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MAFFEI, Giovanni Pietro, editor and translator (1535-1600). Rerum a Societate Jesu in Oriente gestarum. Naples: Orazio Salviani, 1573.
4° in 8s (205 x 150mm). Title with woodcut printer's device [Vaccaro p. 134]. Woodcut Japanese calligraphy, ornaments and initials. (Variable light spotting and browning, some unobtrusive worming, title slightly damp-stained, small flaw on K2 affecting 3 lines of text.) Early 19th-century vellum-backed marbled boards with vellum fore-edges, flat spine gilt in five compartments, gilt morocco lettering-piece in one, the others with central geometric stamp (upper hinge cracked, boards lightly rubbed, vellum discoloured). Provenance: FREDERICK NORTH, 5th Earl of Guilford (1766-1827, succeeded 1817, armorial bookplate).
THE THIRD, EXPANDED, LATIN EDITION OF THE FIRST OFFICIAL JESUIT HISTORY OF THE EASTERN MISSIONS. The first edition united Acosta's unpublished manuscript Historia dos missiones do Oriente até o anno de 1568 (a series of letters from the missions with a commentary by Acosta, who taught at Coimbra) with an appendix of letters from Japan edited by Maffei (De Iaponicus rebus epistolarum libri IV), and was published by Sebald Mayer, a printer of the Jesuit press, in Dillingen in 1571. The present, third edition is composed of the following parts: Maffei's translation of Manoel Acosta's De rebus Indicis ad annum ... MDLXVIII and De rebus Indicis ad annum usque MDLXX, epistolarum liber I (ff.4r-72r); the additional Japanese material De Iaponicis rebus ad annum usque MDLXV, epistolarum libri V (ff.73v-224r); Specimen quoddam litterarum vocumque Iaponicarum, which is illustrated with woodcut Japanese calligraphy (ff.225v-228r); and De quinquaginta duobus e Societate Iesu, pro fide catholica nuper occisis, epistolae duae (ff.229v-236v).
This copy is from the library of Frederick North, Earl of Guilford, an 'accomplished Grecian and an enthusiastic philhellene' (DNB XIV, p. 609). De Ricci judges North 'a distinguished scholar', and records that 'he left his collections of printed books, manuscripts, etc., at Corfu to the University [of which he was a co-founder], but in consequence of its failure to comply with certain conditions which accompanied the bequest, it was not carried out. [His] fine library was sold by Evans, in seven parts, in the years 1828, 1829, 1830, and 1835' (English Book Collectors pp. 322-323). Cf. Cordier 59 (describing the 1573 Naples edition by Lachaeus and noting of the present edition: 'c'est la même édition avec un nouveau titre').
4° in 8s (205 x 150mm). Title with woodcut printer's device [Vaccaro p. 134]. Woodcut Japanese calligraphy, ornaments and initials. (Variable light spotting and browning, some unobtrusive worming, title slightly damp-stained, small flaw on K2 affecting 3 lines of text.) Early 19th-century vellum-backed marbled boards with vellum fore-edges, flat spine gilt in five compartments, gilt morocco lettering-piece in one, the others with central geometric stamp (upper hinge cracked, boards lightly rubbed, vellum discoloured). Provenance: FREDERICK NORTH, 5th Earl of Guilford (1766-1827, succeeded 1817, armorial bookplate).
THE THIRD, EXPANDED, LATIN EDITION OF THE FIRST OFFICIAL JESUIT HISTORY OF THE EASTERN MISSIONS. The first edition united Acosta's unpublished manuscript Historia dos missiones do Oriente até o anno de 1568 (a series of letters from the missions with a commentary by Acosta, who taught at Coimbra) with an appendix of letters from Japan edited by Maffei (De Iaponicus rebus epistolarum libri IV), and was published by Sebald Mayer, a printer of the Jesuit press, in Dillingen in 1571. The present, third edition is composed of the following parts: Maffei's translation of Manoel Acosta's De rebus Indicis ad annum ... MDLXVIII and De rebus Indicis ad annum usque MDLXX, epistolarum liber I (ff.4r-72r); the additional Japanese material De Iaponicis rebus ad annum usque MDLXV, epistolarum libri V (ff.73v-224r); Specimen quoddam litterarum vocumque Iaponicarum, which is illustrated with woodcut Japanese calligraphy (ff.225v-228r); and De quinquaginta duobus e Societate Iesu, pro fide catholica nuper occisis, epistolae duae (ff.229v-236v).
This copy is from the library of Frederick North, Earl of Guilford, an 'accomplished Grecian and an enthusiastic philhellene' (DNB XIV, p. 609). De Ricci judges North 'a distinguished scholar', and records that 'he left his collections of printed books, manuscripts, etc., at Corfu to the University [of which he was a co-founder], but in consequence of its failure to comply with certain conditions which accompanied the bequest, it was not carried out. [His] fine library was sold by Evans, in seven parts, in the years 1828, 1829, 1830, and 1835' (English Book Collectors pp. 322-323). Cf. Cordier 59 (describing the 1573 Naples edition by Lachaeus and noting of the present edition: 'c'est la même édition avec un nouveau titre').
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