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Volume I (of 2) only. vi, xxii, [2], 481 pp. Preface by the author. With folding engraved map by Eusebio Francisco Kino, "Passage by Land to California Discovered by Eusebius Francis Kino a Jesuit" (23.5x2 cm). (8vo) 20x12 cm (7¾x5") three-quarter red leather over red cloth, raised spine bands, spine lettered and ruled in gilt. Second Edition, corrected.

The first volume of Lockman's abridged translation of the Lettres Edifiantes et Curieuses, in which is reprinted part of Picolo's Informe, the first printed work on California, and an account of the Descent of the Spaniards on the Isle of California in 1683, as well as descriptions of China, Japan, India and other Jesuit outposts around the world. The work is most notable, though, for the Eusebio Francisco Kino map of the American southwest, "Passage by Land to California Discovered by Eusebius Francis Kino a Jesuit", which when it first appeared in 1905 established that California was not an island.