Rhodes, Alessandro di, Successi di Tunchino Rhodes, Roma 1650, bound in velum,written in Italian; a 17th century report, of a Jesuit Priest who travelled to the Kingdom of Tonkin (Vietnam), as a missionary to evangelize the region, written during the reign of Pope Innocent X to plead the cause of the missions to Asia, purchased by Colonel John Knauer of The American Army Medical Corps in Italy circa 1944

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