
Rhyanon Demery
Head of Sale
£1,500 - £3,000
Head of Sale
SCARCE enlarged second edition of a work describing Jesuit encounters with the natives of the Palau islands in the southeast of the Philippines (where Serrano worked). The first edition, published in Mexico in 1699, had only fifteen leaves, but the present edition was expanded to some 250 leaves, much of it relating to his theories on the seven archangels, and is the first to include the map of the islands, entitled "Carta delas Nuevas Philipinas".
Provenance: J. Peeters-Fontainas, booklabel with number 1302.
Withdrawn.