Cabral francesco (2 Ergebnisse)

Ricevute il mese di decembre prossimo passato M D LXXXV. In Venezia : appresso i Gioliti, 1586. Small octavo (160 x 105 mm), superb modern binding of panelled red calf richly gilt, spine in compartments with gilt lettering and ornament, gilt dentelles; pp. 181, [1 colophon]; title with woodcut Jesuit device, woodcut headpieces and initials, colophon with woodcut printer's device; title with a very short tear to bottom margin, pp. 141-2 with small loss to bottom margin, occasional spotting; a fine example. Collection of letters written in 1583-84 by Jesuit missionaries in Japan and China, which were received in Rome at the end of 1585. This Venice edition was printed in the same year as the first edition, published in Rome. The three most substantial letters are by Luís Fróis (at Cocinozcù, 13 Feb. 1583; at Nagasaki, 2 Jan. 1584; at Nagasaki, 3 Sept. 1584). There are also shorter letters by Francesco Cabral (at Amacano, 20 Nov. 1583, and 8 Dec. 1584), Michele Ruggieri (at Sciauchino, 7 Feb. 1583; at Amacano, 25 Jan. 1584), and Matteo Ricci (at Canton, 30 Nov. 1584). Cordier, BJ, 81; Sommervogel, II, 493.…

Rome : Francesco Zannetti, 1584. Octavo, recent morocco in period style; edges stained red; pp. 159, [1 errata]; title with woodcut Jesuit device, and with an early ownership inscription; marginal damp stain to top outer corners (not affecting text), a few short passages with early underlining, otherwise clean throughout, a good copy. The first printing of the first edition (with the uncorrected title and with the errata on the verso of the last leaf) of a very early collection of seven reports and letters written by Jesuit missionaries during the final period of the rule of Oda Nobunaga (1534-1582), the first Great Unifier of Japan. The authors include Francesco Carrion (annual report for 1579), Lorenze Mexia (annual report for 1580), Luís Fróis (three letters),Francesco Cabral (one letter), andGregorio de Céspedes (one letter). Cordier, BJ, 74 (noting only the second printing, with Scritte da' Reverendi Padri della Compagnia di Iesuin the second part of the title;Streit IV, 1607; Laures, 150. …