Early Malacca printing - 1820 - William Milne - "A retrospect of the first ten years of the Protestant Mission to China" Book Magalhaes was a Portuguese Jesuit

Magalhaes was a Portuguese Jesuit who

at a time of conflict between the court of Rome and the Venetian Republic” (Villani)

-Fine Gothica Textualis hand

-Large 8vo (230 × 140 mm)

-Complete: [iii]

Early Malacca printing - 1820 - William Milne - "A retrospect of the first ten years of the Protestant Mission to China" Book Magalhaes was a Portuguese Jesuit"A retrospect of the first ten years of the Protestant Mission to China, (now, in connection with the Malay, Denominated, the Ultra Ganges Missions.) Accompanied with Miscellaneous Remarks on the Literature, History, and Mythology of China, &c." Printed in Malacca at the Anglo Chinese Press 1820 Complete: viii, 376; printed on Chinese paper Octavo format, bound in contemporary green half morocco with marbled papered boards. Spine label lettered in