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1764316736Rouen; Paris: s.n. 1764. viii. 499 6; vi 516 4; vi 447 3; vi 509 5; viii 4 311; 4 309-688 pp. 12mo. First four volumes in decorative brown paste-paper boards and sheep backs and corners other 2 volumes in full stained sheep with paste-paper endpapers backs of all six volumes uniform and richly gilt. A fine set in attractive dress. viii. 499 6; vi 516 4; vi 447 3; vi 509 5; viii 4 311; 4 309-688 pp. 12mo. Volumes I-III contain the history of the Society of Jesus from its origin until the end of the eighteenth century and the first analysis of its constitutions and privileges. Volume IV continues that analysis and has an index of the four-volume set. Barbier assigns the analysis chapters to Lois-Adrien Le Paige. Christophe Coudrette 1701-1774 was a Jansenist and the author of several anti-Jesuit works. Cioranesco 21317. Provenance: Fürstlich-Starhemberg'sche Familien Bibliothek Schloss Eferding ink stamp on front endpapers off all volumes; Loyola Reference Library stamp on lower edges call numbers in pencil on title-pages s.n. unknown
1803505666Typis Societatis 1803. Leather. VERY GOOD. Tall 12mo full brown calf with brass clasps intact; all edges gilt with neat single-line gauffering along the outer edges leather stamped in gilt with fleur-de-lis to panels and all 5 points of both covers ruled in simple single-line dots matching the gauffered edges. Printed in red and black. Missal text in Latin with Spanish afterword. Red and black title page with engraving of Lam and book with seven seals. Leather shows some light rubbing single wormhole through the center of the text; contemporary owner's inscription in Spanish to FFEP very clean and sound otherwise with tight binding fresh pages and bright gilt. A lovely copy. Typis Societatis unknown
168832092Lutetiae Parisiorum Lutetia Paris: Apud Viduam Simonis Benard via Jacobea e regione Collegii Soc. Jesu 1688. Very Good. Lutetiae Parisiorum Paris: Apud Viduam Simonis Benard a.k.a. Marie Benard via Jacobea e regione Collegii Soc. Jesu. 1688. Fifth Edition. 12mo; contemporary calf gilt spine in five compartments; 2331pp.; head and tail pieces; twenty-four 24 engraved emblems. Light wear to edges with shallow loss at spine ends. Binding sound. Bookplate of "C.T. Noel du Payrat" to front pastedown; interior else unmarked; a Very Good and sound copy of a scarce title originally published in 1680 and including "Lysimachis" "Panygyrici" "Symbola Heroica" with many emblems referring to persons associated with the Court of of Louis XIV. Published by Parisian printer Marie Benard the widow of Simon Benard. She went on to publish works for nearly twenty-five years through 1712 though we find little biographical information about her beyond her house's publications. . Apud Viduam Simonis Benard, via Jacobea e regione Collegii Soc. Jesu unknown
17726489Lima: Oficina de la calle de San Jacinto 1772. First Edition — Primera edición. Hardcover — Tapa dura. 190x135mm. 7½x5¼". Lima Oficina de la calle de San Jacinto 1772-1773. 2 volúmenes. En 4º menor 190 x 135mm. -I: 54 2 207 i.e. 133 5 pp. 14 hojas de portadillas. -II: 158 306 i.e. 318 4 pp. 5 hojas de portadillas. Encuadernación en pergamino de época. Primera edición de los cuadernos de desamortización de los bienes de la CompañÃa de Jesús en Perú con motivo de su expulsión según las reglas que prescribe la Real Cédula dada en Madrid a 9 de julio de 1769. Los Jesuitas fueron expulsados de Perú asà como de otras posesiones de España en América por orden de Carlos III en 1767. El libro también incluye las Constituciones de diferentes colegios peruanos que estaban bajo la supervisión de los jesuitas. Obra extraordinariamente rara de encontrar completa de sus dos volúmenes especialmente un ejemplar hermoso como el nuestro. Tiene en total 19 portadillas fuera de la paginación. En España sólo he encontrado completos 2 ejemplares institucionales Ministerio de Justicia y Biblioteca Nacional. Oficina de la calle de San Jacinto hardcover
