The secret instructions of the Jesuits
Milan, IL: The Rail Splitter Press, [192-]. Pamphlet. 31p., staplebound pamphlet, very good. Reprint of a 1723 tract. More
Cat.No: 298767
Jesuit
What is wrong with Chardin?
[Place of publication not identified]: [publisher not identified], [date of publication not identified]. Ephemera. 8.5x11 inch sheet, printed on both sides. One horizontal fold. Very Good. Screed against the Jesuit scientist, paleontologist, and philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. The letter mocks Chardin’s scientific work as well as his theological beliefs..... More
Cat.No: 339899
The Jesuits and the Grand Mogul: Renaissance Art at the Imperial Court of India, 1580-1630. Occasional Papers 1998/Vol. 2
Washington DC: Freer Gallery of Art - Arthur M. Sackler Gallery - Smithsonian Institution, 1998. Paperback. 53p., b&w reproductions throughout, nicely done, softbound in 11x6.5 inch lime-green wraps, a clean sound unmarked copy. India was at this time "the wealthiest Muslim nation on earth" and artists could be hired by..... More
Cat.No: 264325
Night flight to Hanoi; war diary with 11 poems.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1968. Hardcover. xix, 140p., very good hardcover in a price-clipped dust jacket with creases on the front inside flap; inscribed "Dear Sue, With love on your birthday, and gratitude for your love and kindness all year round. Jack, Ben, and Dan." More
Cat.No: 315854
They call us dead men: reflections on life and conscience
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1966. Hardcover. 192p., second printing, previous owner's bookplate on free front endpaper else very good condition in an unclipped and lightly edgeworn dj. More
Cat.No: 21155
Papers on Portuguese, Dutch, nd Jesuit Influences in 16th- and 17th-Century Japan. Writings of Charles Ralph Boxer - Compiled by Michael Moscato
Washington DC: University Publications of America, Inc., 1979. Hardcover. 253p., a few period illustrations as per source, essays reproduced in various fonts (photo-copied from different journals) and hardbound in black cloth boards gilt. A very good copy: absolutely sound, clean and unmarked. Japan studies. More
Cat.No: 278395
Relation d'un voyage a la cote des Cafres 1686-1689. Edition etablie, annotee et commentee par Emmanuelle Dugay, Preface de Frank Lestringant et Paolo Carile, Avant-Propos de Francois Moureau
Paris: Les Editions de Paris, 1996. Paperback. 103p., illustrated with a number of period images reproduced fullpage, softbound in 9x6 inch frenchfold wraps, with an additional image reproduced on color cover, Item shows a couple mild signs of handling (stroke of red to front wrap, couple dots of foxing to..... More
Cat.No: 279523
Anglicans Anonymous
London: Catholic Truth Society, 1953. 14p., stapled wraps, 5x7.25 inches, very good condition. Pamphlet by a Jesuit mocking the Church of England. More
Cat.No: 123834
Jesuit letters and Indian history. A study of the nature and development of the Jesuit letters from India
Bombay: Indian Historical Research Institute, St. Xavier's College, 1955. xxxix, 193p., paperback, mild shelfwear. More
Cat.No: 264182
Indo-Portuguese History: Sources and Problems
Bombay: Oxford University Press, 1981. Hardcover. xii, 201p., cloth-covered boards, 5.5x8.75 inches, map endpapers, boards lightly worn else very good condition. No dj. Papers from the International Seminar on Indo-Portuguese History, held in Goa in November 1978. Includes chapters on missionaries and Jesuits. More
Cat.No: 263932
Justicia O...! voice of the National La raza Law Students Association vol. 1, #7: Jesuits Refuse to Admit Chicanos
Los Angeles: CSLA-Chicano law Students de Aztlan, 1971. Newspaper. 8p,, folded tabloid newspaper, bi-lingual in English and Spanish, articles, news, events, opinion, photos, services and resources, some toning otherwise very good on newsprint. More
Cat.No: 242094
Philippine Jesuits in exile, the journals of Francisco Puig, S.J. 1768-1776
Rome: Institutum Historicum S.I., 1965. Paperback. 202p., wraps, one corner bumped, library stamp on front wrap (no other markings), paper lightly toned otherwise good condition. More
