1738 JAPANESE HISTORY antique ILLUSTRATED PIGSKIN FOLIO Jesuit mission in Japan

Ausfuhrliche Geschicht der in dem aussersten Welt-Theil gelegenen Japonesischen Kirch, worinn die glückliche Vertilgung der Abgotterey, Einfuhrung, Fortpflantzung, Verfolgung, und letztens gantzliche Verbannung des Heiligen Romisch Catholischen Glaubens... erzehlet wird.
Anjetzo aber auf viler Verlangen in die teutsche Sprach ubersetzt worden. 

(A detailed history of the Japanese church located in the farthest reaches of the earth, in which the successful eradication of idolatry, the introduction, propagation, persecution, and ultimately the complete banishment of the Holy Roman Catholic Faith... is recounted. Now, however, translated into German at the request of many. )

2 parts in 1 volume.

Augsburg, Heiss fur Ilger; 1738

 With 9 copperplates, 12 leaves, 534, 559 (recte: 555), pp.

Original blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards. Spine with raised boards and manuscript title


- De Backer/S. II, 1641, 21. Cordier, Japonica 401. Alt-Japan Cat. 379. Hadamitzky/Kocks 697. Fromm 6191. -

First German edition of this history of the Jesuit mission in Japan, with information about the country, its inhabitants, customs, and traditions.

The original French edition appeared in 1689.

- Complete with all plates (costumes, buildings, and torture scenes).

Some wear of binding, damaged clasps, somewhat stained and browned.

 Folio. Size about 8 1/4 by 12 1/2 inches 

Text in German
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