[Travel/ Morocco]

FRANCISCO DE SAN JUAN DEL PUERTO (FRANCISCO DE JESUS MARIA)

MISSION HISTORIAL DE MARRVECOS, en que se trata de los martirios, persecuciones, y trabajos, que han padecido los missionarios, y frutos que han cogido las missiones, que desde sus principios tuvo la Orden Seraphica en el imperio de Marruecos, y continua la provincia de San Diego de Franciscos Descalcos de Andalucia en el mismo imperio


Seville: Francisco Garay; 1708

FIRST and ONLY EDITION


Size 10 1/2 x 7 3/4 in. (26.67 x 19.69 cm.) 


829 pp.


With 'Tabla' and 'Indice' at end.

Bound in red calf, including finely engraved frontispiece, title page with floral border in black and red


First edition of an account of Christian missions in Morocco, detailing their experience, persecution, with observations of Moroccan cultural practices.

Wear to binding, index pages with restoration; frontispiece re-backed;

owner's ink signature to front pastedown and back of flyleaf;

single wormhole through the text

Text in Spanish

Provenance

Endpaper with signature of Sir John Hay Drummond Hay (1816-1893), the United Kingdom's Envoy to Morocco from 1845 to 1886, as well as a member of the Queen's Privy Council.
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Rare edition of this work on the history and martyrdom of the Franciscan missionaries in Morocco.
It includes a comprehensive description of Morocco and the other north African countries, encompassing the geography, climate, government, history and antiquities of the region. It also contains an analysis of the manners, customs and religion of the Moors, and their relationship with foreigners.
The vast array of information included is virtually unparalleled by any other Spanish work written up to that point

Embellished with a striking engraved frontispiece by Allet after Pietri´s design, showing the Convento de la Concepcion de Marruecos, surrounded by medallion portraits of Saints, martyrs and proto-martyrs to Morocco, and Juan de Pardo kneeling with arrows in his chest and a sword in his head; the Virgin Mary at the top over an image of the.
The title page printed in red and black, within woodcut frame, text in two columns.

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