# 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.

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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 of restoration (loss of a couple of letters), mild browning, a very good copy.

Scarce first edition of this account of the persecution, arrest, imprisonment and execution of the Jesuit missionaries Antonio Jose Henriques, a Portuguese, and Tristano Francesco de Attimis, an Italian, at Suzhou (Sou-tcheou) in the Jiangnan (Kiang-nan) region of China, during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor. Another edition was printed in Manila in the same year.

De Backer & Sommervogel VII, 1132; Streit VII: 3406-3407