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AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL DEPARTMENT.. MANILA AND THE PHILIPPINES..
This is a lovely and charming period guide. It covers cables, climate, clothing, clubs, Chambers of Commerce, churches, constabulary band, consuls in Manila, conveyances & guides, currency, customs, health hints, local excursions, postage rates, shopping, steamship reservations, suggested itineraries, travelers' cheques, American Express offices &c. * With guide to Baguio, Cebu, Iloilo, Zamboanga, Environs of Manila: Fort McKinley, Guadalupe, Las Pinas, Montalban, Antipolo, Pagsanjan. Manila: history, walled city, Ermita & Malate districts, North of the Pasig, Philippine data... * Also a wealth of quaint adverts, and illustrations. Nicely done ! * Color scans can be sent by email. Images displayed may not be the actual copy in stock for sale at any given time; if you want to see the exact image of the book or edition in stock, please request this by email and an image will be returned to you by attachment. !! WARNING: The above * * * * SHIPPING: WE SHIP WORLD WIDE * * * * * The shipping costs displayed for our books on ZVAB are ONLY AN ESTIMATE !!! * ACTUAL costs are based book weight, destination and value. * We will inform you of shipping costs and options once you select the book. **FOREIGN: We usually ship by registered/insured airmail to customers abroad. **DOMESTIC: We ship to USA customers by UPS/FEDEX or U.S. MAIL, appropriate insurance/registry and signature required will appply. ***** Please inquire if you have any questions regarding shipping or payments .

Manila n.d. ca 1915-20, American Express. Orange stiff wrs., very good, 48p., 12.5 x 19 cm., many b.w. photos, English text,

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RIBERA SJ, Giovanni (Juan RIVERA). On the Jesuit mission in the Philippines (1602-3) Lettera Annua della Vice. Provincia delle Filippine. Dal Giugno del 1602. al seguente. Giugno del 1603. ... al ... il P. Claudio Acquaviva Preposito Generale della medesima Compagnia. Venice, Giovanni Battista Ciotti, 1605.
Rare edition of the annual report on the situation of the Jesuit missions in South Asia and especially the Philippines, written in the form of a letter by Giovanni Ribera (or Juan Rivera; 1565-1622), the Jesuit Provincial at Manilla in the Philippines, and addressed to the Governor General of the Jesuit Order, Claudio Acquaviva in Rome. The yearly written letters are of great importance for the early history of the region. This letter treats the period June 1602 to June 1603, and is dated at Manilla, June 11, 1603. Another edition appeared in the same year in Rome at the printinghouse of Luigi Zannetti.After a general introduction the account treats the state of the Jesuit mission at the Collegio in Manilla, the residences at Zebu, 'de nostri fra Indiani', Dulac, Ogmuc, Bohol, the mission of Tanay at Bohol, Tinagon, Cantubig, Antipolo, and Silang.
Good copy.
<I>STC Italian, 17th Century</I>, 454; De Backer-Sommervogel 1767 (other ed.: Luigi Zannetti, Venice, 1605); not in Robertson, <I>Bibliogr. of the Philippine Islands</I>; not in Leclerc.

Small 8vo. Later half vellum with title lettered in ink on spine. With large woodcut device of the Jesuit Order on title. 69 (1 blank) pp.

[SW: 17th Century;Mission;Asia;Jesuits;Philippines]

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