Mar 10, 2020 - Sale 2533

Sale 2533 - Lot 293

Price Realized: $ 8,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
(MEXICAN IMPRINT--1616.) Morejón, Pedro. Breve relacion de la persecucion que huvo estos años contra la Iglesia de Japon. [2], 110, 96 pages. 4to, later mottled calf, minor wear; additional page numbers added in ink, intermittent dampstaining to fore-edge. Mexico: Juan Ruiz, 1616
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An account of Jesuit sufferings in Japan. The second part is titled "Relacion del martyrio de quartenta y cinco christianos que padecieron por nuestra Santa Fé, en las tierras de Arima." This is one of two 1616 abridged editions (priority undetermined); it also appeared in an English edition in 1619. Medina, Mexico 301; this edition not in Palau (cf 181463-4). 7 examples in OCLC (only 2 of this edition); none traced at auction since 1950 (that being the other 1616 edition).