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(JESUIT RELATIONS.) Lockman, John, editor. Travels of the Jesuits into Various Parts of the World. 5 folding engraved maps; folding engraved plate of ginseng plant. [2], vi, xxii, [2], 24, 487, [1]; [2], 4, [4], 507, [20] pages. 2 volumes. 8vo, contemporary speckled calf, rebacked in the 19th-century; light dampstaining on plate, contents otherwise generally clean. Llanover Library bookplates. London: T. Piety, 1762
Second edition of a 1743 collection of narratives by Jesuit missionaries in Asia and the Americas, translated and abridged from the 1702-13 Lettres Édifiantes. These include Francesco Maria Piccolo's account of Spanish missions in California, with the Kino map, on pages 395-408 of Volume 1; and Jean-Paul Gozani's account of the Kaifeng Jews on pages 1-27 of Volume 2. First appearing in this edition in Volume 1 is a 24-page Concise Account of the Spanish Dominions of America. Hill 1031; Streit-Dindinger I, 998; Wagner, Spanish Southwest, page 311.
