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[TRAVELS]. EDIFYING AND CURIOUS LETTERS, written from the Fo…
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146
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[TRAVELS]. EDIFYING AND CURIOUS LETTERS, written from the Fo…
See original version (French)
Estimate €200 - €300
Voluntary lot
Description
[TRAVELS]. EDIFYING AND CURIOUS LETTERS, written from the Foreign Missions. Lyon, Vernarel – Cabin & Co., 1819. Fourteen volumes in marbled fawn sheepskin, with a smooth, compartmentalised and decorated spine, title and volume number labels in lemon-coloured sheepskin, marbled edges (contemporary binding). One leaf (pages 61/62 of volume 7) torn but complete, a small corner loss to the map of Tonkin. NEW EDITION of this important collection of missionary correspondence compiled in the 18th century by Fathers Charles Le Gobien, Jean-Baptiste Du Halde, Nicolas Maréchal and Louis Patouillet, and subsequently revised and arranged geographically by Yves-Mathurin-Marie Tréaudet de Querbeuf. It is ILLUSTRATED with 45 PLATES (maps, plans, views, portraits, alphabets, etc.), including numerous fold-out plates, amongst which is the MAP of the ‘Overland Route to CALIFORNIA’. These letters were sent by Jesuit missionaries from the East, the Americas and Asia and constitute a valuable record of the European view of these regions. From the ‘Hornus’ library, with bookplate. ¶ Sabin, 40700, which lists 50 engravings.
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