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Credit: Sales catalogue 521: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![1683 1683 MAGGS BROS., 34 @ 35, CONDUIT STREET, LONDON, W. 13 the most Eminent Places in the Habitable World. Containing an exact description of the Customs, Laws, Religion, Policies, and Government of Emperors, Kings, and Princes, also of the Countries and Cities, ‘Trades, Rivers, and Commerce in all places through which he travell’d. Also an account of the tortures he suffered under the Spanish Inquisition, by Racking, and other Inhuman Usages, for his owning the Protestant Religion. Together with his Miraculous deliverance from the Cruelties of the Papists, which far exceeded any of the Heathen Countries, herein largely described. With 7 curious woodcut plates of the Author and his tortures, etc. Small 8vo, original calf. London, John Wright, 1682. £3 Ios. Lithgow’s celebrated travels were made through Italy, Greece, Turkey, Palestine, Syria, Egypt, Spain, Tunis, etc. ‘‘ In spite of its absurd euphuistic style, where ‘ruvidous vulgarity’ stands for common people, and ‘ ovile flockes ’ for sheep, it is a book of uncommon value and interest, for its descriptions of men and manners even more than of places. Thus it is probably one of the earliest authorities for coffee-drinking in Europe, Turkish baths, a pigeon-post between Aleppo and Bagdad, the long Turkish tobacco-pipes, artificial incubation, and the importation of currants from Zante to England, ‘where some liquorous lips for- sooth can now hardly digest bread, pasties, broth, and bag-puddings, without these currants.’ ”’ MARTYRDOM OF A MEXICAN INDIAN IN JAPAN, A.D. [542] BALTHASSAR DE MEDINA (Fr.). Vida, Martyrio, y beatif- cacion del Invicto Proto-Martyr del Japon, San Felipe de Jesus, Patron de Mexico su Patria, Imperial Corte de Nueva Espafia en el Nuevo Mundo. Title printed in red and black. First Epirion. Small 4to, original vellum. Mexico, por Juan de Ribera, 1683. £25 Medina (Imprenta en Mexico), No. 1287. St. Philip de Jesus was a Mexican Indian, who entered a Religious Order and was sent as a Missionary to the Philip- pines ; and afterwards to Japan, where he was one of the twenty-six Proto-Martyrs. Balthassar de Medina, his Biographer, was historian of Mexico. A.D. [543] GARCIA RACIMO (Juan). Carta en que da quenta a su Provincial de las cosas sucedidas en Filipinas, China, Japon y otras partes del Asia, etc. 4 pp., folio, new boards. Madrid, 1683. £10 Ios. Not in Tavera. ‘ , ¥ ; Brother Juan Garcia Racimo was a Franciscan lay-friar, born in Quintanilla ; he took vows in 1651, and soon was sent to the Philippines. In 1668 the Governor General sent him on a mission to Java, whose king received him very well, and sent him as his ambassador to the Court of Madrid. After fulfilling his commission he returned to the Philippines in 1673, and finally went back to Spain in 1674, where he remained.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31663862_0019.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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