La storia della chiesa del Giappone

del rev. Padre Giovanni Crasset della Compagnia di Gesù. Traduzione dal francese di Selvaggio Canturani. Venice : Baglioni, 1737. Four volumes, duodecimo, uniform 19th-century bindings of quarter calf over marbled papered boards, spines lettered and decorated in gilt; with 6 folding copper-engraved plates; a very fine set.

Second Italian edition of Crasset’s history of the Jesuits in Japan, with accounts of the country, its inhabitants and customs. The plates include illustrations of traditional costume, architecture and the persecution of Christian missionaries.

Laures, 611; De Backer/Sommervogel II, 1641, 21; Cordier, Japonica, 401