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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Brown paper-covered boards backed with brown leather. No lettering on spine. Spine has a few small, thin gilt decorative lines. 3 3/4" x 5 3/4." 108 pages, complete. Pages are very clean and intact except for light age toning, slight offsetting from the printed text, and occasional foxing or small stains. Covers are clean and intact overall except for moderate rubbing, surface scratches, and moderate wear to extremities. A Very Good copy. This is a handbook that discusses Christian doctrine from the Catholic perspective through brief lessons presented in a question and answer format. The subjects addressed in the lessons are God; the blessed Trinity; Creation; angels; man; man in the state of innocence; the fall of man; Jesus Christ; the birth and infancy of Jesus; public life of Jesus; the passion and death of Jesus; death and burial of Jesus; the preaching and doctrine of Jesus; resurrection and ascension of Jesus; descent of the Holy Ghost; the Second Coming of Christ; redemption by Jesus; conditions for redemption; faith in Jesus; the Church of Christ; the Church as a rule of faith; the marks of the Church of Christ; obedience to the law of God; the Ten Commandments; duties of children, parents, servants, masters to their servants, and subjects to their sovereigns and civil magistrates; Evangelical council; the Eight Beatitudes, Four Cardinal Virtues, and Three Eminent Good Works; precepts of the Church; sin, mortal sin, and venial sin; the Seven Deadly Sins (or Seven Capital Sins); sins against the Holy Ghost, those who cry for vengeance, and the Four Last Things; forgiveness of our sins; the Grace of God; sanctifying Grace; prayers; sacraments; baptism; confirmations; Holy Eucharist; Holy Communion; sacrifice of the Mass; sacrament of penance; indulgences; Purgatory; Extreme Unction; Holy Orders; Matrimony; the Church Triumphant; communion of the saints; angel guardians; Virgin Mary; and holy images and relics. Some of the subjects include footnotes that guide readers to further their Christian spiritual journey. For example, the lesson on "Creation" instructs readers to read the first chapter of Genesis.

Zustand: New. Print on Demand pp. 42.

Rare complete set of "the most valuable 18th-century source on Jesuit activities in frontier regions throughout the world" (Hill, 'Collection Of Pacific Voyages'). 34 volumes bound in 32. Octavo (160 by 98 mm), engraved title-page vignettes, 36 mostly folding engraved plates and maps (of 38, without portrait of Antoine Verjus, and map of Paraguay, 2 hand-coloured, a few old repairs at folds, some loss to map of 'Nouvelles Phillipines' in volume VI, and plate of Chinese inscriptions in volume X), occasional light foxing or browning, volume 1 with title-page shaved at lower margin touching imprint, and final leaf repaired with some loss of text, volume V with small loss to blank corners on 2 leaves, volume XV title-page with small hole touching imprint, volumes I-XXVIII uniform contemporary calf, spines gilt in compartments with two lettering-pieces, all edges red, volumes XXIX - XXXIV (slightly taller) in similar mottled calf, some rubbing and abrasions, minor worm trails to a few sides and joints, a few spine ends chipped, but generally attractive. In addition to the vows of Chastity, Poverty, and Obedience, initiates to the Society of Jesus, founded by Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556), made a fourth vow, their foundation principal, to undertake missionary work anywhere in the world, as the Pope directed them; and then promise to write letters home to Rome detailing all that they found. Beginning with St. Francis Xavier's (1506-1551) first mission, from 1540, to India, Southeast Asia, and Japan, by the end of the sixteenth century, almost nine thousand Jesuits were sending their 'Lettres edifiantes et curieuese', from all corners of the known world. Three of the Jesuits' most celebrated missions were to: China, led by Matteo Ricci (1552-1610); Paraguay, Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil (1609-1768), which established at least thirty large mission towns, each with a cathedral-sized church, school and workshop; and a relatively brief and bloody residence in Canada (1611-1649). From 1632, the letters of the North American missionaries were published in the 'Jesuit Relations'. These 'Lettres édifiantes et curieuese.' (17021774), were first selected and collected for publication in Paris by Charles Le Gobien. First-hand, real-time accounts, they represent a wealth of historical, scientific, geographical, botanical, cultural, and ethnographic information, which has been mined by thinkers and scholars of all disciplines, and every scientific age, ever since. Provenance: "Domus probationis Parisiensis Societatis Jesu ad usum novit", contemporary inscription on the title of volume I, and and similar inscriptions to title-pages of volumes II-XXVIII, placing these volumes formerly in the library of the Parisian Jesuit novitiate. [Sabin 40697, "a set comprising the first edition of each volume is of uncommon rarity"; Sommervogel III, 1514, IV, 34-35, V, 536, VI, 353-354; cf. Hill 1024, second edition only], 8vo, Paris, Jean Cusson [and others], 1702-1776.