breaks -- a microcosm, in fact, of early Hong Kong and of the relations between China and the West."--Jacket.

Added titles in this volume, most concerning trade and relations with border peoples, ethnic minorities, and notes on Southeast Asia:
Xi Man congxiao 溪蠻叢笑 / Zhu Fu zhuan 朱輔撰 -- Zhenla fengtu ji 真臘風土記 / Zhou Daguan zhuan 周達觀撰 -- Daoyi zhilüe 島夷志略 / Wang Dayuan zhuan 汪大淵撰 -- Chaoxian fu 朝鮮賦 / Dong Yue zhuan 董越撰 -- Haiyu 海語 / Huang Zhong zhuan 黃衷 撰 -- Dong Xiyang kao 東西洋考 / Zhang Xie zhuan 張燮撰 -- Zhifang waiji 職方外紀 / Xiyang Ai Rulüe zhuan 西洋艾儒略撰 -- Chiya 赤雅 / Kuang Lu zhuan 鄺露撰 -- Chaoxian zhi 朝鮮志 / 不著撰人 -- Kunyu tushuo 坤輿圖說 / Xiyang Nan Huairen zhuan 西洋南懷仁撰 -- Yiyu lu 異域錄 / Jueluo Tulichen zhuan 覺羅圖理琛撰 -- Haiguo Wenjian lu 海國聞見錄 / Chen Lunjiong zhuan 陳倫炯撰.
Titles are also cataloged individually. ***Graphic resource.

N.B.: This set is a reduced format copy of the 1984 Taiwan Shangwu yinshuguan 臺灣商務印書館 edition, reproduced from the collection in possession of the Guoli gugong bowuyuan 國立故宮博物院.

Yingyin Wenyuan Ge Siku quanshu 景印文淵閣四庫全書 ; 594.
Each page represents 2 leaves of the original.

Xi Man congxiao 溪蠻叢笑 / Zhu Fu zhuan 朱輔撰 -- Zhenla fengtu ji 真臘風土記 / Zhou Daguan zhuan 周達觀撰 -- Daoyi zhilue 島夷志略 / Wang Dayuan zhuan 汪大淵撰 -- Chaoxian fu 朝鮮賦 / Dong Yue zhuan 董越撰 -- Haiyu 海語 / Huang Zhong zhuan 黃衷撰 -- Dong Xiyang kao 東西洋考 / Zhang Xie zhuan 張燮撰 -- Zhifang waiji 職方外紀 / Xiyang Ai Rulue zhuan 西洋艾儒略撰 -- Chiya 赤雅 / Kuang Lu zhuan 鄺露撰 -- Chaoxian zhi 朝鮮志 / 不著撰人 -- Kunyu tushuo 坤輿圖說 / Xiyang Nan Huairen zhuan 西洋南懷仁撰 -- Yiyu lu 異域錄 / Jueluo Tulichen zhuan 覺羅圖理琛撰 -- Haiguo Wenjian lu 海國聞見錄 / Chen Lunjiong zhuan 陳倫炯撰.

" ... The same urge to impress the Chinese with Western achievements has prompted Ferdinand Verbiest to include in his Kunyu tushuo 坤輿圖說 (Illustrated Explanation of the Entire World, 1674), a whole series of such pictures derived from German, Flemish, and Dutch engravings: the Seven Wonders of the ancient world, exotic animals, a European galleon, and the Roman Collosseum." --Cf. Standaert, Handbook of Christianity in China, vol. 1, p. 810.

[Following from to Jap-Sin ed. partly applicable}:
Kunyu tushuo 坤輿圖說.
By Nan Huairen 南懷仁 (Ferdinand Verbiest).
Two juan. Bamboo paper, bound in one volume, European style. No date or place of publication.

The Latin inscription on the cover reads: “Geographia universalis | a p. Ferdin. Verbiest, S.J.”--[N/B. Jap-Sin ed. only]

There is a table of contents for each juan (juan A, two folios and juan B, ten folios). The preface by Giulio Aleni in juan B (folios 1–2) is taken from the Zhifang waiji 職方外紀 (cf. Jap-Sin II, 20).

