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Jesuit device on title, some woodcut initials. 2 unn. leaves, 200 pp., 1 unn. leaf. Sm. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, paper title-label on back. Contemp. ms. exlibris of a monastery library on title-page. Mainz, Johann Albin, 1601. First Mainz edition, published also at Rome in 1601 under the title: Epistola patris Nicolai Pimentae. ad R.P. Claudium Aquauiuam .Goae viiij Kal. Ianuarij 1599. This present collection of reports is from the Jesuit missions in Goa and the Eastern Indies, Pegu (Burma), Malacca and other areas close to Japan brought together by Father Nicolau Pimenta (1546-1614). He was a Portuguese Jesuit and visited Japan in 1599. Editor was the Dutch theologian Johannes Busaeus (1574-1611), who died at Mainz. - VD17 12:1150774; Sommervogel II, 422; De Silva 1530; cf. Streit V, 20 (for contens); cf. Subrahmanyam, S. The political economy of commerce: Southern India 1500-1650 (2002); cf. Cordier, Bibl. Japonica 247.