Mar 08, 2018 - Sale 2468

Sale 2468 - Lot 266

Price Realized: $ 11,875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
SICARDO, JOSÉ. Christiandad del Japón, y dilatada Persecución que padeció. Memorias Sacras de los Mártyres [etc.]. [16], 448, [14] pages. Folio, 286x197 mm, contemporary limp vellum with spine title in ink and remnants of thong ties, covers chipped along top and fore edges, rear hinge reinforced; mostly light marginal foxing, small rectangular brown stain in inner margin of title, worming in blank lower inner corners of gathering I. Ownership inscriptions of the Convento de San José de Tacubaya on title verso and page 25, and branded ownership mark on top edges (CCMF/BF-12014, identified as Convento de San Gabriel de Tacuba). Madrid: Francisco Sanz, 1698

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first edition of a history and martyrology of the Christian mission to Japan. Alden 698/203 (for discussion of Christianity in Mexico); Palau 312228; Streit-Dindinger V, 1616.