Lettere Annue del Giappone dell'anno MDCXXII. e della Cina del 1621 & 1622. Milan: Gio. Battista Cerri, 1627. 8vo (168 x 104 mm). A-S8, T2. Engraved frontispiece with Jesuit emblem, one double-page engraved plate with map of jail and martyr portrait of Carlo Spinola, publishers dedication leaf misbound between p 15 & 16. Early paper boards with title in manuscript on spine. RARE SECOND EDITION. A printed collection of three letters by Jesuit missionaries recounting political unrest in China. Consisting of reports by Girolamo Maiorca (pp 3-149) on September 30, 1623 in Macao, Nicholas Trigault (pp 150-232) on August 15, 1622 in Hangzhou, and Alvarez Semedo (pp 233-290) on 23 June 1623 in Nanjing. Carayon 875; Cordier, Japonica 293, Sinica 814.
Lettere Annue del Giappone dell'anno MDCXXII. e della Cina del 1621 & 1622. Milan: Gio. Battista Cerri, 1627. 8vo (168 x 104 mm). A-S8, T2. Engraved frontispiece with Jesuit emblem, one double-page engraved plate with map of jail and martyr portrait of Carlo Spinola, publishers dedication leaf misbound between p 15 & 16. Early paper boards with title in manuscript on spine. RARE SECOND EDITION. A printed collection of three letters by Jesuit missionaries recounting political unrest in China. Consisting of reports by Girolamo Maiorca (pp 3-149) on September 30, 1623 in Macao, Nicholas Trigault (pp 150-232) on August 15, 1622 in Hangzhou, and Alvarez Semedo (pp 233-290) on 23 June 1623 in Nanjing. Carayon 875; Cordier, Japonica 293, Sinica 814.
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