Defense des nouveaux chrestiens et des missionnaires de la Chine, du Japon, & des Indes
Subtitle: Contre deux livres intitulez La morale pratique des Jesuites, et L'esprit de M. Arnauld
Publisher: Chez Estienne Michallet, premier imprimeur du roy, ruë S. Jacques, à l'image S. Paul
Published: 1687
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 568
Subjects: Jesuits; Missions
Other titles: Defense des nouveaux chrestiens et des missionnaires de la Chine, du Japon, et des Indes.
Notes: Attributed to Michel le Tellier by Backer-Sommervogel.

A reply to: La morale pratique des Jesuites / by Sébastien-Joseph du Cambout de Pontchâteau, printed in two volumes in Cologne [i.e. Amsterdam], 1169-1683, and L'esprit de M. Arnauld / by Pierre Jurieu, printed in Deventer, 1684.

Contains a discussion of Juan de Palafox y Mendoza and the Jesuits in Mexico.

Signatures: ã¹² (ã1 verso blank) ẽ¹² ĩ⁴ A-2A¹²

Errata: p. [56], 1st count, and p. 568.

Engraved printer's ornament on title page; head and tail pieces; initials.

Streit, R. Bib. missionum, V:2570.

Backer-Sommervogel (1967 reprint) VII:1913.

Cioranescu, A. 17 s, 43195.

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, books printed 1675-1700, p. 178.

European Americana 687/92.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full speckled calf.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Au regime de la Cong. de S. Maur: ms. inscription on title page.