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Rome, Zacharia Domenicus Acsamiket … linguarum Orientalium, 1669.
Instructiones ad munera apostolica rite obeunda perutiles: missionibus Chinae, Tunchini, Cochinchinae, atq[ue] Siami accomodatae.
First edition of a rare and fundamental handbook for seventeenth-century missionaries to Indochina. The volume is a formative document by François Pallu (d. 1684) and Pierre Lambert de la Motte (d. 1679), founding members of the Société des Missions Étrangères de Paris and driving forces behind the establishment in 1665..... More