Religion
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# 49729
CARDIM, António Francisco
Relatione della provincia del Giappone, scritta dal padre Antonio Francesco Cardim della Compagnia di Giesu, procuratore di quella Provincia.
All Santità di Nostro Signore Papa Innocentio X. In Roma : nella Stamperia di Andrea Fei, 1645. Duodecimo, contemporary limp vellum ruled and decorated in gilt (recased, some minor restoration to edges, mainly to lower cover), spine with gilt-stamped lettering and decoration; pastedowns renewed; pp. [12], 160; title with woodcut Jesuit device, woodcut initials; contents …
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# 13312
Encarnação, António da (Antonius ab Incarnatione), d. 1665
Breve relaçam das cousas, que nestes annos proximos, fizerão os Religiosos da Ordem dos Pregadores, e dos prodigios, que succedéraõ nes Christandades do Sul, que correm por sua conta na India Oriental.
Impressa por ordem do Padre Mestre Frey Antonio da Encarnação da mesma Ordem, & Deputado do S. Officio. Lisboa : Na Officina de Henrique Valente de Oliveira, Impressor del Rey N. S., 1665. Small quarto, superb modern binding of dark green crushed morocco, richly gilt; gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers; pp [2], 68; early foliation in manuscript; …
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# 49523
D'AVITY, Pierre
Relatione di alcune cose cavate dalle lettere scritte ne gli anni 1619. 1620. & 1621. dal Giappone.
Al P. Mutio Vitelleschi preposito generale della Compagnia de Giesu. Rome : heirs of Bartolomeo Zannetti, 1624. Duodecimo, contemporary limp vellum (recased), both covers with double gilt rule and stamped at centre with episcopal coat of arms in gilt, spine with traces of early manuscript shelf markings; pp. 232; title with woodcut Jesuit device, small …
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# 46940
SOUSA, Matías de (1598-1647)
Compendio de lo sucedido en el Iapon desde la fundacion de aquella Christiandad.
Y relacion de los martires que padecieron estos años de 1629 y 30. Sacada de las cartas que escrivieron los Padres de la Compañia que alli assisten. Madrid : en la Imprenta del Reyno, 1633. Quarto (200 x 150 mm), contemporary limp vellum; [10], 43, [1 colophon] leaves; title with woodcut Jesuit device; text in …
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# 48554
Fróis, Luís
Lettera del Giapone degli anni 1591. et 1592.
Scritta al R. P. Generale della Compagnia di Giesu. Et dalla Spagnuola nella Italiana lingua tradotta dal P. Ubaldino Bartolini della Compagnia medesima. Rome : Luigi Zannetti, 1595. Duodecimo, later quarter vellum over marbled papered boards, gilt lettering to spine; pp. 184; title with woodcut Jesuit device, early inscription at upper margin shaved by binder; …
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# 49525
Piñeyro, Luis
La nouvelle histoire du Iapon, divisee en cinq livres,
; où il est traicte amplement de l’estat de sa Chrestienté, du progrés de la foy Catholique, des grandes persécutions qui y sont arrivées … jusques à l’année mil six cens quinze. Composée en Espagnol par le R.P. Louys Pigneyra … et traduicte … par I.B. Paris : Adrian Taupinart, 1618. Thick octavo, handsome binding …
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# 48659
SUAREZ DE FIGUEROA, Cristobal
Historia y anal relacion de las cosas que hizieron los Padres de la Compañia de Jesus, por las partes de Oriente y otras, en la propagacion del Santo Evangelio, los años passados de 607. y 608
Sacada, limada, y compuesta de Portugues en Castellano por el Doctor Christoval Suarez de Figueroa. En Madrid : Juan Hasrey, 1614. Small quarto, later vellum over black cloth, spine with gilt decoration and morocco title label lettered in gilt; title set within decorative border, with woodcut Jesuit device and an easy ownership inscription; pp. [16], …
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# 49748
TRIGAULT, Nicolas; MORIN, Pierre (translator)
Histoire des Martyrs du Iapon depuis l’an MDCXII iusques a MDCXX.
Composée en Latin par le R.P. Nicolas Trigaut, de la Compagnie de Jesus. Et traduite en francois par le P. Pierre Morin, de la mesme Compagnie. A Paris, chez Sebastien Cramoisy, ruë sainct Jacques aux Cicognes, 1624. Quarto (240 x 180 mm), contemporary limp vellum (stained), spine with old lettering in manuscript; illustrated title-leaf engraved by Michel …
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# 46939
Martínez de Zuñiga, Joaquín
Historia de las Islas Philipinas
Impreso en Sampaloc : Por Fr. Pedro Arguelles de la Concepcion, Religioso Francisco, 1803. First edition. Quarto, modern tree calf, boards decorated in gilt, spine gilt and with contrasting title-piece in gilt, name label stamped in gilt ‘Al. Malavois’ at foot of spine; pp. [2], [7], 687; printed on rice paper; historiated initial, tail-piece; some insignificant worm holes …
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# 49524
[FERREIRA, Cristóvão]
Relatione delle persecutioni mosse contro la fede di Christo in varii regni del Giappone ne gl’anni 1628. 1629. e 1630.
