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DE MARINI, Giovanni Filippo (1608-1677). Delle missioni de padri della Compagnia di Giesu nella provincia del Giappone, e particolarmente di quella di Tumkino. Libri cinque. Rome: N.A. Tinassi, 1663. 4° (237 x 174mm). Engraved allegorical frontispiece, 2 engraved costume plates and a folding engraved plate by Campanili on red Japanese paper of the Royal 'Tumkino' barge, woodcut initials and head-pieces, with the colophon leaf (frontispiece and some leaves browned with a few marginal repairs, large folding plate backed with tissue, 6 gatherings supplied from another copy). 18th-century vellum with calf label, a reimbotage (slight worm damage to inside covers), modern morocco-backed box.
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DE MARINI, Giovanni Filippo (1608-1677). Delle missioni de padri della Compagnia di Giesu nella provincia del Giappone, e particolarmente di quella di Tumkino. Libri cinque. Rome: N.A. Tinassi, 1663. 4° (237 x 174mm). Engraved allegorical frontispiece, 2 engraved costume plates and a folding engraved plate by Campanili on red Japanese paper of the Royal 'Tumkino' barge, woodcut initials and head-pieces, with the colophon leaf (frontispiece and some leaves browned with a few marginal repairs, large folding plate backed with tissue, 6 gatherings supplied from another copy). 18th-century vellum with calf label, a reimbotage (slight worm damage to inside covers), modern morocco-backed box.

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DE MARINI, Giovanni Filippo (1608-1677). Delle missioni de padri della Compagnia di Giesu nella provincia del Giappone, e particolarmente di quella di Tumkino. Libri cinque. Rome: N.A. Tinassi, 1663. 4° (237 x 174mm). Engraved allegorical frontispiece, 2 engraved costume plates and a folding engraved plate by Campanili on red Japanese paper of the Royal 'Tumkino' barge, woodcut initials and head-pieces, with the colophon leaf (frontispiece and some leaves browned with a few marginal repairs, large folding plate backed with tissue, 6 gatherings supplied from another copy). 18th-century vellum with calf label, a reimbotage (slight worm damage to inside covers), modern morocco-backed box.

RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST ILLUSTRATED BOOK ON VIETNAM, by a Jesuit attached to the mission there. The whole of Libri III is devoted to Tumkino, with Libri V to the kingdom of the Lao. This popular work went into 10 editions by 1683. In the copy seen by Cordier the frontispiece is printed on red paper and the folding plate of the royal barge on yellow paper. Cordier Japonica 374. Brunet III, 1432.
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