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Very rare and most important account of a missionary voyage to Maranhao in Northern Brazil View picture(s) 1 ABBEVILLE, Claude d'. Histoire de la Mission des Peres Capucins en l'Isle de Maragnan et terres circonvoyines, ou est traicte des singularitez admirables & des Meurs merveilleuses des Indiens habitans de ce pais Avec les missives et advis qui ont este envoyez de nouveau. Paris , Francois Huby, 1614. Small 8vo. Modern brown morocco, spine ribbed and richly gilt, with gilt triple fillet borders on sides and inner panel with small arabesque ornaments at the four corners, richly gilt inner dentelles, g.e. With richly engraved allegorical title, full-page engraved plate of the erection of the cross at Maranhao by L. Gauthier, and 6 full-page portraits of the Indians brought to Paris, three clad in native and three in European dress. (8), 395, (17) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: Brazil  Cartography  Mission  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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By the first priest ordained in the United States View picture(s) 2 BADIN, Stephen Theodore. Origine et progrès de la mission du Kentucky. Paris, Adrien le Clere, 1821. 8vo. Modern marbled boards, with red moroco title label on spine, lettered in gold. With woodcut title vignette. (4), 32 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America, North  Cartography  Jesuits  Mission  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Hindustan alphabet View picture(s) 3 BELIGATTI, Cassianus da Macerata & Giovani Cristoforo AMADUZZI. Alphabetum Brammhanicum seu Indostanum Universitatis kasi. Rome, Typis Sa. Congregationis de Propaganda Fide, 1771. 8vo. Contemporary half sprinkled calf, red gilt title label, blue sprinkled edges. Woodcut title vignet of the seal of the congregation, Nagari script throughout text. (4), XX, 152 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: India  Linguistics  Mission  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of a travel account to Syria View picture(s) 4 BESSON, Jean. La Syrie Sainte ou la mission de Jesus et des peres de la compagnie de Jesus en Syrie. Paris, Jean Henault, 1660. 2 parts in 1 vol. 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf, spine ribbed and gilt, gilt fillet borders on sides. Woodcut vignette on title, folding engraved map of Syria. (24), 232, (24); 269, (35) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Asia  Cartography  Jesuits  Mission  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the authority and necessity of bishops View picture(s) 5 BEYER, Guilelmus (Willem). Tractatus de auctoritate, ac necessitate episcoporum; cui adjuncti, Tractatur de missionibus ad propagandam fidem, &c. Philippi Rouenii Archi-Episc. Philipp. Tractatus aureus de sacramento confessionis B. Caroli Borromei Card. Instructio pro confessariis S. Francisci de Sales Episc. Genevens. et damnati caus ab Alexandro Papa Vii. felic. record. Brussels (= Amsterdam), Joachim van Metelen, 1669. 8vo. Contemporary vellum, red speckled edges. Woodcut Jesuit device on title, woodcut end-pieces and initials, and engraved armorial head-piece for dedication to Airoldus. (48), 1-254 (as in all copies without leaf Q8 = pp. 255-6, the 'censura' page), 257-384 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Catholicism  Mission  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The important letters from Japan, 1615-1627 in the first and only edition in French View picture(s) 6 BONELLI, Jean-Baptist & Jean VIREAU (ed. & translator). Histoire de ce qui s'est passé au royaume du Japon, es annees 1625. 1626. & 1627. Tirée des lettres adressées au R. Pere Mutio Viteleschi, General de la Compagnie de Jesus. Traduite d'Italien en François par un Pere de la mesme Compagnie. Paris, Sebastian Cramoisy, 1633. 8vo. Beautiful 19th-century green morocco, spine richly gilt in compartments, with title lettered in gold, triple gilt lines along the edges of both covers, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, gilt edges (Emile ROUSELLES & Auguste FONTAINE). With woodcut printer's device of Cramoisy on the title, several woodcut headpieces. (7) 1 blank, 465 (=485) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  America [South]  Japan  Jesuits  Mission  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare first and only edition of an account of a voyage to India View picture(s) 7 BORGHESI, Giovanni. Lettera scritta da Pondisceri a' 10 di Febbraio 1704. Dal dottore Giovanni Borghesi medico della missione sepedita alla China dalla Santità di N.S. Papa Clemente XI. Nella quale si contengono, oltre a un pieno racconto del Viaggio da Roma fino alle Coste dell' Indie Orientali, varie nuove osservazioni mediche, anatomiche, bottaniche, naturali, e d'altri generi. Rome, Gaetano degli Zenobi, 1705. 