JESUIT MISSION REPORTS FROM CHINA & INDOCHINA. - Nouvelles lettres édifiantes des missions de la Chine et des Indes orientales.

Paris, de l'imprimerie d'Adrien Le Clere, imprimeur de l'Archevêché de Paris, 1818-1823. 8 volumes. 12mo. Contemporary half calf (spines sl. rubbed with occasional light cracking). With printer's woodcut device on title-pages. XXVIII, 486, (1, errata); IV, 560; (IV), 503, (1 errata); (IV), 567, (1); VIII, 603 (errata pasted on final page as usual); (IV), 511, (1 errata); (IV), 419; (IV), 448 pp. First edition. - Important collection of Jesuit reports from China and Indochina (Vietnam, Laos, Siam, Macao, etc.), a continuation of the collection of Jesuit letters known as the Lettres édifiantes et curieuses. They are mostly concerned with internal matters, such as clashes with the Chinese authorities (Lust 830). Volumes one to five deal with China and volumes six to eight deal with the missions in Tong-King and Cochinchina. - Unobtrusive faint library blind stamps on title pages, otherwise a fine and fresh set. - Rare. Löwendahl, China, I, p. XLIX; Morrison II p. 159; Cordier, B.S II, cols. 953-957 (listing the contents in detail); Streit & Dinginger, Bibl. Missionen, 1931: 2.

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