[Rarebooks] FS: Very rare report on martyred missionaries in Japan. Naples: 1619

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(JAPAN) Gonzalez, Domingo. RELACION DEL MARTIRIO DEL B. P. F. ALONSO NAVARRETE, de la Orden de  Predicadores, y... S. Joseph... P. F. Pedro de la Asumcion... y del Padre Joan Bautista... en Japon. Naples: Constantino Vitale. 1619. 4to. 55,(1)pp. Orig. limp vellum with the gilt arms of the dedicatee, Dona Antonia Giron, on both covers; the same arms appear as a large woodcut on the title page. Vellum somewhat worn & soiled, some scattered marginal foxing and stains.    $4,500.00 (trade discount allowed)
The very rare second edition of this report of the martyrdom of missionaries in Japan. The first printing was 1618, a superlatively rare Philippine imprint. Not in the Tenri Library Catalog which does have the 1618 edition and the 1621 Italian translation from the original Spanish. See Tenri p.102 (2-6) and second section p. 75. Our edition of 1619 is not recorded in OCLC!

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