12mo. Contemporary vellum, ribbed spine with title in ink: 'Historia dela China'. With folding engraved map, indicating the route to Pondicherry, a folding plate of a compass card, indicating the winds, and six small woodcuts in the text. (XIV), 245, (17) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  India  Mission  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the Christian missionaries in the diocese of Utrecht View picture(s) 8 BOSSCHAERTS, Willebrordus. Diatribai. De Primus Veteris Frisiae Apostolis, sive  Dissertationes, quibus eorum anni, actus, res, personae,  loca, tempora in eorundem actis occurrentia, discutiuntur,  illustrantur, erroresque ab aliena manu illapsi refelluntur.  Utiles quoque ad nostrates Historias intelligendas. Malines, Robert Jaye, 1650. Sm.4to. Contemp. calf, spine ribbed and gilt, with gilt fillet borders on sides and large gilt coat-of-arms of Jean Baptiste Daneels, Baron of Attenrode and of Corbeeck-over-Loo on both sides, g.e. With woodcut printer's device on title, and with numerous woodcut initials, mostly containing ornamental pots of flowers, in text. (30), 604, 26, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bindings  Catholicism  Friesland  History  Mission  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Lyon & Paris ed. of François Xavier in Far East, including Japan View picture(s) 9 BOUHOURS, Dominique. Vie de S. François Xavier apotre des Indes et du Japon. Nouvelle edition, augmentée de quelques opuscules de piété, par l'Abbé F.X. de F. Lyon, Paris, Perisse Frères, 1836. 2 volumes. 12mo. Contemporary sprinkled calf with gilt spine and red title-label lettered in gold, blue marbled endpapers. First volume with engraved portrait of Xavier as frontispiece. [4], 246; [4], 262 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Japan  Jesuits  Mission  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Canadian Indians as victims & perpetrators of violence View picture(s) 10 BRESSANI, Francesco Giuseppe. Breve Relatione d'Alcune Missioni de' PP. della Compagnia di Giesù nella Nuova Francia. Macerata (Umbria), heirs of Agostino Grisei, 1653. 4to. Seventeenth-century(?) limp sheepskin parchment. With a large woodcut Jesuit device on the title-page, woodcut initial, and a factotum built up from fleurons. [4], 127 [= 129], [1] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Canada  Jesuits  Mission  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The memoires of an English missionary in the Pacific View picture(s) 11 BUZACOTT, Aaron & James Povey SUNDERLAND. Mission life in the islands of the Pacific. Being a narrative of the life and labours of the rev. A. Buzacott, missionary of Rarotonga, for some time co-worker with the rev. John Williams, martyr of Erromanga. London, Harrild for John Snow and Co., 1866. Small 8vo. Modern half red hard-grained morocco, spine ribbed with title lettered in gold, sprinkled edges. With an original pasted-in photographical portrait of Buzacott with his signature underneath as a frontispiece, 7 full-page woodcut plates and some woodcut illustrations in the text. (2), XXII, 288 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Australia & New Zealand  Cartography  Mission  Pacific  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the foundation of churches and religious houses and the conversion of the local people in Peru View picture(s) 12 CALANCHA, [Antonio de]. Histoire du Peru, partie principale des Antipodes, ou Nouveau Monde. Et du grand progrez de la foy Chrestienne, en la conversion des peuples gentils: par la predication, bons exemples, souffrances, mesme du martyre, des PP. FF. de l'Ordre des Hermites du glorieux patriarche Sainct Augustin. Comme aussi de plusieurs exemples des choses prodigieuses arrivées en ce pays-là. Le tout recueilly par un P. de la Province de Tolose du mesme ordre: de la chronique moralisée du R.P. Anthoine de la Calancha, docteur Augustin en l'université de Lima & imprimée en Espagnol à Barcelone l'an 1639. Toulouse, F. Bonde, 1653. 4to. Contemporary vellum. Engraved title. (10), 26, (2), 482, (8) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America [South]  Cartography  Mission  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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To convert the Siamese king View picture(s) 13 CHOISY, L'Abbe François-Timoléon de. Journal du Voyage de Siam fait en 1685 & 1686. Second edition. Paris, Sebastien Mabre-Cramoist, 1687. