Histoire de l'estat de la chrestienté au Japon, et du glorieux martyre de plusieurs chrestiens en la grande persécution de l'an 1612. 1613. & 1614. Le tout tiré des lettres envoyées à Rome par les Pères de la Compagnie de Jésus [...].

12mo: 543-[2] pp. (closed hole on title, sm. marg. stain, browned ll.).

Contemp. overl. parchment (badly soiled, gaping boards, closing laces lacking).

First edition of this account of the "Great Martyr" of Nagasaki in September 1622 during which 52 Christians (men, women and children, Japanese and foreign missionaries, religious and laity, young and old) were burned alive or beheaded. They were canonised with the Nagasaki martyrs of 1597 in the 19th c. Ref. Not in Barbier.