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Jesuits Travels. KIRWITZER - PAEZ - ANDRADE. Histoire de ce qui s'est passé au Royaume de la Chine; d'Ethiopie; du Tibet.

Three works bound togheter in one volume in-8vo. 165x105 mm. Contemporary binding in vellum by old page of an antiphonary. I: [KIRWITZER, Wencelas Pantaleon]. Histoire de ce qui s'est passé au Royaume de la Chine en l'année 1624. Tirée des letres écrites & adressées au R. P. Mutio Viteleschi. Traduite de l'Italien en François.Paris, S. Cramoisy, 1629.Pp IV, 102. II: [PAEZ, Gaspar - MENDEZ, le Père Alphonse]. Histoire de ce qui s'est passé au Royaume d'Ethiopie es années 1624.1625.& 1626. Tirés des lettres écrites au Mutio Viteleschi. Traduite de l'Italien (par J.-B. de Machault). Paris, S. Cramoisy, 1629. Pp. [8], 252 (i.e. 262).III: [ANDRADE, Antonio; de]. Histoire de ce qui s'est passé au Royaume du Tibet. Tirée des lettres escriptes en l'année 1626. Addressee a R.P. Mutio VitelleschiPp. [8], 104. Pinter's device on the three titlepages. Adorned headpieces and initials. On the first titlepage an ancient note of ownership. Little abrasions on binding, internally some brownings and slight stains, traces of wear. Good and fresh copy. First French edition. Three reports written by Jesuits on mission in China, Ethiopia and Tibet and sent to Father Mutio Vitelleschi, General of the Jesuit Company are collected. During his mandate, the presence of the Jesuits in China became significant. I work: Chadenat: "Curieux et rare recuei." The author of the letters from China, which expose what happened in 1624, is probably Wencelas Pantaléon Kirwitzer who signs the last of the letters. But the work has sometimes been attributed to Father Darde or Father Jean-Baptiste Machault. The first two chapters give an overview of the political situation in China and the progress of the Christian religion in that country at the time. The other letters testify to the situation of the various missions established in the country. Kirwitzer, an astronomer and mathematician, joined the Jesuits in 1606. He went on a mission to Asia with other Jesuits in 1618, stayed in Goa and China, where he died in 1626.Cordier, BS 815; Streit, 2136 and 2127; Chadenat 4896; de Backer-S. II, 1824. Löwendahl 81. II work: Paëz, who was martyred in Ethiopia in 1635, gives a detailed account of the country, the state of the church in the country and the activities of the various Jesuit missions. The work was apparently translated by the Jesuit Jean Darde.Sommervogel, V, 258 ; Carayon 906. Unknown to Chadenat, Brunet et Barbier. III work: Letters of Antoine de Andrade during his second trip to Tibet, translated into French by Father Jean Darde. Antonio de Andrade was a Portuguese Jesuit missionary who was sent to Goa and then Agra. After hearing about Christian communities outside the Himalayas, he decided to go there. In 1624 it was he, with his Jesuit brother Manuel Marques, the first Western European, who went to Tibet. After Andrade obtained permission to open a mission in Tsaparang, the capital of Guge, one of many kingdoms in Tibet, he returned to Goa. He wrote a long and enthusiastic letter translated into many languages and returned to Tsaparang to start the mission. But in 1630 the kingdom was invaded by the troops of the king of Ladakh and the missionaries were expelled. This book contains the story of this second journey and the beginning of the mission.Streit V, 310; Cordier BS 2901.

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Jesuits Travels. KIRWITZER - PAEZ - ANDRADE. Histoire de ce qui s'est passé au Royaume de la Chine; d'Ethiopie; du Tibet.

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