12mo. Each volume in two parts. Volume I: [2], 135 pp., +173 pp., [3], folding engraved plate entitled ‘Partie de Santorin’ / Volume II: [2], 288 pp., +125 pp., [3], folding frontispiece map of Egypt, 5 plates of which 4 are folding, contemporary vellum boards with leather lettering pieces, professionally re-cased, endpapers renewed, scattered minor foxing, dark stains on last two leaves of Volume 2, small tear to Egypt map where the fold is without any loss, otherwise a good set, Nicolas Le Clerc, Paris, first edition, 1715-17.

Synopsis

First edition of a collection of reports on Jesuit missions to the Levant. These volumes deal with Crimea, Greece, and Egypt.
First two volumes in a group of nine consecutively published volumes (1715-1755) containing Jesuit letters. Volumes 1 and 2 contain letters of their missions to the Eastern Mediterranean, especially Greece and Egypt. The folding map in volume 1 ‘Partie de Santorin’ shows several islands and an “Isle Nouvelle” consisting of an active volcano. The folding map of Egypt in volume 2 includes a legend listing all the villages on the map in alphabetical order.