Author: Bernard Quaritch Ltd

Jesuit books
Date2000
Publish_locationLondon
PublisherBernard Quaritch Ltd
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition
LanguageEnglish
Record_typeBook (Sale catalog)
SeriesBernard Quaritch Ltd. Special list 2
ShelfReading Room
Call NumberZ3108.L5 Q92 2000
Description52 p. ; 30 cm.
NoteContains several works concerning the China mission: Emmanuel Diaz, Tianwen lüe [Explicatio sphaerae coelestis], a treatise on the sphere and principles of astronomy (1615) using new European advances by Galileo and the telescope (17); Several works by Luis Frois; a dispatch from Japan on the fall of Hidetsugu (22), annual letter (1596) from Japan, describing converts, Amakusa, Omura, building of churches, Korea and Korean missions, converted Korean slaves in Japan (23); account of Christian martyrdom in Japan (24); letter from Nagasaki (1596) on diplomatic efforts between China and Japan over Korea; the ambassadors meeting with Hideyoshi is described, but earthquakes, comets, and other omens occur (25); Alexandre de Gouvea, Carta do excellentissimo... on the progress of Chrstianity in Korea, the rise of a self-administered hierarchy, baptisms (28); works by Kircher and Leibniz, Nicolau Pimenta on Goa and the Indies (57-60), Luis Pineyro history of Japan (61), Ricci and Trigault De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas (65); Entrata nella China (66); Johann Adam Schall von Bell, Historia relatio de ortu et progressu fide orthodoxae in regno Chinense...an account of the mission and court life, an account of the Manchu conquest, early Qing dynasty court life, the Li Zicheng rebellion and the fall of the Ming (75); Orazio Torsellino, life of Francis Xavier (79)
SubjectJesuits--Bibliography Jesuits--China--Bibliography--Catalogs Jesuits--Missions--China--Bibliography
Seriesfoo 104
Jesuit books: including science and travel
Date1997
Publish_locationLondon
PublisherBernard Quaritch Ltd
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition
LanguageEnglish
Record_typeBook (Sale catalog)
Series
ShelfHallway Cases
Call NumberZ3108.L5 Q9 1997
Description[64] p. ; 30 cm.
NoteJesuit books including science & travel / Bernard Quaritch.
Catalog of Winter 1997-8 sale of Jesuitica, some dealing with China and East Asia, e.g. Bartoli; Pierre Martial Cibot, Lettre de Pekin, concerning Chinese script relative to Egyptian hieroglyphics as per Fr. J. T. Needham (14.); Juan Cortes Ossoria, Reparos historiales apologeticos... an attack on the Tratados historicos of Domincan Domingo Fernandez de Navarrete (key: Chinese Rites controversy)(18.); Luis Frois, Richard Willes, The history of travayle in the west and east Indies...(27.); Letters from Japan, Alcune lettere delle cose del Giappone, dell'anno 1579-1581 (36.); annual letters, missions overseas (Brazil, Mexico, Peru); Athanasius Kircher (43, 44, 45, 46, 47), on music electro-magnetism, Egyptology, geology ; Leibniz Novissima Sinica (50.) Gironimo Maiorica on the martyrs of Japan and rebellions in China (54.); Pedro Morejon on the persecution in Japan (printed in Mexico)(61.) Nicolau Pimenta reports from China and the Indies (69, 70); Luis Pineyro on the suppresion of Christianity in Japan (71.); Juan de Ribera letters from the Philippines (79); Ricci and Trigault's Entrata nella Cina (80); Semedo and Martini's Histoire universelle de la Chine (89).
SubjectJesuits--Bibliography Jesuits--China--Bibliography--Catalogs Jesuits--Missions--China--Bibliography