STAFFORD, Ignatius. Istoria della celeste vocatione, missioni apostoliche, e gloriosa morte del P. Marcello Francesco Mastrilli. Viterbo: Bernardino Diotalleui, 1642. 4° (210 x 156mm), woodcut arms of the dedicatee on title, with the initial blank and final errata leaf (a little browning and spotting). Contemporary limp vellum (lightly rubbed and spotted). First edition in Italian, translated from the Spanish, narrating the missions to India and the Philippines of the Jesuit Francesco Mastrilli and his martyrdom in Japan in October 1637. Paghs 255; De Backer-Sommervogel VII. 1473; Cordier BJ 333; Streit V. 1546; Palau 321914.