[BOOING (OVERLAPPING CHATTER)] - Lot 28

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[BOOING (OVERLAPPING CHATTER)] - Lot 28
[BOOING (OVERLAPPING CHATTER)] The life of St. Francis Xavier of the Society of Jesus apostle of India and Japan. Paris, Sebastien Mabre-Cramoisy, 1682. In-4 of (8) ff, 634 pp., (5) ff, a map, contemporary binding in calf, arms in the centre of the plates, spine redone, speckled edges. First edition. A folding map of South-East Asia engraved by Sanson d'Abbeville and a vignette representing Saint François-Xavier evangelizing. Sent to India at the request of King John III of Portugal, Francis Xavier, a disciple of Ignatius of France, was sent to India. Loyola, reached Goa in 1542. The Pope granted him the title of Apostolic Nuncio, and he set about evangelizing the populations of the territories he traveled through, in southern India, in Malacca and the Moluccas, before deciding to go to Japan in 1549. Well received by the princes, he made many conversions there, despite the opposition of the monks. He died in 1552 without being able to reach China and was canonized in 1622. Father Bouhours is also the author of a life of Ignatius of Loyola. At the arms of Charles-Madelon Frézeau de la Frézelière, bishop of La Rochelle (1656 - 1704). Binding very restored, spine redone, some browning and browning of the pages, corner wetness on the last two pages.
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