Al molto Rev.do in Christo P. Mutio Vitelleschi, Preposito Generale della Compagnia di GIESU. Rome and Milan : Filippo Ghisolfi, 1635. Duodecimo, handsome binding by Aquarius of panelled red calf, richly gilt; speckled edges; title-page with woodcut Jesuit device; pp. 218; small worm track to final ten leaves (sealed on pp. 207 – 218), with …
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# 49642
LUDOVICUS, Gaspar [LUIS, Gaspar]; MAIORICA, Girolamo; BONELLI, Giovanni-Battista [BONEL, Jean-Baptiste]
Rerum memorabilium in Regno Iaponiae gestarum litterae an. M.DC.XIX.XX.XXI.XXII. Societatis IESU.
Ad Rev. admodum in Christo Patrem P. Mutium Vitelleschi Praepositum Generalem eiusdem Societatis. Antwerp : Jerome Verdussen, 1625. Small octavo, contemporary limp vellum (covers slightly bowed, upper cover worn at top corner and fore-edge), spine with early manuscript title (short splits at ends); front pastedown with ex libris label of H. P. Kraus; title with …
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# 48657
SEQUEIRA, Luis de (1693-1763)
Relaçaõ summaria da prizam, tormentos, e glorioso martyrio dos veneraveis padres Antonio Joseph, Portuguez, e Tristam de Attimis, Italiano, ambos da Companhia de Jesus, da V. Provincia da China.
Lisbon : Francisco da Silva, 1751. First edition. Small quarto, calf ruled in gilt, spine in compartments with gilt decoration and morocco title label lettered in gilt; ex libris label of H. P. Kraus to front pastedown; pp. 38; title with woodcut Jesuit device, woodcut head- and tailpieces, decorated initial; pp. 5-6 with tiny amount …
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# 50205
VIDAL DE FIGUEROA, Antonio
Novena en honra de el invicto, y glorioso proto-martyr del Japon San Felipe de Jesus.
Dispuesta por el P. Antonio Vidal de Figueroa, Presbitero, de la Congregacion de el Oratorio de San Felipe Neri, de esta Ciudad de México. Año 1711. Con licencia en Mexico : por los Herederes de Juan Joseph Guillena Carrascoso, 1711. Duodecimo (144 x 96 mm), marbled paper wrappers; title-leaf, pp. 30; a fine copy. A …
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# 49569
SATOW, Ernest Mason
The Jesuit Mission Press in Japan 1591-1610.
[s.l.] : Privately printed, 1888. Quarto, original printed card wrappers (lightly marked, spine sunned); pp. [8], 54, errata slip tipped in after p. [8]; illustrated with 13 plates of facsimiles; front free-endpaper with previous owner’s red seal stamp, a few pages with scholarly annotations in fountain pen; a fine copy, housed in a quarter morocco …
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![[SYDNEY] Opening of St. Mary's Cathedral. Programme of music to be performed during the Triduum, 8th, 9th, & 10th Sept., 1882.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/04/2026_DSFB_2429-300x300.jpg)
# 50062
[FITZPATRICK, M. J., Hon. Secretary]
[SYDNEY] Opening of St. Mary’s Cathedral. Programme of music to be performed during the Triduum, 8th, 9th, & 10th Sept., 1882.
[Sydney] : J. G. O’Connor, Printer, 26 Jamison-street, 1882. Duodecimo folding card, 150 x 90 mm, printed on [4] sides, text and illustration in purple, decorative borders in silver; front with manuscript entry in ink recording that the programme was issued to Miss Scollen, an official guest; last side with some superficial loss and residual …
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![[SYDNEY] Menu for the luncheon for Cardinal Moran and visiting Bishops to mark the completion of the new sanctuary at St. Mary's Cathedral, given by the Lord Mayor of Sydney at the Town Hall, 29 January 1890.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/05/2026_DSFB_3496-300x300.jpg)
# 50403
[CATHOLIC ARCHDIOCESE OF SYDNEY]
[SYDNEY] Menu for the luncheon for Cardinal Moran and visiting Bishops to mark the completion of the new sanctuary at St. Mary’s Cathedral, given by the Lord Mayor of Sydney at the Town Hall, 29 January 1890.
[Sydney : s.n., 1890]. Menu in the form of a fan of three celery ribs (or stalks), die-cut, embossed and chromolithographed, and riveted at one end; the recto of one rib bears the printed menu, the venue, and the date, and on its verso is J. G. O’Connor’s inscription in ink: ‘Luncheon [for] Cardinal Moran, …