Each half folio consists of nine columns with twenty characters in each column. Annotations are given in smaller types and in double lines. The heading of each subject is given on the top margin of the folio. Juan A consists of thirty-one folios (the folios 8, 9, and 10 are misplaced) and juan B of sixty-seven folios. The text contains eighteen illustrations. According to Pfister they come after juan A, but in fact they are found at the end of juan B, which agrees with the description given in the Siku tiyao.

This book is an explanation of the Kunyu quantu 坤輿全圖, a chart of the terrestrial globe, two great hemispheres, each measuring five feet in diameter. It was composed by Verbiest and published in 1674 (Kangxi 13). The Kunyu tushuo was published in the same year.

Cf. Wylie: “About half a century later [i.e., after Giulio Aleni], Ferdinand Verbiest published another small geographical work, entitled 坤輿圖說 K’wan yu t’oô shwo, agreeing in the main with Aleni’s, but containing further information on some points. An abstract of Verbiest’s work has been frequently published, under the title 職方外紀 K’wan yu wae ke, in which the principal part of the geographical matter is omitted, and everything of a strange and marvellous character retained” (pp. 58–59).

Cf. Pfister, p. 355, no. 14 and 15; JWC 2:178–9; Hsü 1949, pp. 318–320; Couplet, p. 42 (Explicatio mappae Cosmographicae majoris delineatae ex mandato Imperatoris, 2 vol.).
Source: Albert Chan, S.J., Chinese Books and Documents in the Jesuit Archives in Rome, p. 346.

" ... The same urge to impress the Chinese with Western achievements has prompted Ferdinand Verbiest to include in his Kunyu tushuo 坤輿圖說 (Illustrated Explanation of the Entire World, 1674), a whole series of such pictures derived from German, Flemish, and Dutch engravings: the Seven Wonders of the ancient world, exotic animals, a European galleon, and the Roman Collosseum." --Cf. Standaert, Handbook of Christianity in China, vol. 1, p. 810.

JapSin II, 44
Kunyu tushuo 坤輿圖說.
By Nan Huairen 南懷仁 (Ferdinand Verbiest).
Two juan. Bamboo paper, bound in one volume, European style. No date or place of publication.

The Latin inscription on the cover reads: “Geographia universalis | a p. Ferdin. Verbiest, S.J.”

Cf. Wylie: “About half a century later [i.e., after Giulio Aleni], Ferdinand Verbiest published another small geographical work, entitled 坤輿圖說 K’wan yu t’oô shwo, agreeing in the main with Aleni’s, but containing further information on some points. An abstract of Verbiest’s work has been frequently published, under the title 職方外紀 K’wan yu wae ke, in which the principal part of the geographical matter is omitted, and everything of a strange and marvellous character retained” (pp. 58–59).

Cf. Pfister, p. 355, no. 14 and 15; JWC 2:178–9; Hsü 1949, pp. 318–320; Couplet, p. 42 (Explicatio mappae Cosmographicae majoris delineatae ex mandato Imperatoris, 2 vol.).
Source: Albert Chan, S.J., Chinese Books and Documents in the Jesuit Archives in Rome, p. 346.

Full bibliographic citation see: Ad Dudink & Nicolas Standaert, Chinese Christian Texts Database (CCT-Database).

N.B.: This set is a reduced format copy of the 1984 Taiwan Shangwu yinshuguan 臺灣商務印書館 edition, reproduced from the collection in possession of the Guoli gugong bowuyuan 國立故宮博物院.Yingyin Wenyuange Siku quanshu 景印文淵閣四庫全書 ; 594.
Other titles in this volume, most concerning trade and relations with border peoples, ethnic minorities, and notes on Southeast Asia:
Xi Man congxiao 溪蠻叢笑 / Zhu Fu zhuan 朱輔撰 -- Zhenla fengtu ji 真臘風土記 / Zhou Daguan zhuan 周達觀撰 -- Daoyi zhilüe 島夷志略 / Wang Dayuan zhuan 汪大淵撰 -- Chaoxian fu 朝鮮賦 / Dong Yue zhuan 董越撰 -- Haiyu 海語 / Huang Zhong zhuan 黃衷撰 -- Dong Xiyang kao 東西洋考 / Zhang Xie zhuan 張燮撰 -- Zhifang waiji 職方外紀 / Xiyang Ai Rulüe zhuan 西洋艾儒略撰 -- Chiya 赤雅 / Kuang Lu zhuan 鄺露撰 -- Chaoxian zhi 朝鮮志 / 不著撰人 -- Kunyu tushuo 坤輿圖說 / Xiyang Nan Huairen zhuan 西洋南懷 仁撰 -- Yiyu lu 異域錄 / Jueluo Tulichen zhuan 覺羅圖理琛撰 -- Haiguo Wenjian lu 海國聞見錄 / Chen Lunjiong zhuan 陳倫炯撰.

