1781 Jesuit Voyage Missions China Peking ASIA Claude

1781 Jesuit Voyage Missions China 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 18th-century.

This set, the 25th and 26th 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: #16773

Price: $499

GOBIEN, Charles Le

Lettres eÌdifiantes et curieuses, eÌcrites des missions eÌtrangeres. 25, 26.

A Paris, chez J.G Merigot, Libraire, 1783.

Details:

Collation: 2 volumes

Vol. XXV – [4], lx, 444

1 engraved plate

Vol. XXVI – [4], 518

2 folding charts

Language: French

Binding: Leather; tight & secure

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

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