171158188Paris: Nicolas Le Clerc 1711. First edition 12mo pp. 24 431 11; contemporary full calf gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments red stained edges; spine label perished boards rubbed and upper board starting upper pastedown lifting ex-St. Stanislaus Novitiate House Library Guelph Ont. closed in 1971 with labels and a bookplate on upper pastedown and shelf label on spine text clean good and sound. Volume IX contains letters on: "Oracles of the demons of the Indies"; missions to Madure; The death of Father Broissia in China; observations on the English in Peking; etc. One volume of the 34-volume collection of Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents 1703-1776. "These volumes issued regularly by the Society of Jesus presented selections from correspondence and reports written by Jesuit missionaries then scattered around the globe" and reflected "the continued interest in France in the progress of the Jesuit missions in various parts of the world. The termination of the series reflects the suppression of the Society of Jesus by papal decree" James Ford Bell Catalogue L-368. Collectively they provided some of the most thorough reporting on China in particular to Western audiences of the period. Howes L 299; James Ford Bell Catalogue L-368. Nicolas Le Clerc unknown
174158184Paris: Le Mercier & Boudet 1741. First edition 12mo pp. xxxii 8 486 2; contemporary full calf gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments morocco labels in 2 red speckled edges; ex-St. Stanislaus Novitiate House Library Guelph Ont. closed in 1971 with labels and a bookplate on upper pastedown and shelf label on spine light wear to boards very good. Volume XXV contains letters on: Missions to Paraguay including comment on the language of the Chiquites; Nicobar and Carnate India; Vietnam; trials of the Missionaries to China; and the revolutions of Thamas Koulikan Nadir Shah of Iran. One volume of the 34-volume collection of Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents 1703-1776. "These volumes issued regularly by the Society of Jesus presented selections from correspondence and reports written by Jesuit missionaries then scattered around the globe" and reflected "the continued interest in France in the progress of the Jesuit missions in various parts of the world. The termination of the series reflects the suppression of the Society of Jesus by papal decree" James Ford Bell Catalogue L-368. Howes L 299; James Ford Bell Catalogue L-368. Le Mercier & Boudet unknown
173158647Paris: Nicolas Le Clerc 1731. First edition 12mo pp. xlviii 449 17; contemporary full calf gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments red stained edges; spine label perished boards rubbed and lower board starting ex-St. Stanislaus Novitiate House Library Guelph Ont. closed in 1971 with labels and a bookplate on upper pastedown and shelf label on spine text clean good and sound. Volume XX contains letters from: Dominique Parennin on missionary work in the Chinese court; Maturin le Petit on the religion lifestyle medicine government etc. of the Natchez people around New Orleans; Lombard and Fauque on their work in French New Guinea; Dentrecolles on art and flower arrangement of China; Margat on guineafowl and turkey and converting slaves and native people of St. Dominique. One volume of the 34-volume collection of Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents 1703-1776. "These volumes issued regularly by the Society of Jesus presented selections from correspondence and reports written by Jesuit missionaries then scattered around the globe" and reflected "the continued interest in France in the progress of the Jesuit missions in various parts of the world. The termination of the series reflects the suppression of the Society of Jesus by papal decree" James Ford Bell Catalogue L-368. Collectively they provided some of the most thorough reporting on China in particular to Western audiences of the period as well as early and first-hand accounts of Native American life. Howes L 299; James Ford Bell Catalogue L-368. Nicolas Le Clerc unknown
174958649Paris: Nicolas Le Clerc 1749. First edition 12mo pp. xliii 5 480; folding plate of chayaver plant; contemporary full calf gilt-ruled spine in 6 compartments red stained edges; spine worn upper joint starting lower flyleaf loose large tear to plate neatly mended on verso; ex-St. Stanislaus Novitiate House Library Guelph Ont. closed in 1971 with labels and a bookplate on upper pastedown and shelf label on spine text clean good and sound. Volume XXVII contains letters from: Margat on missionary activity in St. Domingue and Fauque in French Guiana plus an account of persecution in China. One volume of the 34-volume collection of Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents 1703-1776. "These volumes issued regularly by the Society of Jesus presented selections from correspondence and reports written by Jesuit missionaries then scattered around the globe" and reflected "the continued interest in France in the progress of the Jesuit missions in various parts of the world. The termination of the series reflects the suppression of the Society of Jesus by papal decree" James Ford Bell Catalogue L-368. Collectively they provided some of the most thorough reporting on China in particular as well as early and first-hand accounts of Native American life. Howes L 299; James Ford Bell Catalogue L-368. Nicolas Le Clerc unknown
