[China. First edition] De bello Tartarico historia;

In quâ, quo pacto Tartari hac nostrâ aetate Sinicum Imperium invaserint, ac ferè totum occuparint, narratur; eorumque mores breviter descibuntur. Autore R.P. Martino Martinio, Tridentino, ex Provinciâ Sinensi Societatis Iesu in Urbem misso Procuratore. Antwerp, Ex officina Plantiniana Balthasaris Moreti, 1654, 156,(3) p., with double-page engraved map, 19th-century half leather with gilt, ribbed back, small 8vo.

Final page restored in blank margin; with traces of erased library stamps at beginning and end, but with non-erased library stamp (Museum Plantin-Moretus) on p. 100; slightly foxed copy, map with small tears. Copy of Ozanne "conducteur auchef", with his name (and address) on reverse title page, verso of the map and on the last blank page. The scarce first edition, published in the same year as the second (Antwerp) and third (Cologne) edition. In 1655, Janssonius in Amsterdam published another edition. Afterwards, this exceptionally popular and important work on the history of the Manchu invasion and conquest of the Chinese empire in the first half of the 17th century was published several times more in various translations. The Italian Jesuit missionary, globetrotter, historian and cartographer Martino Martini spent many years of his life in China. More on Martini: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martino_Martini.