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The Jesuit mission in Tonkin

MARINI, Giovanni Filippo de.
Delle missioni de padri della Compagnia di Giesu, nella  provincia del Giappone, e particolarmente di quella di Tumkino. Libri cinque.

With folding engraved allegorical frontispiece by A. Clowet, 2 folding engraved costume-plates, and double-page folding engraved plate of a Japanese Emperial galley.

With folding engraved allegorical frontispiece by A. Clowet, 2 folding engraved costume-plates, and double-page folding engraved plate of a Japanese Emperial galley.

With folding engraved allegorical frontispiece by A. Clowet, 2 folding engraved costume-plates, and double-page folding engraved plate of a Japanese Emperial galley.

With folding engraved allegorical frontispiece by A. Clowet, 2 folding engraved costume-plates, and double-page folding engraved plate of a Japanese Emperial galley.

With folding engraved allegorical frontispiece by A. Clowet, 2 folding engraved costume-plates, and double-page folding engraved plate of a Japanese Emperial galley.



Roma, Nicolo Angelo Tinassi, 1663. 4to. Vellum binding. With folding engraved allegorical frontispiece by A. Clowet, 2 folding engraved costume-plates, and double-page folding engraved plate of a Japanese Emperial galley. (16), 548, (8) pp.

First edition of an interesting account of the Jesuit mission in Japan, especially in Tonking, by the Italian Jesuit Giovanni Filippo de Marini (1608-1677). Marini himself had worked as a missionary in Japan, from 1638 till about 1652, after which he was appointed rector of the Jesuit College at Macao. In the 1660s he travelled to Portugal and Rome, and then returned to Japan, this time as provincial of the order, where he died in office. The book starts with a list of all Jesuit missionaries who had worked at Tonking from 1626 till 1662, and is full of curious particulars and interesting documents on the situation at Japan, especially at Tonking and Lao, in the first half of the 17th century. The book was several times republished and translated into French by the Jesuit Nicolas Le Comte under the title Relation Nouvelle et curieuse des royaumes de Tunquin et de Lao, under which title it became best known and much republished.

(Binding restored; old owner's ms. entries on title; frontisp. browned, the other plates cut short and mounted; occasionally  waterst. and sl. browned).
Cordier, Japonica, p. 374 ff.; Alt Japan Kat. 956.

Related Subjects: Asia  Cartography  Japan 

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