Ioan. Petri Maffeii, Bergomatis, e Societate Iesu, historiarum indicarum libri XVI
Subtitle: Selectarum, item, ex India epistolarum libri iv. : Accessit liber recentiorum epistolarum, à Ioanne Hato Dalgattiensi Scoto ex eadem Societate nunc primùm excusus, cum Indice accuratio. Duobus tomis distributi
By: Omnia ab auctore recognita & emendata. ; In singula copiosus index
Contributors: Hay, John, 1546-1607
Publisher: Ex officina Martini Nutij, ad insigne duarum ciconiarum
Published: 1605
Place of publication: Antuerpiae
Language: lat
Subjects: Early works to 1800; History; Missions; Correspondence; Jesuits. Province of India; Jesuits
Other titles: De rebus Iaponicis, Indicis, et Peruanis epistolae recentiores.
Notes: Vol. 2, De rebus Iaponicis, edited by John Hay, has separate t.p.; however, it was apparently intended as part of this accordingly expanded ed. of Maffei's Historiarum. Cf. Rogers, Francis M., "Separated Jesuit letters." Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 60 (1966): 91ff.

Includes indexes.

Signatures: v. 1, *-4*⁸ 5*⁴ A-2G⁸ a-2b⁸ 2c⁴ (*1 verso blank); v. 2, 2A-2Z⁸, ²2A-3R⁸ 3S⁴ 3T² (2A1 verso, 3S4 blank).

Pagination: v.1, [72], 478, [2], 401, [7] p.; v. 2, 968, [52] p. Numerous errors in pagination.

Woodcuts: Printer's device on t.p. (Haeghen 9), initials and tailpieces.

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