Breve Relation de la fondation de la mission des freres mineurs Capucins du seraphique pere saint Francois au royaume de Congo. et des particularities, coutumes et facons de vivre des habitants de ce royaume. Ecrite et dediee aux eminentissimes [&c &c] Rome, 1648. Traduite de l'Italien et annotee par Francois Bontinck

De Rome, Jean-Francois, author; aka Francesco Romano. Bontinck, Francois, translation

Louvain / Paris: Editions Nauwelaerts, 1964. Paperback. xxviii, 149p., period illustrations on inserted coated stock, a softbound enclosed in a utilitarian library casing of black buckram boards, gilt titled. Ex library with a prim bookplate to pastedown and, below it, the library's withdrawal (item "removed") notice. Signatures opened neatly by hand throughout. Insertion into a casebinding has caused slight damage to titlepage of the original paperback, the binder's glue picked up first three letters of authorial credit (i.e., the Jea of Jean. Trivial, but an irritant to the eye. Otherwise a very satisfactory reading copy: unmarked except for the small labels on pastedown, entirely clean, and quite sound if slightly uglified.

Cat.No: 279577

Price: $35.00