Relation des missions du Paraguai
By: traduite de l'Italien de M. Muratori
Contributors: Cattaneo, Gaetano, 1696-1733
Publisher: a La Société Catholique des Bons Livres, Hôtel Palatin, près Saint-Sulpice.; Imprimerie de Tremblay, imprimeur de S.A.R. Mgr. le Duc de Bourbon.
Published: 1826
Place of publication: A Paris; Senlis
Language: fre
Number of pages: 302
Subjects: Jesuits; Missions
Work titles: Cristianesimo felice nelle missioni de' padri della Compagnia di Gesù nel Paraguai
Notes: Translation, by Félix Esprit Lourmel, of: Il cristianesimo felice nelle missioni de' padri della Compagnia de Gesù nel Paraguai. Venice, 1743, v. [1]

French translation originally published Paris, 1754.

Title vignette: Publisher's device, with motto: Attende lectioni.

Printer's statement and place from verso of half title.

Signatures: pi² 1-12 ¹² 13⁸ (-13₈; pi2 verso blank). Each gathering (except 13) consisting of 4 + 8 leaves, only the first leaf of each group signed; the fifth leaf of gathering 2 signed as: "2̇"; the fifth leaf of gatherings 3-10 and 12 signed as: "3." (-"10.") and "12."; the fifth leaf of gatherings 1 and 11 unsigned.

"Lettres du P. Gaetan Cattaneo, missionaire de la Compagnie de Jésus, a M. Joseph Cattaneo, son frère." (p. [221]-302)

Sabin 51420.

Streit, R.  Bib. missionum, 3:1524.

Quérard, J.-M.  La France littéraire, 6: p. 364.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary calf.

John Carter Brown Library copy purchased from the Giuseppe Antenucci Memorial Fund.