172258648Paris: Nicolas Le Clerc 1722. First edition 12mo pp. xl 418 10; folding map of the southern coast of India; contemporary full calf gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments red stained edges; small split on lower joint; ex-St. Stanislaus Novitiate House Library Guelph Ont. closed in 1971 with labels and a bookplate on upper pastedown and shelf label on spine text clean good and sound. Volume XV contains letters from: Jean Venance Bouchet on Bisnagar Ganga Madras Goa Visapour etc.; d'Entrecolles on Chinese medicine and industry; Ippolito Desideri on his voyage to and description of Tibet; Turpin on the Indian production of cotton etc. One volume of the 34-volume collection of Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents 1703-1776. "These volumes issued regularly by the Society of Jesus presented selections from correspondence and reports written by Jesuit missionaries then scattered around the globe" and reflected "the continued interest in France in the progress of the Jesuit missions in various parts of the world. The termination of the series reflects the suppression of the Society of Jesus by papal decree" James Ford Bell Catalogue L-368. Collectively they provided some of the most thorough reporting on China in particular to Western audiences of the period as well as early and first-hand accounts of Native American life. Howes L 299; James Ford Bell Catalogue L-368. Nicolas Le Clerc unknown
15755741Alcalá der Henares Spain: Juan Iniguez de Lequerica 1575. Contemporary limp vellum with ties. 4to in 8s. With woodcut of the Crucifixion on verso of the colophon 2R4v woodcut Japanese characters in the text I8v and woodcut decorated initials throughout. First Spanish edition of 87 Portuguese letters by Jesuit missionaries in Japan very valuable for the history of the Jesuits in Japan India and other parts of Southeast Asia. The work was first published in Portuguese in Coimbra in 1570 and contains 10 additional important Jesuit letters which had never published before. Noteworthy are the woodcut Chinese and Japanese characters included in the text on leaf I8v. Cordier gives a list of these additional letters dating from 1567 to 1571. Other newly added were: the life of Francis Xavier Relacion de las cosas de la India by Manuel Acosta with remarks on in order of appearance Goa Cochin Daman Ceylon Comorin Bassein Ormuz Ethiopia Inambay and Manomotapa Malaca the Moluccas Ambonia Solor Macassar etc. and Breve relacion de la Isla y Reynos del Iapon.Lacking 2 leaves ¶7 and ¶8 from the preliminaries containing the "Indulgencias que nuestro Sancto Padre el Papa Pio. 4 ". With 18th-century manuscript annotations in brown ink on the recto of the first free flyleaf the title-page at the start of the text on fol. 1r the recto of the final leaf and in the margins throughout; the margins show only marks to highlight certain passages the other annotations are variations of the same owner's inscription most elaborate on the front flyleaf: "Ex icDn. Francesco et Paula Caveda Costo 15 . Mad. a 4 . Octobre 1786". The vellum of the binding is somewhat creased and stained water stained throughout the first and last few leaves are frayed and slightly damaged in the margins without affecting the text somewhat browned throughout. Otherwise in good condition.l Alt-Japan-Katalog 298; Cordier Japonica cols. 67-68; Iberian Books 54608; Laures 140; Palau 46311; Porbase 363133 1 copy; Salva 3282; Streit IV 1519 with a full list of all letters; USTC 337147. Juan Iniguez de Lequerica, hardcover
