Historia natural, civil y geográfica de las naciones situadas en las riveras del Rio Orinoco / Su autor el padre Joseph Gumilla.

Four men whose distorted shadows are cast on the wall:a an apothecary casting the shadow of a clyster, a censor casting the shadow of a devil, a hereditary peer casting the shadow of a pig, and a Jesuit casting the shadow of a turkey. Coloured lithograph by J.J. Grandville, 1830.

Saint Francis Borgia on a pedestal between two columns forming the monogram of Jesus, holding a crowned skull. Drawing.

A dying man surrounded by fantastic and mythological figures. Coloured etching.

A family tree of the provinces and colleges of the Jesuit order, with horological markings to show the time in each location relative to noon in Rome. Engraving after A. Kircher, 1646.

Saint Ignatius of Loyola (centre) with four other leading Jesuits: Lessius, Molina, Vasquez and Escobar. Line engraving.

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René Goupil, surgeon : the first of the Jesuit martyrs / G.O. Prieur.

2 volumes : illustrations, folded map, plate ; (4to)

El Orinoco, ilustrado, y defendido, historia natural, civil, y geographica de este gran rio, y de sus caudalosas vertientes: govierno, usos, y costumbres de los Indios sus habitadores con nuevas, y utiles noticias de animales, arboles, frutos, aceytes, resinas, yervas, y raices medicinales / [Joseph Gumilla].

History of science and medicine library.

Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions

Science in the vanished Arcadia : knowledge of nature in the Jesuit missions of Paraguay and Rio de la Plata / by Miguel de Asúa.

xv, 655 pages, 3 unnumbered leaves of plates : facsimiles, color map ; 26 cm

History of the Society of Jesus in North America, colonial and federal / by Thomas Hughes.

2 volumes : plates, portrait, folded map ; (4to)

The history of Paraguay. Containing ... a full and authentic account of the establishments formed there by the Jesuits, from among the savage natives ... establishments allowed to have realized the sublime ideas of Fenelon, Sir Thomas Moore, and Plato / Written originally in French. By the celebrated Father Charlevoix.

Early European Books : Printed sources to 1700

Early European Books.

Online resource (8 unnumbered pages, 152 pages, 4to.).

Esperienze intorno a diverse cose naturali, e particolarmente a quelle, che ci son portate dall'Indie / Fatte da Francesco Redi e scritte in una lettera al reverendissimo padre Atanasio Chircher della Compagnia di Giesú.

6 unnumbered pages, 256 pages, 4 pages, 5 unnumbered leaves (last blank) ; (8vo)

Benedicti Pererii Valentini e Societate Jesv. Adversvs fallaces et svperstitiosas artes, id est, de magia, de observatione somniorum, et, de diuinatione astrologica, libri tres / [Benito Pereira].

A full and exact relation of two old men aged above a thousand years, coming invisibly into the great city of Tholouze ... preaching ... and exhorting : How several Jesuits disputed with them in prison. Also, how their irons dropt off ... With their infallible fortelling of the day of doom to be in ... 1690.

Rerum memorabilium in regno Japoniae gestarum litterae an. MDCXIX.XX.XXI.XXII. Societatis Jesu / [by G. Luiz, G.B. Bonelli, and G. Maiorica].

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René Goupil, surgeon : the first of the Jesuit martyrs / G.O. Prieur.

Science in the vanished Arcadia : knowledge of nature in the Jesuit missions of Paraguay and Rio de la Plata / by Miguel de Asúa.

History of the Society of Jesus in North America, colonial and federal / by Thomas Hughes.

Historia natural, civil y geográfica de las naciones situadas en las riveras del Rio Orinoco / Su autor el padre Joseph Gumilla.

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René Goupil, surgeon : the first of the Jesuit martyrs / G.O. Prieur.

Science in the vanished Arcadia : knowledge of nature in the Jesuit missions of Paraguay and Rio de la Plata / by Miguel de Asúa.

History of the Society of Jesus in North America, colonial and federal / by Thomas Hughes.

Historia natural, civil y geográfica de las naciones situadas en las riveras del Rio Orinoco / Su autor el padre Joseph Gumilla.

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