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Item #3294 China Monumentis Qua Sacris quà Profanis, Nec non variis Naturæ & Artis Spectaculis,...

China Monumentis Qua Sacris quà Profanis, Nec non variis Naturæ & Artis Spectaculis, Aliarumque rerum memorabilium Argumentis Illustrata, Auspiciis Leopoldi Primi Roman. Imper. Semper Augusti Munificentissimi Mecænatis.

Amsterdam: Apud Jacobum a Meurs, in fossa vulgo de Keyfersgracht, 1667.

Price: $16,000.00

Complete with the engraved title page, a full-paged portrait of Kircher, 2 large folding engraved maps of China, 59 text engravings, and 23 full-paged engravings (one of which is a large folding reproduction of the "Nestorian Stele"), including some executed by the artist Willem van der Laegh. A nice copy...

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Item #4600 Libro primo de la conquista del Peru & provincia del Cuzco de le Indie Occidentali....

Libro primo de la conquista del Peru & provincia del Cuzco de le Indie Occidentali.

Venice: Stephano da Sabbio, March, 1535.

Price: $30,000.00

Bound in fine 20th-century dark green long grained morocco, boards framed by an ornamental roll, gilt. Gilt spine and turn-ins. A very good copy, edges sprinkled blue. Small, discreet repair to blank upper margin of t.p. and lower blank corner of 2nd leaf; small stain at upper corner of 4th...

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Item #2773 De Christiana Expeditione apud Sinas suscepta ab Societate Iesu ex P. Matthaei Riccii...

De Christiana Expeditione apud Sinas suscepta ab Societate Iesu ex P. Matthaei Riccii eiusdem Societatis co[m]mentariis libri V. Ad S.D.N. Paulum. V. In quibus Sinensis Regni mores, leges atq[ue] instituta & novae illius Ecclesiae difficill[iss]ima primordia accurate & summa fide describuntur. Auctore P. Nicolao Trigautio Belga ex eadem societate.

Augsburg: Christoph. Mangius, 1615.

Price: $18,000.00

A fine copy bound in strictly contemporary limp vellum, soiled, lacking ties. The text is in truly excellent condition with a little fraying to the outer, blank margin of the engraved title, which shows Matteo Ricci and Blessed Francis Xavier in an architectural framework, flanking Ricci’s map of China. The...

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Item #3224 Relatione della felice morte di cinque religiosi della Compagnia di Giesu, et di...

Relatione della felice morte di cinque religiosi della Compagnia di Giesu, et di alcuni altri secolari ammazzati da Gentili per la fede nell'India Orientale l'anno 1583. Cavata da una del P. Allesandro Valignano Provinciale dell'india per il P. Generale della compagna di Giesu data in Goa alli 28 Dicembre dell'istesso anno.

Rome: appresso Francesco Zanetti, 1584.

Price: $4,800.00

Later “carta rustica” boards with spine in early vellum. The text begins on A2. Complete.The extremely rare first Italian edition of this report from India. Streit lists a Latin edition at Goa in 1584 (Streit IV, 1024) but this appears to have been published only in later collections (the 'Littera...

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