164021706Antwerp 1640. Folio. Ex Officina Plantiniana Balthasar Moretus Contemporary calf over wooden boards gold-tooled spine blind-tooled boards; rebacked with the original backstrip laid down remnants of clasps 4 small brass corner pieces. With an engraved title page and 126 engraved emblems including the Leo Belgicus map. 8 952 22 pp. First and only edition of the Jubilee masterpiece of the renowned Provincia Flandro-Belgica administrative region of the Society of Jesus and one of the finest books of the Officina Plantiniana under Balthasar Moretus. The Imago primi saeculi was the celebration of the celebration the triumphal arch erected by the Jesuits of the Flemish-Belgian province for the victories of Ignatius of Loyola 1491-1556 and also for the greater glory of God. All the emblems depict scenes of life but also the world map a compass the Leo Belgicus and the printer printing Jesuit propaganda are depicted. The first emblem in this work is the sun shining on the world.With a partially erased manuscript shelfmark label mounted on the front pastedown only "131 A 12" remains legible a manuscript inscriptions at the head of the half-title "Collegii Soc. Jesu Gandaui = Ghent" and "LL. Susanna de Hont" and "T 21". The binding shows signs of wear mainly around the spine and the edges and corners of the boards lacking the clasps some foxing and slight staining throughout. Otherwise in good condition.l De Backer-Sommervogel I col. 1625-6 i.v. Bollandus no. 5; Landwehr Emblem and fable books p. 378; Praz pp. 185-227; STCV 6609299; USTC 1003318. hardcover
176419180France: n.p. 1764. FIRST EDITION. Stabbed and uncut in contemporary wrappers. First edition of this response to anti-Jesuit literature published anonymously. The Compte rendu has been attributed to the Jesuits Henri-Michel Sauvage 1704-1791 and Jean Nicolas Grou 1731-1803; it takes aim at the 1762 publication of Extraits des assertions dangereuses by Claude-Pierre Roussel de la Tour 1710-1798 in which he chronicles the faith violations of the Jesuits in their publications including their writings against doctrine sin blasphemy magic astrology fornication perjury the occult parricide and homicide suicide and regicide among other topics. Here the authors systematically list the inaccuracies omissions and misinterpretations in both the Latin and French editions of Roussel de la Tour’s book with page numbers for reference. <br /> <br /> OCLC records only 3 copies in America Boston College Penn Texas A&M; Carayon Bib. Hist. de la compagnie de Jesus 3673; Sommervogel-de Backer 1871. n.p. unknown
162134518Lisbon and Hangzhou China: Manuscripts ca.1623 and 1621. Very Rare A Similar Manuscript Exists in Brussels. We know of no others. The Latin text of both letters is written in a neat uniform cursive hand in brown. Folio leaves 33 x 20.5 cm The transcripts bound in 18th Century stiff blue wrappers the blank paste-downs and endpapers are late 18th century most likely the third quarter between 1745/1753 and 1776 since they contain a clear "lion/vryheit/pro patria" watermark with a crowned GR countermark which resembles Heawood 3148 3149 and 3154. The paper used for the manuscript contains a faint double-headed eagle watermark and it has been reinforced in the gutters. A very pleasing survival very well preserved edges slightly mellowed the wrappers show some signs of wear. VERY RARE MANUSCRIPT TRANSCRIPTS. Chrysostomus Johann Gall 1586-1643 was a German Jesuit and scholar. He left Ingolstadt Germany to teach astronomy mathematics and navigation in Lisbon fro 1620to 1627 before leaving to work in the Jesuit missions in India. The Colégio de Santo Antŕo benefitted from the arrival of many foreign mathematicians and other scholars as Lisbon serves as a gateway for all missionaries departing for Asia. The original letter by Gall was written in Lisbon September 1623 and concerns a newspaper style description of various events including details of the perseution of Christians in Japan particularly the execution of large numbers of the Christian community in Nagasaki in 1622.<br> The second letter in the present work is especially interesting as the original was written by Johannes Terentius also known as Johannes Schreck an Deng Yuhan Hanpo 1576-1630. Terentius was a prominent Jesuit scholar specialized in natural science and mathematics. Before joining the Jesuits as a novice1611 he already enjoyed a grea reputation in Germany as a scholar. In 1621 Terentius left for China to join the Jesuit mission. The original letter by Terentius was written in Hangzhou China on 30 August 1621 to the rector of teh Jesuit College in Munich Jakob Keller 1568-1631. He discusses his journey to China which he started in 1618 his intentions to participate in the planned calendar reform in China and his impressions of the city of Hangzhou which he reached in 1621 Terentius wrote several works on european medicine mathematics and technology in Chinese and together with Johann Adam Schall von Bell and G. Roho introduced European tigonometry and European astronomical instruments to China. In 1629 he began to reform the calendar which J.A. Schall von Bell ocmpleted after Terentius' early death a year later.<br><br>Backer & Sommervogel VII col. 1929-F<br> Manuscripts unknown
