Gaspar da Cruz: Tractado

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.