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MANUEL ACOSTA (1540-1604)
Rerum a Societate Jesu in Oriente Gestarum Volumen De Rebus Indicis ad Annum usque a Deipara Virgine MDLXVIII. De Rebus Indicis ad Annum usque MDLXX, Epistolarum Libri I. De Japonicis Rebus ad Annum usque MDLXV, Epistolarum Libri V. Edited by Giovanni Pietro Maffei. Naples: Horatio Salviani, 1573. 8° (204 x 155mm). Woodcut vignette title-page and initials, printed in Italic, with the Index and the 'Specimen Quoddam Litterarum Vocumque Japonicarum' with woodcut Japanese characters. (Title-page and first two gatherings with neat repair to lower margin, one minor marginal paper flaw.) Contemporary limp vellum, manuscript title to spine (lacking one tie, neatly restored at corners and lower edge). Modern morocco-backed box.
FIRST ITALIAN PRINTING AND BEST EDITION OF THE FIRST OFFICIAL SURVEY OF THE JESUIT MISSIONS TO ASIA, ESPECIALLY TO JAPAN, with the letters from Francis Xavier on his introduction of Christianity to Japan in 1549 and the first appearance of Japanese script in a Western printed book. A work highly valued by Clement VIII, compiled from the Jesuit letters as they arrived in Portugal. Translated from the Portuguese and enlarged by the Jesuit chronicler Maffei with reports from Japan (Libri V) updated from the first edition, Dillingen, 1571 which included only Libri IV. Maffei's own "Historiarum Indicarum", 1588 drew on Acosta's work as well as that of João de Barro's "Asia". Maffei's translation was later used by Richard Willes in his 1577 edition of Peter Martyr's "History of Travayle". Cordier, Japonica 59; Brunet I, 42 for the 1571 edition; Lust 804 for the 1574 Cologne printing.
Rerum a Societate Jesu in Oriente Gestarum Volumen De Rebus Indicis ad Annum usque a Deipara Virgine MDLXVIII. De Rebus Indicis ad Annum usque MDLXX, Epistolarum Libri I. De Japonicis Rebus ad Annum usque MDLXV, Epistolarum Libri V. Edited by Giovanni Pietro Maffei. Naples: Horatio Salviani, 1573. 8° (204 x 155mm). Woodcut vignette title-page and initials, printed in Italic, with the Index and the 'Specimen Quoddam Litterarum Vocumque Japonicarum' with woodcut Japanese characters. (Title-page and first two gatherings with neat repair to lower margin, one minor marginal paper flaw.) Contemporary limp vellum, manuscript title to spine (lacking one tie, neatly restored at corners and lower edge). Modern morocco-backed box.
FIRST ITALIAN PRINTING AND BEST EDITION OF THE FIRST OFFICIAL SURVEY OF THE JESUIT MISSIONS TO ASIA, ESPECIALLY TO JAPAN, with the letters from Francis Xavier on his introduction of Christianity to Japan in 1549 and the first appearance of Japanese script in a Western printed book. A work highly valued by Clement VIII, compiled from the Jesuit letters as they arrived in Portugal. Translated from the Portuguese and enlarged by the Jesuit chronicler Maffei with reports from Japan (Libri V) updated from the first edition, Dillingen, 1571 which included only Libri IV. Maffei's own "Historiarum Indicarum", 1588 drew on Acosta's work as well as that of João de Barro's "Asia". Maffei's translation was later used by Richard Willes in his 1577 edition of Peter Martyr's "History of Travayle". Cordier, Japonica 59; Brunet I, 42 for the 1571 edition; Lust 804 for the 1574 Cologne printing.
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