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25 letters by Jesuit missionaries (1566-77)

[JESUITS - CHINA - JAPAN].
Lettere dell' India Orientale, scritte da' reverendi padri della Compagnia di Giesù. Nelle quali si scopre la grande arte usata da gli istessi, per liberar l'anime de gli infideli Indiani dalla potesta del nimico infernale, & ridurle alla nostra santa fede. Novamente stampate, & ampliate in molti luoghi, & ricorrette con diligenza.

Woodcut publisher's device on title and larger variant on recto of the first of the last blanks, woodcut headpieces and initials.

Woodcut publisher's device on title and larger variant on recto of the first of the last blanks, woodcut headpieces and initials.

Woodcut publisher's device on title and larger variant on recto of the first of the last blanks, woodcut headpieces and initials.

Woodcut publisher's device on title and larger variant on recto of the first of the last blanks, woodcut headpieces and initials.

Woodcut publisher's device on title and larger variant on recto of the first of the last blanks, woodcut headpieces and initials.



Venice, Antonio Ferrari, 1580. 8vo. Contemporary vellum with early ownership initials on title ('F', 'O'), marbled edges. Woodcut publisher's device on title and larger variant on recto of the first of the last blanks, woodcut headpieces and initials. (8), 342, (4, including 3 blank) pp.

First edition of this interesting collection of letters by Jesuit missionaries staying in the Far East, containing 25 letters written between 1566 and 1577, of which 11 are reporting on the situation in China and Japan. Of interest for Japan is the letter sent from there by Luis d'Almeide, from 1566, on pp. 9-48.
Further the letter by Luis Froes from Japan, on pp. 256-320, and the four letters from 1574-7, written by the Head of the mission in Japan, Franciscus Cabral, on pp. 176-252 and 332-42. Other letters came from China and India, from Goa, Malacca, Ternate, Cochin, etc.

Very good copy.- (Minor lower marginal waterstain on last 6 pp.).
Alt Japan Kat. 803; Cordier, Japonica, cols. 73-4; Laures 147; Streit IV, 427; Boxer, Christian Century in Japan, ch.iii; Lach, Asia  I.1.290-91; Louis Bourdon, Le Compagnie de Jésus et le Japon, pp. 305-6.

Related Subjects: Japan  Jesuits  Mission  Religion 

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