Joseph Stöcklein | Allerhand... Reis-Beschreibungen, 1726-55, 32 parts in 5 volumes, contemporary pigskin

Joseph Stöcklein

Allerhand So Lehr-als Geist-reiche Brief, Schrifften und Reis-Beschreibungen... Seit Anno 1642. bisz 1726. in Europa angelangt seynd. Augsburg and Gratz: Phillips, Martins und Johann Veith, and Vienna, 1726-1755

32 parts (only, of 38) in 5 volumes, 4to (between 315 x 199mm and 340 x 211mm), title-pages printed in red and black, 3 frontispieces, 23 maps, 8 plates, and 21 tables (of which 7 folding), INCLUDING THE RARE MAP OF THE PHILIPPINES (often lacking), contemporary blind-stamped pigskin, nineteenth-century olive green morocco lettering-pieces titled in French, map of the Philippines detached at inner margin (tear touching edge of plate, but without loss), bindings with scattered worming, light soiling, and rubbing (heavier on volume IV), lacking clasps

A SUBSTANTIALLY COMPLETE SET OF THIS RARE WORK, ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT SOURCES ON THE HISTORY OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY MISSIONARIES. This bibliographically complex work was published in 38 parts up to 1761; but is very uncommonly found complete. It is essentially a German translation of the Lettres edifiantes et curieuses of the Jesuit missionaries, but contains much additional material from manuscript sources. The work includes material relating to Egypt, Ethiopia, the East Indies, China, Cochin China, Persia and the Ottoman Empire, Japan, the Philippines, North America (principally New Spain, California and Sonora), Mexico and elsewhere in South America. Part 2 contains a version of Fr. Kino's rare map of the Jesuit settlements of California.

PROVENANCE:

Bookplates of a Jesuit library "Bib. Coll. Pictav. S.J."

LITERATURE:

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