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One of the earliest separately published Jesuit letters entirely devoted to the Philippines,
dealing with Muslim culture in the Philippines

LOPEZ, Gregorio. Lettera annua della Provincia delle Filippine dell' anno M.DC.VIII.
Rome, Bartolomeo Zanetti, 1611. Small 8vo (16 x 11.5 cm). 18th-century limp sheepskin parchment. 124, [2 blank] pp. Full description

€ 12,500

Church History & Missions Jesuits Philippines Southeast Asia

Unpublished thesis on the Irish monasteries in the 5th and 6th centuries by a female student

LORCIN, Aimée. La civilisation monastique irlandaise aux Ve et VIe siècles.
Lyon, [unpublished typescript], 1944-1945. Folio (27 x 20.5 cm). With 1 duplicated manuscript map. Stiff brown paper wrappers, black cloth spine. [1], IX, 159 ll. plus 8 loose ll. with additions and corrections. Full description

€ 650

Catholicism & Eastern Orthodox Church Church History & Missions Ireland Manuscripts & Documents

A mystical path through the Song of Songs

LOYAERTS, Samuel. Den wech der deuchden, bedeylt in acht boecxkens. Ghemaect op Canticum canticorum ...
Antwerp, Jan van Keerberghen, (colophon:) printed by Hendrik Swingen, 1599. 8vo. With a full-page woodcut illustration on the recto of the last leaf, and some woodcut decorated initials throughout.
Contemporary richly blind-tooled calf over wooden boards. [311], [1 blank] ll. Full description

€ 1,250

Antwerp Belgium Catholicism & Eastern Orthodox Church Church History & Missions Early Printing - 16th century Religion (16th Century)

An influential compilation of the works of Ramon Lull

LULL, Ramon. Opera ea quae ad adinventam ab ipso artem universalem, scientiarum artium que omnium brevi compendio, firmaq[ue] menmoria apprehendendarum, locupletissimaq[ue] vel oratione ex tempore pertractandarum, pertinent.
Strasbourg, sold by the heirs of Lazarus Zetzner, 1617.
With: (2) ALSTED, Johann Heinrich. Clavis artis Lullianae, et verae logices ...
Strasbourg, sold by the heirs of Lazarus Zetzner, 1633.
2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. With 3 folding letterpress tables, numerous woodcut diagrams in the text, a decorated woodcut initial at the start of each chapter, and a woodcut printer's device on the title-page. Contemporary vellum, sewn on 5 supports laced through the joints, with the manuscript title on the spine. [16], 1109, [39], [2 blank]; [8], 182; [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 3,500

Philosophy & Humanism Religion (17th Century)

A great compendium of canon law, finely printed in Antwerp for the English market

LYNDWOOD, William. Provinciale seu constitutiones Anglie: cum summarijs, atque justis annotationibus, politissimis caracteribus, summaque accuratione rursum reuise, atque impresse.
Including: BADIUS, Jodocus (Josse BADE). Tabula indices.
London, Franciscus Bryckman (colophon: Antwerp, printed by Christoffel van Ruremund, 20 December 1525). 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With two title-pages, each in a woodcut border. The first shows above heaven with the holy trinity surrounded by the heavenly population, and below the world with the pope and the king kneeling before the church, surrounded by the clergy; on the second title-page the coat of arms of England, a Tudor rose with the "IHS" and Saint George and the dragon. Printed in black and red throughout. Contemporary calf in modern slipcase. CCLV [= CCLVJ], [28] ll. Full description

€ 7,000

Book History, Printing & Typography Church History & Missions Early Printing - 16th century Religion (16th Century)

A French translation of Maffei's renowned description of the East and West Indies

MAFFEI, Giovanni Pietro. L'Histoire des Indes Orientales et Occidentales ...
Paris, Robert de Ninville, 1665. 2 volumes bound as 1. 4to. Each volume with a (different) woodcut coat of arms of France and Navarre on the title page. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine and board edges. [32], “353” [= 351], [1 blank]; [2], "292" [= 296], [24] pp. Full description

€ 1,250

Brazil Caribbean Islands China Church History & Missions Iran / Persia Japan & Far East Latin America Middle America Religion (17th Century) South America Southeast Asia

Maffei's account of the East and West Indies

MAFFEI, Joan Petro. Historiarum Indicarum libri XVI. Selectarum, item, ex India epistolarum libri IV...
Antwerp, Martinus Nutius, 1605. 8vo. With woodcut device on title-page and woodcut initials. Contemporary vellum with faint manuscript title on spine and a small gilt-stamped rooster in the centre of the boards, remains of ties. [72], 478, [2 blank]; 401, [7] pp. Full description

€ 6,500

Brazil History / 17th Century Japan & Far East Jesuits Latin America Middle America Peru South America West Indies

Italian friar captured by Ottoman pirates

MAGGIO, Francesco Maria. Vita, e morte del venerabil P. F. Alipio di S. Giuseppe Scalzo di S. Agostino Palermitano della congregazione d'Italia, in odio della confessione della S. Fede di Giesù Cristo, crudelissimamente ucciso da' Turchi di Barberia, nella città di Tripoli, a 17 di febbraio l'anno 1645 ...
Rome, Ignatio de' Lazzari, 1657. 4to. With 3 engraved plates. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment. [40], 24, [4], 25-234, [2 blank] pp. Full description

€ 3,500

Church History & Missions Mutiny, Piracy & Shipwrecks North Africa Turkey & Ottoman Empire

Martyrdom and persecutions of Jesuits in China and Japan

MAJORICA, Girolamo, Nicolas TRIGAULT and Alvaro SEMEDO. Lettere annue del Giappone dell'anno MDCXXII e della Cina del 1621 & 1622 al molto Reu. in Christo P. Mutio Vitelleschi preposito generale della Compagnia di Giesu.
Roma, Francesco Corbelletti, [1627?]. 8vo. With a woodcut "IHS" Jesuit device on title-page, woodcut headpiece, tailpiece and decorated initials. 18th-century flexible boards. 312 pp. Full description

€ 9,500

Church History & Missions Japan & Far East Jesuits

Rare imprint, containing the privilege extended by the Turkish Ruler to the Franciscans,
for the restoration of the holy places

MALDONADO, Joseph. Copia de la sentencia que el Gran Turco dio en primero de Abril deste ano de 1636, en favor de los Religiosos de nuestro Serafico Padre San Fracisco, en los pleytos de los Griegos.
Madrid, Juan Sanchez, [1636]. Folio (28 x 10 cm). [4] pp. Full description

€ 1,800

Church History & Missions Law & Politics Religion (17th Century) Turkey & Ottoman Empire

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