PELLICER DE OSSAU SALAS Y TOVAR, Jose. Mission Evangelica al Reyno de Congo Por la Serafica Religion de los Capuchinos, Madrid: Domingo Garcia i Morràs, 1649, small 4°, FIRST EDITION, title with woodcut royal arms within typographical border, full page printer's device on on final leaf (contemporary ownership inscription on pastedown offsetting onto front free endpaper, a few pages lightly browned), old limp vellum.

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PELLICER DE OSSAU SALAS Y TOVAR, Jose. Mission Evangelica al Reyno de Congo Por la Serafica Religion de los Capuchinos, Madrid: Domingo Garcia i Morràs, 1649, small 4°, FIRST EDITION, title with woodcut royal arms within typographical border, full page printer's device on on final leaf (contemporary ownership inscription on pastedown offsetting onto front free endpaper, a few pages lightly browned), old limp vellum.

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This work was based on the report of Angel de Valencia. The text describes both the Capuchin Congo mission and the surrounding country.

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