1837 CATHOLIC CHURCH IN CHINA Chinese CHUNGKING COUNCIL IN 1803 Latin Text RARE

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1837 CATHOLIC CHURCH IN CHINA Chinese CHUNGKING COUNCIL IN 1803 Latin Text RARE:
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SYNODUS VICARIATUS SUTCHUENSIS HABITA IN DISTRICTU CIVITATIS TCONG KING TCHEOU ANNO 1803. Diebus Secunda, Quinta, et Nona Septembris.

Romae: Typis Sacroe Congregationis de Propaganda Fide, 1837, 166 pages. In the original contemporary (of the period) wraps. Text in Latin. An old defunct library stamp on title page accompanied by a few digits. There is a small 4 digit number on spine written in white ink. The pages are untrimmed. Overall, clean, tight and very good. This is a book on the Vicarship Council held in the city of Tcong King Tcheou (Latin), formerly transliterated as Chungking and currently Chongqing in Pinyin. It was held on the second, fifth and ninth day of September in the year 1803.

VOLUMES ON THE EARLY ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN CHINA ARE ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND. VERY RARE . ONLY TWO WORLD LIBRARIES HOLD COPIES, THAT IN THE BIBLIOTEQUE SAINTE-GENEVIEVE AND STAATSBIBLIOTHEK ZU BERLIN. THIS VOLUME IS ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY-ONE (181) YEARS OLD!

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