FRANCISCO COMBERS [LUIS PIMENTAL?] (1620-1665) Historia de las Islas de Mindanao, Jolo, y sus Adyacentes. Progressos de la Religión y Armas Católicas . Madrid: Por los herederos de Pablo de Val, À costa de Lorenço de Ibarra, 1667. 2° (290 x 205mm). Printed in double columns. (Title-page restored, missing text in facsimile, lightly browned, a few paper repairs or flaws.) Modern mottled calf gilt. EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST AND MOST IMPORTANT BOOK ON THE SOUTHERN PHILIPPINE ISLANDS with the first ethnographic description of its people, languages and natural history by the Jesuit Procurator of the Philippines from 1638 and Professor of Theology at the Universidad de la Ciudad de Manila from 1640. This elegantly written work remained the authority on the region for two centuries and is highly praised by Palau, who suggests that 'Combes' may have been a pseudonym used by Luis Pimentel. Combes personally visited most of the localities described here, and of particular importance are his notices of the Negritos, then common on Mindanao but who had almost entirely disappeared by the twentieth century. Palau 57910; Robertson 120; Retana 15; Medina, Filipinas 193; Tavera 661, 1982.
FRANCISCO COMBERS [LUIS PIMENTAL?] (1620-1665) Historia de las Islas de Mindanao, Jolo, y sus Adyacentes. Progressos de la Religión y Armas Católicas . Madrid: Por los herederos de Pablo de Val, À costa de Lorenço de Ibarra, 1667. 2° (290 x 205mm). Printed in double columns. (Title-page restored, missing text in facsimile, lightly browned, a few paper repairs or flaws.) Modern mottled calf gilt. EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST AND MOST IMPORTANT BOOK ON THE SOUTHERN PHILIPPINE ISLANDS with the first ethnographic description of its people, languages and natural history by the Jesuit Procurator of the Philippines from 1638 and Professor of Theology at the Universidad de la Ciudad de Manila from 1640. This elegantly written work remained the authority on the region for two centuries and is highly praised by Palau, who suggests that 'Combes' may have been a pseudonym used by Luis Pimentel. Combes personally visited most of the localities described here, and of particular importance are his notices of the Negritos, then common on Mindanao but who had almost entirely disappeared by the twentieth century. Palau 57910; Robertson 120; Retana 15; Medina, Filipinas 193; Tavera 661, 1982.
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