Translation of: Historia de las cosas mas notables, ritos y costumbres, del gran reyno de la China. Rome : Bartholome Grassi, 1st published in Italian: Rome, 1586.
"Viaggio fatto dall'isole Filippine à quel regno del 1577": p. 164-284.
"Viaggio fatto da Siviglia alla China, dal P.F. Martino Egnatio" (p. 357-462).
Cf.: JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, 1:323 ; Alden, J.E. European Americana, 590/28.

Mythistory in Sino-Western contacts : Jesuit missionaries and the pillars of Chinese Catholic religion / Min-sun Chen.
Includes bibliographical references.
"This collection of ten published articles and two revised preliminary papers were written between the years of 1966 and 1996....reflected my understanding of the seventeenth-century historical facts and their meaning in the history of Sino-Western cultural contacts."—preface.
Older articles in Wade-Giles romanization.

1. The confrontation of mythistories in seventeenth-century Sino-Western contacts. -- 2. Hsu Kuang-ch’i (1562-1633). -- 3. Hsu Kuang-ch’i (1562-1633) and his image of the West. -- 4. Adam Schall, Hsu Kuang-ch’i and Li T’ien-ching. -- 5. Ferdinand Verbiest and the geographical works by Jesuits in Chinese, 1584-1674. -- 6. The conversion of Li Zhizao (1565-1630) : an inquiry into reasons. -- 7. Li Chih-tsao and the T’ien-hsueh ch’u-han. -- 8. T’ien-hsueh ch’u-han and Hsi-hsueh fan: the common bond between Li Chih-tsao and Giulio Aleni. -- 9. Re-evaluating the Jesuit contributions to Chinese scientific knowledge in the seventeenth-century. -- 10. China in the early seventeenth-century: Alvarez Semedo’s History of the Great and Renowned Monarchy of China. -- 11. Martino Martini and his History of the Manchu Conquest of China. -- 12. Philippine sources of Palafox y Mendoza’s History of the Conquest of China by the Tartars.

Library copy imperfect. Lacks title page and engraved frontispiece (portrait of Semedo in Chinese costume).
Translation of: Relação da propagação da fe no reyno da China e outros adjacentes. Translated by G.B. Giattini, S.J.
Backer-Sommervogel, vol. 3, col. 1395, no. 11 (1653 edition?)
OCLC number is for 1653 ed. titled: Historica relatione del gran regno della Cina ...divisa in due parti. Nella prima si tratta del regno in comune. Delle prouincie in particolare. Delle persone Cinesi. Del modo vestire ... Nella seconda, dell'origine della predicatione euangelica, con tutti li successi sino alli tempi nostri / del p. Alvaro Semedo Portoghese della Compagnia di Giesv.