Paris, Sebastien et Gabriel Cramoisy, 1652.
Relation des progrez de la foy au royaume de la cochinchine vers les derniers quartiers du levant.
First French edition of this first-hand account of 17th-century Vietnam (first Italian ed. 1650), which played an important role in fostering French interest in the region. Rhodes, who earned the favorable opinion of Louis XIV, is often heralded as the founder of Vietnamese Christianity, and remembered for his important dictionary..... More