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(JESUITS.)
Lettres édifiantes et curieuses, écrites de missions étrangères.
26 maps and plans, 30 plates. 26 volumes. 12mo, contemporary
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calf, attractive but a bit
tacky, moderate wear; some plates backed and restored.
NOT COLLATED
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Toulouse, 1810-11
[1,500/2,500]
Third edition. The American missions are covered in Volumes 6 through 9, with the other
volumes devoted to the Levant, the East Indies, and China. Sabin 40699 (calls for an addi-
tional atlas in octavo, apparently in error).
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(JESUITS.) Lockman, John; editor.
Travels of the Jesuits into various parts of
the world.
5 folding maps; folding plate of ginseng plant. [2], vi, xxii, [2], 487, 24; [2], 4,
[4], 507, [20] pages. 2 volumes. 8vo, contemporary calf, moderate wear, rebacked; free end-
papers worn or absent, intermittent toning and a few short closed tears; bookplates of San
Francisco mayor and senator James D. Phelan on front pastedowns.
London: Piety, 1762
[800/1,200]
Second edition of a 1743 collection of narratives by Jesuit missionaries in Asia and the
Americas, translated into English and abridged from the 1702-13 Lettres Édifiantes. Includes
Francesco Maria Piccolo’s account of Spanish missions in California, with the Kino map, on
pages 395-408 of Volume 1, as well as accounts from Peru, México, Hudson’s Bay, and more.
New to this edition is a 24-page “Concise Account of the Spanish Dominions of America,”
here bound at the end of Volume I. Hill 1031; Sabin 40709 (“an excellent abridgement”);
Wagner, Spanish Southwest 74n.
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