[MUÑOZ Y MANZANO, Cipriano], CONDE DE LA VIÑAZA.
Escritos de los Portugueses y Castellanos referentes a las lenguas de China y el Japon. Estudio bibliográfico por el Conde de la Vinaza.
Lisboa; Madrid; Londres, M. Gomes; M. Murillo; B. Quaritch, 1892. 8vo. Contemporary half calf; spine ribbed with gilt title. 139 pp.
€ 850
Rare first edition of this bibliography with commentary and an alphabetical index on the writings of the Catholic missionaries in Japan. Describing 254 works written in Spanish and Portuguese concerning the Chinese and Japanese languages, published on the occasion of the 10th International Congress of Orientalists. Printed in 150 numbered copies on handmade paper.
Good copy. With two manuscript ownership entries on the half-title page. Cordier, p. IX; Laures 846.
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