The Jesuits and the Sino-Russian Treaty of Nerchinsk (1689):the diary of Thomas Pereira

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Sebes Joseph.
Group Author: Pereira Thomas, 1645-1708.
Published: Institutum Historicum,
Publisher Address: Rome
Publication Dates: 1961[i.e. 1962]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Bibliotheca Instituti Historici S. I. ; v. 18
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Carrier Form: xxxv, 341 p.: maps ; 25 cm.
Index Number: D822
CLC: D822
Call Number: 578.248/P436
Contents: Bibliography (p.[xiii]-xxxv) -- Introduction to Father Pereira's diary: Russia's eastward expansion -- China's relations toward the "northern regions." -- Embassies and military operations between Russia and China before 1689 -- Interest of the Jesuits in early Sino-Russion relations -- The role of the Jesuits at Nerchinsk -- After the Treaty of Nerchinsk -- Father Thomas Pereira, the manuscripts of his diary and general observations concerning its contents -- Text of the treaty contained in the diary -- Our edition -- The original Portuguese text and the English translation of Father Pereira's diary -- Apendices (p.[304]-319) : l. List of the Ural -- Altaic peoples in the seventeenth century. 2. List of Chinese characters.