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[JESUIT RELATIONS] THWAITES, Reuben Gold (1853–1913), editor. The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the Jesuit Missionaries in New France, 1610–1791. Cleveland: The Burrows Brothers, 1896–1901. 73 volume set complete including important indices (vol. 72 and 73). 8vos. LIMITED EDITION, number 45 of 750 copies. Illustrated with maps (several folding), views, portraits, and facsimiles. Publisher’s brown buckram (Vol. 73 rebound in modern cloth), spines stamped in black, top edge gilt, rest untrimmed (ex-library copies with call numbers on spines in manuscript, library instruction labels to front pastedowns, embossed library stamps to titles, spines darkened with some fraying at ends, rear endpapers marred; contents clean and tight). RARE. Howes J-107 (“d”). “A monumental editorial achievement. Contains all reports, official and unofficial, made by members of this missionary order, on their activities in North America from 1601 to 1791. In all, 238 pieces are given in their original French, Latin and Italian texts, with English translations.” (Howes)