China
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# 18467
BRY, Johann Theodor de; Johann ISRAEL (illustrator)
Indiae orientalis (Small Voyages), Parts IV-XI.
The first Latin editions of Parts IV-XI (eight parts in two volumes) of one of the most important collections of voyages published in the Age of Discovery, primarily devoted to the exploration of the East Indies and containing 140 engraved plates and maps illustrating voyages to the Spice Islands, India, Africa and North America. The …
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# 20884
Le petit Lapeyrouse
Paris : Chez Marcilly libraire, [c.1835]. Oblong duodecimo (112 x 132 mm), original printed papered boards, pp [2], viii, 136, [6] leaves of hand coloured engraved plates; occasional mild foxing, a very good copy. A beautifully illustrated work for children containing brief descriptions of various aspects of the history and culture of many places around the …
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# 20880
EZRA, Edward Isaac; SOPHER, Arthur
The Chinese Jews
Shanghai : printed by The China Press [for The Society for the Rescue of the Chinese Jews?], 1926. Large octavo, original printed speckled blue wrappers (lightly foxed, chipped at crown and foot of spine), inside front wrapper with the Australian ex libris of the Rabbi Leib A. Falk (his collection numbers in manuscript to wrapper …
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# 9854
[RUFUS MERRILL]
[TAHITI] People of the Old World
[Cover title]. Concord, N.H. : Rufus Merrill, [1854]. Duodecimo, original illustrated wrappers (lightly marked, corners bent, small loss at bottom edge of lower wrapper), stitched, 16 pp, wood engraved illustrations, faint waterstain to lower margins of all leaves, otherwise internally clean and sound. The fourth in a series of six chapbooks published by Rufus Merrill …
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# 15169
Sánchez, Alonso, SJ, 1547-1593
[MANUSCRIPT] Razonamiento que el P[adr]e Alonso Sanchez … hizo en vna Real Junta sobre el derecho con q[ue] su M[agestad] esta y proçede en las Philipinas.
[TOGETHER WITH] Summario de las respuestas de el Pre’ Alonso Sanchez … … [AND] La inteligençia y estima que se debe tener de la obra de las yndias … … [18th century copy of a work originally written c. 1588]. Fols 32-43 and fols 44-54 from a larger work, manuscript in ink in a fine secretarial hand; bound in …
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# 15168
Anon.
[MANUSCRIPT] Relatione della nuovo, e più remota Christianita dell’ Indie Occidentali delle Philippine, …
s.l., [17th century]. Folio, ff 16, manuscript in ink in a secretarial hand; in Italian; bound in modern marbled papered boards, leather title label lettered in gilt; ex libris of H.P. Kraus to pastedown. Contains four early reports, apparently written by a Jesuit (the last page concludes with Laus Deo). The first (fols 38–41r) is an …
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# 14222
García Racimo, Juan
Carta que escrivio el Padre Procurador General de Filipinas de los religiosos descalços de N.S.P.S. Francisco,
en que da quenta a su provincial de las cosas sucedidas en Filipinas, China, Japon y otras partes del Asia ; y de como se aparecio N. Señora de la Concepcion en Cabite, enzima del Texado del convento de San Diego, que lo estavan acañoneando, y recibiendo en sus manos las valas, las bolvia a …
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# 15177
Salgado, Francisco
[MANUSCRIPT] Letter to the Duchess of Aveiro regarding news from the Mariana and Chinese Missions.
Manila, June 24, 1684. Folio, pp 2 (single folded leaf), manuscript in ink on rice paper; in Spanish; housed in a cloth portfolio with a half calf protective case, spine lettered in gilt. A very early autograph letter signed by the Jesuit Padre Francisco Salgado, to the Duchess de Aveiro, giving interesting news of the Mariana and Chinese …
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# 15174
Garcia, Jacinto
[MANUSCRIPT] Letter from Padre Jacinto Garcia to Padre Geronimo Guerreras of the Society of Jesus in Madrid, concerning the Chinese Mission.
