Author: MAGISTRIS, GIANCINTO DE / [DE THOU BINDING]:
Title: Relatione della Christianità di Maduré fatta da Padri Missionarii della Compagnia di Giesú della Prouincia del Malauàr. Roma, per Angelo Bernabae del Verme, 1661.
Description: . Pp. (xvi), 255, 254-286, 285-385, (3). With printed Jesuit emblem on title. Contemporary full calf, flat spine decorated in gilt, expertly restored. Recased. With gilt armorial stamp of Jacques-Auguste II de Thou on covers (combined with the arms of Gasparde la Chastre, his second wife). Armorial ink stamp on title page. Title waterstained, some staining to the text, and browning. One leaf (B4) restored at margin with loss of a few letters and final leaf (with index) repaired with loss of a few letters on its recto. First edition of this account of the Madura mission by an Italian Jesuit. Giancinto de Magistris (1605-68), served for several years in the province of Malabar in South India. He returned to Rome to report to the papacy on the revolt of Saint Thomas Christians of the Serra (Malabar). Carayon 994. De Backer-Sommervogel V, 313. See Olivier 216, 8 for the armorial stamp of Jacques-Auguste II de Thou (1609-77).

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