JAPAN - JESUITS


PASIO (FRANCESCO) and others. Tre lettere annue del Giappone de gli anni 1603. 1604. 1605. e parte del 1606, FIRST EDITION, woodcut Jesuit device on title, some spotting and toning, modern vellum [Cordier Japonica 251], 8vo, Rome, Bartholomeo Zannetti, 1608
|Scarce first edition, one copy traced as selling on ABPC in the past thirty years, of three letters written by Jesuit missionaries based in Nagasaki concerning their activities in Japan in the first decade of the seventeenth century.Provenance: "Della camera del... Asistente di Portualo", early ink inscription on title.