SEMEDO, Pe. Álvaro, S.J.- Imperio de la China, y cultura evangelica en el, Por los Religiosos de la Compañia de Jesus. Sacado de las noticias del Padre Alvaro Semmedo de la propria Compañia. Por Manuel de Faria y Sousa.- Lisboa Occidental: En la Officina Herreriana, 1731.- [18], 252 p.; 29 cm. Junto com: MORENO PORCEL, Francisco.- Retrato de Manuel de Faria y Sousa, Cavallero del Orden Militar de Christo, y de la Casa Real. Contiene una relacion de su vida, un catalogo de sus escritos, y un sumario de sus elogios, recogidos de varios autores.- Aora nuevamente acrescentado con un juisio historico que compuzo el Excellentissimo Senhor Don Francisco Xavier de Meneses, Conde de Erizeira.- Lisboa Occidental: en la Officina Ferreiriana, 1733.- [16], 102, [1] p.; 29 cm.- E. Second Portuguese edition, published by Miguel Lopes Ferreira. Father Semedo (1585/86-1658), Jesuit and scientist, spent more than 20 years in China carrying out an in-depth study of local history and ethnography. He has always shown the greatest admiration for Chinese institutions and gives us a clear and concise account of the Chinese religious system. The work was written in Portuguese, but first published in Castilian by Manuel de Faria e Sousa (Madrid, 1642). It consists of three parts: a description of the kingdom, an explanation of its language and letters, and a set of ethnological and evangelical news. At the end, the second edition of the biography of Faria e Sousa, previously published in Madrid, in 1650, is bound. A slightly cropped copy, but very clean, lined in full sheepskin contemporary binding, slightly worn. Palau, 307304. Inocencio, I, p. 50 (with extensive description). Samodães, 1165. Palha, 4195.