Voyages.- Pimenta (Nicolau)

Lettera del P. Nicolo Pimenta visitatore della Compagnia di Giesu' nell'India Orientale. Al molto reverendo P. Claudio Acquaviva della medesima Compagnia, preposito generale…, second edition, woodcut Jesuit device on title, a little spotting, slightly later vellum boards and endpapers, soiled, 8vo, Heirs of Pacifico Pontio, & Gio. Battista Piccaglia, Milan, 1602.

*** Rare copy of this early collection of reports from the Jesuit missions in Goa and the Indies (ICCU records only 2 copies in Italian public libraries - Cemona & Montecassino): the annual Letter for 1598 from the missionary Father Pimenta (1546-1614), visitor of the Jesuits in East Indies, describing the progress of the missionaries there.