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[MISSION JESUITE EN CHINE] Nouvelles lettres édifiantes des missions de la Chine et des Indes orientales[New Edifying Letters from the Missions of China and the East Indies]
Adrien Le Clère |Paris 1818-1823|10.3 x 17.3 cm|8 volumes reliés
First edition of this continuation of the series Lettres édifiantes et curieuses, documenting events from 1767 onward in the missions led by the Society of Foreign Missions of Paris (M.E.P.) in Sichuan, Tonkin, Cochinchina, Siam, and along the Coromandel Coast. (cf. Cordier, Sinica, II, 953–957; Cordier, Indosinica, III, 1970–1978; Sabin 40704.)
Contemporary full speckled tan calf, smooth spines richly decorated with gilt garlands, fillets and floral tools, red morocco labels for title and volume number, gilt roll tooling at headcaps, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, single gilt fillet on board edges, yellow edges.
Spines slightly sunned, headca
€1,500