Allerhand so lehr- als geist-reiche Brief, Schriften und Reis-Beschreibungen
Subtitle: welche von denen Missionariis der Gesellschaft Jesu aus beyden Indien und andern über Meer gelegenen Ländern, seit An. 1642. bis auf das Jahr 1726. in Europa angelangt seynd
By: jetzt zum erstenmal Theils aus handschriftlichen Urkunden, Theils aus denen französischen Lettres edifiantes verteutscht und zusammen getragen von Joseph Stöcklein
Contributors: Probst, Peter, 1699-1750; Jesuits; Harold Jantz Collection of German Baroque Literature and German Americana
Publisher: In Verlag Philips, Martins, und Joh. Veith seel. Erben, Buchhändlern
Published: 1726
Place of publication: Augspurg und Grätz
Language: ger
Subjects: Correspondence; Sources; Missions; History; Voyages and travels; Description and travel; Jesuits
Other titles: Lettres édifiantes et curieuses. Selections. German.; Neue Welt-Bott, mit allerhand Nachrichten dern Missionariorum Soc[ietatis] Jesu.
Notes: Title varies.

Issued in 38 or 40 parts. Cf. Backer-Sommervogel, v. 7.

Half titles (and added t.p., v. 1-2): Der Neue Welt-Bott mit allerhand Nachrichten dern Missionariorum Soc. Jesu.

Engraved frontispiece in v. 1.

Each part is numbered consecutively and has special t.p. and separate paging, except parts 21-22 and 23-24, which are double parts.

Work is divided into five "Bünde," Bund 1-4 with special t.p., Bund 1 comprising parts 1-8, Bund 2 parts 9-16, Bund 3 parts 17-24, Bund 4 parts 25-32 and [Bund 5] parts 33-36. In the 2nd ed. (1728-61) parts 37-38 form the second half of Bund 5.

Completed after Stöcklein's death by Peter Probst and Franciscus Keller.

For a list of the contents of parts 1-36, see: Backer, A. de, Bibliothèque des écrivains de la Compagnie de Jésus (1853-61) v. 2, appendice, p. [17]-102.

The "Zeiger" or index which precedes each part and lists the letters contained in the same under world-region headings, facilitates the search for information concerning a specific part of the world.

German baroque literature, Harold Jantz collection, no. 2425.