Historia da vida do Padre Francisco de Xavier, e doque fizerão na India os mais Religiosos da Companhia de Iesu.

Lisboa [Lisbon] : Impresso per Pedro Crasbeeck, 1600. Small folio, contemporary vellum; engraved title-page, pp [vi], 908, [38]; [2] copperplate engraved portraits of Francis Xavier, and a copperplate of Francis Xavier’s tomb; woodcut initials; text in double columns; loss to margins of pp 183-86, a few light stains; housed in a magnificent custom clamshell box by Aquarius, ornamental gilt with cross design, with a cloth slipcase.

First edition of this important and very substantial early hagiography of Francis Xavier (1506-1552), containing a detailed account of his missionary work in India and East Asia.

Cordier, BJ, 134; Palau, 143363