GESUITICA - BORRI, Cristoforo (1583-1632) - Relatione della nuova missione delli pp. della Compagnia di Giesu, al regno della Cocincina. Rome, Bologna: Catanio, 1631. 

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Lot 175 | GESUITICA - BORRI, Cristoforo (1583-1632) - Relatione della nuova missione delli pp. della Compagnia di Giesu, al regno della Cocincina. Rome, Bologna: Catanio, 1631. 
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[GESUITICA] - BORRI, Cristoforo (1583-1632) - Relatione della nuova missione delli pp. della Compagnia di Giesu, al regno della Cocincina. Rome, Bologna: Catanio, 1631.

Contemporary edition of the first report of the mission of the Jesuits in Concinina, now in central Vietnam. The author, a talented mathematician and astronomer, went as a missionary to the East to escape, as a devoted Copernican, the impositions of his superiors and lived there from 1615 to 1624 when he returned to Portugal to teach at the University of Coimbra.

12mo (145 x 97mm). Not present in SBN, collation: A8-P8, O5, armorial of the Jesuits on title (light but extensive stains and browning). Contemporary vellum with manuscript title on spine, blue edges.
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