Abstract: "This work reinterprets the evolution and pervasiveness of the Prester John myth, following the legend from its geographical and historical roots in central and eastern Asia to its final setting in Abyssinia. However, unlike most works on the subject, which typically begin with the twelfth-century writings of Otto of Freising, the author of this dissertation argues that a more complete understanding of the legendary priest-king requires an analysis of the literary traditions that created the ideal environment for the naissance of the Prester John saga. In addition, the influence that the Prester John legend exerted on the mindset of late medieval and early modern Europeans has been understated by many historians; this is in part due to the effects of periodization, whereby modern writers expect historical figures such as the Infante Dom Henrique, Christopher Columbus, and Duarte Lopes to behave in a modern - rather than late medieval - fashion. In this project, textual analysis of modern college history textbooks demonstrates that Prester John has been written out of world history and European history curricula, perhaps due to this atemporal desire to view late medieval Europeans as more "modern" than they really were. This work also reevaluates the role that the Prester John myth played with regard to specific European voyages of exploration, expansion, and exploitation. Unlike previous text-based studies of the legend of Prester John, this dissertation also incorporates analysis of visual depictions of the mythical priest-king and his empire. Finally, this study demonstrates that the legend of Prester John continued to be taken seriously by many Europeans until the eighteenth century, which contradicts the orthodox historiography that emphasizes the gradual fading of the legend by the end of the sixteenth century"

See OhioLINK
Local access dig.pdf. [Brooks-Prester John.pdf]

Travels to real and imaginary lands : two lectures on East Asia / by Giuliano Bertúccioli. With an appendix: Francesco Carletti on slavery and oppression / by Antonino Forte. Includes bibliographical references.
Foreword by Antonio Forte -- Francesco Carletti: A Florentine merchant in Japan and China in the years 1597-1599, by Giuliano Bertuccioli -- The region of the parrots: the strange fortune in China of a non-existant land, by Giuliano Bertuccioli.
The appendix Francesco Carletti on slavery and oppression is an English translation of Carletti’s Ragionamenti del mio viaggio intorno al mondo.
Series: Occasional papers (Istituto italiano di cultura (Kyōto, Japan). Scuolo di studi sull'Asia orientale) ; 2.
Italian School of East Asian Studies.
***Graphic resource: maps, cartography

Local access dig.pdf. [Bertuccioli-Travels.pdf]

Cf. Wilkinson, E., Chinese history, a manual, p.746-747.

Zheng He xia Xiyang kao 鄭和下西洋考 / Boxihe zhu 伯希和著 ; Feng Chengjun yi 馮承鈞譯.
Translation of: Les grands voyages maritimes chinois au début du XVe siècle.
民國51 [1962].

Zheng He xia Xiyang kao 鄭和下西洋考  /  Boxihe zhu 伯希和著 ; Feng Chengjun yi 馮承鈞譯.

Translation of: Les grands voyages maritimes chinois au début du XVe siècle.
Includes bibliographical references.
民國24 [1935]

T.P. signed : Lo Hsiang-lin; Final pages covered in notes (Chinese), possibly by Luo Xianglin himself. though Fr. Albert Chan's (or someone else's) hand cannot be ruled out.

