Lettres edifiantes et curieuses
Subtitle: ecrites des missions etrangeres
By: par quelques missionnaires de la Compagnie de Jesus
Contributors: Du Halde, J.-B. (Jean-Baptiste), 1674-1743; Le Gobien, Charles, 1653-1708; Patouillet, Louis, 1699-1779; Maréchal, Nicolas, b. 1744; Davis, John Francis, 1795-1890; Perot, Louis; Pernet, P.; Collegium Regium Flexiensis Societatis Jesu
Publisher: Chez Nicolas Le Clerc, ruë Saint Jacques, proche Saint Yves, à l'image Saint Lambert.
Published: 1703
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 34
Subjects: Jesuits; Missions
Work titles: Correspondence
Notes: Vol. 1-8 edited by Charles Le Gobien; v. 9-26 edited by Jean-Baptiste Du Halde; v. 27-34 edited by Louis Patouillet and Nicolas Maréchal.

Vol. 1 originally published Paris, 1702, under title: Lettres de quelques missionaires de la Compagnie de Jésus écrites de la Chine, et des Indes, orientales.

Imprints vary: v. 10 published by P.G. Le Mercier; v. 17-24 published by N. Le Clerc and P.G. Le Mercier; v. 25 published by Le Mercier & Boudet, and Marc Bordelet; v. 26 published by Le Mercier and Marc Bordelet; v. 27 published by les freres Guerin; v. 28 published by H.L. Guerin & L. F. Delatour; v. 29-31 published by Ruault; v. 32-33 published by De Hansy, le jeune; v. 34-35 published by Charles-Pierre Berton.

Colophons for v. 6-9, 12-14, 16 read: De l'imprimerie de la veuve d'Antoine Lambin. Colophon for v. 11 reads: De l'imprimerie de J. Quillau; Colophons for v. 17, 19, 20, 22 read: De l'imprimerie de P.G. Le Mercier, fils.

For publication dates of individual volumes, see Streit.

Vols. 7 and 8 bound together.

Cf. Alden-Landis.  European Americana, 703/78, and entries for individual volumes.

Cf. Echeverria & Wilkie.  French image, 726/4.

In contents see Streit, v. 1, under the appropriate year for each volume.

Streit, R.  Bib. missionum, I: 750.

Backer-Sommervogel, III: col. 1512.

Backer-Sommervogel, IV: col. 34.

Backer-Sommervogel, V: col. 536.

Digital version of map in v.5 available on Luna Imaging.

John Carter Brown Library copy has v. 5-9, 11-30, bound in contemporary calf. For pagination and collation by signatures of individual volumes, see the John Carter Brown Library's bibliographical files.

Gift of the Associates of the John Carter Brown Library.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Sir John Francis Davis Baronet: bookplate; Coll. Regii Flexien. Societ. Jesu: inscription; Perot, Louis: inscription; Pernet, P. (inscription)