MARC Record from Library of Congress

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050 00 $aDS708$b.G644
100 1 $aGonzález de Mendoza, Juan,$d1545-1618.
240 10 $aHistoria de las cosas más notables.$lEnglish
245 14 $aThe historie of the great and mightie kingdome of China, and the situation thereof :$btogither with the great riches, huge citties, politike gouernement, and rare inuentions in the same /$ctranslated out of Spanish by R. Parke.
260 $aLondon :$bPrinted by I. Wolfe for Edward White ...,$c1588 [i.e. 1589?]
300 $a[8], 410 p. ;$c20 cm. (4to)
500 $a" A commentarie or short discourse of all such notable thinges as be betwixte Spaine till you come vnto the kingdome of China, and from China vnto Spaine, returning by the orientall or east Indias, after that they had almost compassed the whole world ... Made and set forth by the author of this book as well by that which he hath seene, as also by true relation that he had of the religious and barefoot fryers of the order of Saint Francis, who traualled the same the years 1584," p. 305-410. (Based chiefly on oral account of Martin Ignacio de Loyola. Cf. chap. v; Navarrette, Bibliot. marit. esp. t. II, p. 471; Pardo de Tavers, Bibl fil. no. 1199).
500 $aTranslator's dedication dated Jan. 1, 1589.
500 $aSignatures: [par.]⁴ A-2B⁸ 2C⁶(-2C6).
510 4 $aSTC (2nd ed.)$c12003
651 0 $aChina$xDescription and travel$vEarly works to 1800.
651 0 $aPhilippines$xDescription and travel$vEarly works to 1800.
651 0 $aLatin America$xDescription and travel$vEarly works to 1800.
700 1 $aLoyola, Martín Ignacio de,$d-1606.
700 1 $aParke, Robert,$dactive 1588,$etr.
700 1 $aWolfe, John,$d-1601,$eprinter.
700 1 $aWhite, Edward,$dactive 1577-1612,$ebookseller.
710 2 $aEnglish Printing Collection (Library of Congress)$5DLC
752 $aEngland$dLondon