TRAVELS OF THE JESUITS, INTO VARIOUS PARTS OF THE WORLD : PARTICULARLY CHINA AND THE EAST-INDIES : INTERMIX'D WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE MANNERS, GOVERNMENT, CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS CEREMONIES, NATURAL HISTORY, AND CURIOSITIES, OF THE SEVERAL NATIONS VISITED BY THOSE FATHERS. (2 Volumes)

Lockman, John (1698-1771)

Published by T. Piety At the Rose and Crown in Paternoster-Row; and Sold By the Booksellers of Great-Britain Ireland and New-England, London, 1762

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Bound in modern black pebble cloth with gilt lettering. Text is tight & clean with light age toning and a few stains. VOLUME 1: [2], vi, [24], xii, [2], 487, [1] pages. 1 map of 2. Lacking map "Passage by Land to California". The"Malabar and Cormandel Coasts" map is present & complete but has a vertical tear along the lower half of the center crease. This second edition, corrected has added a 24-page supplement on the Spanish settlements in America. VOLUME 2: [2], 4, [4], 507, [18] pages. Folding plate of the Ginseng Plant & 3 of 3 maps present: 1-"Map of Terra del Fuego"; 2-"Map of Nangasak called by the Chinese Tchangk"; 3-"Peru, Mission of the Moxos". Lacking last 3 leaves (rear General Index stops after the letter "T"). Religion, ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 994 pages; Second edition of a 1743 collection of narratives by Jesuit missionaries in Asia and the Americas, translated into English and abridged from the 1702-13 Lettres Adifiantes. Seller Inventory # 17827

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Title: TRAVELS OF THE JESUITS, INTO VARIOUS PARTS ...

Publisher: T. Piety At the Rose and Crown in Paternoster-Row; and Sold By the Booksellers of Great-Britain Ireland and New-England, London

Publication Date: 1762

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+

Edition: 2nd Edition, corrected.