>Sixteenth century European printed works on the first Japanese mission to Europe : a descriptive bibliography
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Boscaro (Adriana), born 1935
Sixteenth century European printed works on the first Japanese mission to Europe : a descriptive bibliography
Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1973
(25 cm), xix, 196 pp., including 84 illustrations. Publisher’s red cloth (no dust jacket issued). - Describes 76 books published in Europe between 1585 and 1593 which refer to the mission to Lisbon and Rome in 1585 of four young Japanese; two books on the same subject published in Goa and Macao are described in an appendix. Sixteen additional works which the author knows only second-hand are scrupulously listed in another appendix. Out of print (www.brill.com; link). ¶ Fine, unmarked copy.