8vo. [6], 56 pp., / 72 pp., / 63 pp., + 18 pp., [38], / 47 pp., / 71 pp., [1] / [48], + 16 pp., / 35 pp., / 46 pp., / 36 pp., Persian and Latin text, general title page with engraved vignette, 3 titles printed in red and black, early calf, professionally re-backed with gilt lettering on spine, tables, engraved initials, head and tailpieces, speckled edges, minor marginal damp stain on page 31, some browning, old ink inscription on first title page, otherwise copy in very good condition, Frankfurt ad Oderam, Johannem Völcker, 1695.

Synopsis

The collected works on China and the Orient by German Sinologist Andreas Müller (1630-1694). Includes his version of Banakati’s Historia sinensis, translated into both Persian and Latin, “which included an important account of Chinese printing” (Mungello, “Curious Land… the Origins of Sinology”, 1989, p.229).
Contents are:
1.Historia Sinensis Abdallæ Beidavæi, Persicè [previously published in the 1670s, 2nd ed. 1689]
2.Versio Ejusdem Latina, cum notis Autoris
3.Monumentum Sinicum, cùm Commentario novensili [previously published in 1672 and 1674[?], cf. Löwendahl 0155 and 0163]
4.Hebdomas observationum de Rebus Sinicis [BS 30 & 1991, Löwendahl 0161]
5.Commentatio Alphabetica de Sinarum Magnæque; Tartariæ Rebus, ex Auctoriubs Commentarii, & MSS. aliis excerpta. [BS 773 f., Löwendahl 0194]
6.Nomenclator Imperii Sinensis Geographicus, cum Præfatione in eundem Isagogica [BS 183 & 581, Löwendahl 0196]
7.Basilicon Sinense, primos homines, Reges, & Imperatores Sinensium exhibens. [BS 557 f. & 581, Löwendahl 0195]
8.Dissertationes duæ de rebus itidem Syriacis.
9.Epistolæ duæ Syricæ amœbææ.
Provenance: Godfrey Handel, with three-line note; “M Geludov Oeder”, inscriptions on title.
Bibliographic reference: OCLC Work Id:22878300.