CRASSET, Jean.
Außführliche Geschicht der in den äussersten Welt-Theil gelegenen japonesischen Kirch, ...
Augsburg, Franz Anton Ilger (printed by Anton Maximilian Heiss), 1738. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With title-page printed in red and black, and 9 etched plates by Joseph Anton Zimmermann; woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards. [24], 534; “559” [= 555], [1 blank].
€ 3,950
First German translation of Crasset's Histoire de l'eglise du Japon, first published in 1689. Crasset, a French Jesuit, based the earlier part of his account on François Solier's Histoire ecclesiastique des isles et royaumes du Japon (1627) but continued it from 1624 to 1658. He gives an elaborate history of the Jesuit mission in Japan, beginning with Francis Xavier. He includes many details about Japan and the Japanese, and the nine plates include several depictions of Japanese costumes and three illustrations of gruesome executions of Jesuit missionaries.
With the engraved bookplate of the monastery of Polling and some stamps. Clasps lost. Otherwise in fine condition. Alt-Japan-Katalog 379; De Backer & Sommervogel II, col. 1641, no. 21; Cordier, Japonica, col. 401.
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