" ... best known of [his] works is the World Atlas compiled in collaboration with Yang Tingyun, based on the map of Matteo Ricci and some manuscript notes by Diego de Pantoja and Sabatino de Ursis. This compilation seems to have been undertaken at the same time as a terrestrial globe made in 1623 by Nicolò Longobardi and Manuel Dias, now in the British Museum ... the Atlas was engraved in 1623 in Hangzhou under the title Zhifang waiji (5 juan) and later (ca. 1640) 6 juan. First ed. included in the Tianxue chuhan, copied into the eighteenth-century Imperial Library (present ed.)...." Cf. Dictionary of Ming Biography, pp. 4-5
N.B.: This edition is a reduced format copy of the 1984 Taiwan Shangwu yinshuguan 臺灣商務印書館 edition, reproduced from the collection in possession of the Guoli gugong bowuyuan 國立故宮博物院: Yingyin Wenyuan Ge Siku quanshu 景印文淵閣四庫全書 ; 594

Added titles in this volume, most concerning trade and relations with border peoples, ethnic minorities, and notes on Southeast Asia:
Xi Man congxiao 溪蠻叢笑 / Zhu Fu zhuan 朱輔撰. Zhenla fengtu ji 真臘風土記 / Zhou Daguan zhuan 周達觀撰. Daoyi zhilue 島夷志略 / Wang Dayuan zhuan 汪大淵撰. Chaoxian fu 朝鮮賦 / Dong Yue zhuan 董越撰. Haiyu 海語 / Huang Zhong zhuan 黃衷撰. Dong Xiyang kao 東西洋考 / Zhang Xie zhuan 張燮撰. Zhifang waiji 職方外紀 / Xiyang Ai Rulue zhuan 西洋艾儒略撰. Chiya 赤雅 / Kuang Lu zhuan 鄺露撰. Chaoxian zhi 朝鮮志 / 不著撰人. Kunyu tushuo 坤輿圖說 / Xiyang Nan Huairen zhuan 西洋南懷仁撰. Yiyu lu 異域錄 / Jueluo Tulichen zhuan 覺羅圖理琛撰. Haiguo Wenjian lu 海國聞見錄 / Chen Lunjiong zhuan 陳倫炯撰.

" ... best known of [his] works is the World Atlas compiled in collaboration with Yang Tingyun, based on the map of Matteo Ricci and some manuscript notes by Diego de Pantoja and Sabatino de Ursis. This compilation seems to have been undertaken at the same time as a terrestrial globe made in 1623 by Nicolò Longobardi and Manuel Dias, now in the British Museum ... the Atlas was engraved in 1623 in Hangzhou under the title Zhifang waiji (5 juan) and later (ca. 1640) 6 juan. First ed. included in the Tianxue chuhan, copied into the eighteenth-century Imperial Library (present ed.)...." Cf. Dictionary of Ming Biography, pp. 4-5.
”據墨海金壺及守山閣叢書本影印”
民國25 [1936].
Dig. ed. local access only [Aleni-ZhifangWaijiCSJC.pdf]

"....partly based on Giovanni Antonio Magini, ’Moderne tavole di geografia, dalle quali, secondo, che hoggidi si trova l’universo, vedesi la faccia del mondo, tutte le sue parti, provincie, regioni, e ciascuni suoi imperij, et altri dominij, con espositioni ampissime dell’eccellentiss., Sig. Gio. Ant. Magini padovano, lettore delle matematiche nel pubblico sutdio di Bologna. Tradotte dal R. D. Leonardo Cernoti vinitiano canonico di S. Salvadore’, Venezia, 1598."--Full textual citation see: Ad Dudink & Nicolas Standaert, Chinese Christian Texts Database (CCT-Database).

" ... best known of [his] works is the World Atlas compiled in collaboration with Yang Tingyun, based on the map of Matteo Ricci and some manuscript notes by Diego de Pantoja and Sabatino de Ursis. This compilation seems to have been undertaken at the same time as a terrestrial globe made in 1623 by Nicolò Longobardi and Manuel Dias, now in the British Museum ... the Atlas was engraved in 1623 in Hangzhou under the title Zhifang waiji (5 juan) and later (ca. 1640) 6 juan. First ed. included in the Tianxue chuhan, copied into the eighteenth-century Imperial Library (present ed.)...." Cf. Dictionary of Ming Biography, pp. 4-5.

Following source: Albert Chan, S.J., Chinese Books and Documents in the Jesuit Archives in Rome, pp. 299-301

JapSin II, 19
Zhifang waiji 職方外紀
By Ai Rulüe 艾儒略 (Giulio Aleni).
Six juan. Bamboo paper, two ce bound in one volume, European style. No date or place of publication. 18 x 27.5 cm.

