GARCIA, Francisco. - Lot 249

GARCIA, Francisco. Vida y Milagros de San Francisco Xavier, de La Compañía de Jesus, apostol de las Indias... En Madrid, por Juan Garcia Infanzon, (ca 1685). In-4, (5) ff. including title, 490 pp. Contemporary ivory vellum, smooth spine, red title-piece and old handwritten title throughout (binding disbound, edge of lower board gnawed, ordinary browning, ink stain in margin at beginning of vol. and small light wet spots in margin; one frontispiece may be missing). Rare apologetic work in contemporary vellum, containing information on the places where St. Francis Xavier carried out his missionary activities, India and the Far East, including China and Japan. Black woodcut vignette showing San Francisco Xavier repeated on p. 457 and p. 464. Provenance: Jesuits of Angers (19th c. label). Cordier, 144.