Cat.No: 333211
Farm and factory; the Jesuits and the development of agrarian capitalism in colonial Quito 1600-1767
Albany: State University of New York Press, 1982. ix, 231p., paperback; some excessive rubbing on front cover, otherwise a good reading copy. More
Cat.No: 333348
Le Voyage en Chine d'Adriano de las Cortes, s.j. (1625)
Paris: Chandeigne, 2001. Paperback. 527p., wraps, 6.25x8.75 inches, illus., very good condition in like dj. Text in French. Collection Magellane. More
Cat.No: 269949
Father Gassoniana: or Jesuit "sociology" and "economics" at the bar of science and history
New York: National Executive Committee, Socialist Labor Party, 1921. pamphlet. 68p., wraps, 5x7 inches, wraps lightly worn, old price stamped on front wrap, penciled checkmarks in table of contents, else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 348310
Juifs de Chine à travers la correspondance inédite de Jésuites du dix-huitième siècle
Roma: Institutum Historicum S.J., 1980. 250p., very good paperback. Transcripts of letters with English translation. Bibliotheca Instituti Historici Societatis Jesu, 41. Jesuit observations about the remnants of China's Jewish community. More
Cat.No: 263779
Les Portugais au Tibet: Les premières relations jésuites (1624-1635)
Paris: Chandeigne, 1996. Paperback. 383p., wraps, 6.25x8.75 inches, illus., very good first edition in like dj. Text in French. Collection Magellane. More
Cat.No: 269969
Chinese Customs
Singapore: Graham Brash Publishers, 1987. xxx, 223p., very good in wraps with minor rubbing; reprint of the classic work by the Jesuit Sinologist. More
Cat.No: 180566
The development of Chinese Zen after the Sixth Patriarch in the light of Mumonkan
New York: First Zen Institute of America, 1953. 146p. paperback, very good. The translator was an important figure in the Western spread of Zen Buddhism. More
Cat.No: 337066
Generation Of Giants: the Story of the Jesuits in China in the Last Decades of the Ming Dynasty
London: Burns & Oates, Publishers to the Holy See, 1962. Hardcover. 389p., illustrated with a few lacklustre portraits and facsimiles; first British edition, hardbound in bright red cloth boards lettered silverfoil, and enclosed in the dustjacket, top edge tinted pink, very pretty. A nice copy all around: entirely sound, clean..... More
Cat.No: 279649
Early Jesuit Missions in Tarahumara
Berkeley: University of California, 1948. Hardcover. 276pp., dark maroon boards with gilt title on spine, Illustrated with 2 plates and a folding map at front (noted as following page 276 on list of illustrations page), Dust jacket flaps (containing summary of contents) of book neatly glued to front free endpaper..... More
Cat.No: 265763
A padre views South America
Milwaukee: The Bruce Pub. Co., 1945. xiii+290p., preface, title page map, illustrated with photos, very good first edition in a worn dj. The Science and Culture Series, Rev. Joseph Husslein, S.J., Ph.D., General Editor. Inscribed, signed and dated 1946 by the author, a San Francisco-based Jesuit priest and authority on..... More
Cat.No: 92762
Communism and union labor: where do you stand?
New York: The Paulist Press, 1937. Pamphlet. 48p., stapled wraps, 4.75x7.25 inches, old price stamped on front wrap else very good condition. "The author, a Jesuit at the University of San Francisco, urges union members to get rid of the communist "phonies" who run their unions..." *Seidman F62. More
Cat.No: 13401
China und das Abendland
Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1962. Paperback. 140p., softbound in 8x5 inch wraps, bound first in blank cardstock, with an overlying decorated dust wrapper paste-fastened to its spine panel. This dust jacket is a bit sunned (i.e., faded) and edgeworn; text itself is very good: sound, square, clean and unmarked. All..... More
Cat.No: 316672
Traité de Luís Fróis, S.J. (1585): sur les contradictions de moeurs entre Européens & Japonais
Paris: Chandeigne, 1994. Paperback. 187p., wraps, 6.25x8.75 inches, illus., very good second revised edition in like dj. Text in French. Collection Magellane. The Portuguese Jesuit's account of his missionary work in Japan. More
Cat.No: 269966