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
Publisher: Printed for R. Gosling, at the Mitre and Crown, over against St. Dunstan's Church, in Fleet-Street
Published: 1714
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
Subjects: Jesuits; Booksellers' catalogs; Missions; Description and travel
Other titles: Lettres edifiantes et curieuses. English. Selections.
Work titles: Correspondence
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 ... "

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"Extract of an account of the country of Accadia, in North America," [by Dièreville], p. 277-318.

Publisher's advertisements, p. [1], [14-17] at end.

Includes index.

Echeverria & Wilkie.  French image, 714/1.

European Americana 714/69.

Streit, R.  Bib. missionum, 1: 800.

Brown, J.C.  Cat., 1482-1700, 3: 198.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary calf, re-backed.