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The Second Japanese Embassy to Europe
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AMATI, Scipione. Historia del regno di Voxu del Giapone, dell, antichita, nobilta, e valore del suo re Idate Masamune... Rome, Giacomo Mascardi, 1615.
Very rare FIRST EDITION of this critical source for THE SECOND JAPANESE MISSION TO EUROPE of 1614, a Franciscan public relations event that sought to repeat the success of the first mission of 1585, which had been brilliantly engineered by their rivals the Jesuits and to inspire financial and political support.
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Convent of San Francisco, Manila
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Anonymous. CONVENT OF SAN FRANCISCO, MANILA. Manila, 18th century..
Handsomely executed painting of the Franciscan convent of San Francisco in Manila, with a view of what was very likely a medicinal garden, with nuns strolling about.
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Bartoli's Asia
3 Volumes Devoted To Asia And Japan
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BARTOLI, Daniello. Dell Istoria della Compagnia di Giesu. L'Asia descritta dal P. Daniello Bartoli della medesima Compagnia. Parte Prima; Il Giappone. Seconda Parte dell'Asia; La Cina. Terza Parte dell'Asia. Rome, Varese, 1660 1663 1667.
The very rare third, enlarged, and best edition of Bartoli's L'Asia descritta.
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The 'Most Complete Edition'
With 49 Engraved Maps And Views
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BEAUVAU, Henri de. Relation iournaliere du voyage du Levant. Nancy, Iacob Garnich, 1619.
A genuine and attractive copy of Beauvau's 1605 expedition through Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Palestine and Egypt, one of the most substantially illustrated French travelogues of the first half of the 17th century relating to the Near East.
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Jesuits Weather the Manchu Invasion
Unpublished Letters From China
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[CHINA] CANEVARI, P. / ALENI, G./ GOUVEA, A. de / Emperor Zhu Yujian. Manila, n.d. after 1647.
Manuscript of THREE EVIDENTLY UNPUBLISHED JESUIT LETTERS, written by members in Fujian province to the Provincial of the Province of the Philippines in the first half of the year 1647, firsthand reports from the volatile period of dynastic transition that saw the weakened Ming dynasty supplanted by invading Manchus.
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