IRAN. PERSIA. JESUITS. [JAVIER (Jeronimo)]. Historia S. Petr - Lot 109

IRAN. PERSIA. JESUITS. [JAVIER (Jeronimo)]. Historia S. Petri persice conscripta, simulque multis modis contaminata Latine Reddita [...] a Ludovico de Dieu. Lugduni Batavorum (Leiden), ex Officina Elseviriana, 1639. Small in-4. [4] ff. 144 pp. framed text, title in red and black. 18th-century marbled fawn calf, ornate smooth spine, red title page, triple gilt fillet around covers, red edges. Rare and important bilingual edition, printed in Latin and Persian, of the history of St. Peter composed in Persian by the Spanish Jesuit Father Jeronimo Javier (1568-1617), who was a Jesuit missionary at the court of Emperor Akbar in India, and translated into Latin by Lodewijk de Dieu (1590-1642), an Orientalist and pastor in Leiden, in an anti-Jesuitical approach. Backer-Sommervogel, VIII-1339. Joints split, headcap uncovered, some spotting, title page partly unbound, light angular wetness in upper margin, place and date in modern ink on title.