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 (1596-1659), a Jesuit missionary, born in Viana do Alentejo, joined the Society of Jesus in 1611, having completed his studies in Goa. Cardim was one of the great travelers in the East; chronicler of the Society of Jesus in China and Japan and attorney general of the province of Japan, he ended his days in Macau, at the age of 63, after having lived 15 years between the two empires of the East. Volume containing three works printed in Rome, by the same printer and in the same year, which usually appear together. The first contains the eulogies of 87 Jesuit missionaries and martyrs in Japan, each eulogy being preceded by a separately printed copperplate engraving representing 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 “Relation of the glorious death of four Portuguese ambassadors from the city of Macau, with fifty-seven of their companions beheaded for the faith in Nagasaki on August 3, 1640”, according to the title of the Portuguese translation published in Lisbon in 1643. Volume a little trimmed, missing the fold-out map of Japan (missing in most known copies). Title page (with small trimmed part) and two prints with minor restorations; small wormhole in the final three leaves. Some errors in the foliation and ordering of the sections: sheet V1, “Elogium LVI” and the respective print, are located before “Elogium LIV” and the corresponding print (due to an editorial error); F1 and F2 leaves are out of order. Otherwise, a clean copy, preserving all 87 engravings, highlighting the first one, of St. Francis Xavier (the first engraving of the Saint), which is missing in many of the existing copies. Very damaged entire sheepskin binding, with carmine edges. Inocêncio, I, p. 143/144. Samodães, 590. Reiss & Auvermann, 446. Sommervogel, II, p. 740.