(JESUITS) Lockman John; editor Travels of the Jesuits into v

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(JESUITS.) Lockman, John; editor. Travels of the Jesuits into various parts of the world. 5 folding maps; folding plate of ginseng plant. [2], vi, xxii, [2], 487, 24; [2], 4, [4], 507, [20] pages. 2 volumes. 8vo, contemporary calf, moderate wear, rebacked; free endpapers worn or absent, intermittent toning and a few short closed tears; bookplates of San Francisco mayor and senator James D. Phelan on front pastedowns. London: Piety, 1762

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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 Édifiantes. Includes Francesco Maria Piccolo's account of Spanish missions in California, with the Kino map, on pages 395-408 of Volume 1, as well as accounts from Peru, México, Hudson's Bay, and more. New to this edition is a 24-page "Concise Account of the Spanish Dominions of America," here bound at the end of Volume I. Hill 1031; Sabin 40709 ("an excellent abridgement"); Wagner, Spanish Southwest 74n.