Author: Charlevoix, Pierre X.de.
Title: Histoire de l'établissement, des progrès et de la décadence du Christianisme dans l'empire du Japon.
Description: Louvain, Vanlinthout, 1818. 2 vols. XXIV,410,540 pp. Gilt leather. - Spine volume one damaged; library-stamp on title-pages; some (but minimal) foxing.*Charlevoix (1682-1761), french Jesuit, known for his travels in Canadan and down the Mississippi River, chiefly remembered for his Histoire de la Nouvelle France, 1744 and his journals, as well as historical works on Santo Domingo, Paraguy & Japon. First published in Rouen, 1715 in 3 vols.

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