18578162Paris: Julien Lanier Cosnard et Ce Éditeurs. Good with no dust jacket. 1857. Hardcover. Library stamps/marks/labels spine fade light rub 2" map fold tear tape repaired on reverse spine label residue otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; French language. Folding map present. Errata page present. History of Jesuit missionaries in French Guiana. Contents: Introduction; Relation des Missions des Pères de la Compagnie de Jésus dans les iles et dans la terre ferme de L'Amérique Méridionale par le P. Pierre Pelleprat. 1665 -- Lettre du P. Jean Grillet Missionaire de la Compagnie de Jésus et Premier Supérieur de la Mission de Cayenne . 1668 -- Voyage des PP. Jean Grillet et François Béchamel dans l'intérieur de la Guyane en 1674 -- Lettre du P. Lombard sur la Mission de Kourou . 1723-1790 -- Lettres écrites de la Guyane française . 1852-1857 -- Pièces Justificatives. ; Voyages et Travaux des Missionnaires de la Compagnie de Jésus; Ex-Library; xx 507 pages . Julien, Lanier, Cosnard et Ce, Éditeurs hardcover
1762AQ12045s.l.: s.n. 1762. 310pp 2 315pp 1. Original publisher's paper boards contrasting red paper lettering-piece. Extremities lightly rubbed and soiled with some loss to corners. Internally clean and crisp. A condemnation of the constitution of the Society of Jesus by the French Attorney General and Jansenist Jean-Pierre-Francois de Ripert-Monclar 1711-1773 alleging the espousing of every sort of immorality and error. . 8vo. [s.n.] hardcover
17184988Turin ie Paris: Jacques Daniel 1718. Soft cover. Very Good. Small 8vo. 2 ff 66 pp 1 ff. Title page printed in red and black. Bound in contemporary marbled wrappers. Slightly dog-eared otherwise a very good copy. Rare compilation of anti-Jesuit apocrypha: the famous 'Monita secreta' is found here alongside a purported condemnation of the Jesuits by the Faculty of Theology in Paris in 1554 as well as a translation of a prophecy of Saint Hildegaarde commonly seen as fortelling the fall of the Order. The present work bears a transparently false imprint "chez Jacques Daniel a good subject of the Prince at the Sign of Truth"; we have been unable to trace any other record of the publisher Daniel in Turin. While the place of printing was almost certainly Paris the foreign imprint corroborates the polemicist's allegation that France had become such a Jesuit stronghold that the work could not be published there. The Monita Secreta was a guide allegedly written by the Jesuits explaining how to gain riches and make influential friends; bibliographers often attribute it to a Pole Jerome Zaorowsky exiled from the Society in 1611. The work was first printed in 1614 and enjoyed numerous printing couched under various suggestive titles - 'Jesuit intrigues' 'the cabinet of the Jesuits secrets opened' etc. As a forged work of slander for both its widespread dissemination and influence it may be compared to the anti-Semitic Protocols of the Elders of Zion. The editor of the present edition again introduces the work as a clandestine publication - "I do not know by what means it fell into the hands of Printers". The work is written in a straightforward and factual way and instructs members of the Order to court wealthy widows gain promotions and discredit members of other orders. Alexandre Brou for example attributes the printings of the late 17th century to the Jansenists in their ongoing political struggle against the Order; whether the present 'Turin' printing falls into that category remains to be determined. 1708 saw the forced dissolution of the Jansenist stronghold Port-Royal; in the years which followed many Jansenists were excommunicated by Papal bulls for their beliefs. The remarkable rise of the Jesuit Order from its founding in 1540 provoked both suspicion and envy in the religious world: as the editor of the present edition states "the rise of the Jesuits is the object of admiration of the entire world. One cannot understand precisely how in less than two centuries these clerics have managed to become so powerful making themselves formidable to all other Orders and wielding influence in both the Old and New Worlds. It is a mystery for many people." OCLC shows no US copies of this title which appeared again in 1729 without an imprint. OCLC 459214162. Cf De Backer-Sommervogel V: 491-5 p 493 for this edition on the Monita secreta. Cf also Brou Les Jesuites de la Legende I: 290 1906. Jacques Daniel paperback
