HISTOIRE | DE CE QVI S’EST | PASSÉ EN ETHIOPIE, MALABAR, BRASIL, ET LES | INDES ORIENTALES. | Tirée des Lettres escrites és années 1620. | iusques à 1624. | Adressée R. P. MVTIO VITELLESCHI, | General de la Compagnie de IESVS. | Traduit de l’Italien en François, por vn Pere de la | mesme Compagnie.- A Paris: Chez Sebastien Cramoisy, rue de Sainct Iacques, aux Cigoignes. M. DC. XXVIII. [1628].- [4], 451, [1 br.] p.; 17 cm.- E. Original edition of the French translation of a collection of reports (and letters) sent by the missionaries of the Society of Jesus in Ethiopia, Brazil and Orient to the General of the Society in Rome, Mutio Vitelleschi. Includes the following reports: "Relation de la Mission [...] en Ethiopie dés années 1621. 1622. & 1623. (pp. 1 a 170); Relation des choses qui sont arrivées en la Province de Goa, l’an 1620 [a 1624]". (pp. 171 a 451). From pp. 145 to 171 appears a summary of the letters sent from Brazil, in the year 1621, signed by Fr. Michel Baraiio? (Fr. Manuel de Araújo), Par commission du R.P.R. Ferdinand (Fernão) Cardin. Other letters emanate from the Ceylon missions (Fr. Tomás de Barros); Macau (Fr. Gaspar Luís), Goa, Salcete, Daman, Diu, Cochim (Fr. Francisco Machado), etc., and also a list of the miracles of St. Francis Xavier (pp. 250 to 258), a letter from Fr. António Andrade about his trip to Tibet, etc. Copy somewhat trimmed (with gilt edges), with slight tidal stains and slightly handled title page (probably washed), with some old faded inscriptions, on the front and back. Twentieth-century full rigid parchment binding, with double fillet squared on the covers and a gilt roulette on the squares. Sommevogel, II, 1824. Sabin, 18538. Borba de Moraes, 404.