# 46956
STAFFORD, Ignatius
Istoria della celeste vocatione, missioni apostoliche, e gloriosa morte del P. Marcello Francesco Mastrilli,
$2,500.00 AUD
Indiano felicissimo della Compagnia di Giesù. Viterbo : Bernardino Diotalleui, 1642. Quarto (215 x 165 mm), contemporary limp vellum, spine with faint manuscript lettering; initial blank leaf, title leaf with woodcut arms of the dedicatee, pp. 94, final errata leaf; woodcut initials and headpieces; occasional spotting and light marginal staining, a very good copy with wide margins.
Account of the missions to India and the Philippines of the Jesuit Francesco Mastrilli, and his martyrdom in Japan in October 1637.
First edition in Italian, translated from the Spanish.
De Backer-Sommervogel VII. 1473; Cordier, Japonica, 333; Streit V. 1546; Palau, 321914.
