Lettere dell'India Orientale
By: scritte da' reuerendi padri della Compagnia di Giesù. Nelle quali si scopre la grande arte usata da gli istessi, per liberar l'anime de gli infideli Indiani dalla potestà del nimico infernale, & ridurle alla nostra santa fede.
Contributors: Almeida, Luís de, 1525-1583.; Cabral, Francesco, 1528-1609.; Fróis, Luís, d. 1597.
Edition: Nouamente stampate, & ampliate in molti luoghi, & ricorrette con diligenza.
Publisher: Appresso Antonio Ferrari
Published: 1580
Place of publication: In Vinegia
Language: ita
Number of pages: 342
Subjects: Jesuits -- Missions -- China -- Early works to 1800.; Jesuits -- Missions -- Japan -- Early works to 1800.; Jesuits -- Missions -- East Indies -- Early works to 1800.; Jesuits -- Missions -- Brazil -- Early works to 1800.
Notes: Misnumbering after p. 180, nos. 177-180 repeated; after p. 289: p. nos. 290-299 not used; after p. 120-132 and elsewhere, not affecting total.

Contains letters from China, Japan, Goa, the East Indies and Brazil.

Text set in italics; Ferrari's dedicatory letter in roman type.

Ferrari's printer's device on t.p, and colophon leaf (X7recto); woodcut head-pieces, decorative and historiated initials.

Signatures: [dagger]⁴ A-X⁸ (X7 verso and X8 blank).