Sammlung der neuesten Schrifften, welche die Jesuiten in Portugal betreffen. Aus dem Italiänischen übersetzt [by Anton Ernst Klausing].

4 vol., 4to: [I]: [34]-14-124-100-[4]-96-[2]-265-[3], [II]: [4]-XLVIII (= 48)-578-[2], [III]: [4]-338-CL (= 150)-[2], [IV]: [4]-90-524-[2 bl.] pp. (sl. toning).

Contemp. half vellum, marbled paper on covers, flat spines with gilt leather labels, red edges. Very good set.

Major source collection for the history of the Jesuits in Portugal and its colonies, compiled by L. Ricci (1703-1775), General of the Order at the moment of its suppression in 1775. The German translation was made by A.E. Klausing (1729-1803). Large folding engraved map of Paraguay in vol. II (old coloured). It was made by the work of Fratello Juan Francisco Davila or d’Avila (1682-1733), and 1st publ. in Rome in 1726. It was corrected and enlarged in 1732 by Antonio Marchoni and reissued in “Novelle interessanti in proposite degli affari del Portogallo” (Bern 1760) and in the present “Sammlung”. This map was the most complete and up-to-date map of the region drained by the Rio de la Plata and a significant improvement over earlier maps of the region. The map extends from Peru, Lake Chucuito and the source of the Rio de La Plata at Xareyes Lacas to the mouth of the Rio de la Plata, Buenos Ayres, Mendoza, etc. The map shows the central part of South America from Atlantic to Pacific Ocean, including most of Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina and Chile, with rivers and affluents, tribes territories and settlements. It indicates existing and destroyed Spanish towns and Jesuit missions. This map is substantially improved from earlier maps of the region, including a more accurate depiction of the two bays at Montevideo, a corrected and more detailed image of the Parana Delta, and a vastly improved treatment of the various sources of the Rio Uruguay, etc. In the left lower corner of the map is mentioned "Nach der Original Zeichnung der P.P.J.J. gestochen durch Joh. Petroschi in Rom.".
Ref. DBS VI:1786:3. - VD-18 11150092. - Not in Sabin.
Prov. Old ownership entry on front endpapers. - Libr. stamps.