Mar 08, 2018 - Sale 2468
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Sale 2468 - Lot 245

Price Realized: $ 1,062
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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
COSTA, MANOEL DA. Historia rerum a Societate Jesu in Orie[n]te gestarum. [10], 246 leaves. 8vo, 152x101 mm, 17th-century binding of limp manuscript vellum with segments of apparently unrecorded Mexican Jesuit academic broadsides as endpapers, including one with the imprint of Juan Ruyz dated 1644, binding quite worn, lacking ties and most of backstrip; dark marginal dampstaining throughout, worming in blank inner corners and split between 2 gatherings in middle of volume. Jesuit ownership inscription on title; branded ownership mark of the Seminario Conciliar de México on top and bottom edges. Paris: Michel Sonnius, 1572
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Second edition of a history of Jesuit missions in Asia first published the year before. Alden 572/17 (for letter on the martyrdom of Jesuits in Brazil); Streit-Dindinger IV, 956.