tot Gend [Gent]/ Brugge, by J.F. Vander Schueren/ by Joseph Bogaert s.d. [1784-1785] viii + 73 + [i] pp.+ engraved frontispiece (portrait), this is the original 18th century edition, 18cm., modern blind wrappers, text clean and bright, text in Dutch, good condition, rare, [The Jesuit Ignatius Toebast (born in Gent, Belgium, in 1648) was a missionary in New Granada (Columbia), who died as a martyr on the 15th of October 1684 in the city of Hinda ; his hands and feet were cut off by the native Indians, and his body teared through the city's streets. Cfr. De Backer-Sommervogel VIII col.60-61 ; according to De Backer the portrait on the frontispiece is apocryph and the person depicted is Jac. Laynez, by Jér. Wierix // Content of this work: Letters by Toebast from 1680, 1681 and 1683, written in Cadix, Sivilien, Carthago, Santa-Fée and other cities, and some more letters, by other authors, regarding Toebast], R97739
Reference : R97739
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