Gaspar da Cruz: Tractado em que se co[n]tam muyto por este[n]so as cousas de China com suas particularidades, e assi do Reyno de Dormuz dirigido ao muyto poderoso rey D. Sebastiam nosso senhor (Évora: Andre de Burgos, 1569).
- Bibliographic reference: Graesse II 305, BS col. 2063 (also refers to an 1829 edition printed in Lisbon and to the English translation published in the Pilgrimes of Samuel Purchas)
- Digitized:
> Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
> Google Books (provenance: Complutense University, Madrid; digitized: 5 October 2009)
> Österreichische Nationalbibliothek | Google Books (digitized: 8 January 2013)
> Internet Archive (Book from the collections of National Central Library of Rome) - Entry in Wiener China-Bibliographie
This account given by Gaspar da Cruz OP (ca. 1520-1570) is the first European book exclusively dealing with China.
Last update: February 11, 2017.