![JESUIT LETTERS -- Diversi Avisi Particolari dall'Indie di Portogallo. [Bound with:] Nuovi Avisi dell'Indie di Portogallo. Venice: Michele Tramezzino, 1559. Two parts in one volume, 8° (154 x 95mm). Italic type. Printer's device on both title-pages. (First title stained, faint stains in final leaves, without final blank.) Provenance: early annotations (washed).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2000/CKS/2000_CKS_06298_0107_000(011250).jpg?w=1)
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JESUIT LETTERS -- Diversi Avisi Particolari dall'Indie di Portogallo. [Bound with:] Nuovi Avisi dell'Indie di Portogallo. Venice: Michele Tramezzino, 1559. Two parts in one volume, 8° (154 x 95mm). Italic type. Printer's device on both title-pages. (First title stained, faint stains in final leaves, without final blank.) Provenance: early annotations (washed).
Nuovi Avisi dell'Indie di Portogallo. Venice: Michele Tramezzino, 1562. 8° (150 x 100mm). Italic type. Printer's device on title. (Lacks quire Ll8.)
Nuovi Avisi delle Indie di Portogallo. Venice: Michele Tramezzino, 1565. 8° (147 x 87mm). Italic type. Printer's device on title, second device on Aa6r. (Lacks Y2-7, fore-edge of final two quires trimmed with text of 2 leaves just shaved, light spotting.)
Four parts in 3 volumes, near uniform vellum bindings, volume I in 19th-century vellum (repaired and recased), volume II in 18th-century vellum, spine lettered in gilt, red edges, volume III in modern vellum, non-uniform spine lettering but volume number recently tooled in uniform style on each spine.
FIRST EDITIONS of the complete Tramezzino set, printing an important series of letters written by early Jesuit missionaries. While they principally concern Brazil, others report from Cochin, Macao, Ethiopia, Goa and Japan. Loyala instituted epistolary reports to communicate missionaries' progress from their far-flung outposts and their letters 'were the first to provide Europe with regular information on the progress of the Eastern missions' (Lach, I, i, p.314). Letters from the East were of necessity full of information on the local geography, climate, peoples and customs, as well as events. The letters were also useful as Jesuit propaganda, and were circulated either at nominal cost or for free (see Lach, p.319). Part I, fo. 3 with 'A tergo,' as required for the first edition; part II contains letters previously published in other collections of Jesuit letters (cf. Streit); a fifth part appeared at Brescia in 1579. Borba de Moraes pp.59-61; Cordier, Japonica 47-8; Palau 74650 (dated 1558), 197577; 197578; 197579. Streit, Bibliotheca Missionum 1263, 1280, 1285. (3)
Nuovi Avisi dell'Indie di Portogallo. Venice: Michele Tramezzino, 1562. 8° (150 x 100mm). Italic type. Printer's device on title. (Lacks quire Ll
Nuovi Avisi delle Indie di Portogallo. Venice: Michele Tramezzino, 1565. 8° (147 x 87mm). Italic type. Printer's device on title, second device on Aa6r. (Lacks Y2-7, fore-edge of final two quires trimmed with text of 2 leaves just shaved, light spotting.)
Four parts in 3 volumes, near uniform vellum bindings, volume I in 19th-century vellum (repaired and recased), volume II in 18th-century vellum, spine lettered in gilt, red edges, volume III in modern vellum, non-uniform spine lettering but volume number recently tooled in uniform style on each spine.
FIRST EDITIONS of the complete Tramezzino set, printing an important series of letters written by early Jesuit missionaries. While they principally concern Brazil, others report from Cochin, Macao, Ethiopia, Goa and Japan. Loyala instituted epistolary reports to communicate missionaries' progress from their far-flung outposts and their letters 'were the first to provide Europe with regular information on the progress of the Eastern missions' (Lach, I, i, p.314). Letters from the East were of necessity full of information on the local geography, climate, peoples and customs, as well as events. The letters were also useful as Jesuit propaganda, and were circulated either at nominal cost or for free (see Lach, p.319). Part I, fo. 3 with 'A tergo,' as required for the first edition; part II contains letters previously published in other collections of Jesuit letters (cf. Streit); a fifth part appeared at Brescia in 1579. Borba de Moraes pp.59-61; Cordier, Japonica 47-8; Palau 74650 (dated 1558), 197577; 197578; 197579. Streit, Bibliotheca Missionum 1263, 1280, 1285. (3)
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