PREVOST D'EXILES, ANTOINE-FRANCOIS,
Histoire générale des voyages, ou nouvelle collection de toutes les relations de voyages par mer et par terre... Tome 20: Voyages dans l'Asie (suite).
Paris, Didot, 1749. 12mo. (III)+422+(2) pp. With 2 fold. plans & 5 fold. plates. (Also copies known with worldmap of Bellin, although not mentioned in 'avis au relieur'). Hardcover. Contemp. mottled calf, spine richly gilt, with raised bands & 2 title labels. (Spine ends sl. dam.). VG.
¶ Incl. travels by Jesuit missionaries Le Comte (Siam, China, 1687), Jean de Fontaney (China, 1688) & Joachin Bouvet (China, 1693); Italian adverturer Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri (China, 1695-97); Dutch Everard Ysbrants Ides (ambassador to the emperors of Muscovy, overland to Peking, 1693); Swedish Lorenz Lange (special envoy of Peter the Great, overland to Peking, 1717-19); French Jesuit missionary Antoine Gaubil (Canton, 1722); Patriarch of Alexandria Mezzabarba (to Emperor Kang-Hsi in Peking, 1720-23).
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Keywords: Topography description of country people Mission christian missionaries. Travel journals accounts China d'exiles antoine francois abbe 1687 1723