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RARE JESUIT RELATION FROM C16TH JAPANFROES, Luis. Lettera annua del Giappone dell'anno M.D.XCVIPadua, Appresso Francesco Bolzetta, 1599.FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 124. Woodcut printer's device on -p, initials. Early ms. initials on t-p. Clean and bright throughout, only sporadic worm tracks to the blank margins. C17th limp vellum. An excellent copy.This rare letter of Portuguese Jesuit missionary Froes, dated at Nagasaki December 13, 1596, is addressed to Padre Claudio Acquaviva, General of the Society. It was translated into Italian by another Jesuit, Francesco Mercati. The relation gives a detailed regional description of affairs in Japan in the 1590s, by which time the predominantly Jesuit Christian mission in Japan had made considerable progress. However, the position was one of great uncertainty, for by the mid 1590s, Franciscans had arrived from the Philippines and the Japanese felt that they were preparing the way for the conquest of Japan. Torn between their desire for trade and their distaste of… Read More

EL SIGLO DE ORO: VEGA CARPIO, AMESCUA AND THEIR COLLEAGUES."TODAS [EDICIONES] SON RARAS Y JAMÁS LAS HEMOS VISTO EN VENTA" (PALAU). PALAU PROVIDES NO COLLATION SINCE HE NEVER CAME ACROSS A COPY OF THE WORK.ÁVILA, Francisco de (Ed.), Lope de VEGA CARPIO, Antonio MIRA DE AMESCUA et AL. Flor de las comedias de España de diferentes autores. Quinta parte.Barcelona, en casa Sebastian de Cormellas al Call, 1616.4to, ff. [2], 334. Double-column text. Woodcut printer's device on t-p and headpieces. Small chip at outer margin of leaf C3 with loss of a letter. Contemporary limp vellum, early calligraphic title to spine. Very fresh and clean throughout. An excellent copy of this rare work.The extremely rare fifth part of El Fénix de Los Ingenios's comedies; even though, in fact, the book contains a collection of comedies by a number of important Spanish authors and only one by Vega Carpio. El Fénix's comedies were printed in more than twenty parts throughout the first three decades of the 17th-century, from… Read More

THE FINEST COPY OF A SPLENDID WORK ON THE ARABIC MSS AT THE ESCORIAL.CASIRI, Miguel. Bibliotheca Arabico-Hispana Escurialensis; sive librorum omnium mss. quos Arabice ab auctoribus magnam partem Arabo-Hispanis Compositos Bibliotheca Coenobii Escurialensis complectitur, recensio & explanatioMadrid, Antonius Perez de Soto imprimebat, 1760-1770.FIRST EDITION. Folio, 2 vols: pp. [16], xxiv, 544; [8], 352 and 107 leaves of index and final errata. With text in Latin and Arabic. Woodcut vignette on both t-ps, head and tailpieces. A bright, crisp and clean copy excellently bound in contemporary mottled calf, gilt decorations to spine and gilt borders on covers. All edges red. Silk ribbon bookmarks. Original marbled endpapers. Fine copy.A real publishing enterprise by the Maronite scholar Miguel Casiri, who transcribed and cataloged about 1800 manuscripts in Arabic preserved in the royal monastery of San Lorenzo, better known by the name of Escorial. The work, which contains texts dating for the most part to… Read More