Travels of the Jesuits, into various parts of the world: particularly China and the East-Indies. [electronic resource] : Intermix'd with an account of the manners, government, civil and religious ceremonies, natural history, and curiosities, of the several nations visited by those fathers. Translated from the celebrated lettres edifiantes & curieuses, ecrites des missions etrangeres, par les missionaires de la compagnie de Jesus. A work so entertaining and curious, that it has already been translated into most of the European language. This work is illustrated with maps and sculptures, engraved by the best masters. To which is now prefixed, an account of the Spanish settlements, in America, with a general index to the whole work. By Mr. Lockman.

Format:

Book

Standardized Title:

Lettres édifiantes et curieuses, ecrites des missions étrangères. English. Abridgments.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

China--Description and travel.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (2v.,plates ) maps ;

Edition:

Second edition, corrected.

Place of Publication:

[London] : Printed for T. Piety, at the Rose and Crown in Paternoster-Row; and sold by the booksellers of Great-Britain, Ireland, and New-England, 1762.

Notes:

A reissue of the 1743 Noon edition, with a cancel titlepage to vol.1.

Sig.214 in vol.1 and 2K6,7 are also cancels in which the errata have been suppressed, and the advertisements altered.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

Sabin, 40709

English Short Title Catalog, T93296.

OCLC:

508807825