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2 vols., 8vo, pp [xxiv], 487, errata; [viii], 507, errata. Contains five folding maps and a folding plate. Translation, abridged, of the first ten volumes of the Jesuit Lettres Edifiantes. "A work so entertaining and curious, that it has been translated into most of the languages of Europe." (Sabin) Contains the first full English edition of Picolo's Informe, considered the first printed account of California, along with Kino's map of the missions of Baja/Sonora/ Arizona and New Mexico, very nicely engraved. The American sections comprise: Letter from Fr. Arlet concerning a new mission in Peru, particulars of the Moxos Indians, their manners and customs; letter from Fr. Le Gobien to the Jesuit fathers in France, giving them an account of California and of the work of Frs. Kino, Gogni, Salvatierra, and Picolo, in which he says:"As the account given of California is the newest and most curious part of this collection, in order that the public might not be ignorant of what we have been able to learn hitherto, concerning a country, of which no history that I know of, has yet been writ; I thought proper to add a succinct relation of the attempts which have been made, from time to time, to enter that vast country; and the manner how our missionaries discovered very lately, that California joins to the continent of America; and is not an island, as our modern geographers had always imagined." An account of th state of the Missions, newly settled by the Jesuits, in California, by Fr. Francis M. Picolo, a Jesuit, one of the first Founders of that Mission. A descent made by the Spaniards, in the island of California in 1683. Letter from Father Nyel to Fr. de la Chaize, giving an account of the Straits of Magellan. Six folding plates are maps of Malabar coast, New Mexico and California (Kino's), Tierra del Fuego and Straits of Magellan, Shanghai with port, the Ginseng plant, and the missions of the Moxos of Peru, i.e 5 maps and a folding plate. Margins trimmed in rebinding, lacking blank preliminary leaf in each volume; full speckled calf, gilt rules, raised bands, morocco labels, all edges gilt. Beautiful copies. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 6235
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