The cover bears a label with only three characters left: 方外紀 ; the rest of the title (奉) 旨繙繹職 can still be traced.

The Zhifang waiji is a concise geography of the world, the first of this kind written in Chinese. After Ricci had presented the map of the world, Diego de Pantoja and Sabatino de Ursis were instructed by imperial order to compose a book which should give an explanation of Ricci’s map. Pantoja died in 1618 and his uncompleted task was taken up by Aleni. A great deal of matter was added to it and the book (five juan, cf. Jap-Sin II, 20.) was published in 1623 under Aleni’s name. The style of the book was polished by Yang Tingyun with whose help it was published in Hangzhou in 1623. A few years later (ca. 1626) another edition in six juan was published in Fujian, of which Jap-Sin II, 19 must be a copy.
In this book the globe is divided into the five continents of Asia, Europe, Libya (Africa), America and Magellanica, under which last name was included an extensive tract of land supposed to extend from close to South America to several degrees beyond the south pole. The description of Europe was given most of the attention (twenty-nine folios).
The first edition (1623) of the Zhifang waiji was included in the seventeenth-century Tianxue chuhan 天學初函, edited by Li Zhizao. It was later copied into the eighteenth century Imperial Library (Siku quanshu 四庫全書). It was reprinted in no fewer than three nineteenth-century encyclopedias: Mohai jinhu 墨海金壺, Shoushange congshu 守山閣叢書 and Waifan yudi congshu 外蕃輿地叢書, and in the Congshu jicheng chubian 叢書集成初編, published in the 1930’s. A new edition of the Zhifang waiji was published by the Hunan renmin chubanshe 湖南人民出版社 in 1981. It is included in the Cheng cha riji 乘差日記.

Cf. Pfister, p. 135, no. 24; Hsü 1949, pp. 313–317; Feng 1938, p. 160; Couplet, p. 17; BR, p. XXXIII; K. Enoki, “The geography of central Asia as described in Chih-fang wai-chi” (in Japanese) in Festschrift Honoring Prof S. Wada on his 70th Birthday (1963), p. 211; id., “Editions of the Chih-fang wai-chi” (in Japanese) in Festschrift Honoring Dr. H. Iwai on his 70th Birthday (1963), p. 136; Wylie, p. 58; DMB 1:5–6; Albert Chan, “The scientific writings of Giulio Aleni,” in: T. Lippiello & R. Malek (eds.), “Scholar from the West”: Giulio Aleni, S.J. (1582–1649) and the Dialogue Between China and Christianity (Monumenta Serica monograph series, XLII), Nettetal, 1997, pp. 455–478.

JapSin II, 20
Zhifang waiji 職方外紀
By Ai Rulüe 艾儒略 (Giulio Aleni).
Five juan. Bamboo paper in two ce, bound in one volume, European style. No date or place of publication. 16.8 x 27.5 cm.

The cover bears a label with the title of the book and a Latin inscription: “P. Julii Alenis | Cosmographia | Pars 1^a and 2^a.”

Dig. ed. local access only [Aleni-ZhifangWaiji.pdf]

[1] Ningguta jilue ; Chaoxian zhi ; Suiluanji'en -- [2] Chusai jilue ; Saibei jiwen ; Xiyu jiuwen -- [3] Wulumuqi zashi ; Yili riji ; Jinchuan jiushi ; Weixi jianwen -- [4] Xizang jianwen -- [5] Rongmei jiyou ; Haiguo wenjian ; Zhongshan chuanxin -- [6] Cailiu riji ; Taiwan shicha lu ; Haidao yizhi ; Hailu.
[1] 寧古塔記畧 ; 朝鮮志 ; 隧鑾紀恩 -- [2] 出塞紀略 ; 塞北紀聞 ; 西域舊聞 -- [3] 烏魯木齊雜詩 ; 伊犂日記 ; 金川舊事 ; 維西見聞 -- [4] 西藏見聞 -- [5] 容美紀游 ; 海國聞見 ; 中山傳信 -- [6] 採硫日記 ; 臺灣使槎錄 ; 海島逸志 ; 海錄.
[contents note from OCLC#31460846]