Bound in original publishers cloth,both binding in excellent condition, in very good clean dust jackets. Internally,collation, Volume I: CXX, 163 PP with 3 maps in text plus 7 bw plates. Volume II: X, 165 to 475 PP with 3 maps in text plus 11 bw plates. label of the Scottish Geographical Society on free endpaper, small stamp with their initials on bottom margin of title, no writing or marking, pages and illustrations in very good clean virtually unused condition. Friar Domingo Navarrete, a Dominican missionary, travelled round the world and spent the best part of his life (1658-69) in China, where he became a determined opponent of the evangelical methods of the 'Jesuit mandarins'

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