176031129Lugano CH: A Spese di Giuseppe Bettinelli di Venezia / Nella Stamperia Privilegiata della Suprema Superiorita' Elvetica nelle Prefetture Italiane 1760. Near Fine. Lugano CH: A Spese di Giuseppe Bettinelli di Venezia / Nella Stamperia Privilegiata della Suprema Superiorita' Elvetica nelle Prefetture Italiane 1760. First Edition. Two octavo volumes bound together. 44; 94pp. 20th-century binding with patterned paper-covered boards and red leather spine label; top edge stained red; new endpapers. Touch of edgewear with toning to spine. Binding sound and interior unmarked. A Near fine copy of two uncommon Swiss Jesuit-related tracts the former appearing more densely theological and the latter discussing the work and thoughts of Plato Seneca and Lucretius among other ancients. A Spese di Giuseppe Bettinelli di Venezia / Nella Stamperia Privilegiata della Suprema Superiorita' Elvetica nelle Prefetture It unknown
163598471Antwerp. 1635. John Mevrius. Antwerp 1635. 14 cm x 8.5 cm. Small 8vo. Bound in full brown calf professionally rebacked with new spine with title and date in gilt. Original endpapers retained. 118 pages. "Ex-Libris Stonyhurst College 1814" label to front paste-down and bookplate of "Catalogue of the Holy Sepulchre New York" facing on front free endpaper. Extremities sl. rubbed pages browned and some lightly water stained to lower margins. Very sound. unknown
178444155Madrid: En la Imprenta Real de la Gazeta 1784. First edition. Contemporary mottled calf compartments decorated in gilt red morocco spine label titled in gilt sewn in green silk ribbon marbled endpapers. A very good copy head band worn with a small chip and a tiny split at the joint owner's bookplate and booksellers engraved plate on front pastedown contents quite bright and clean. 104 91 135 144 4 74 pp. 4to. Five volumes bound in one. Parts 1 2 3 set in condensed type; parts 4 and 5 in expanded type. <br /> <br /> Royal decrees from Charles III and instructions decisions and regulations issued by the Consejo en el Extraordinario and its president the Conde de Aranda and others--concerning the expulsion of the Jesuits. "These collections contain the documents relative to the expulsion of the Jesuits from the Spanish dominions and the confiscation of their property including the names of the colleges and houses of the order the application of the confiscated property &c. A complete series consists of five parts which are rarely found together. Our collation is of parts I. to III. only" Sabin 14304. Part 4 p. 75-127 contains the papal brief "Dominus ac Redemptor" by Clement XIV in Latin and Spanish. <br /> <br /> Earlier versions containing parts or all of the first three sections are not all that uncommon but those containing all five parts remain relatively rare. Other than this copy only two others have appeared in the auction records of ABPC and RBH since 1953 the first at the John B. Stetson sale at Parke Bernet and the second at Bonhams in a modern binding and dampstained. Palau 56516. See Sabin 14304. Medina BHA: IV 4228. En la Imprenta Real de la Gazeta unknown
1945List2748Philippines 1945. Single letter; five 8.5 x 11†pages. Pinhole at top of first page missing final pages overall fine. The unknown author of this letter was an American Jesuit missionary in the Philippines who before the war was a novice living in Novaliches just outside Manila. He apparently had not written a significant letter home for a long time: in this letter written in April of what is likely 1945 he recounts his experiences from between December 8 1941 and early January of 1945 shortly before the civilian POW camp in which he was interned was liberated.<br /> <br /> After the “Nips†bomb Pearl Harbor “A feverish month ensuedâ€:<br /> <br /> “We proceeded to put the Community on ‘war-time alert’ with all hands occupied in digging air-raid trenches camouflaging our fortress-like house with a garlanded roof and mud-daubed walls; grain supplies were rushed in against the hour of need. We felt that all it might take Uncle Sam all of six months to put an end to the efforts of the pretender.