Travels of the Jesuits, into various parts of the world: compiled from their letters
Subtitle: Now first attempted in English. Intermix'd with an account of the manners, government, religion, &c. of the several nations visited by those fathers: with extracts from other travellers, and miscellaneous notes
By: By Mr. Lockman. Illustrated with maps and sculptures
Contributors: Lockman, John, 1698-1771; Le Gobien, Charles, 1653-1708
Publisher: Printed for John Noon, at the White Hart near Mercer's Chapel, Cheapside
Published: 1743
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Jesuits; Missions; Catalogs, Booksellers'
Work titles: Lettres édifiantes et curieuses, écrites des missions étrangères
Notes: Translation, by John Lockman, of selections of: Lettres édifiantes et curieuses, écrites des missions étrangères, first printed in Paris, 1702-1713, as edited by Charles Le Gobien.

Includes letters from China, India, and other parts of Asia, but also letters from missions in America.

Pagination: v. 1: [2], vi, xxii, [2], 487, [1] p., [2] folded leaves of plates; [6], 507, [3] p., [4] folded leaves of plates.

Signatures: v. 1: pi⁴ (pi1 verso blank) A⁸ a⁴ B-2H⁸ 2I⁴ (2I4 verso blank); v. 2: [A]² (-[A]2) ([A]1 verso blank) a² B-2K⁸ (-2K8)

Errata: v. 1, p. [1], 6th count; v. 2, p. [1], 3rd count.

Bookseller's advertisements; v. 2, p. [2-3], 3rd count.

Includes folded map entitled "Passage by land to California discover'd by Father Eusebius Francis Kino a Jesuit; between the years 1698, & 1701: containing likewise the new missions of the Jesuits" bound in volume 1, between p. 394 and 395, 5th count; also includes folded map entitled "A map of Tierra del Fuego and the Straits of Magellan, & Le Maire with the new islands of Anycan and Beauchené" in volume 2, between p. 34 and 35, 2nd count; lastly includes the folded map entitled "Mission of the Moxos, or Moxes: settled by the Jesuits in Peru" in volume 2, between p 436 and 437, 2nd count.

Engraved head and tail pieces.

Wagner, H.R. Spanish Southwest, 74a(n)

European Americana 743/131.

English short title catalogue T93295.

John Carter Brown Library copy half bound in 19th century or early 20th century red morocco with marbled boards.