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• Buy SADELER, Jan / GEERAERTS, Marc. Passio Verbigenae quae nostra Redeptio Christi, nos dvcit ad svmmi ... The original engraved work of Queen Elisabeth’s painter.
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• Buy [JAPON – INDES ORIENTALES]. Recueil des plus fraisches lettres, escrittes des Indes Orientales,... Extremely rare 16th century French first edition about the discoveries of the Jesuit missionaries in Japan and in the East Indies
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• Buy LONGOBARDI, Nicola. Traité sur quelques points de la religion des Chinois. First edition of this study on the religion of the Chinese by the successor of Matteo Ricci at the head of the Jesuit mission in China.
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