Historia de la Provincia del Sancto Rosario de la orden de Predicadores en Philippinas, Iapon, y China. [Libro Primero / Libro Segundo]

A$55,000 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

En Manila : en el Colegio de Santo Thomas, por Luis Beltran impressor de libros, 1640. First edition. Two volumes in one, folio, contemporary limp vellum (a little stained, lacking ties), spine with manuscript title in ink; front pastedown with old ex libris of the Bibliotheca Magni Mexicani Conventus S. P.N. S. Francisco (early Convent inscription verso of title page) and later ex libris of Florencio Gavito; printed on rice paper; [Libro Primero] pp [8], 437; [Libro Segundo] pp 427, [34]; title with woodcut device within printed border; historiated initials, head- and tailpieces; text in two columns; title leaf and following three leaves, as well as the final four leaves all remargined, the final four leaves with loss to the text in the upper margin (these leaves probably supplied from another copy), occasional small repairs and some worming, else internally clean and sound; housed in a protective box of half morocco over cloth, spine with gilt decoration and lettering. The very rare first edition of the first two books ( Libro Primero and Libro Segundo ) of Aduarte s monumental history of the Provincia del Santo Rosario (Province of the Holy Rosary), published posthumously in Manila in 1640. The founding fathers of this Dominican Province the Dominican mission in Asia arrived in the Philippines in 1587, and the Province was admitted by the General Chapter of the Order in 1591. Diego Aduarte was born in Zaragoza in 1569 and travelled to the Philippines as a Dominican friar i

• Binding: Hardcover

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