Apr 21, 2009 - Sale 2176

Sale 2176 - Lot 62

Price Realized: $ 330
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
(JESUIT RELATIONS.) The Travels of Several Learned Missioners of the Society of Jesus, into Divers Parts of the Archipelago, India, China, and America. One folding engraved plate (of 2) showing Chinese inscription; lacks plate of ginseng plant. [16], 335, [17] pages. 4to, 19th-century 1/4 straight-grain morocco; some marginal toning and foxing; institutional bookplate (with release stamp). London: R. Gosling, 1714

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first edition in english, translated and abridged from Volumes 9 and 10 of Lettres Édifiantes . . . des Missions Étrangères, Paris, 1711-13. Includes Orellana on the Moxos of Peru (pages 230-54); Marest on affairs in Hudson''s Bay (254-77); and Diéreville on Acadia (277-318). Alden 714/69.