Jesuit relations | Avvisi particolari delle Indie di Portogallo, Rome, 1552, later vellum

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Jesuit relations

Avisi particolari delle Indie di Portogallo ricevuti in questi doi anno del 1551 & 1552 da li reverendi padri de la Compagnia di Jesu. Rome: Valerio and Luigi Dorico for Battista Rossi, 1552

8vo (156 x 100mm.), woodcut Jesuit device on title-page, with blank leaves F8, G8, P3-4 and T7-8, later vellum, flat spine gilt with green morocco lettering-piece, lacking quire E⁸

An early publication of the reports sent back to Rome by Jesuit missionaries abroad which were among the earliest accounts of the culture and peoples of the Portuguese trading posts in south-east Asia.

LITERATURE:

Edit16 3594

PROVENANCE:

Downside Abbey Library, bookplate and stamp on title-page