Manila, 29 May, 1685. Autograph letter signed. Folio, 1 page, rice paper, manuscript in ink, in Spanish (outer margin damaged); loose in a cloth portfolio. Translation: ‘I received your letter [of] last year … and was comforted to have your good news … It seems that you commended your letter to the care of an Angel, …
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# 14163
Diaz, Domingo [Sacred Congregation of the Propaganda Fide]
Die 23 Novembris 1688 fuit Congregatio particularis super rebus Sinnarum, in qua interfuerunt Eminentissimi ac Reverendissimi D. D. Cardinales Otthobonus, Azzolinus, de Alteriis, Columna, Casanate, et de Nortfolch, et propositis, ac examinatis motivis deductis per P. Albarum de Venavente … …
Manila : August 25, 1690. Single folio leaf, 312 x 215 mm, printed recto and verso, on rice paper; cross at head of text; short tear at bottom margin, a couple of small repairs, else fine. An apparently unrecorded Manila imprint which officially announces and authenticates two decrees of the Propaganda Fide issued in response to …
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# 14190
Marquez, Francisco
Compendio historial de las excelencias de el Sanctissimo Rosario, y su Archicofradia, devoción, reço, gracias, privilegios, y indulgencias … …
Manila : Impresso en la Imprenta de Sancto Thomas … con las licencias necesarias, por Juan Correa, 1706. Small octavo, later tree calf, spine with morocco labels lettered in gilt, front pastedown with old bookseller label of Miñon, Madrid and old collection label, marbled endpapers (front endpaper taped at gutter), printed on rice paper, ff [x], 228, …
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# 15187
[Pallas, Francisco]
Appendice a la relacion, que de la persecucion de la Christiandad de Fogan,
y Martyrio del Illmo, y Rmo. Señor Don. Fr. Pedro Martyr Sanz del Orden de Predicadores, Obispo Mauricastrense, y Vicario Apostolico de la Provincia de Fokien, escrivio el illustrissimo, y Rmo. Señor D. Fr. Francisco Serrano del mismo Orden, Obispo Tipasitano, y Vicario Apostolico de la misma Provincia en el Imperio de China. [Manila : Jerónimo Correa …
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# 13526
Benedict XIV, Pope, 1675-1758
Declamacion laudatoria, que nuestro santissimo padre Benedicto XIV
pronunciò en el Consistorio Pùblico, que tuvo el dia 16 de Septiembre de 1748 sobre la preciosa Muerte de … Fr. Pedro Martyr Sans, de el Orden de Predicadores, Obispo de Mauri-Castro, y Vicario Apostolico, en el Reyno de China. Traducida fielmente del idioma Latino, al Castellano. Manila : 1750. ‘Reimpressas en Manila en el …
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# 15159
Mozo, Antonio
Noticia historico natural de los gloriosos triumphos y felices adelantamientos conseguidos en el presente siglo
por los religiosos del orden de N. P.S. Agustin en las missiones que tienen a su cargo en las Islas Philipinas, y en el grande Imperio de la China. En Madrid : por Andres Ortega, 1763. Small quarto, original limp vellum (lacking ties), spine with manuscript title in ink, pp [xvi], 247; mild staining to fore-edge …
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# 14575
Collantes, Domingo (Bishop)
Historia de la provincia del santísimo Rosario de Filipinas, China, y Tunquin Orden de Predicadores.
Quarta parte, desde el año de 1700 hasta el de 1765. Por el m.r.p. fr. Domingo Collantes … rector, y cancelario del Colegio : Real, y pontificia vniversidad de Santo Tomas de Manila. [Manila] En la imprenta de dicho colegio, y vniversidad : Por Iuan Franc. de los Santos, 1783. Quarto, modern vellum over boards, spine …
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# 15189
Marti, Domingo, 1811-1852
Carta en que se refieren varios martirios y persecucion de la Mission, que la Provincia del Santissimo Rosario del Orden de Predicadores de estas Islas
tiene en el Reyno de Tunkin; y es prosecucion esta de la que se imprimió en el año pasado. En Sto. Thomas de Manila : por D. Candido Lopez, 1840. Small quarto, contemporary full red calf, upper board with gilt title on contrasting leather overlay, ornate gilt borders, spine with gilt decoration; old silk pastedowns, the …