BEAUVAIS, GILLES-FRANÇOIS, S.J. La Vie du Venerable Pere Ignace Azevedo, de la Compagnie de Jesus. xliii, [5], 300 pages * La Vie du Venerable Pere Jean de Britto, de la Compagnie de Jesus. [iii]-314, [11] pages, including errata leaf; lacks half-title or initial blank. Together, 2 volumes. 12mo, contemporary mottled calf gilt, spines defective, covers detached or starting. Paris: Hippolyte-Louis Guerin, 1744; Gissey & Bordelet, 1746
first editions of these biographies of the martyred Jesuit missionaries Ignacio de Azevedo (1528-70), who worked in Brazil, and St. João de Brito (1649-93), who worked in India. Borba de Moraes, page 93; Streit-Dindinger III, 434, and VI, 133.
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