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LUCENA, JOÃO DE. Historia de la Vida del P. Francisco Xavier y de lo que en la India Oriental hizieron los demás religiosos de la Compañia de Jesús. Full-page woodcut illustration on page [173]. [16], 857, [21] pages. 4to, 202x148 mm, old limp vellum with spine title in ink, soiled and worn, lacking ties, book block loose in binding; contents browned with occasional marginal dampstaining, title partly frayed in blank outer margin. Ownership inscription of the Jesuit Colegio Máximo de San Pedro y San Pablo on title; branded ownership mark of the Seminario Conciliar de México (CCMF/BJML-9001.01) on top edges. Seville: Francisco de Lyra, 1619
first edition in spanish of a work on the life of St. Francis Xavier and Jesuit missions in the East, originally published in 1600 in Portuguese. Palau 143366; Streit-Dindinger V, 205.
