Ad 1: Third edition of a collection of 19 letters from missionaries in the East, mostly the East Indies but also including letters from Gaspar Berse from Hormuz Island, mentioning the islands religion, customs, and noting that the island is especially known for its trade - during the trading season you could find people from all over the world. Beside four letters by Gaspar Berse, the volume also includes letters from: Franciscus Xavier (1), Henricus Henriquez (2), Antonius Quadrus (2), Michael Barulus (1), Arius Bandonius (1), Ludovicus Frois (3), Emanuel Tesceira (1), Joannes Meschita (2), Jacobus Navarchus (1) and Joannes Berra (1). They mainly concern India and the mission on the Indian coasts, containing invaluable information on the activities of the Jesuits in the region.
A second part containing the letters on Japan was separately published in the same year, but is not included here.
Ad 2: First and only edition of a theological work by Johannes Garetus (1499-1571) on the invocation of the saints in heaven; a Catholic work written in a period of growing Protestantism. Garetus was a 17th-century Benedictine monk who studied the history of orthodox church fathers and saints. His work De sanctorum invocatione liber... reveals these figures' testimonies and religious conduct.
With an owners inscription on flyleaf dated 1571 and a library stamp on title-page ("Asiens Gesch"). A very good copy. Ad 1: Alt-Japan-Katalog 468; De Backer & Sommervogel I, cols. 996-997; Bibl. Belg. II, p. 267 (E14); Cordier, Japonica, cols. 52-53; Floor, The Persian Gulf, p. 18 note; not in Machiels; ad 2: Machiels G-87; NNBW III, col. 3403; not in Bibl. Belg.