AVVISI DEL GIAPONE de Gli Anni M.D.LXXXII, LXXXIII, ET LXXXIV Con Alcuni Altri Della Cina Dell’ LXXXIII et LXXXIV. Cauati dalle lettere della Compagnia de Giesu. Riceuute il mese di Dicembre. M.D.LXXXV.

Francesco Zanetti, 1586

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Year of publication

1586

Place of printing

Rome

Author

[Jesuit Relations, Japan] Frois

Publishers

Francesco Zanetti

Edition

First edition. With engraved title-page featuring a large

Languages

English

First edition

Yes

Description

First edition. With engraved title-page featuring a large woodcut and engraved headlines throughout. Small 8vo, in contemporary full flexible velum with leather cords, the spine lettered in manuscript. 188, [2 errata] pp. Exceptionally well preserved in original state, the paper remarkably clean and fresh, there is only a bit of very occasion and very light evidence of damp long, long ago. Without ties, inscription and stamp on title.

Edizione: very scarce, only three other copies appearing in public auctions in the last thirty years. of those, one was defective and repaired.<br> contains the important letter on the progress of christianity in the region by luigi frois, which also details the death of oda nobunaga, the initiator of the unification of japan.