Lettere del Giappone dell’anno M. D. LXXVII. Scritte dalli Reverendi Padri della Compagnia di Giesù.

A$15,000 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Rome : Francesco Za[n]netti, 1579. Octavo, later panelled red calf, boards with gilt central device and borders, spine with raised bands decorated and entered in gilt; gilt dentelles; pp. 72; title with woodcut device; old stamp removes and first few leaves with small expert restoration at lower fore-edge, otherwise very good. Very rare collection of letters from Jesuit missionaries in Japan, including Luís Fróis (Bungo, 6 June, 1577), Organtino Gnecchi-Soldo (Miyako, 21 September, 1577), Giovanni Francesco Stephanoni (Sanga, 24 July, 1577), and Francisco Cabral (Kuchinotsu, 1 September, 1577). Cordier, Japonica , 71; Streit, v. IV, p. 427; Sommervogel, v. II, col. 492; Rivière, col. 197.

• Binding: Hardcover

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