Mémoires géographiques, physiques et historiques
Subtitle: Sur l'Asie, l'Afrique et l'Amérique. Tirés des lettres édifiantes, & des voyages des missionnaires Jesuites
By: Par l'auteur des Mélanges intéressans & curieux
Contributors: Rousselot de Surgy, Jacques-Philibert, b. 1737
Publisher: Chez Durand, neveu, libraire, rue Saint Jacques, à la Sagesse
Published: 1767
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Subjects: Abenaki language; Illinois lnaguage; Missions; Booksellers' catalogs; Wyandot language; Chiquito language; Indian linguistics; Voyages and travels; Jesuits; Algonquin language
Other titles: Lettres édifiantes et curieuses.
Work titles: Letters from missions
Notes: Compiled by Jacques-Philibert Rousselot de Surgy, who also added some editorial material. Cf. Echeverria.

Vol. 4 relates to America, Canada and the Louisiana Territories.

Signatures: v. 1: pi² a⁶ A-Q¹² R² (M5 missigned G5); v. 2: pi² A-N¹² O⁸; v.3: pi² A-Q¹² R⁸ chi1 (R8 verso blank); v. 4: pi1 A-R¹² (E4 missigned A4; F4-F6 missigned E4-E6; N5 missigned N4)

Pagination: v. 1: [4], xij, 388 p.; v. 2: [4], 163, 162-163, 166-328 p; v. 3: [4], 401, [1] p.; v. 4: [2], 408 p.

Errors in pagination: v. 1: p. 207 misnumbered 107; v. 3: p. 375 misnumbered 309; v. 4: p. 404 and 406 both misnumbered 304, p. 407 misnumbered 305.

Engraved ornaments on title pages; head and tail pieces.

Publisher's advertisements: v. 4, p. 304 [i.e. 404]-408.

Volume 4 contains scattered phrases in Chiquito, as wel las "Abnakise", "Algonkine", "Huronne", and "Illinoise".

Sabin 73492.

Echeverria & Wilkie.  French image, 767/16.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary calf with gold tooled armorial stamp.