(MISSIONS). EDITING AND CURIOUS LETTERS written by the Foreign Missions. MÉMOIRES DU LEVANT; 3 vols. - MEMORIES OF AMERICA; 2 vols. - MEMORIES OF INDIA; 3 vols. - MEMORIES OF CHINA; 5 vols. SUPPLEMENT des Indes et de la Chine; 1 vol. Lyon, Vernarel, 1819. Together 14 vol. in-8°, fawn half-basin, smooth spines decorated with gilt fleurons (contemporary bindings). 25 maps and 25 plates. New edition of the famous Letters sent by the Jesuits from the East, America and Asia, accounts of their missions but above all extraordinary reports on the customs of the peoples they were trying to evangelise, the links they succeeded in establishing with the various powers, and the persecutions of which they were victims. It contains the famous letter from Père d'Entrecolles on the manufacture of porcelain, and another on the dyeing of fabrics... Beautifully preserved bindings. A few stains inherent to the paper.