1783 CHINA Jesuit Voyage Missions Peking ASIA Claude Fleury Lettres Edifiantes

The ‘Lettres Edifiantes et Curieuses’ is a collection of reports and letters from Jesuit missions from around the world. It is a key and important source of information for the history of Catholic missions and missionaries through the 18^th-century.

This set, the 25^th and 26^th volumes, focus primarily on the missionary voyages to China and include the letters of Dollieres in Peking, Picquet in Canada, and Claude Fleury which were collected by Charles le Gobien.

Item number: #25773

Price: $499

GOBIEN, Charles Le

Lettres édifiantes et curieuses, écrites des missions étrangeres. 25, 26.

A Paris, chez J.G Merigot, Libraire, 1783. 1^st edition

Details:

·        Collation: Complete; 2 volumes

o   Vol. XXV – [4], lx, 444

§  1 engraved plate

o   Vol. XXVI – [4], 515, [1]

§  2 folding charts

·        Language: French

·        Binding: Leather; tight and secure

·        Size: ~6.75in X 4in (17cm x 10.5cm)

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