Sales catalogue 519: Maggs Bros

Date:
1929
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/75
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 519: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Camoens (L. de)—continued. with one arm, and holding his precious manuscript aloft in his other hand; thus preventing the record of the Lusitanians’ deeds from being swallowed up by the mighty seas which Lusitania’s sons had conquered. Camoens seems to have been the object of further persecution in India, and resolved to leave Asia for good, arriving in Lisbon in 1569. There, he published his poem, which was received with little enthusiasm at first, and no reward for the author. His last days were embittered by grinding poverty, and it is reported that just before his death in hospital a Javanese slave had solicited alms for him in the streets of Lisbon. He died in 1579. 1580 A.D. [131] SEPULVEDA (Lorenzo de). Romances nuevamente sacados de Historias antiguas de la cronica de Espafia. . . Afiadiose el Romance de la conquista de la ciudad de Africa en Berberia. I2mo, sixteenth-century crimson morocco binding, gilt, g. e. Antwerp, Petrus Bellerus, 1580. | £25 Palau’s Manual, Vol. VI, p. 499. Not in Salva. Heredia, No. 1886. 1580 A.D. [132] Lettere dell’ India Orientale, Scritte da’ Reverendi Padri della Compagnia di Giest. Nelle quali scopre la grande arte usata da gli istessi, per liberar l’anime de gli infideli Indiani dalla potesta del nimico infer- nale, & ridurle alla nostra santa fede. 12mo, original vellum. Venice, Antonio Ferrari, 1580. p21 An important series of Jesuit missionary letters, from Giovanni di Beira in Cochin, Luigi d’Almeida in Japan, Organino da Brescia at Goa, Christoforo d’Acosta at Malaca, Luigi di Govea at Coulan, Emanuel Tesseira at Goa, Nicola Nunez of Ternate, Pietro Mascareenas of Ternate, Sebastiano Fernandez of Goa, Martino di Silva of Onor, Girolamo Ruiz of Cochin, Pietro Diaz of Madeira, Fran- cesco Henrico of Brazil (relating how the Dutch threw overbcard forty Jesuits off the coast of Brazil, only two of whom were saved), Francesco Cabral in Japan (five letters), Vescovo Carnero in China, Gomez Vaz of Goa, Francesco di Monclaro of Bassein, Luigi Froes of Japan, Father Organtino of Meaco, and Giovan Francesco Stefanone of Meaco.
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