Maffei (Giovanni Pietro): Historiarum Indicarum libri XVI. Selectarum item ex India Epistolarum eodem interprete libri IIII. Accessit Ignatii Loiolae Vita postremo recognita, Venice, apud Damianum Zenarium, 1589, 2 vols. in one, 4to, publisher's dragon device on titles, woodcut initials (first title with perforation mark of Forbes Library, date stamp on A2, preliminaries and final leaves creased at corners, some marginal stains, old vellum (rebacked, worn). [Adams M91; BMC of Italian Books 402; De Backer-Som. V, 288; Streit, Bibl. Missionum IV, 1045; Sabin 43770n]; together with Damiano a Goes, De Rebus Oceanicis et Novo Orbe (Cologne, Geruinium Calenium, 1574). (2)

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Maffei (Giovanni Pietro): Historiarum Indicarum libri XVI. Selectarum item ex India Epistolarum eodem interprete libri IIII. Accessit Ignatii Loiolae Vita postremo recognita, Venice, apud Damianum Zenarium, 1589, 2 vols. in one, 4to, publisher's dragon device on titles, woodcut initials (first title with perforation mark of Forbes Library, date stamp on A2, preliminaries and final leaves creased at corners, some marginal stains, old vellum (rebacked, worn). [Adams M91; BMC of Italian Books 402; De Backer-Som. V, 288; Streit, Bibl. Missionum IV, 1045; Sabin 43770n]; together with Damiano a Goes, De Rebus Oceanicis et Novo Orbe (Cologne, Geruinium Calenium, 1574). (2)

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First collected edition of these important writings about and from the Jesuits in the New World as well as the East Indies and Japan.

Provenance: Charles Edward Forbes.

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