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FRANCISCO COLIN (1592-1660)
Labor evangélica, ministerios apostólicos de los obreros de la Compañia de Jesus, fundacion, y progressos de su provincial en las Islas Filipinas. Parte Primera. Sacada de los manuscriptos del padre Pedro Chirino, el primero de la Compañia que passó de los Reynos de España a estas Islas. Madrid: Joseph Fernandez Buendia, 1663. 2° (283 x 240mm). Engraved frontispiece of Francis Xavier and rare folding map, both by Marcus Orozco, the map showing a portion of Borneo, text printed in double columns, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces. (Minor repairs to title-page and 2 leaves.) Modern blue morocco gilt, gilt edges, morocco box. Provenance: Jeronimo Ferreira Das Neves (bookplate).
A SUPERB COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION OF THE BEST SEVENTEENTH CENTURY WORK ON THE PHILIPPINES and the first book on the archipelago to be of scientific value for its survey of flora, fauna, geography and languages. It is partly based on the unpublished manuscript of Pedro Chirino of the Philippines, 1585-1618, by Colin, a member of the Jesuit mission at Zamboanga. In five books, of which the fifth is a listing of Jesuit colleges, churches and residences throughout the Philippines and including Ternate, in Indonesia, and Borneo. The work also contains the biographies of Christian Japanese noblemen who found refuge in Manila from the persectuions in Japan. The "Segunda Parte" by Pedro Murillo Velarde was not published until 1749, in Manila, and updated the history of the province from 1616 to 1716. Palau 56800; Robertson 119; Brunet II, 131; Tavera 655.
Labor evangélica, ministerios apostólicos de los obreros de la Compañia de Jesus, fundacion, y progressos de su provincial en las Islas Filipinas. Parte Primera. Sacada de los manuscriptos del padre Pedro Chirino, el primero de la Compañia que passó de los Reynos de España a estas Islas. Madrid: Joseph Fernandez Buendia, 1663. 2° (283 x 240mm). Engraved frontispiece of Francis Xavier and rare folding map, both by Marcus Orozco, the map showing a portion of Borneo, text printed in double columns, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces. (Minor repairs to title-page and 2 leaves.) Modern blue morocco gilt, gilt edges, morocco box. Provenance: Jeronimo Ferreira Das Neves (bookplate).
A SUPERB COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION OF THE BEST SEVENTEENTH CENTURY WORK ON THE PHILIPPINES and the first book on the archipelago to be of scientific value for its survey of flora, fauna, geography and languages. It is partly based on the unpublished manuscript of Pedro Chirino of the Philippines, 1585-1618, by Colin, a member of the Jesuit mission at Zamboanga. In five books, of which the fifth is a listing of Jesuit colleges, churches and residences throughout the Philippines and including Ternate, in Indonesia, and Borneo. The work also contains the biographies of Christian Japanese noblemen who found refuge in Manila from the persectuions in Japan. The "Segunda Parte" by Pedro Murillo Velarde was not published until 1749, in Manila, and updated the history of the province from 1616 to 1716. Palau 56800; Robertson 119; Brunet II, 131; Tavera 655.
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