[FERREIRA (Manuel)]. Noticias summarias das perseguiçoes da - Lot 71

[FERREIRA (Manuel)]. Noticias summarias das perseguiçoes da missam de Cochinchina, principiada et continuada pelos Padres da Companha de Jesu. Lisboa, Miguel Manescal, 1700. In-4, (12)-458-(2) p., contemporary granite calf, ornate ribbed spine, red title-piece (binding worn, headbands torn off, epidermis missing, jaws partially split, worm work on back covers, endpapers and marginalia on introductory leaves without affecting the text, a few browned leaves, tear rep. p.242). Posthumous first edition. Important account of the missionary Manuel Ferreira, who served the Portuguese Jesuits in Cochinchina and Tonkin (Vietnam), where he baptized over 20,000 people and died in 1699 at the age of sixty. Description of Tonkin in the 17th century, its inhabitants, their history and customs, geography, flora and fauna, etc., followed by a history of the establishment of the Portuguese Jesuit mission in Cochinchina in 1627, the difficulties encountered, the imprisonment and persecution of the missionaries, etc. (Barbosa Machado III, 265; Cordier, Indosinica, 1924; De Backer-Sommervogel II, 1258; Brébion 242; Palau XI, 194164).