COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Books Internet Archive
Author:
Jesuits.
Author (contributor):
Le Gobien, Charles, 1653-1708.
Author (contributor):
Lockman, John, 1698-1771.
Title:
Travels of the Jesuits, into various parts of the world: compiled from their letters. : Now first attempted in English. Intermix'd with an account of the manners, government, religion, &c. of the several nations visited by those fathers: with extracts from other travellers, and miscellaneous notes. /
Publisher:
Printed for John Noon at the White Hart near Mercer's Chapel Cheapside
Begin Publication Date:
1743
MMS Id (Alma identifier):
991028341479706966
Permanent Call Number:
EA743 .J58t
Statistics Note 1 (Accession Number):
STAT_NOTE_1_ACCESSION #: 10715
Uniform Resource Identifier:
Subjects:
Jesuits--Missions.
Subjects:
Jesuits--Missions--China.
Subjects:
Jesuits--Missions--India.
Subjects:
Jesuits--Missions--Asia.
Subjects:
Jesuits--Missions--America.
Subjects:
Catalogs, Booksellers'--Great Britain--1743.
Subjects:
Imprint 1743.
General Note:
Translation, by John Lockman, of selections of: Lettres édifiantes et curieuses, écrites des missions étrangères, first printed in Paris, 1702-1713, as edited by Charles Le Gobien.; Includes letters from China, India, and other parts of Asia, but also letters from missions in America.; Pagination: v. 1: [2], vi, xxii, [2], 487, [1] p., [2] folded leaves of plates; [6], 507, [3] p., [4] folded leaves of plates.; Signatures: v. 1: pi⁴ (pi1 verso blank) A⁸ a⁴ B-2H⁸ 2I⁴ (2I4 verso blank); v. 2: [A]² (-[A]2) ([A]1 verso blank) a² B-2K⁸ (-2K8); Errata: v. 1, p. [1], 6th count; v. 2, p. [1], 3rd count.; Bookseller's advertisements; v. 2, p. [2-3], 3rd count.; Includes folded map entitled "Passage by land to California discover'd by Father Eusebius Francis Kino a Jesuit; between the years 1698, & 1701: containing likewise the new missions of the Jesuits" bound in volume 1, between p. 394 and 395, 5th count; also includes folded map entitled "A map of Tierra del Fuego and the Straits of Magellan, & Le Maire with the new islands of Anycan and Beauchené" in volume 2, between p. 34 and 35, 2nd count; lastly includes the folded map entitled "Mission of the Moxos, or Moxes: settled by the Jesuits in Peru" in volume 2, between p 436 and 437, 2nd count.; Engraved head and tail pieces.
Local Note:
John Carter Brown Library copy half bound in 19th century or early 20th century red morocco with marbled boards.
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