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[Travel] Jesuit Missionaries. Lettres Edifiantes et Curieuses Ecrites des Missions Etrangeres par quelques Missionnaires de la Compagnie de Jesus.
Paris: Le Clerc 1705 & 1715.
Two 12mo volumes, volumes XI and V; volume XI illustrated with a folding engraved map of the Philippines and east to the Marianas; volume V illustrated with Father Kino's engraved folding map of California, showing the full extent of the Sea of Cortés, and the Baja Peninsula's connection to the mainland, with contemporary hand-color in red and blue; each volume bound in full contemporary speckled calf with gilt spine, joints cracking, not a matched set, 6 1/4 x 3 1/2 in. (2)
Volume V contains the first printed French translation of Francisco Maria Picolo's scarce 1702 pamphlet, "Informe del Estado de la Nueva Christiandad de California" (pages 248-287), described by Wagner as "the first printed account of California [...] to obtain any circulation." Informative reports on missionary work and indigenous people in India, China, Mexico, the Philippines, and elsewhere are included, along with a report on Jesuit activities in the Great Lakes region near Lake Michigan by Father Marest.
European Americana 705/101; Sabin 40697; Wagner Southwest 74a.
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