â€<br /> Around Christmas they evacuated to the Jesuit Ateneo Grade School then in Intramuros as the Japanese were advancing quickly towards Novaliches. Of course this did not prove to be much safer:<br /> <br /> “When darkness came the Japs began their bombing of the Port Area. The bombs began to bounce off the pavement; bombers just skimming our roof-top on their way. We spent the night on our tummies and how we prayed. We thought that each decade of the beads would be our last this side of Purgatory. . When the church sto Domingo was hit the floor beneath us did some tricks and we were lifted up a bit and let down amidst the dust and smoke that poured in from above.â€<br /> <br /> The missionaries try to “salvage important papers and other valuables from the Mission House prior to abandoning it to the fire which threatened the entire Walled City.†During this time they and “a thousand refugees†live in the Ateneo while “Dawn and night raids were supplied by the Japs with nary an American plane to say to them no†– American forces had taken a serious hit and withdrawn outside Manila. It was declared an open city before “the little scrawny but arrogant Japs came into the city and took over†in January of 1942.<br /> <br /> The missionaries persuade the Japanese to let them stay in the Ateneo:<br /> <br /> “We convinced them that it was impossible for us to give up the building because it belonged to the Pope and the Vatican State would hold us responsible. This argument with many ingenious trimmings enabled us to hold on to the Ateneo until June ‘43 when the main building was taken for a military hospitalâ€.<br /> <br /> The author describes how despite what he calls his “partial internment†in Manila he is able to get around checkpoints by pretending to be Belgian. He finishes his studies and begins work at a Belgian convent in Paranaque in February of 1943 living between there and Manila:<br /> <br /> “Incidentally none of this would have been possible if the Japs had gumption enough to find out that I was one of the hated Americans. . All vehicles were obliged to stop here a checkpoint at Baclaran and all passengers get down and file between a Jap sentry and a Filipino constabulary soldier to be searched for hidden arms etc. Since several Belgian Fathers not considered enemy aliens frequently passed this way I was able to walk through unmolested as an unoffending Belgian. . I carefully kept my helmet covering the tell-tale red arm-band which was worn on the arm furtherest away from the Jap. The Filipino would do no more than give me a knowing grin.â€<br /> <br /> On July 10 1944 all of the American civilian POWs are taken to internment camps in Santo Tomas and then Los Baños. In Los Baños the POWs cut wood repair roads and farm. Los Baños would be liberated in February of 1945; the author paints a slightly confusing picture of the leadup to this:<br /> <br /> “Conditions generally ‘worsened’ when on Jan. 8th about the time that the American troops landed at Mindero an island just across from Batangas the Japs got jittery believing that the Yanks were going to do the obvious and cross over the bay to Batangas and they the Japs at Batanga decamped! ‘You are free but remain in camp until the Americans come. Outside your camp Japanese troops will shoot any who leave.’ Great was the joy in Mudville. From nowhere came flag poles on which we quickly unfurled American and British flags .; a short-wave radio was set up and we enjoyed daily Frisco broadcasts .â€<br /> <br /> It sounds as if the missionary was reporting contrary to the usual narrative of the Los Baños raid that the Japanese had essentially given up control of the camp and were like the prisoners simply waiting for the Americans to come get their people. Perhaps something further happened in the nearly two intervening months; however the remainder of the letter is missing.<br /> <br /> Of interest to scholars of modern Jesuit history and of the civilian POW experience during the Second World War. unknown
1024878244.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
18952310050001Letouzey et Ane Paris 1895. Hardcover. Good. Indians Missions of North America 3 volume set. Bound in publisher's green cloth. Hardcover. Generally good bindings and covers. v.3 has a split on spine hinge and has been reglued. Clean unmarked pages. French. Letouzey et Ane, Paris hardcover
1967511616Presses de L'Universite Laval 1967. Hardcover. GOOD. 719pp. Large 8vo sewn binding in gray cloth. Ex-lib clean and unmarked copy with sound binding. Heavy item may require additional fees for international shipping. Presses de L'Universite Laval hardcover
1019339888.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
0274930617.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback