CARDIM, Pe. António Francisco, S.J.- FASCICVLVS E IAPPONICIS FLORIBVS, | SVO ADHVC MADENTIBVS SANGVINE, | COMPOSITVS | A P. ANTONIO FRANCISCO CARDIM | è Societate IESV | Prouincia Iapponiæ ad Urbem | Procuratore. | QVI LEGITIS FLORES, | HOS LEGITE, | SIC QVONIAM POSITI SVAVES | MISCENTVR ODORES. | [pequena gravura com o trigrama da Companhia de Jesus].- Romæ: Typis Heredum Corbelletti, 1646.- [8], 252 [i. é 256] p.: [87] gravuras, 1 mapa desdobr. [em falta]; 20 cm. Junto com; -----.- CATALOGVS | REGVLARIVM, | ET | SECVLARIVM, | Qui in Iapponiæ Regnis vsque à fun- | data ibi | A S. FRANCISCO XAVIERIO | Gentis Apostolo Ecclesia | AB ETHNICIS | In odium Christianæ Fidei | Sub quatuor Tyrannis violenta morte sublati | sunt. | Collectus | A P. ANTONIO FRANCISCO CARDIM | è Societate IESV | Prouincia Iapponiæ ad Urbem | Procuratore. | [pequena gravura com o trigrama da Companhia de Jesus].- Romæ: Typis Heredum Corbelletti, 1646.- 79, [1 br.] p.; 20 cm. Junto com: -----.- MORS | FELICISSIMA | QVATVOR LEGATORVM | LVSITANORVM | ET | SOCIORVM | Quo Iapponiæ Imperator | occidit | IN | Odium Christianæ Religionis. | Auctore | P. ANTONIO FRANCISCO CARDIM | è Societate IESV | Procuratore ad Urbem Prouincia | Iapponiæ. | [pequena gravura com o trigrama da Companhia de Jesus].- Romæ: Typis Heredum Corbelletti, 1646.- 40 p.; 29 cm.- E. Father Cardim SJ (1596-1659), a Jesuit missionary, born in Viana do Alentejo, joined the Society of Jesus in 1611, having completed his studies in Goa. Cardim, one of the great travelers in the Orient, chronicler of the Society of Jesus in China and Japan and attorney general of the province of Japan, ended his days in Macau, aged 63, after having lived 15 years between China and the Japan. Volume containing three works printed in Rome, by the same printer and in the same year, which usually occur together. The first contains the eulogies of 87 Jesuit missionaries and martyrs in Japan, each eulogy being preceded by a copperplate engraving, printed separately, depicting the respective martyrdoms. The “Catalogus”, not illustrated, records, in chronological order, the names of other missionaries “Qui in Iapponia, in odium Christianæ Fidei, violent death sublati sunt”, between 1557 and 1640. The third part “Mors felicissima”, is a "Relação da gloriosa morte de quatro embaixadores portuguezes da cidade de Macau, com cincoenta e sete de seus companheiros degolados pela fé em Nangasaqui a 3 de Agosto de 1640”, according to the title of the Portuguese translation published in Lisbon, in 1643. A little handled volume and less fresh, with some imperfections and lack of the fold-out map of Japan (present in facsimile, loose). Title page, weakened, in need of treatment; restoration in the upper margin of engraving 64; shorter 68 etching; small marginal tear in engraving 32, without lack of support. It is, however, complete with the text and the 87 engravings, the first, by Saint Francis Xavier (the first engraving of the Saint), which is missing in many of the known examples, is highlighted. Modern binding, made fully of flexible parchment, with ties and gold decoration on the covers and spine, in keeping with the taste of the time. Innocent, I, p. 143/144.Inocêncio, I, p. 143/144. Samodães, 590 (with a brief description). Sommervogel, II, p. 740. Reiss & Auvermann (Auction 40), 446.