[Travel] Macerata Cassiano de (1708 1791) Memorie Istoriche

Sale 2603 - Lot 154

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Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500

[Travel] Macerata, Cassiano de (1708-1791)
Memorie Istoriche delle Virtu', Viaggi, e Fatiche del P. Giuseppe Maria de' Bernini da Gargnano.

Verona: Moroni, 1767.

First & only edition, quarto, folding frontispiece portrait of Bernini baptizing Tibetan people; bound in full contemporary limp Italian paper binding, a crisp and nicely preserved copy with deep type impressions; sewing somewhat shaken; plate reinforced with a small paper repair on verso, 8 x 5 1/2 in.

Both biographer and his subject served as missionaries in India and Tibet in the 18th century. Giuseppe Maria Bernini (1709-1761) was a physician and missionary in the Capuchin order. In addition to his fluency in European languages, he could also speak Hindustani and Sanskrit and wrote a Hindustani-Italian dictionary.

Worldcat lists two copies in American libraries, both lacking the frontispiece plate; rare at auction.

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