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spine ribbed and gilt. (4), 651, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  China  Mission  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Jesuit mission in the south of Africa View picture(s) 14 DEPELCHIN, Henri and Charles CROONENBERGHS. Trois ans dans l'Afrique Australe. Débuts de la mission du Zambèse. Lettres des Pères H. Depelchin et Ch. Croonenberghs, S.J. 1879, 1880, 1881. Bruxelles, Imprimerie Polleunis, Ceuterick et Lefébure, 1882-3. 2 volumes. 8vo. Original half brown shagreen, gilt spine, title and inscription "Collège S. Servais à Liège" lettered in gold, sides covered with marbled paper. Frontispiece with a portrait, two folding maps. XVI, 432; VI, [2], 452 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  Cartography  Jesuits  Mission  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Early Catholic mission in Texas View picture(s) 15 DOMENECH, Emmanuel Henri Dieudonne. Journal d'un missionaire au Texas et au Mexique, 1846-1852. Paris, Gaume Frères, 1857. 8vo. Original publisher's printed wrappers. With a large folding map of Texas by J. Cordova, printed in two colours. XII, 477, [3] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America, North  Cartography  Mexico  Mission  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The secrets of Madagascar revealed View picture(s) 16 ELLIS, William. Three visits to Madagascar during the years 1853-1854-1856. Including a journey to the capital with notices of the natural history of the country and of the present civilisation of the people. London, John Murray, 1858. 8vo. Contemporary half calf with marbled boards, spine gilt. With 26 woodcuts (including one folding plate, one full-page map of Madagascar, 14 full-page woodcuts, and 10 woodcuts in text). [5], VI-XVII, [3], 470, [2 printer's advertisements] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  Linguistics  Mission  South Africa  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare account of a Theatin monk in India View picture(s) 17 FABRI, Girolamo. Il missionario apostolico, overo relatione dell'operato dal Padre D. Francesco Manco chierico regolare, missionario apost. Nell'Indie Orientali. Rome, Lodovivo Grignani, 1649. 12mo. Contemporary vellum, red painted edges. (12), 232, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  India  Mission  Religious Orders  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Most complete edition View picture(s) 18 FRAISSINET, Édouard. Le Japon. Histoire et description. Rapports avec les Européens. Expédition Américaine. Paris, The widow Bouchard-Huzard for Arthus Bertrand, (1864). 2 vols. 12mo. Contemporary half purple morocco, spine ribbed and gilt in compartments with title lettered in gold, red sprinkled edges. With a large engraved folding map (345 x 310 mm) of Japan "d'apres les plus recentes cartes anglaises et russes" by V.A. Malte-Brun with hand-coloured outlines and a folding table of the islands of Japan, both in the second volume. (4), 499, (1); XII, 523, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: History  Japan  Mission  Religion  Trade  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the history of the Jesuits on the Marianne Islands in the Pacific View picture(s) 19 GARCIA, Francisco. Istoria della conversione all nostra Santa fede dell' isole Mariane, dette prima de' Landroni, nella vita, predicatione, e morte gloriosa per Christo del venerabile P. Diego Luigi di Sanvitores, e d'altri suoi Compagnia di Giesù ... E tradotta nell'Italiano dal Padre Ambrosio Ortiz. Napels, Camillo Cavallo & Michele Luigi Mutii, 1686 (Colophon: 1687). 4to. Contemporary vellum. Woodcut headpieces and initials. Engraved portrait by F. Pesche of Diego Luigi di San Vitores being murdered by the 'barbari' on the 2nd of April 1672. (23), 663, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Discovery & Exploration  Italy  Jesuits  Mission  Pacific  Spain  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Dictionary of the Polynesian language East Funtunan View picture(s) 20 GRÉZEL, Isidore Dictionnaire Futunien-Français avec notes grammaticales. Paris, Maisonneuve, 1878. 8vo Original printed wrappers. (4), 304 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Dictionaries  Mission  Pacific  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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