ROUGEMONT, Pe. François de, S.J.- RELAÇAM | DO | ESTADO POLITICO | E ESPIRITVAL | DO IMPERIO DA | China, pellos annos de 1659. atè o de 1666. | ESCRITA EM LATIM | Pello P. FRANCISCO ROGEMONT da Cõpanhia | de Iesus, Flamengo, Missionario no mesmo Imperio | da China. | TRADVZIDA | Por hum Religioso da mesma Companhia de Iesus.- Lisboa: Na Officina de Ioam da Costa, 1672.- [8], 229 [i. e. 231], [1 br.] p.; 19 cm.- E. Father Rougemont (1624-1676), Jesuit, born in Maestricht, accompanied Father Prospero Intorcetta (1626-1696) on his trip to China. Upon arriving in Nanjing in 1659, he was taken prisoner and, in 1664, taken to Guangzhou, having written the present narrative in captivity. Rougemont died in Chian-Chow, in 1676. First and only edition of the Portuguese translation, published without the name of the translator, the Jesuit Sebastião de Magalhães (1635-1709), rector of the Santo Antão Jesuit College, in Lisbon, and confessor from D. Pedro II, who added a letter from Father Gabriel de Magalhães (written from Beijing) and another from Father Bartolomeu de Espinoza (written from Macau). It describes, above all, the Chinese attacks on Christian missions in the year 1660, being considered an important source for the history of missions in China. A slightly cropped specimen (carminate edges), with slight browning and occasional smaller spots. Faded old ownership on the title page. Ex-libris by Victor d’Avila Perez (lot nº 6715 from the auction held in 1940). 20th century binding, with old-fashioned patina and gold decoration on the spine. Inocêncio, VII, p. 218. Samodães, 2885. Sommervogel, V, p. 309 and IX, p. 299. Arouca does not mention.