In v. 6-9, "Mémoires d'Amérique" replaces "Mémoires du Levant" on title page; in v. 10-15, Mémoires des Indes" replaces "Mémoires du Levant" on title page; In v. 16-24, "Mémoires de la Chine, &c." replaces "Mémoires du Levant" on title page. In v. 25 and 26, "Mémoires des Indes et de la Chine" replaces "Mémoires du Levant" on title page.

Originally compiled edited by Charles Le Gobien, Jean-Baptiste Du Halde, Louis Patouillet and Nicolas Maréchal.

This edition edited by Yves Mathurin Marie Tréaudet de Quebeuf.

Originally published in 34 v., Paris : Nicolas le Clerc, 1703-1776. Vol. 1 first published Paris, 1702.

Edition statement precedes "Mémoires du Levant" on title page.

Colophons of v. 5, 9, 15, 24 read: De l'imprimerie de P. G. Simon, imprimeur du parlement ..

Vol 6-24 dated 1781. Vol. 25-26 dated 1783.

Each v. has title vignette.

Several pages misnumbered.

For contents of individual volumes, see Streit.

Each section, i.e. "Mémoires du Levant," "Mémoires des Indes," etc., has separate index.

Includes bibliographical references.

Echeverria & Wilkie. French image, 781/52.

Backer-Sommervogel, VI: col. 1335.

Streit, R. Bib. missionum, I: 1051.

Brown, J.C. Bibliotheca Americana, III: 2654.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary calf. For pagination and signatures of individual volumes, see bibliographical file.