Sale 2468 - Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books, March 8, 2018

254 c GUERREIRO, FERNÃO, S. J. Relación Anual de las Cosas que han hecho los Padres de la Compañia de Jesús en la India Oriental y Japón en los Años de [1]600 y [1]601. [24], 539, [1], 539-682 pages. 4to, 181x131 mm, contemporary limp vellum, worn, backstrip darkened and loose, front cover detached; contents browned with occasional dampstaining, conspicuous marginal worming in first half of volume not impairing legibility. Valladolid: Luis Sánchez, 1604 [400/600] Collection of Jesuit reports from India, Japan, and China originally published the year before in Portuguese. Palau 109893; Streit-Dindinger V, 49. 255 c INTORCETTA, PROSPERO, S. J. Compendiosa Narratione dello Stato della Missione Cinese, cominciando dall’Anno 1581 fino al 1669. 126, [2] pages. 8vo, 158x108 mm, old limp vellum with spine title in ink; scattered light foxing, dampstains in outer margin of opening leaves, hole in front free endpaper. Rome: Francesco Tizzoni, 1672 [1,500/2,500] first edition in italian of a history of the Jesuit mission in China. Lust 818; Streit-Dindinger V, 2405. 256 c LA PÉROUSE, JEAN-FRANÇOIS DE GALAUP, Comte de. Relation Abrégé du Voyage de La Pérouse, pendant les Années 1785, 1786, 1787 et 1788. Engraved frontispiece portrait of La Pérouse and 5 plates; folding engraved map. xxxvi, 562 pages. 8vo, 200x126 mm, contemporary mottled sheep gilt, spine worn; scattered light foxing mainly at beginning and end, blank lower outer corner off 2/2, rust spot on 11/2, small hole in blank outer margin of 21//3, edgewear and small ink blots on map, marginal dampstaining on contents leaves at end. Leipzig, 1799 [400/600] 257 c LE GENTIL DE LA GALAISIÈRE, GUILLAUME-JOSEPH-HYACINTHE- JEAN-BAPTISTE. Voyage dans les Mers de l’Inde. Fait par Ordre du Roi, à l’Occasion du Passage de Vénus, sur le Disque du Soleil, le 6 Juin 1761, & le 3 du même Mois 1769. 10 engraved plates; 17 maps. xvi, 707, [1]; xvi, 844, xvi, [3] pages, including 2 leaves of errata at end. 2 volumes. 4to, 251x197 mm, modern calf preserving worn contemporary calf covers with gilt arms of Louis XVI, additionally blind- stamped HOME OFFICE; occasional light to moderate foxing minimally affecting the engraved matter. Bookplates of Frank S. Streeter (sale, Christie’s, 17 April 2007, lot 320). Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1779-81 [1,500/2,500] first edition of a work based on material collected during Le Gentil’s travels in the East in between his frustrated attempts to observe the Transit of Venus in 1761 and 1769 from the French colonial settlement of Pondicherry in India. The first volume of his book deals with Indian customs, religion, and astronomy; the second, with the geography, population, and natural history of the Philippines, Madagascar, and Mascarene Islands. DSB VIII, 143-45. 258 c LUCENA, JOÃO DE. Historia de la Vida del P. Francisco Xavier y de lo que en la India Oriental hizieron los demás religiosos de la Compañia de Jesús. Full-page woodcut illustration on page [173]. [16], 857, [21] pages. 4to, 202x148 mm, old limp vellum with spine title in ink, soiled and worn, lacking ties, book block loose in binding; contents browned with occasional marginal dampstaining, title partly frayed in blank outer margin. Ownership inscription of the Jesuit Colegio Máximo de San Pedro y San Pablo on title; branded ownership mark of the Seminario Conciliar de México (CCMF/BJML- 9001.01) on top edges. Seville: Francisco de Lyra, 1619 [300/500] first edition in spanish of a work on the life of St. Francis Xavier and Jesuit missions in the East, originally published in 1600 in Portuguese. Palau 143366; Streit-Dindinger V, 205.