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Leighton Library has 1659 edition of "Sinicae historiae decas prima" by Martino Martini
Added at 06:09 on 20 September 2024
The Leighton Library has a 1659 edition of "Sinicae historiae decas prima" by Italian missionary, cartographer and historian (mainly working on ancient Imperial China), Martino Martini who was born #OnThisDay 20 September 1614. He planned this to be the first of a series of chronological works covering the whole Chinese history from the earliest age, but only this first part appeared (which reached up until the birth of Jesus)
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