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146 - [TRAVEL]. EDIFYING AND CURIOUS LETTERS, written from the Foreign Missions. Lyon, Vernarel - Cabin & Co., 1819. Fourteen volumes in marbled fawn sheepskin, with smooth, compartmentalized, and decorated spines; title and volume number labels in lemon-colored sheepskin; marbled edges (contemporary binding). One leaf (pages 61/62 of volume 7) torn but complete; a small corner loss on 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 later 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, among 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 how Europeans viewed these regions. From the “Hornus” library, with bookplate. ¶ Sabin, 40700, which lists 50 engravings.
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[TRAVEL]. EDIFYING AND CURIOUS LETTERS, written from the Foreign Missions. Lyon, Vernarel - Cabin & Co., 1819. Fourteen volumes in marbled fawn sheepskin, with smooth, compartmentalized, and decorated spines; title and volume number labels in lemon-colored sheepskin; marbled edges (contemporary binding). One leaf (pages 61/62 of volume 7) torn but complete; a small corner loss on 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 later 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, among 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 how Europeans viewed these regions. From the “Hornus” library, with bookplate. ¶ Sabin, 40700, which lists 50 engravings.
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