The travels of several learned missioners of the Society of Jesus, into divers parts of the archipelago, India, China, and America
Subtitle: containing a general description of the most remarkable towns, with a particular account of the customs, manners and religion of those several nations : the whole interspers'd with philosophical observations and other curious remarks
By: translated from the French original publish'd at Paris in the year 1713
Contributors: Orellana, Antonio de, 1653-1712.; Dièreville, N. de, b. 1670?; Jesuits
Series: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America, from its discovery to the present time -- 20176-20180; Canadiana in the Toronto Public Library
Publisher: R. Gosling
Published: 1714
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 335
Subjects: America -- Description and travel; Asia -- Description and travel
Work titles: Lettres edifiantes et curieuses. Selections. English
Notes: Twenty letters translated and abridged from the Paris, 1711-1713 ed. of "Lettres édifiantes et curieuses."  Contains also an abridged English translation of Dièreville's "Relation du voyage du Port Royale de l'Acadie, ou de la Nouvelle France," and an abridged translation of Antonio de Orellana's "Relacion summaria de la vida, y dichosa mverte del U.P. Cypriano Baraze ... "

Includes index

Sabin 40707

Also available on microfiche in series: Canadiana in the Toronto Public Library

Microfiche. Woodbridge, CT : Research Publications, 1996. 5 microfiches : negative. (Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America, from its discovery to the present time ; 20176-20180)

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