DE SMET, Pierre-Jean, S.J. Voyages aux Montagnes Rocheuses et séjour chez les tribus indiennes de l'Orégon. Nouvelle édition (...). Victor Devaux,H. Repos et Cie 1873, sm. 8vo, contemp. half brown shagreen, gilt orn. spine on 4 raised bands...
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(sl. discol. and rubbed, small hole at tail), xxxv-408 pp. Ill. with 1 view of Saint-Louis and 1 folding map. - ID. - Voyage dans l'Amérique septentrionale. Orégon. 3e édition (...). Bruxelles, M. Closson; Paris, H. Repos, 1874, sm. 8vo, contemp. black cloth (upper cover loose), flat spine (head dam.), vii-406 pp. (first 2 ff. loose, 1st ff. locally dampstained). Used copy. Steel engr. portrait and 1 folding map. - ID. - Western missions and missionaries. A series of letters. Introd. by W.L. Davis, S.J. Shannon, Irish University Press, (1972), publ. cloth, ill. dust wr., xiii-532-[30] pp. Photolithogr. facsimile of the 2nd ed. (New York, 1863), with a final index.
New ed. of relations and letters of the Belgian-born Jesuit P.J. De Smet (1801-1873); he was responsible for the establishment of many missions in the far west and would travel over 180,000 miles, making 19 trans-Atlantic crossings seeking missionaries and funds for those missions. We join : Laveille, S.J. - Le P. De Smet (1801-1873). Intr. par G. Kurth. Liège, Dessain; Arras, Brunet, 1913, 8vo, library binding. - Griffin, J.A. - The contribution of Belgium to the Catholic Church in America (1523-1857). Washington, Catholic Univ. of America, 1932, 8vo, half red sheep (sl. dusty). - Terrell, J.U. - Robe-noire (Black robe). Vie de Jean-Pierre De Smet (...). Traduit de l'américain (...). Namur, Paris, Wesmael-Charlier, (1969), sm. 8vo, sewn. - Peterson, J., Peers, L. - Sacred encounters. Father De Smet and the Indians of the Rocky Mountains West. Norman, Univ. of Oklahoma Press, (1993), 4to, sewn. Exhibition cat., profusely ill. - 2 others books concerning Charles Nerinckx ("Pioneer missionary of Kentucky") and Louis Hennepin ("Explorateur du Mississipi"). (9 vol.)
New ed. of relations and letters of the Belgian-born Jesuit P.J. De Smet (1801-1873); he was responsible for the establishment of many missions in the far west and would travel over 180,000 miles, making 19 trans-Atlantic crossings seeking missionaries and funds for those missions. We join : Laveille, S.J. - Le P. De Smet (1801-1873). Intr. par G. Kurth. Liège, Dessain; Arras, Brunet, 1913, 8vo, library binding. - Griffin, J.A. - The contribution of Belgium to the Catholic Church in America (1523-1857). Washington, Catholic Univ. of America, 1932, 8vo, half red sheep (sl. dusty). - Terrell, J.U. - Robe-noire (Black robe). Vie de Jean-Pierre De Smet (...). Traduit de l'américain (...). Namur, Paris, Wesmael-Charlier, (1969), sm. 8vo, sewn. - Peterson, J., Peers, L. - Sacred encounters. Father De Smet and the Indians of the Rocky Mountains West. Norman, Univ. of Oklahoma Press, (1993), 4to, sewn. Exhibition cat., profusely ill. - 2 others books concerning Charles Nerinckx ("Pioneer missionary of Kentucky") and Louis Hennepin ("Explorateur du Mississipi"). (9 vol.)
