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JAPAN -- Fernere Zeitung auss Japon, dess zwey unnd achtzigsten, drey und achtzigsten, und vier und achtzigsten Jars. Sampt langst gewünschter frölicher Boteschafft, auss der gewaltigen, biss anhero Haydnischen Landschafft China dess 83 unnd 84 Jars . . . Gezogen aus Briefen der Societet Jesu, die zu Rom ankommen im December dess 1585. Jars. Dillingen: Joannes Mayer, 1586.
8° (150 x 97mm). Title in red and black, decorative initial letters. (Title inkstained to obliterate ownership stamp, with later overlabel, affecting A2 also, another stamp obliterated on X7, affecting two preceding leaves.) Contemporary vellum (soiled, upper hinge partially split). Provenance: Duke of Bavaria (armorial bookplate); inscription dated 1855.
A rare German edition of a Jesuit tract describing the events of 1582-1584 in Japan and China. The work was first published in Italian in 1586, and was widely translated. Of this German edition, the Bibliographischer Alt-Japan-Katalog (1940) records only seven copies in Germany, and none in Japan. In the same year, Mayer also published the Jesuits' Jüngste Zeytung auss der weitberümbten Insel Jappon, recounting the events of 1582. Alt-Japan-Katalog 127.
8° (150 x 97mm). Title in red and black, decorative initial letters. (Title inkstained to obliterate ownership stamp, with later overlabel, affecting A2 also, another stamp obliterated on X7, affecting two preceding leaves.) Contemporary vellum (soiled, upper hinge partially split). Provenance: Duke of Bavaria (armorial bookplate); inscription dated 1855.
A rare German edition of a Jesuit tract describing the events of 1582-1584 in Japan and China. The work was first published in Italian in 1586, and was widely translated. Of this German edition, the Bibliographischer Alt-Japan-Katalog (1940) records only seven copies in Germany, and none in Japan. In the same year, Mayer also published the Jesuits' Jüngste Zeytung auss der weitberümbten Insel Jappon, recounting the events of 1582. Alt-Japan-Katalog 127.