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[JESUITES]. Lettres édifiantes et curieuses écrites des missions étrangères. 1780-1783.

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Lettres édifiantes et curieuses écrites des missions étrangères. 

Paris, J.G. Mérigot le jeune, 1780-1783.

Twenty-six 12mo(170x96 mm), I. xxiv-453 pages and 2 maps / II. (4)-483 pages / III. (4)-480 pages / IV. (4)-496 pages, 2 plates and 1 map / V. (4)-534 pages, 5 plates and 3 maps / VI. (4)-xxviii-424 pages and 1 map / VII. 456 pages and 1 map / VIII. 424 pages and 5 maps / IX. 416 pages and 1 map / X. xxix-404 pages and 1 plate / XI. 423 pages / XII. 448 pages, 3 plates and 1 map / XIII. 463 pages and 1 map / XIV. 400 pages and 2 plates / XV. 430 pages and 4 maps / XVI. xxxvi-438 pages, 1 plate and 2 maps / XVII. 452 pages and 1 map / XVIII. 480 pages, 2 plates, 3 maps / XIX. 516 pages, 1 map and 8 plates / XX. 462 pages / XXI. 526 pages / XXII. 532 pages / XXIII. 619 pages and 1 map / XXIV. 552-(4) pages and 1 plate / XXV. (4)-lx-444 pages and 1 plate / XXVI. (4)-518 pages and 2 plates. Complet with 56 maps and plates.  binding : Contemporary full sheep. Spines gilt in six compartments. Bindings of the two last volumes are different. Some caps chipped. Small lack on the margin of title page of vol. XV and minor lack of leather to some covers. Overall a very good copy. 

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The present edition, enlarged and corrected by l'Abbé de Querbeuf, is preferred to the original, as it is arranged systematically according to geographic region : Volumes I to V relate to the Levant, VI to IX to North and South America, X to XV to India, XVI to XXIV to China, and XXV to XXVI to India and China.
Copy with the 56 plates and maps as called by Howes (L-299).
Volume VIII contains the third French printing of famous Kino map of California.

Price : 3500 €

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