Acosta (Emanuel). Rerum a Societate Iesu in Oriente gestarum, 1571

Acosta (Emanuel). Rerum a Societate Iesu in Oriente gestarum ad annum usque à Deipara Virgine M.D.LXVIII ... Accessere de Iaponicis rebus epistolarum libri IIII, item recogniti, & in Latinum ex Hispanico sermone conversi, 1st edition, Dillingen: Sebald Mayer, 1571, [8], 228, [4] ff., title-page relaid and rehanged on following leaf (neatly trimmed at foremargin not affecting text), neat closed tear repair to blank foremargin of final preliminary leaf, final errata leaf at rear relaid on blank verso, some spotting and soiling at front and rear, contemporary vellum with indistinct manuscript titling to spine, somewhat soiled, small 8vo (143 x 95 mm) QTY: (1) NOTE: Adams A129; Cordier, Japonica, 58. Rare first edition of this compendium of the history of the Jesuit missions in East India, based on the unpublished Portuguese narrative of Emanuel Acosta. It contains abridgements of letters from Jesuits working in Japan up to 1564, and this oft-reprinted work added significantly to Western perceptions of the East.